Hola Familia!
It's been another cold week. Yesterday was especially cold. We were out knocking some apartments and first the people would reject us then they would tell us that we were crazy for being outside. One lady told us that we shouldn't be out because our faces would fall off from frost bite. My face is fine though.
Hmmm nothing really exciting happened this week. We've been trying to figure out how to re find people which is hard. At the end of last month we realized that we found 23 new investigators in Jan and now we're trying to figure out where they went...and how to find them again...many of them are probably trying to avoid us and the rest are just super busy. Pretty much everyone tells us that they never know their work schedule because it changes all the time so we can't make appointments. When we do they don't show up. Most of them work and a majority of them work every single day. They all say they will call us when they find a time...and the total number of people who have ever called us after saying this is about 1 the whole time I've been here.
But other than that it's going great here. We're still finding lessons to teach even though most of our appointments fall through. Humberto, our investigator who wants to get baptized in March, is making progress quiting smoking. We were starting to worry about him because we made an appointment with a brother from the stake who helps people quit smoking and he was 40 minutes late (and missed the appointment). So on Monday night we went to talk to him to find out if he was really serious about this and he surprised us by telling us he hadn't smoked at all that day and the day before only once. So he really is trying. He told us that he needs to, he wants to. We told him to put a goal to quit by the end of this month and he said hopefully he could in two weeks. So thats a good sign. We ordered a program from the office that we've been looking over so hopefully that will help him as well.
Evila, one of the "eternal investigators" whose been listening to the missionaries for 7-8 months but not really doing anything now is making progress. She came to church 2 sundays ago and loved it. She's has seen the benefits of the gospel in her life and we know she's ready for baptism, we just now need to help her see that she's ready (because she doesn't think she is). We also think her husband is the main thing also holding her back because he isn't really religious at all and we think she's scared to do it by herself.
One of the lessons we had this week that stands out a lot in my mind is Anna, a recent high school graduate who we found on Saturday. She was telling us about all of her frustrations with the catholic church and the other churches out there and how they all seem to be "fake" and hypocritical. She also told us she has doubts about God in general. We taught her about the restoration, our purpose on earth, and that the best way to find the truth is to ask God directly. The spirit was so strong. She said she would like to look more into it herself and we made another appointment for this week. We might have to refer her to the English Elders though because her English is better than her spanish. It depends on if she's rather go to church in English or Spanish. We'll see.
Wow congrats to the Mortons with their new baby! I remember finding out that they were expecting but it seems so fast. I guess I really have been out a while now...I think my perception of time in the real world is a little off. Thats also interesting that MTV's been filming a little at the church, let me know if it gets aired! Thats great the Kevin is improving so much in swimming! Congrats on getting first place in some of the races! Hope that everyone has a great week. Good luck Mom and Megan with all the hard school work!
love, Hermana West
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