Beautiful family,
This week was quite the week, full of surprises and fun things!
Probably the highlight: so it's getting cold. (I think I've been converted to the heat....i'm ashamed to say it.) And the other week someone rear-ended us (really minor, teeeeeeeny tiny dent in our trunk. AND not my fault, thank you :) so we had to take our car in to get it repaired, and the mission office was going to give us an old car to use for 2 weeks or so, so we drive our fancy newly-dented car to the auto shop and walk about 10 minutes in 40 degree weather (we were prepared with MANY layers) to the mission office to find out....IT WAS CLOSED. It was right around the time that all the new missionaries were coming in and so all the office people were with them giving them training and such.........so we had to walk ALLL the way back to our car, sheepishly ask for our car back and drive back home.
Then we got to do the same exact thing the next day, but this time the mission office was actually open :) Hah. Me and Hermana Kofe were just laughing the whole time, we felt so silly, but it was fun. A good story, right?? hah that's what i'll tell myself...
Next highlight, our ward had a baby shower for this lady that just moved into the ward, her name is hna Galo and she is soooo cool. She comes out with us about once a week and she's living with her inactive sister while hna Galo's husband is in Korea for the military. So the cooool thing was that her sister (who isn't active) came to the baby shower and afterwards we stayed and talked with her for like a solid hour and agreed to have us come over! Really neat.
We're teaching a super cool family that I swear is the most prepared family I've met in my mission. (we met them a few weeks ago, but were JUST able to teach them this week.) They're the P. family, the wife is a less-active Jehovah's Witness and the husband is just a good Christian man. We knocked on the door and immediately he recognized us as representatives of Christ and invited us back for another appointment. We went back and he had all these great questions like, "How can I know which of all the paths are God's path?" and "What makes someone a prophet?" and "How would Christ's church be organized?" I almost started crying I was so excited! We taught the First Lesson and they want to learn more, he wants to know more before coming to Church, but he is committed to reading and praying. His wife also asks questions and seems pretty open to our message! I just have such a great feeling about them.
Then on Saturday the Stake Young Women's president asked us to help in a conference for the Beehives in the stake. We taught a little workshop about the importance of sharing their testimony, and then they went ahead and took a brand new copy of the Book of Mormon and wrote their testimony in it. They had the option to write it and give the book to a friend, or to give the book to us for us to hand out to someone. Out of the 30 or so girls, we only received 4 copies of the Book of Mormon. Success! I am so impressed with the youth in our stake, truly. Even better, was to hear that some of those girls were hoping to serve missions :)
We're also teaching this super cute lady named E who was taught by missionaries a few years ago but never ended up getting baptized, and we taught her the Restoration a few weeks ago and seemed more open to the message this time around. Then this week we taught her the first part of the Plan of Salvation and she had TONS of questions, it was great! She said, "man, the last time the missionaries taught me they didn't tell me about all this!" (which I'm sure they did, she just wasn't as interested at the time!) But she's like 9 months pregnant and about to pop so we'll probably take a few weeks break before we go back so that she can rest up and such. But she's just so sweet and it's cool to see how the Lord prepares people to receive his gospel in HIS time.
A is still a super cool kid, but as usual it's nearly impossible to teach him when his mom is available. We won't give up, though. But we are recognizing more the importance of how he won't progress as much unless his whole family is involved.
Hey, did Dad sign me up for a Spanish class next semester? I can't remember. If not, I'd like to get on the waiting list for one. I think Span 321 or something is a prerequisite for the spain study abroad.
Thanks for the heads up on the speaking assignment on the 21st, I shall prepare :)
Thanks, Mom, for sharing that spiritual experience, I love it when the Spirit touches us like that.
That's so cool to hear about that lady that just walked into the church building!! President Ames says that there are 3 types of referrals: 1.) Member Referrals (when a member tells the missionaries about a friend) 2.) Missionary Referrals (when the missionaries give an assignment to a member to fellowship an investigator) and 3.) God's Referrals--aka people that are just so prepared that they come seeking out the church. Sounds like this girl falls into the 3rd category :)
Speaking of referrals, our ward gave us 2 this week! that hardly ever happens for us, so it was so cool to see it all work out! We're going to teach them both this week WITH our members, so i'll let you know how it goes next week.
And Dad, you're exactly right. I mounted that bike a total of 3 times. hah so much for biking in a skirt...
I love you all soooooooo much. Cuidense y portense bien, ok?
<3 Hermana Sangre
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