Well family dear. Thanks for the package and emails and all your love. I sure do love and miss ya to pieces! Hope you are all having a great time and that you LOVED church yesterday! Because I sure did! Story time!
So the C and J that were on date for the 24th to be baptized and married have been avoiding us lately.....we are not sure if it is intentional or just really coincidental that we haven't been able to catch them at home. But anywary, we stopped by their home in the morning before church to help them come and the daughter said she was in the shower and would tell her about church......well she didn't end up coming meaning that they fell off date because she didn't come to church (LAME!!!!) BUT, there is another family we found this week. Missionaries had talked to A on the street one time and had written her address and put a sticky note on the wall....we don't know how long ago that was. But we decided to go by and introduce ourselves (that was actually last week, but whatever) This family is amazing!!!! J2 and A are some of my new favorite investigators :D J2 is catholic and A is christian and they each go to seperate churches. As we were talking with them one day J2 just told us how he felt. Religion has always been a sore spot for their family because they each go to different churches and then we come along and invite them to another church. In the middle of that conversation he remembered a few years ago, one of his really good friends was LDS and was always inviting him to come to church. He never went with him and then the friend passed away and he felt really guilty for not going. Well that memory softened his heart and they committed to come to church with us on Sunday :D So we went to kindly (maybe a little forcefully, haha) remind them about church Sunday. We got there and J2 was getting ready to cut grass and A was in the middle of washing dishes. We promised them that if they came to church Heavenly Father would REALLY bless them this week in ways that He couldn't if they didn't come....and J2 really has a lot of faith. He was just like, if you promise me that, we will come. So, he went and hopped in the shower, Hermana R and I sat on their couch eating cake for breakfast (haha yum) and A helped her kiddos get ready. Church starts at 12:00 and you know how I HATE being late to things, haha....well it was 12:00 when we left their house. We didn't make it in enough time to get to take the sacrament (we snuck in for another sacrament meeting :D) but they absoluetly loved church!! And it was soooo worth being late to! Walking into church with a whole family was soo worth it. And it was perfect! The Saturday before 2 families in the ward were sealed as families in the temple and the families were speaking and sharing their thoughts about their experience. When one of the little girls was saying how she was sooooo happy she gets to live with her family forever, the Spirit was really touching J and A. It was awesome. They are definitely some of the prepared people we have been praying to find :D Oh happy day!!!!! And the members of this ward are so great! It has been amazing to see how good they are at fellowshipping! On Sunday, 13 investigators were at church and each one of them I am pretty sure had at least 5 members come and greet them. Yeah for member missionary work!
Sorry, that was kind of a long story. haha. But I have a funny story for you now :D One of the funniest things I have experienced as a missionary. so there is this guy, M, he is a heavy drinker.........I mean a lot. And he wants to quit soooo bad, and his family wants him to quit too. Well we went over to his house yesterday and he was completely drunk. The last time we met with him he was sober and it was such a great spirit filled lesson...but we didn't have time to really help him with the alcohol problem. We had wanted to take all of his alcohol away (have I ever told you that that is one of my favorite things to do as a missionary ??? So fun and Great when people really want to give something up so they hand it all to you...and then you are like, what am I suppose to do with it??haha any way, so that was the plan this time--let him really know we want to help him quit drinking so he can feel the spirit and understand our message. So, we were standing at the door and we told him to go get a trash bag. And he is the most obedient drunk I have ever met in my life, haha. He comes back and we tell him to got put all of the beer that he has in the bag and bring it back. He just turns around and waddles away not even thinking twice about what we told him to do. hermana and I were about dying of laughter as he was walking away. He was just being so funny, poor guy. Well, turns out he dind't have any more, he had already drank it all (I believed him because he was really drunk). He comes outside and sits on the ground and just starts talking. Turns out alcohol is a truth serum. he starts talking about Jose Smith and about how he wants to know why he was important and just rambling on and on....kind of what I am doing right now....but I am not drunk....Promise :D We asked if we could sing a song and then we said a prayer with him and he just started crying and praying and it was the saddest most heartfelt prayer I have ever heard in my whole life. I felt so bad for him!!!! He said that he tried to call us first before he drank, but he couldn't find our number.......I felt so bad for that guy. Well, have no fear. he will stop tomando and then he will understand what the gospel is and then he will want to be baptized!!! that's the master plan :D
Oh this week was just full of precious memories. we chopped raw pork in to tiny tiny pieces for 2 hours to help a member who was cooking dinner for one of the 70 who was coming to visit (we went to that fireside last night by the way and I got to see lots of members from Mesa!! It was soooooo fun to see them all and get to hear him speak!) Also, Hermana R and I have been laughing way to hard. haha. we are just having so much fun together and working hard along the way. This is what a mission should be like :D
Well, Elder Cardon from the 70 is coming to tour our mission this week. I am super excited because I really loved his talk from conference, if I remember it is called something like "The Savior Wants to Forgive' or something like that dealing with repentance. He is doing a fireside Tuesday night so we can bring investigators and then on Thursday we have an all day meeting with him. So I am excited for all that this week has in store :D wooT!
I love you all and hope you have another great week!!!!!
MUAH!
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