Buenos Dias!
This week has been pretty good. Tuesday we had O's baptismal interview, and he PASSED!!! We also had a random cita with Y and A. They texted us to ask if we could come since A was home from work which was great since we haven't been able to see her for a few weeks now thanks to her variable work schedule.
Wednesday we rode bikes in the morning to search for members and referrals that we need to find. I love biking! It is so much easier to talk to people, and it just feels good. :) We also had a great lesson with O and started teaching him Lesson 5 (Laws and Ordinances) from Preach My Gospel chapter 3. They recently made some adjustments to missionary work, including that Lesson 5 must be taught before baptism as well as afterwards. I love it because it helps us focus so much more on enduring to the end, and ensures that our investigators really want to be baptized and then remain active in the church and the gospel for the rest of their lives. O is incredible because he just wants to know everything! and everything we tell him he just wants to do it so that he can do the Lord's will.
Thursday we did weekly planning, and basically ran from thing to thing for the rest of the day. We had a cena with Hna P. She is such a strong member, and she also always feeds me cooked vegetables and rice. This time she also had watermelon, and grapes that were SO good. After cena we had another lesson with O and basically finished up Lesson 5. After that we ran to J and E's house to talk with them for a while. I am so grateful that they are in our area. I found them at the beginning of my mission, and it has been great to be able to work with them again here. We're working right now on getting them to go to the temple to get sealed. After them we had correlation, and ran to get my Book of Mormon back from the members house that we had left it at the night before.
Friday was Zone Conference!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enough said. :)
We also had cena with the B family again, and it was so much fun! They had us help them make pupusas for dinner, and I feel like I got pretty good at it by the end. Then after we ate we talked for a little bit, and I just felt so at home. It's great because they all speak only Spanish at home, but I could keep up and even felt like part of the family.
Saturday we had a couple of citas fall through, but we got to talk to E for a while, and he has a couple of people for us that he thinks we could start teaching. I love that he's doing missionary work of his own now! He is one of our strongest recent converts, and does so much to help the work along. Then later that afternoon we had a ward picnic which was fun, and we got to talk to a couple of people who the members had invited. We're working on helping our members just invite their friends to activities to get to know the church even if they don't want to take the lessons right now.
That night we took cookies over to the elders and picked up a pair of pants that needed to be mended. As we were talking the one pair of pants somehow turned into 4... I've turned into the district seamstress, but I love doing it because it's so calming, and makes me feel needed.
(They all know that there's no guarantee that they'll all get done before I get transferred though.)
Sunday was great. Before church we had a lesson with O just to make sure we'd covered everything and that he was still all ready and prepped for his baptism that afternoon. Then our investigator M also came to church, and we were SO excited! The members were very good about welcoming her, and I think that she felt the Spirit. She also told us that she'd gotten a copy of the Book of Mormon from one of her friends at work, and has been reading the introduction! Last week when we taught her she didn't want to meet with us any day but Sunday, but after sacrament meeting as we were talking she said that we could meet at the church again on Wednesday! I love the way that keeping commitments helps bring the Spirit into peoples lives which helps them want to make and keep more commitments. It's just such a beautiful cycle!
After church we had lunch and a little bit of studies before we ran back to the church for O's baptism. He was there already, and everything went so smoothly. The service was good, the members were welcoming, and O just seemed so happy.
I was also happy because Z came to the baptism which helps me know that she really is converted, and is keeping her own baptismal covenants that she made not so long ago.
I am so grateful for the things that I have learned and am learning on my mission. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with all of these wonderful missionaries, members, and investigators, and have my testimony strengthened by their testimonies. You would think that as missionaries we're supposed to be doing the teaching (and technically that's true when it comes to investigators) but I learn SO much from the people here and their dedication to the Lord and the gospel.
I hope that you all have a good week, and can find the little miracles that happen all around you.
Love,
Hermana Marin Hardy
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