HELLLLLOOO!!!! Oh I love checking my e-mail:) I miss you and love you all so so sos osoooooooooo much:) (thats a lot in case you didn't know).
This week has been GREAT! The highlight of the week happened yesterday. There is a girl we are teaching named marisela, she is 20....and thankfully she prefers english...bwhahah, just kidding. But any way, she has been taking the lessons for over a year now. She loves the sister missionaries and she has been taught the lessons countless times, and we were trying to think of a way to make it more meaning full to her. Well yesterday there was a mission president fireside in spanish for investigators. A recent convert came and shared her conversion story and it was really powerfull. On the way home I was sitting next to her in the back seat and we were just chatting, Hermana Taylor was sitting in the front with the member that drove us and was talking to her. Marisela told me about how she just wants to learn more than what she has been taught for the past year. She knows all about joseph smith and the book of mormon, she says she just wants to learn what else there is to know. Well, I told her all about the Holy Ghost and how that is how we learn more. The missionaries can keep coming by day after day, but unless she does her part the words won't mean anything to her. I challenged her to be baptised right there in the back seat so she could recieve the gift of the holy ghost....and she said yes! Then we pulled in the drive way and she had to get out, but she said yes!!!! Hermana taylor had no idea what happened, it was pretty funny :) But SSSSSSSSOOOOO cool! The next time we teach her is on Thursday, and I can't wait for Thursday to come!
Happy day :)
Well, there is this other lady too in our english ward that has been on my mind too. Her name is Lori, (I just think the world of that name :) Anyway, She and her husband are not members, but their son is a recent convert and is on a mission in Italy right now. He gets back this spring. But Lori ahs read the entire book of mormon because her son asked her too. She says she wants to be baptized but won't do it until her son gets back....which is alright, but until then she needs to be reading and going to church and praying...and she is not really. She has had all of the lessons before. We decided to stop by the other day and had a good ole talk about the gospel. She says that her and her husband want to do this on their own, without the missionaries, they feel like they need to do it on their own.......well they had that chance for 6 months now. So we are going to politely try to work ourselves back in to their lives and help get them ready for baptism. She is a really sweet person and Her and I really hit it off. and I feel like she is one of the people that I was sent here to try to help. So help I shall. :) I am excited to work with her!
And we have a baptism next sunday after conference!!!!! His name is Hector and he is 8! His parents are not members and he is living with his Aunt right now, his parents got deported, so that is why it is a missionary baptism instead of the wards. But he is so COOL! I am so excited for him!!
Well the weather is cooling off (YEAHHHHHH!) Had a ward fiesta the other night, la dia de hispanidad. Best food ever! It was really fun and a few of our investigators came too, so it was super great!
I love you all and hope things are going great! You are all so special to me :) True story. Thanks for the e-mails and letters, it was a fantastic week because of them. LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!
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