This week was pretty interesting! First off the most exciting thing is that two of our investigators accepted a baptismal date! It's the first time in like 4 or 5 months that anyone has actually accepted a date (they've said yes before but would never put a date). It's Ruben and Rosa who were found more than a year ago knocking doors. It was the first lesson we'd been able to have with both Ruben and Rosa together for almost 2 months because Ruben has been back and forth from Mexico. But it was awesome, the spirit was really strong when I was asking them and they accepted the 24th of March as a goal because they're "not ready yet". I could tell Rosa felt the spirit (she's always been more in tune with it) and it looked like Ruben was too. The challenge will be getting them to church. Over a year and they still haven't come to church once. They let everything else take priority and so there is always something they consider more important (practically life or death important) to do than church every week.
Friday after going back to our car after knocking a little we realized it wouldn't start. Problem. I didn't leave the lights on or anything and it was literally only 10 minutes since we'd left it. So we had the English Elders come try to jump start us and...nothing. We ended up needing a tow truck to come take it away! Turns out it was the alternator and they told us they wouldn't be able to get a new one from the dealer until tuesday! So we've been car-less for almost 4 days now which makes missionary work in this area a lot more difficult and slow. Also it's cold. In Woodstock we live near the crossing of 2 busy highways and most of the people live on the other side of Woodstock, so walking isn't much of an option. Harvard is easier to walk around because it's smaller so the Elders were able to bring us up there on Saturday and we'll be going there again tonight. We're hoping the car will be done sooner rather than later tomorrow because if it's later we'll have to cancel a lot of our plans (in particular exchanges with the Hermanas in Rockford).
We went out with the relief society president (Hna Camacho) Tuesday night to visit less-actives and didn't find any of them (even though we had a regular appointment with one family at 7:30). Even though we didn't find anyone I thought it was really good to spend that time with Hna Camacho and give her updates on all the less-active sisters we'd been visiting. I think she trusts us a lot.
President Doll called me last night to ask me if I would rather go to another area for my last 6 weeks or stay put. I said I'd be good staying here but if they needed me somewhere else that would be fine. So it sounds like I'll be staying here probably. We'll find out about changes this week and transfers are a week from tomorrow.
I think it's weird that people who are younger than me are getting married. Marriage is for old people. haha...kidding...That's cool that Dad get's to perform the ceremony! Kevin: That's gross you threw up. bleh. haha. Elder West: That's awesome about getting to be zone leader! It'll probably keep you super busy.
I love you all hope everything goes great this week!
Hermana West
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