Sup gringos!
This week has been weird, really hard, but really great
too! The work is chugging along here in
V_______. We didn’t have a single
investigator in church on Sunday, which is always hard, but we have seen a lot
of miracles and I know that we will have some this week.
Thus far, J_________ is not baptized. More than anything, he is just afraid. He knows the church is true but he won’t be
baptized because he "hasn’t felt the joy in his heart yet." So.... We
are working with him. I have no doubt
that he will be baptized, it is just a matter of when. Keep praying for that
boy. For now, we wait.
We have definitely seen some miracles this week, let me
catch you guys up first:
My first day in here we ran around our house knocking
doors for my first hour. While we were
knocking, we found and taught a pair of 13 year old twins (S______ and M_______). They were fairly positive so we set a second
appointment. But, when we went back to
find them they weren’t home.
Then, early in this week, we had about 20 minutes left to
prosylite (don’t judge... English is hard).
Anyway, we decided to look for the twins again. This time they were home (YIPEE). So we prayed and started the lesson. About 2 minutes in, S_______ tells us
"wait here a minute, my mom wants to talk to you guys."
Great....
So here we are, anticipating to get ripped apart by a
Catholic tiger mom. But, MIRACLE! Turns
out the mom is a member. She was
baptized when she was 9 but stopped going to church later in life because her alcoholic
husband didn’t let her. A year ago, she
left her husband and has been waiting for someone to help her come back to
church. She also listened to us. We were
teaching the Book of Mormon. While we
are there teaching, the grandma pokes her head out of the window to listen and
then comes to join us. Pretty soon, a
friend of the twins (C______) stops by and he starts listening too! After about
a minute he asks us to wait and ran to bring his mom so she could also hear
about the Book of Mormon.
So there we are, all of the sudden teaching a house full
of very positive, very receptive investigators.
Geez, it was like we were on the coast or something.
But, it gets better.
C______, M______ and S_______ have all accepted baptismal dates for the
21 of September. They couldn’t go to
church last week, because they were out of town. But they are all coming this week. What a miracle. We anticipate that C______’s mom will also be
baptized, we just need to find her again.
What a crazy miracle.
So, pray for the house of pilas people. I can’t wait to see how things turn out with
them.
Other news of the week:
1. I ate a
"fire chili pepper" on a dare and earned the respect of the elders in
my district
2. I have been
called to be district retention leader (for the third time....)
3. I slept through a 5.1 earthquake (we are sleepy as
missionaries)
That is about it, folks! Love you guys! Make good
choices.
Con amor,
Hermana Wise
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