Hey everyone,
This week was amazing, we
worked really hard this week and a lot has come out of it. Sadly, not fatal
accidents to report this week LOL. However, I will make it a point to leave
those things out of my emails and for my journal. (By the way mom, no my helmet
didn't break, nothing broke).
So this week, we taught a
ton, we taught twelve lessons this week vs. the normal six, so we basically
doubled the normal, we would have had more had a few appointments not
cancelled. We crushed our goals at least most of them, the one's that we could
control, but as for baptismal dates or members to church, practically nothing.
We had one member at church, but we were planning for six of our investigators
to show up. We have right now fifteen investigators vs. the normal five or six
investigators at best, so things are really booming in our area.
My companion says we are
working really good together and are accomplishing a lot, sadly it only took
ten weeks to get there. Elder Stubbs tells me that I am the best companion he
has ever had, whether he is just saying that or not, it works for me. However,
even though we are working great together we are still struggling to get our
investigators to baptism for one reason or another. Many are on the fact that
they have been baptized before in the Catholic church and I am going to
pull my hair out if I hear that one more time. Then there are reasons they
don't feel ready or are waiting on family to come to the country. So, I have no
idea how to help them realize the importance of baptism with the
proper authority.
We taught a super cool investigator, she is this sweet
little lady from Mexico (approximately 70 years old), the funny thing is she
wears these plaid shirts that are obviously too big for her, as she is only
about five feet tall, and she wears jeans with it, and she talks in this sweet
quiet voice. I really want to convert this lady, because she is so close. We
taught her this week about the Plan of Salvation and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
all in one lesson. We covered so much and I actually felt the spirit guiding
me, as it is difficult to speak in Spanish, but for some reason I was able to
say everything I needed to say, and with little error. I was the best lesson I
have taught and one to the best Elder Stubbs has taught, we had a member there
that really helped us teach Zefferina. She says she is going to pray about
baptism, a little confused that the Catholic church could be confusing so many
people, but she really looks promising and if she does everything we ask here
to do, and keeps listening to us, we might see a baptisms in not too long, so
we have our fingers crossed.
Something that is becoming a commonality here is bumping
into our members and investigators on the road or people we have met before, we
see it so often that I fell we know half the city (not really, but still). We
have bumped into a member named Eusebio and have taken him to a few of our
lessons this week or we bump into him randomly and he occasionally takes us out
to FrozenYo. Two days ago we went into the square were we see everybody, and we
saw Hermana Sierra and her thirteen year old granddaughter Joslyn (recent
convert we teach), we also saw there at the same time our investigators
Guillermina, her daughter Honey, and her niece Kimberly. And that's not
all, then comes some more members, we see the Lacayo's and they come over
and talk to us, it was a ward/investigator reunion. Then yesterday we went to
the same place to give out Book of Mormon's and we bump into
Guillermina and her daughter and her two nieces Kimberly and Marisol (All
investigators) and we talked with them and they helped us give away
two Book of Mormon's and set up and return appointment and
take one of them to the VC. All in all, is was a super cool
week. And this week we plan to make it better, with a temple trip added in
on Wednesday.
This was our exciting week, super busy, super fun, and
hoping for more.
Love you all,
Ethan
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