Well another fun week out here:D We have been biking lots and loving the 110 degree weather. It actually is not that bad, well yet :D hahaha.
We met a new family this week! The C's. Brother C is a member of the church, very less active. He and his wife, R, got married 2 years ago and he loves her so much! He keeps telling her about how families can be together forever if they are sealed in the temple. Well, she got really curious about it and now we are teaching her. We taught the restoration about how through the restoration, the priesthood power to be sealed has been restored. It was one of the most spiritually powerful lessons ever. It was AMAZING!!!!! Have I ever told you how cool it is to be a missionary?! Well, it is the BEST thing ever!
So lets see, in the branch in San Luis there are 5 missionaries serving their missions (which is so cool!) There are 2 sisters that are preparing to go as well, D and J. They are so fun and they have been coming on splits and asking questions and we have been having so much fun with them! Well there are also like 7 other guys that should be going on missions, but for whatever reason they don't want to. Well the branch president has been trying to help the people preparing and the ones that don't want to go. Last week and this week there was a fireside at the chapel about missionary work. We heard testimonies from us missionaries, from return missionaries, from parents of missionaries, and it was POWERFUL! Well there is this one guy named JM. The first time I saw him I thought, he is going to be a great missionary. I soon came to find out that he wanted nothing to do with serving a mission, he just didn't feel like it was for him. Well the elders in San Luis have been working with him like crazy, they are best friends. He was there last night at the fireside, and after it was over, president asked if anyone else wanted to share their testimonies. JM raised his hand and told Elder Murphy to go up with him. He started talking about how he was looking through some papers and certificates that he had and how before he thought they meant so much. He was looking at them and realized that they meant nothing. He started crying and said that he was not going to put off a mission any longer. He was going to finish his papers this month and go. There was not a dry eye in the room. Presidente Ginez was crying, JM's parents were crying, all the missionaries were crying. It was SOOOOO COOL! It was so neat to see how the branch came together and it made such a BIG difference. It was the coolest thing ever. Happy day!
Well, basically all of the families we found last week don't really have any interest (sad day). But there is a girl named A that wants to be baptized but she has to work on Sundays! She works at Albertson's as a florist. Well, hopefully she can get her schedule worked out and that her boss will let her.
Other than that, we are just having a blast here in Somerton. It is lots different than my other areas, it is a lot harder to find people interested to teach. They all are Catholic and don't really want to change. Well, we know that there are prepared people here, we just need to keep bearing testimony and find them!
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