This week went very well. I was really happy and satisfied and whatever else you want to say about it, haha. We worked hard and we saw some awesome success this week. First off we have three investigators with a baptismal date lined up now!! We set another this past week with a woman named Blanca who was a reference from a member who lives in the apartment right above actually. At first Blanca said no a few weeks ago when we first invited her. But as we've been teaching her, she's absolutely fallen in love with the message and the Book of Mormon. The other day I asked her how she felt about the Book of Mormon as she read and she responded, "I love this book. It answers all the questions I have and I love reading it. There's no doubt that I'm staying in this. I'm here to stay." And for a missionary those are like golden words, haha. I just sorta sat there for a second just taken aback a bit, haha. But after she said that we asked her to be baptized again and she accepted with no problem. When we told her that we wanted to do it in September she said no, haha. We asked why and everything and found out that the only thing that was keeping her back was because she wanted to read the entire Book of Mormon and make sure that she knew everything. My companion bore a simple but powerful testimony about the purpose of baptism and the Holy Ghost and then I added my feelings and testimony, and then we told her that she didn't need to read the entire book or know every little thing to know that the church is true. I compared it to a cake actually hahaha. I told her to pretend we have a nice looking cake just sitting on the table. I can look at it all I want but I won't know if it's good or bad until I try it. But I don't need to eat the whole cake to know if it tastes good either. But once I've tried it, I know that it's good and I want more. And I told her it's like the Book of Mormon and the Gospel. We don't have to read the entire book to know that it's good. But once we know just how good it is, we want more. And right then the Spirit worked within her and she said, "What day in September?", haha. She's so great! She came to church yesterday and loved it and I'm so excited to work with her. Her day is the 10th of September.
As we were walking back home from a visit the other day as well, it was around 930ish or so and we passed by this little boy of 9 years and a little girl who was probably 5ish. She said hi to us as we walked by so we said hi back and she just kept looking at us. But as we passed she said, "Adios guapos!" hahahaha , and for those that don't know what that means, it's "Goodbye handsome!" haha. She's 5! But at least we got a compliment from somebody right? ;) I just thought it was a cute/funny little moment the other day. I think it was that same night too where there was a meteor shower actually. A member told us there was going to be one and that it would be most visible at 3:00 in the morning, but of course I was not about to be up at that time, haha. But they said that we could probably see some around 11:00. So I went out on our little patio and just looked at the stars...and I actually saw one! It was sweet too. And yes I did make a wish, haha. And it was missionary related too, haha. If I were off the mission it most likely would have been different. But it was still awesome. But that's our week for ya. We had lots of visits and we were running around a ton this weekend and it feels good to rest to say the least. It's still way hot and I'm sweating just sitting here writing this in the computer place, haha. But it's a good way to drop those pounds gained in December and January, right? ;)
I love you all and miss you lots. Hope you are all in good health and that things are well at home. Until next week!
