 |
| Kevin Ave (you can see the church building in the background and if you look closely you can see snow on the roof!) |
 |
| Last P-day after lunch with my old comp at this random little restaurant with a crazy chicken painted on the outside. I think they may have picked to eat there just because of the chicken. It was good though, I had a hamburger with the biggest patty ever. |
This week was kind of slower again but we had an awesome day on Monday! we got 2 members to come with us to appointments that day which was great because it's usually really hard to get them to come with us. We also had 4 lessons total that day which was great. One of them was with Jose. On Sunday Jose came to church again for the 6th time in a row! This time he came for all 3 hours and loved it. Afterwords he said that he felt something in his chest and asked how he could become a member of the church. Hermana Delis responded that it's through baptism and he said "oh because it's different in every church right?". We had our lesson with him the next day where we talked about the importance of having a prophet and the priesthood (he's finally starting to understand the significance of Joseph smith and the restoration too!), the word of wisdom, and baptism a little. He said he wants to get baptized but is still hesitant about a date. We ran out of time to keep talking with him about it. We're glad he's finally starting to pick up on stuff now. We have investigators on both ends of the spectrum; we have a few like Jose who are really receptive to the spirit but have a harder time understanding, and then we have ones who understand really well but would rather solve things logically rather than spiritually though prayer. It's been kind of interesting planning for and teaching all these different people.
After our lesson with Jose we finally found another one of our investigators again after 3 weeks (Maria Mendoza) and we had an awesome lesson with her too! we talked about the first part of the plan of salvation and the first steps we need to take in this life to follow Christ (faith, repentance, baptism). She always has such good questions and so after we explained baptism a little bit she asked us right out if her baptism as a baby in the catholic church counted and we (cautiously) explained the important differences (authority, immersion, and making covenants). She understood completely and when I asked if she would be baptized once she knows these things are true she said yes! We also had to rush out of that lesson too to get home on time so we didn't get to talk much more about it. But we're hoping she'll be able to make it to church this week (with her family!).
We have a lot of high hopes for this area and are praying that miracles can happen in this area! We are teaching several promising families right now and we're hoping that we'll be able to (1) get them to keep their appointments (2) help them come to church and (3) get them to progress towards baptism pretty soon.
Transfers are next week on Tuesday so that the people going home can make it back before Thanksgiving. So probably hold mailing anything directly to my apartment just in case. 5 new Spanish speaking Hermanas are coming in this transfer which is a ton. That will increase the number of Hermanas in the mission to 22 which is a lot. 4 are going home so I think all lot of changes will be made this transfer. They're splitting our preparation day time between 2 days also. E-mails will still be Wednesday and Thursday they say we can spend 2 hours for Thanksgiving and some time for sports/games. I'm not sure what we'll be doing for that because I don't really think anyone is going to invite us over which is kind of sad. But oh well. We might bring it up today in our coordination meeting to see if anyone might love us enough haha. If not we'll figure something else to do by ourselves or maybe with the other missionaries.
Also Happy Birthday Kevin! 13 is so old. This week on the way to zone meeting we spotted a road called Kevin Ave and so we pulled over so I could get a picture. haha. So happy birthday Kevin, you're famous! Thanks for the pictures too. So fun to see!
Today is a really nice day, pretty crisp but it's sunny and NOT windy which helps sooo much. So we're thinking of going to this one state park with some of the other missionaries (It might be one of the last chances we have to do something outside without freezing to death). I'll bring my camera no worries.
love,
Hermana West
No comments:
Post a Comment