Interviews with Presidente and a Great Temple Trip

Hola Mamá! I’m doing good, how are you? This last week was pretty good. On Monday after p-day ended we went to visit Guillermo who we found the day before but he wasn’t home. We were really looking forward to meeting with him and his family, but we're just going to go by or call another day. I also forgot to tell you that on Sunday (the week before) we met a woman named Elba who was visiting her grandma who is in our ward but Elba is now living in Utah with her family! They live in Logan and she gave me her information so when I go back home I can talk to her. She’ll share recipes with me too. After we visited with them on Monday, we visited Fabiola and everything is going great!

Tuesday we had district meeting where we talked about how to gain confidence with people so they will trust us and be more willing or open to talking to us. After the meeting we had intercambios which was my last time having them. We sadly didn’t have time to do much contacting though because of other stuff we had to do (empty the baptismal font in the church because the pump was broken and then go do baptismal interviews) which took quite a bit of time.

Wednesday we had interviews with Presidente and Hermana Severson as well as the teaching evaluation and they all went really well. President asked me to share with him my testimony of Jesus Christ and that was really cool. I love the feeling after sharing my testimony, well during and after my testimony. The feeling is incredible. We also spent time calling former investigators and contacts to invite them to go to the temple on Friday. We had to have 4 people going in order for us to go as well. Fabiola said she is going and Claudia Valdez also said she was going. She also told us she is back living with her mom and would like to start talking with us again!

Thursday we were trying to visit former investigators or really solid contacts to invite them to the temple. We found one other person but were not very sure they would actually go. We didn’t have other success though and I think partly or well most of it was because we put so much pressure on ourselves to find 4 people that we didn’t do much else. We did go to ward counsel and had a short lesson with Fabiola though. After we got back to the casa I decided not to worry if we couldn’t go to the temple on Friday. If we couldn’t go, we would just work in our area contacting and teaching new people and preparing/planting more seeds!

Friday during our studies we tried calling quite a few people to invite them on the temple trip but had no success. We even left the house to go looking for people. We went to the church to make sure Fabiola and Claudia got there and then see them off with the others but we decided to use our last resort and call President. We talked with him, explained the situation and after talking for a good bit with him he let us go too! It was a fantastic experience for everyone! Everyone had a great time and felt the spirit with the message from the sister missionaries in the visitor’s center. I know that it really helped Fabiola and Claudia, along with everyone else, feel that they are on the right path and helped confirm to them that they want to be baptized.

Saturday we had a lesson with Fabiola that went really well. She told us that when the missionaries were teaching her before that she didn’t feel ready to be baptized. But now with us, and only God knows why, she wants to and feels like this is the right time to be baptized! We still have a bit to teach her and she has to come to church 3 times but we are going to do all we can to help her be baptized! We also tried visiting Joselin because we haven’t seen her in a while but she wasn’t home and neither was Javier. We were able to go contacting a bit to find some new contacts and that was good!

Sunday – Fabiola came to church! It was super awesome and she loved it too. There is a member that she knows from before so he was able to help her feel welcomed. Later we found a great street when we went contacting and found some really great new people! We were supposed to have a lesson with Fabiola in the evening at the Bishop’s house but she didn’t get back in time so instead we went and visited the Familia Cruz Roa. I love them so much!

Thank you guys for everything! Love you!

Elder Curran and me with Fabiola at the Temple Visitor's Center

Our Temple trip group. Fabiola is in front holding the little boy,
and Claudia is standing next to her.

 

Cool stuff I found at the shopping center near the visitor's center.