haha but after our Skype sesh i really am feeling the reality of coming in on three months left :( awwwhhhaha. ok. ya.
SO many family and people that still need to be helped and lead to Eternal Glory :)
Lots
of people were out of town in los Ranchos (basically farms) for the
weekend seeing their families and mothers for the special day :) so i
expect more progressing stories from them all in the following week!
We
contacted and met a girl on the street and even taught her right in the
moment. Janet. SO cute :) I hope she keeps investigating the church and
that the missionaries in her area find her. How lovely it is that the
Lord allowed us to have that moment so she could come to know of the
gospel. She told us that she stopped going to her Catholic church and
doesnt practice it for some personal reasons. We discussed the
importance of organized religion, shared scriptures and even prayed. All
in the street (let me tell you, definitely not my first time). But how
many college aged kids do that?? Just get randomly stopped in the street
and start talking about Christ and the importance of life and then show
their faith by calling upon God in the moment? I vow to be more like
her when I get back :) She thanked God in her prayer for finding us and
that we helped her to find the right path again :)
We have
Metas de Excelencia (Excelence Goals) as a mission and this month me and
my companion are focusing on have 3 people with baptismal dates at the
end of each week. What happens is we invite by the Spirit and almost in
every first lesson, and have about 10 people by Saturday, but then
Sunday comes and they have to attend church to keep working towards the
same goal and date that we set...so not everyone comes and then we are
left with very few. This week Maria Concepcion came to church with her 2
grandchildren and is still working toward getting baptized June 13th.
So we faulted (its a word?) 2 more people with dates and goals. Well of
course the Lord led us to these preapred people.
In that day
we ending up finding a big family of less active members and
investigadores. The father and some of the children are not baptized,
and the rest have stopped coming to church. We taught them and the
Spirit was so strong guiding the lesson :) The mom (Josefina) said that
she would change her day off from Saturday to Sunday in order to go to
church and the father (Leobrardo) accepted to be baptized June 20th!
Another
lesson we had was with Karolina. Single mom, pregnant, with two
adorable children and still working 10 hr days with 4 months left in her
pregnancy. We taught her about prophets and how the Lord is the same
"yesterday, today, and for always" and how thats the same with His
church, the oraganization, and the people He calls to lead us. We tuaght
her how we having a living prophet today, President Monson, and how he
sent us here to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to her. We invited her
to baptism and her reaction was so cute :) She responded with such
faith saying that if she prays and knows its the will of God she will do
it.
She was so shocked and amazed at things that she was
just starting to learn and said that she will definitely pray to know if
Pdt. Monson is a profet and if she should be baptized the 20th of June
:)
I know that God lives and that He works miracles. We need
to have faith and we need to live it. It doesnt have a "shelf life", in
that way its not vaild. If we want to see Him working in our lives, we
need to work Him into our live :)
Mormon 9:18-21
I
know we will be seeing miracles in the area and in the ward, maybe the
fruits of our labores will be seen in June, but for now we keep working
and pushing for changes :)
Love you all!
HLJ
dont really have too many fotos. we had a zone conference.
foto with glasses and then without.. ;) haha oh and foto bomb from our district Leader Elder Gomez.
anddddd picture with Luz Maria!!!! her family will be Celestial :))
she makes these chocolates and sell them. the ones she gave us were for mothers day and say "madre" or "mama"
:)) ¡mi mama mexicana! ;)
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