Monday, April 25, 2011
I'm hungry right now...
Hey everyone,
I'm pretty hungry this morning and it is pretty cold outside. Plus it
is raining. Haha. Anyways, I received many excellent emails this
past week, thank you all for writing me and keeping me in mind. Oh a
couple things I forgot to put in the emails to people... mom or dad,
is it possible to send tobasco sauce or some type of delicious
spicyness??? If so please do, along with CDs of music and talks or
whatever, I need new things to listen to. haha. I am still waiting
the Jennie Oaks Baker CD since I left the MTC... Hahaha. Anyways, a
few weeks ago I bought boots and they are warm and water proof. This
week I need to buy a belt and new socks and new basketball shorts.
Just so you know what I am buying. Haha.
Welp, this past week was most excellent. We were able to do some
pretty crazy things and we are really excited for our future
prospects. We ended up teaching all of the lessons this past week
with member. A feat I've never heard of. Haha. We taught 22 lessons
all with a member present in the lesson. Unfortunately Monica decided
not to be baptized last week, but we put a new baptismal date with her
for next month. In total we now have 6 baptismal dates and we had 7
investigators in church on Sunday! Woo hoo! We are still trying to
boost the attendance of the members, but we didn't have much luck with
the long weekend and everyone going camping. We had an attendance of
about 65.
We are working a lot with a family called the Ahumada family. They
are 2 young parents named Miguel and Natalia that we found the other
week from an old record that was buried away. Anyways, they are
progressing A LOT. They heard the missionaries before like 4 years
ago and the last time they had contact was a 1.5-2 years ago. They
have 4 little children, but unfortunately they aren't married (who is
married here??). They went to church and are starting to do some
paperwork to get their birth certificates to be able to get married.
Miguel knows that the church is true, but it is taking Natalia a
little bit more time, but she is reading and praying every day.
Spectacular. Miguel even offered to sleep at a members house and live
the law of chastity so that he could get baptized this week, but he
realized that isn't the best option and so we are working on the
papers with them.
We are also working a lot with the Ochoa familiy. Also former
investigators with about the same time periods. Unfortunately Miriam
(the mom) ¨wasn't feeling well¨ so they didn't go on Sunday, but they
(Ricardo, Miriam, and their 8 year old daughter) have a baptismal date
for next month as well. We're going to keep working hard with them so
they can gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon because in the 1st
lesson (I was on splits with a member) I asked (as we were introducing
the Book of Mormon and what they have to know if it is true- read,
ponder, and pray) if they had prayed if it was true and they said,
Honestly, no, I have never prayed about it, and she said the same. So
I bore testimony about how I received an answer and how I knew they
could receive an answer too and they accepted the challenge.
Unfortunately they didn't read either, but they are committed to read
before Thursday. They are a really good family.
Anyways, those are the baptismal dates that we have now. It made me
so happy to see the Ahumada family together in church on Sunday. It
is hard to keep the faith when everything is going wrong, but that's
what the faith is- keeping your head up and trusting in God even when
we do everything right and receive everything wrong. I believe that
next month will be an excellent month here in Austral, hopefully I'm
still here to see it (there are transfers next Sunday), but I'm pretty
sure I will because we just started doing really well and I am
training. We'll see what the Lord wants. Anyways, I love you all.
Thank you so much for all your love and your letters of support. Keep
reading the Book of Mormon and you won't stray from the strait and
narrow. Holler at me next week! Keep it real!
P.S... I can't remember if I didn't send a general letter of if
something went wrong... hahaha... sorry! Love you all!
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