Hey Hey family!!!!
how are things?
things here have beeeeeeeen SUPPPPPPPPPPERRRRRRRRRRRRR
Great! oh man am i excited to tell you all about this week!
what a week of miracles it has been. I am so super excited
to tell you all that has happened i think im gonna just jump right on in!
Wellllllll basically my whole mission i have been praying
and praying to be able to teach families. to find those families that are ready
for the gospel and that want to be baptized. and so has hna alvarez. and so we
have been praying for it together as well and just set goals to work as hard as
we can--i really want to be able to see at least one more baptismal service
before i head home. and there is seriously so much potential here that there is
not reason why we shouldnt have one.
And this is what happened:
1.) Luis-who got baptized this past december-well his
mom (who is less active) and her 2 sons (the younger brothers of
Luis) have been coming to church for the past 3 weeks or so. finally got to set
up an appt with them-we went over monday and turns out the two boys-Raul
(13) and Tino(9) both want to be baptized! the lesson was awesome and
their mom really opened up and told us about how she wants to be able to
return to church and just what joy it has been to see luis making the
right choices and being baptized and having the priesthood and prepping for a
mission that it has really made her want to do the same. So we set the two boys
on tenative date for the 17th of march :) Just gotta work with the step dad a
bit-he is part of the reason she has
become inactive. {Teaching 1 new family :) }
2.) We got a call from a family in our ward that wanted
us to come with them to go see their sister who had just had surgery and
start teaching her and her family because they arnt members. So we went over
with them had a sweet little lesson with them-mom, dad, and 3 kids. Going
over again on tuesday---{teaching second new family}
3.) Wednesday night we get a call from Jolver (member
who just moved from Arkansas) and he asked us if we could come over tuesday
night at 6. told him we could. That night we pull up to the apartment and I
just get this overwhelming feeling that something big was about to happen. I
told Hermana Alvarez---i dont know what to expect here, but its gonna be
something cool.
We knock on the door............We go inside............There
sits a family of at least 12 sitting on the couch waiting for us to get there.
Turns out---They had moved with Jolver here from Arkansas and they arnt
members....they were prepping to be baptized and were about to get married when
they had to move over here. There are 8 in that family that are over the age of
being baptized. Taught a lesson on faith and got to know them a bit--told us
that they would be at church on sunday! Left that appt with 8 new investigators
and one BIG family!!!!! There was a child baptism on saturday and On thursday I
had totally forgot to invite this family (Los Chavez) and had totally
forgottten until the day of and it just kept coming to my mind that i needed to
call and invite them and one thing came after another that i kept forgetting to
do it---it was 3:30 when i finally listened to the prompting and called em up
and invited them....baptism was at 5 and i really felt like i missed my moment
of actually having them there due to the short notice i gave. So hna Alvarez
and I got to the baptism and its about to start when guess who walks in?? YEP!
that very family!!!!!! oh man I just can't even tell you--we seriously about had
a heart attack right there me we were so excited.
And they LOVED it. They met the bishop and his family and
actually were asking the bishop about how long they had to wait before they
could be baptized and that they were trying to do that in Arkansas....Hermana
Alvarez went up and talked to Hermana Chavez and asked her how she liked it and
she told her that she loved it and really hoped that it would be their turn
soon. :) They also then showed up to church on sunday like they told us they
would!!!!!!!! GOD is SO AWESOME! {teaching third new family}
4.) Friday, Luis and Analis (his cousin) came out with us to
do missionary work for the day. Had 2 appts cancel on us so I looked through
the area book and found a couple people that we could go and try to see if they
were interested. So we went and did some knocking-Luis and Analis both did some
as well. All
the names i had writted down were either not living there anymore, not home, or
completely not interested. I had one name left-Margarita. I had her building
number but not her apt number, nor her last name. we go to the building and
decide to knock the whole thing. nothing nothing nothing......until we come to
the last door. we answer it and you know who it was? yep Margarita! she lets us
in and we get to tknow her a bit have a quick lesson and ask her if shed be
interested in having us over again and she told that she totally would! She
wants her kids to be able to learn these things as well and well-she has 6 of
them. 5 of which are over the age of 8. :) {Teaching fourth new family}
We prayed for families and God led us to 4 of them! Oh man I
am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited. 15 new investigators this week! How amazing is
that?! Just to kind of give you a view of just how amazing that is. we set
monthy and weekly goals on how many new people we want to be teaching and our
week goal is 4. our monthly goal for feb is 16. and we just found 15 of them in
one week! :) oh man Hermana Alvarez and I are wqorking hard. And the even
sweeter part of it all is that it does not feel like it. I mean dont get me
wrong--my body is completely tired. we hit our pillows hard at night but like
we are having so much fun along the way that it doesnt even feel like work. Ive
been laughing so hard my chest and abdomen are sore.
Other cool miracle is that we put Irma back on date for the
17th of March! I think its really gonna happen. :)
Dont worry my shoes have been on the correct feet this week
:) ive been doing better with my left and right. biggest problem this week has
been my spanglish......Im sorry in advance for my poor language. you might not
be able to make sense of what im saying :/ sorry.
Lesson learned this week: Polish Planning Sessions are the
best.
I dont remember if i put this on our bucket list. But every
week we have to do weekly planning and for most missionaries they hate it.
Mostly because of how boring and tedious it can get. Well the ONLY reason that
they hate it is cause they havent had a weekly planning session with Hermana
Maughan. I love weekly planning :)
With hermana Brown we always had to do something that
started with a p -like where pink, pajama party, eat pepporni pizza, or make
pancakes etc etc.... well new companion, have ta change it up a bit. So how did
we do that? Well every planning session we have to do something or eat
something Polish. Hence we have Polish Planning Sessions.
This week we sung the Polish National Anthem and ate their
favorite fast food--Popeyes Chickenskies. Oh man. Best planning session ever?
Id say so.
Whats on the agenda for next week? Doing the Polka and
eating Perogies, while Planning :)
Like I said-all we do is laugh.
Think thats the update for this week! I sure love you all
and hope you have a fantastic week!
Se Cuiden!
Paz y Amor,
Hermana Maughan
