This week was pretty good! Jose came to sacrament meeting again for the 3rd time in a row! This time he brought two of his granddaughters (ages 9 and 6). He's also read in the Book of Mormon through 1 Nephi 8 which is awesome! We tried to set a baptismal date this week but doesn't feel ready. We didn't have a lot of time to resolve his doubts so we'll see if we can help him feel more comfortable with it next time. Yet again another situation to remind me to have patience. It's hard, especially because I feel like my time here is going down a steep incline.
This week we also had a really awesome lesson with a woman named Maria Mendoza who we found a couple months ago but hadn't been able to find her since. She'd listened to the missionaries around 5 years ago and was interested in listening again. She understands the apostasy/restoration really well, has a desire to read the Book of Mormon, and wants come to church (when she can get work off). We had a really good discussion with her about how to gain spiritual knowledge though the Spirit because she says she gets so confused by all the different opinions out there. At the end of the lesson we asked if she would offer the prayer and she did. During the prayer she started crying and thanked God for the peace she was feeling in that moment! I think her heart is really open to this! We're so excited to teach her again and we hope that we can get her husband to sit in on the lessons too.
We had a really bold lesson with a less active member who was baptized a little over a year ago and is going through a hard time. It was really hard. She kept looking for sympathy and had all of her excuses saying things like "hermanas I don't know if I'm going to be able to come back to church because the only job I think I can get will have me work on Sundays - but I have to eat and pay rent". As sad as I felt for her I knew I couldn't tell her it was alright to not come to church. We read in 3 Nephi 13 where it talks about putting God first and everything else will be added unto us and promised her over and over again that it was true. By the end of the lesson she stopped fighting with her excuses and had decided to see if she could get an appointment with the Branch President. We hope we helped her at least a little bit.
This week, magically, we've been getting more meals from the members. One Hermana invited us over on Monday, that night another Hermana (who actually is in the English ward but still wants to help us) gave us a huge pot full of posole (sp?). It's this Mexican soup with Hominy and meat. It's pretty good - I want to try and figure out how to make it so you can all try it after I get back. ALSO, yesterday Hna Aguilar offered to send us home with some Posole. I laughed and told her that we had just gotten a huge pot full the day before. She asked us which kind and I said "rojo" (because there's different kinds) and she said oh this one is verde. Oh in that case...haha. So we're pretty much going to eat posole every day this week. But it's all good because it's delicious.
More good news! Yesterday I found out that Evila Perez, whom I was teaching the entire time I was in my last area finally got baptized this past Friday! It's a miracle because while I was there she would go back and forth all the time - I think I probably told you a lot about her. So that made me happy.
Other random comments:
1. The guy on the computer next to me had a mini-freak out session a few minutes ago. It was really confusing. He started making noises and picking up the keyboard. He also almost fell out of his chair. One of the Librarians came over to try and help and he stood up and walked away. Maybe he has some sort of mental condition. The Elders, who were also here doing e-mails, thought it was pretty funny
2. It's getting colder and I don't like it
3. We think we'll carve pumpkins today and try to figure out how to bake the seeds
4. On Halloween they want us to be home by 7 (unless we have an appointment) so that we're not out there knocking doors with the trick or treaters. haha.
Well I love you all! Have a great week!
Hermana West
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