More success

oh boy I love you a lot!

I'm glad you've been having so much fun with family. It's the best! Thank you for letting me get a new camera...I'm super stoked! Hna Quick is a photography fiend so she'll be able to teach me how to actually take cool pictures. I'll try to print some of the neat ones she's taken soon.

We had a really good week with lots of milagritos. We went on a blitz( where a bunch of missionaries knock in one companionship's area) to help out some of our elders. The first door we knocked was a very old white man with beautifully brilliant blue eyes. He asked us where we were from and I told him I was from Guadalajara (everyone's been telling me I should say that because people will believe me) but he said , "No you're not..I'M from Guadalajara". Super cool. He's this super nice man who has been looking for the right church for quite a while now. He said he really likes the church he's at now, but he said "Maybe God sent you to me to answer my question.....which is God's church?" We got to share our testimonies with him and taught him about prayer, the Holy Ghost, and the Book of Mormon. He's so great and we're praying that he'll be sensitive enough to the Spirit to know what Heavenly Father wants him to know!

Also, we had 5 PEOPLE AT CHURCH YESTERDAY!!! It was awesome! Super exhausting and overwhelming, but great. We had taken a recent convert, Hermana Salegio, with us to an appointment with a couple of women named Betty and Vanessa. Apparently they already knew each other a little but they became best friends. Both of them came to church on Sunday (Betty opens up her church every sunday so she had to find someone to cover for her) and Vanessa brought her two little boys. Kids aren't allowed at the church they currently attend so I think they liked the idea of a real family church. one of her boys was very bouncy and rowdy though so I think she felt rather uncomfortable in Sacrament meeting. They didn't have anyone for the nursery so we tried to help her son enjoy Primary....that didn't go too well either. But the third hour, a few other mothers stayed in the nursery with their little ones and chatted with Vanessa aobut the church and our beliefs. I think they really helped her to see that a wiggly child in church is not a big deal. Everyone's got one! or two. or five. We're really praying that she will have good feelings towards her experience and that she'll want to come back. They're a sweet family and we're excited to work more with them.

 

Hermana Salegio's daughters are getting baptized next week! One is 8 years old, so she isn't actually our convert, but we're teaching her and her older sister Melissa to help them prepare to be baptized. Melissa was avoiding us for awhile, just because she's super shy and doesn't like the whole soul-searching aspect of what we do as missionaries. She really wants to be baptized though, so we worked it out so that we're apparently teaching Angie, but she's listening and lets us know if we need to review any information. Not ideal, but there's a change in her face. She's internalizing the things we're teaching and so even though we don't have a whole lot of physical communication, we can see the effects.....which is AWESOME!!!!!!! She was paying very close attention to the relief society lesson yesterday and seemed to be happier and more relaxed at church. Please pray hard for her!!

 

Also, we had a really good companionship study about continual progression....we have a couple that we teach where the man is a less active member but is wanting to come back to church, she is not a member, he is in the process of a divorce and so they can't yet get married OR baptized. They're sort of at a standstill because of the divorce and while they were doing great for a while with reading the scriptures every day, praying regularly, and coming to church, they're no longer doing any of those. We even see a difference in how they treat us and one another. They aren't mean at all, but just more sarcastic, a little more harsh than they were before. Hna Quick and I prepared for our lesson with them today by talking about the importance of goals. How setting goals, primary, secondary and all the ones in between is an act of faith. Of course things might now go exactly how we want or expect, but setting goals and working towards them is a way to show ourselves and God that Whatever it is that we're working toward is worth effort and sacrifice.

 

Just things to think about.

 

Love you more than birria de res!

Hermana B