It was lovely to hear from you all, love you so much :D Transfers are happening on the 8th, so I will still be in Mesa for sure on my birthday.....which is really weird because it doesn't seem to even matter to me. We have so many cool things happening right now!
Well, first of all. We went to Queen Creek for E and M's baptism. It was amazing, I have pictures that I will have to send you. M was ready for baptism from the beginning, but she wanted to wait for E. I am so happy that E took the time to find out for himself that these things are true. He was so happy when he was baptized. M was going to be baptized in a chair, but she decided against it. There were 4 priesthood holders in the water with her to help her down and back up, and they had to do it twice...oops. It was so beautiful and amazing....pretty sure there wasn't a dry eye in the building. It was so cool to see everyone from the Queen Creek ward again. Such a good day.
Well, this week started off with 1 person on date for baptism.....we now have 6. WOOHOO! We were teaching English class on Tuesday night and the Bishop asked us to come to his office after. We went in and there was a family in there! They had just moved here from the Mesa mission where the missionaries were teaching them for 4 months. It is L and K A and their 2 kiddos d (14) and k2 (4). We have met with them a lot this week. The parents are getting baptized on May 11th, and D really doesn't want to. It is so interesting to me that the parents want to be baptized, but the 14 year old boy keeps saying he has already been baptized and doesn't want to be baptized again. Well, we are still working with him :D He will come around. They are so great. They came to church on Sunday (miracle) and were giving comments in Sunday school about how they feel the spirit and want to learn more. They are nothing other than golden.
We also had a lesson with J (the less active) and M, E and M's daughter E2. E wants to be baptized and has so much faith. M is super hesitant about it, but accepted with date along with her daughter E2. They all accepted a date of May 18th to be baptized.
We also had to move M's baptism back to May 12 because we were not able to have a lesson with him this past week, but we were able to yesterday. He is so cool. He is in his 40's and he wants to be baptized for all the right reasons, and because he wants to be an example to his brothers about taking action in their lives and doing good things. He is on fire!
We are planning an activity on Thursday for all of our investigators and the elders' investigators to come and meet the ward leaders and to watch The Testaments at the church. It is going to be great! So we are doing a lot of inviting, hopefully people will actually come and it will be a success :D
Well, other than that it has been a pretty normal week in the mission. Training is going good and Hermana B is speaking more and more Spanish (woohoo!) We have seen lots of miracles this week with trying to reach our goals. Every week we have a goal for each companionship in the mission to talk to 140 people about the gospel on the street. For the past few weeks we have been getting around 130 or 120, but not 140. Well, this week we have a goal to be super diligent and to reach it to show Heavenly Father how grateful we are for all of these miracles. Well it came down to Sunday and we needed to talk to 27 more people. We had a pretty long dinner and we didn't know how we were going to have enough time to "oym" (open your mouth) and go to the lessons we had set. Well, we just got out of a lesson with the A family and it was 8:55 and we needed to talk to 14 more people before we were home by 9:00 (well, we may have been a little late, but we are allowed to be out until 9:30 if it is because of a lesson). Anyway, the miracle of it is, is that while walking back to our car we found exactly 14 more people to talk to about the gospel. MIRACLE! and we reached the goal of 140. It is really amazing how much God really does help us reach our goals when it is something we are really striving to reach. So neat!
We also get to go back to biking now! I don't know it they are going to take the car away, but I can officially ride my bike again, the elbow is all good to go. I am SUPER excited. Bring on the heat:D
Okay, well I love you all. Hope you remember how much you are loved and missed :D LOVE YOU!!!!!!
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