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Starting with Monday..
normal P day.. After we were able to talk to Jaqueline, she´s the wife
of a less active member. We talked about the Book of Mormon and invited
her to read. We also talked with Sergio (like always.. because he just
makes us so happy because he´s progressing so fast). Tuesday
was a little more normal we were able to talk to 3 sisters, Elizabeth,
Paola, and Julie, they all have kids and their husbands..but lacking the
marriage part. We are hoping to be able to help them to get married,
but I´ll keep you updated on that. We talked to Holger and Jhon about
the Word of Wisdom.. that was a struggle because Holger drinks quite a
bit and doesn´t want to stop..but Jhon told us that he isn´t much for
drinking and said that it wouldn´t be a problem. He is surprisingly laid
back and willing to listen. We then went to talk to Steffani, Nayeli,
and Cesar. Steffani told us that she had decided not to go to church for
a while.. we were really sad and tried to help her understand the
importance, but she didn´t really want to listen. I just asked her to
pray before she made the decision, she said she would, but then at the
end of the lesson she refused to say the closing prayer. We will be
working with her a lot these next few weeks I think.
Wednesday
we finally found Jonathan.. he´s been really struggling this last week.
He has lot struggles because his mom is rarely at home and his dad
lives in another neighborhood with his wife...so Jonathan is left alone a
lot. He has his girlfriend (they are both 14) and he spends a lot of
time with her.. We are trying to help him find other more productive
things to do. We talked to Victor again and he was interested in the
doctrine but said he is a member of another church. We invited him to
pray and he said he would, so we will follow up with that today. We then
had another lesson with Jhon about the Plan of Salvation. He was super
intrigued with the Kingdoms of Glory, we´ll have to talk to him more
about how that works.
Thursday
I woke up feeling really sick. I had a fever and was coughing. Bad day
to be sick because we have weekly planning. I called the Elders and my
zone leader and another elder came to give me a blessing. Even though I
felt pretty awful during the day we were able to have 5 lessons. We
talked to Tony, he said that he wants some kind of proof that this is
the true church, so we are bringing him a Book of Mormon for the next
lesson. We have been visiting Jhon more and more because he is going to
be baptized the 8th of February..
this time we talked about keeping the Sabbath day holy. He took
everything really well and we set up another lesson with him.
Friday
we talked to a reference we had that ended up being really interesting.
He is super philosophical so it´s not going to be an easy road. We
talked to some recent converts and then we were able to talk again with
Jaqueline. We invited her to be baptized and she said no.. We resolved
her doubts, but she finished by still saying no. Side note: on Sunday
Hermana Callejas went to visit her and she says she wants her dad to
come to her in a dream and tell her she is in the right path.. she says
that feelings just aren´t good enough for her.
Saturday
we had 9 lessons.. beating last weeks record of 8 in one day. It´s a
good feeling to teach a lot. We were able to talk to Jhon yet again and
he committed to come to church on Sunday
even though it was really early at 8 in the morning. We also found a
less active young man who we are going to work to help get him out on a
mission, on Sunday
after being 6 months inactive came to church..YAY! We did divisions and
my wonderful companion was able to find 2 new families to teach!! I am
super excited to get to know them today!
Sunday
Jhon came to church with us, as well as Jhonathan. The members received
Jhon really well and the young single adults invited him to an activity
this Saturday
and he said he really wants to go. This week he will have his first
interview for his baptism. After church we were finally able to find a
reference we have been looking for and they were really friendly and
gave us probably the best lemonade I have ever had.. haha. Then we did
divisions again because we had a ward activity that we went and visited
less active members in groups of 2 or 3. I was able to find yet another
new family to teach which was super great... until in the middle of the
lesson I choked and started coughing uncontrolably.. super embarassing,
don´t know why I´m writing to tell you about it.. oops haha, but they
accepted another visit this week. My companion also found two new
investigators. We are feeling really blessed to have found a total of 13
new investigators this week and 4 families. We are going to be working
really hard these next few weeks to help them progress quickly.
Have a great week everyone and always remember that
no matter what happens in life our Heavenly Father loves YOU. There will
be times when life is hard when maybe you want to give up, get on your
knees and pray. Our Father in Heaven wants to listen and wants to help.
Never forget that!
Love,
Hermana Imbler
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