Starting with Wednesday. Wednesday was the craziest day in the world because about a million things went, well, wrong. We talked with a less active (Nohelia) and she´s in a terrible situation with her husband (Patricio) who has a problem with drugs. They always are having problems within their relationship and they have the two most precious kids in the world. She has tried leaving quite a few times, but always ends up returning. It´s quite a dangerous situation because he is abusive as he is doing all sorts of drug. NOTE: Today, wednesday they both want to change that. Now onto the good news of wednesday we set Joana on date. It was our first lesson with her and when we entered she didn´t believe much in God. We had an amazingly inspired lesson and by the end she made the decision that she wants to be baptized. It´s quite a ways in the future but she wants to be baptized! :) June 25 is the date but we´re going to try moving it up.
Thursday, things are a bit odd with Patricio today. We talked with Nohelia and she is still holding strong on her goal not to smoke. (She smokes when she´s nervous.) She told us some interesting things that go on in the house... we told her that the house can be blessed so we will see if that helps a little because right now they can´t invite the spirit in super easily.
Friday. Patricio was gone all night. We get a phonecall during lunch from somebody notifying us that he was in the hospital. He had been out all night and he was going to harm his wife so he asked to be put in the hospital. We went to visit him and he wasn´t in good shape. In fact, he looked dead. Super sad. Nohelia didn´t know what to do. Half of her wanted to leave with the kids but the other half couldn´t do it.
Saturday. Patricio left from the hospital. They want to better their relationship and are going to come to church. We had an excellent Noche de Hogar with the family of Monica. :)
Sunday. Patrico and family come to church and suddenly he can´t talk. It reminded me of bedtime stories when a bee stings his tongue. They quickly left to the hospital and was notified that it was possible that he wasn´t ever going to be able to talk again. Luckily it all passed and he was talking normal a few hours later. Miracles in many situations.
Sunday night. Best night of the whole week. We had quite an odd day this day. In fact, we had quite an odd week. But this experience almost put me to tears. We weren´t planning on this but we passed by Monica´s house again and coincidently they were outside. They invited us in and for the first time ever we were able to have a lesson with ALL of their family. The husband is just recently beginning to listen in on the lessons. Well, we shared a scripture and by the end we left with a baptismal date. The spirit was the strongest it has ever been in quite some time. I have always felt a connection with this family, but this night was absolutely amazing because I have NO DOUBT that this is going to change their lives. They have the greatest desires for their children, and this is an answer to their prayers. They need to be married still and the wife is scared of this commitment, but I think that this is finally their time. She has been listening to the missionaries for years... but now is the time. We set the date for May 31, and they are going to pray to see what they think about it. It was a GOLDEN LESSON. I felt as if I was teaching my own family... so many things connected so well. LOVED it. I´ll keep ya posted. :)
TODAY. The Elders came here to Monte so we had quite a fun day. Eating, playing soccer, etc. Well, while playing soccer we saw Patricio. He informed us that Nohelia was packing her bags and leaving later today. This poor couple. I can´t even tell you how much stress we have had trying to know what was best for this family. The kids are the most precious things in the world and they need this gospel. We wished that they could work things out, but in the same time it may be better that they are seperated. They both have gone through SOO much in their lives. So sad... I don´t know how they do it because I left exhausted every time we visited their house. Wow.
Sorry this letter is crazy. Hope it made a little bit of sense. Capaz que no. Sorry. Ahh I have a million more things to say! Aww... this week was interesting. TONS of amazing things... tons of crazy things... sad... and uhh depressing. But, I have learned a million from it all. All in all I am so grateful for this evangelio. It has changed my life and yours and ours as a family.Thank you so much for your examples to me. I love you all to the moon and back. Have an AMAZING week!!!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Wright
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