So this week we now have three people with baptismal
dates! Alicia is someone that we´ve been teaching ever since I got
here, so at least four months or so. Everytime before when we invited
her to baptism she said that it was too cold and that she wanted to wait
til summer ha. She is about 60 or so, and she´s been to multiple
baptisms in the church so she knows that the water is always freezing.
We had a lesson with her the other night and brought a member. We
invited her to baptism again and she accepted the date of October 19!!
She still likes her coffee so that is a challenge, but we invited her to
really pray if it´s something to keep her from baptism. We´re praying
for her and are excited for her!!
One of our other investigators with a date is
named Ana Maria. She has had a hard life. I think I wrote about her the
other week... she had been living in the street for the past few months
and just recently moved into a friend´s house. She told us that she is
not happy and wants to change her life. We gave her a book of mormon and
taught her about how Christ came to the Americas, and she was just in
heaven! It was great to see her so happy. She´s been sick the past
couple days so we haven´t been able to teach her, but we are visiting
everyday to try and see her. She has a friend that´s a member which
really helps. We are also going to bring her to conference this weekend.
Our other investigator with a date is named
Isabel. She has a daughter with 14 years named Carla. Carla has some
disablities, so Isabel always has to be at home with her. Plus her son
was in a moto accident and has been bed ridden for almost 6 months. She
said that her husband doesn´t support her and it´s been hard for her at
home taking care of the kids and the house and everything. She said that
she feels so much more hope when we come to teach her. We taught her
the plan of salvation and the spirit was so strong! Isabel already has a
strong testimony and is a great example to me. I´ve realized here all
of the blessings I have at home and all the things that I took for
granted. We are so blessed in the states!!!
We´ve been working with our other investigators
that we found last week but for now only a few are progressing. People
move at different paces, but it´s amazing to see how the spirit works in
people. We have a few different families that we´re teaching, but we
are hoping to have more support from families in the ward to come visit
them with us. As a zone and as a mission we are starting a new program
called the work of salvation to get more members involved in the work.
All of the stake presidents and bishops are getting a lot of training
with president borg in how to animate members in the work. We can work
so much efficiently when we have members! We are already improving, but
we´re excited to see what more we can do!
There´s a girl named Mireya who has 13 years in
our area that is just amazing! She was baptized two years ago, but
there wasn´t the hand off between the missionaries and the ward like
there should be, so she went menos activo pretty quick. She´s the only
member in her family, so it´s hard for her to walk to church by herself.
We´ve been working with her and teaching her, and she has really taken
the iniciate to reactivate. She´s invited her mom and her sister to
listen to the missionary lessons, she now comes with us to church every
week, and last week she went to do baptisms in the temple!! She is the
cutest girl and she is such a great example to me! I learn SO much from
the people here.
Well, that´s about it for this week. Oh! Our
bishop´s wife told us that she´s going to Salt Lake this week, so I gave
her dad´s number and the house number to call!! She only speaks
Spanish, so I told her to call dad´s phone first ha. She will be landing
Tuesday in the afternoon, so will probably call Tuesday night. Her name
is Patricia and is super sweet and nice! I don´t know if she´ll have
time, but maybe you can meet up for lunch or something? Just a thought!
Welp I love you all!!!! Hope you all have a
great week! Get feeling better all of you! I love hearing from you all
and look forward to your letters. I am in Mormon in el Libro de mormon
and love everytime I get to read. Se que el libro de mormon es
verdadero. Se que Cristo vive y que el es nuestro salvador y redentor.
Es solamente por medio de el que podemos regresar a vivir con nuestro
Padre Celestial. Love you!!
Con amor, Hna. Anderson
I found a Pinkberry here! It´s still the best hun cal fro yo!!
Hna Callister and I playing on the train tracks in our area
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