SURPRISE!!!!
I broke my President's heart. (President's request to start the email like this. Hahaha he's so funny.) The time is here. 12/18/13 2:36. Very mixed feelings right now, but I guess it's where the Lord needs me to be. I can hardly believe that I'll be heading out there next week. Ready for the craziest/best/miraculous news ever? I'm having a bit of a heart attack. I just got off the phone with one of our investigators. She said she said "I have two things." One "Tengo un compromiso entonces no puedo tener la charla esta noche." (I'm not going to be able to meet tonight.) and two "Quiero ser bautizada. Pronto. El 26 de Diciembre." I want to be baptized. Soon. The 26th of December. Awwww my heart is dying right now! I am beyond excited for her, but I am so sad that I will not be able to be there! Maybe she'll want it this weekend when I tell her I'm leaving?? ;) Isn't that the coolest news ever?? We asked her to pray about a date. Originally she wanted to wait until her mom was here from Guatemala, but now she just wants to be baptized asap. Awww it's like this isn't real. She received an answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you all for the birthday emails! :) It made my birthday already and it's not even my birthday yet! Thank you thank you :) Happy birthday shout out to my birthday twin Hermana Olsen! We're having a birthday shout Hooray! ;)
Ok, so what a week it has been. It was so so strange. I say that because we weren't able to have 1 single lesson with any of our investigators until FRIDAY! Everything fell through. EVERYTHING. Hermana Dangerfield and I were stressing wondering if we were doing something wrong. Our lesson that we had tried having with President for 2 weeks now feel through again. Ayy ayy ayyy that same day our dinner got canceled and so then we were joking around saying "just wait, correlation's going to be canceled as well." 5 minutes later guess what call we got? "We're not going to have correlation tonight!" I kid you not, every single thing that day got canceled. We had a good laugh about that one. Don't worry I only tell you all of that bad luck because it completes the second half of the story. Friday and Saturday were MIRACLE DAYS!!! We were filled with great things to do.
Friday we had a lesson with an English girl (Jenaya) that we had on date. We gave her to the Elders and then a few weeks later she texted us saying that she needed to talk to us. Out of nowhere she decided that this was not something she wanted. "She wanted to see what Mormons were like, but she wasn't looking to become one." Keep in mind that earlier she was GOLDEN. Well fast forward a bit, and this Friday we had our first lesson with her since then. We decided to talk about Faith but of course doubts always lead back to the Restoration, so it became a review of Lesson 1 more than anything. The things that she was saying to us just made no sense whatsoever. Hermana D asked her if her church taught about eternal life. She said yes I believe so, but had no idea how it happened. We then explained that we have temples and the Priesthood to perform these Sealing ordinances. After a long lesson she still had decided that she wants to go to her church. Moral of the story isn't the sad ending. We're hoping she goes back to her church and then recognizes the difference of our church. She LOVED our church, so we really do not understand what happened there. Anyway, the point is that my testimony grew more than ever this week on the power of the priesthood. Other churches don't even claim to have it, they just don't teach it. They don't understand the HOW of everything we learn. It is through this Power of God that we UNDERSTAND the Lord's Plan. Nothing is complete without this power. It is amazing to be able to teach that Joseph Smith received the Priesthood the same way that each of Christ's apostles did. I absolutely love comparing each and every thing back to Christ's ministry. The church is true. We have the truthfulness in it's fullness because of a young 14 year old asking the Lord. Ask and we shall receive. I read this quote during studies today that of course I don't remember, but the end was that "we may know of Him, but we don't truly KNOW Him until we ask." Aww I just love these experiences that I have to teach this great message. It was such a testimony builder to recognize that even though this lesson broke my heart, it strengthened my testimony more than ever!
Ok, now unto Saturday's miracle. We had a lesson with President finally! It was amazing how much he was able to participate in the lesson even though he can't understand a lick of Spanish. His spirit alone was all that this family needed. It was the family of Ixchel. I think I told you how we are really trying to focus on getting Ruben baptized so that his family can be sealed in the temple. Well, unfortunately nothing has changed with him. I think it's just going to take time. He's willing to read the scriptures and pray with his family, but he just does not want to come to church. AHHH it's so frustrating. It's ok though, we're going to find out the real reason that's stopping him. The lesson went super well though. It was cute to see the connection with President's testimony on eternal families with Roberta (lost her mom in March). Someday that family will enter the temple to be sealed for eternity.
After the lesson and dinner with President we had a little bit of extra time before our next appointment. It didn't make sense that we did what we had planned, so I suggested seeing a less active. Maria Amado is a less active that works SOO much. We haven't been able to see her for a month or so, and we had no idea why. We've passed by multiple times a week, but for some reason or another we haven't been able to get a hold of her. Nevertheless, we decided to once again try to knock her door. Can you guess it? She was there!!! Oh we just lit up with Joy as she opened the door! The poor Lady is just going through so so much in her life right now. Her son is home ALL day long all by himself. She literally works from morning until 11 at night every single day. Well, something fell on her at work and she had to get stitches and ended up taking the rest of the night off. (What a miracle eh? She wouldn't have even been there!) We read a few verses from 3 Nephi 11 and she just started tearing up saying how much she needed this right now. We explained to her that she was not in our plans for the day and that we had just felt the need to go visit her. She explained how she understood that Heavenly Father is always with her. Awww it was such a testimony builder for the both of us. Unfortunately we had another appointment and couldn't stay longer, because she just didn't want us to leave. She wants us to come over for Christmas! Ohh she so so darling!
The Lord really does do everything in this work. We needed those last two days to the end of a rough week. Yesterday was a weird day as we were not able to drive our own cars because of the storm. We only had one our of church and it was hardly snowing! Hahaha it's alot different than you Utah out here! We went over to a member's house for a bit which was fun. They're always looking out for us. We watched the Christmas Devotional on the computers at our apartment. Well actually we read it. We didn't have any head phones so we just had to use subtitles! Hahaha but I LOVED it! Isn't this time of year just amazing?? I absolutely LOVE this time of year! What better time is there than a time to celebrate our Savior, Jesus Christ. I hope you all are enjoying the Christmas season as much as I am! Love you so so much and hope all is going well! Feliz Navidad!
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