Well
not gonna lie this week was pretty hard. It started off pretty good
though. We had a mini zone conference in port Charlotte and got some
training, were told flu shots were mandatory for us (bad thing number
uno) and we got to watch Meet the Mormons....with a bunch of
Mormons.
Haha all the missionaries looked like they were about to cry when the
movie started since a lot of them haven't seen a movie in almost a yr
and a half or two years. But I thought it was really good and they
did a good job with it! I saw Andrew knowlton there...he's
alive
and doing well! Haha president actually told him to stand up during
the meeting and was like "alright, raise your hand if you have
ever seen this elder not smiling" and everyone was quiet and
he's like "everyone needs to be a little happier..people don't
want to talk to you if you don't at least look happy!".
- we had
a lot of lessons fall through this week...I guess people have work
and family and lives and other things to do besides learn about the
gospel or something? One interesting lesson we had was with an old
lady named Sandra from Puerto Rico who was a member referral. She is
probably the most stubborn, prideful, loud person I've ever met. She
let us in to give her a lesson but she probably talked for 95% of it...and
not because we didn't know what to say, because every single time we
started to say something she would butt in in her loud Puerto Rican
Spanish voice and not let us finish our sentence. I was getting so
frustrated because if I even paused for half a second for my slow
little brain to catch up and try to put my thoughts into
semi-comprehensible Spanish she would seize the opportunity and go
off again about how there is no way that any church could help her
strengthen her relation ship with God because "tengo una fe
taaaangrande". Yup not going back there -
Alright so the two of
our new investigators that I have been talking about, Marcela and her sister Maria. We had a really great lesson with Marcela about the law of chastity early in the week because Marcela
is living with her boyfriend so in other words no baptism until we
can fix that no no. But we had been praying so hard all week that she
would have the faith and desire to keep the commandments,
specifically this one and she took the lesson really well and said
that she and Grant want to get married soon!! We were like yes yes
yes marriage baptism combo for the win! Then the next day we found
out that both Marcela and Maria both finally the jobs they've been
looking for! They kept saying oh it's because of you guys and God
that my prayers have finally been answered and we both found jobs the
same day that you visited us. And we're like yeah it's because you're
doing the things that God wants you to do that he's blessing you so
much! So we were on a pretty high high because we're like yeah this
is so good, they're getting answers to their prayers, they're
recognizing these blessings are from God, we're on a roll ,
hallelujah hurrah for Israel. Then of course we find out that BOTH of
them have to work Sunday's and aren't able to come to church and all
of our hopes and dreams came crashing down. They need to come to
church!! Ahhh Newbill and I were so sad because now we're gonna have
to tell them that "hey actually remember how we were talking
about those miracle jobs you guys finally got after
not having work since you left Mexico...yeahh those might have to
go...". Man so pray for us and pray for them this week that they
will be able to work something out so that they will be able to come
to church!
-
Gino got a new job this week too so it's been pretty hard to see him.
I guess Satans new thing is giving these poor jobless Mexicans who
just want to work jobs that don't let them meet with the missionaries
or go to church. Because Gino is ready and
wants to get baptized this next weekend but he wasn't able to cometo
church to get his interview this Sunday and we have only been able to
see him like once or twice this week so pray for him too that we will
be able to work everything out for his baptism this weekend!!
-
One of our investigators named Joe was supposed to get baptized this
weekend but that fell through since he doesn't feel he's quite ready
to make that commitment yet...we are really trying to help him though
to gain his own testimony but he needs to do his part and actually read
the Book of Mormon and pray and come to church so we are hoping this
time it will finally click and he will realize that he needs to act
to build his faith and can't just wait around for God to answer him.
-
NONE of our investigators were able to come to church this Sunday. So
my heart kinda broke but then it was put back together a little bit
because all of our recent converts were there and going strong and
Hilario got the priesthood so that made things a little better.
-
but to put the cherry on top of this week...we had one of our English
investigators pass away on Thursday. And it was a really horrible
experience that I've been struggling with this week and am not going
to talk about very much but yeah so that may have put a little bit of
a damper on this week. - but we are just praying that these things
happened this week because that just means something really good is
going to happen this week. We're GOING to have at least one baptism
this week. Gino is ready and also Alfredo is ready....he is still
just trying to receive a confirmation for himself that this church is
true. It's kind of killing me because he just wants to know the truth
soooo sooo bad but I know that God answers prayers in his own way and
his own time but I'm hoping that His own way and His own time will be
this week so that Alfredo will feel ready to be baptized this
weekend. -Spanish update. Score is still currently me:��
Spanish language:��. It's kind of frustrating I thought
I'd be way better by now at it than I actually am but guess God is
trying to teach me patience and humility. Wish he was trying to teach
me intelligence and bilingualism pero, asà es. - please pray for the
people I mentioned in my letter today...for Marcela and Maria and
Gino and Joe and Alfredo. They need the prayers more than I do! Love
you guys and hope everyone has a great week! ������
-boo yah thought I'd have to leave these bad boys behind but guess
who's got emojis on her iPad ����
Hermana
Baugh
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