Another Baptism Coming Up!

Well we have some good news! we have another baptism coming up! her name is Claudia and her husband is a less active member, and this last Monday we taught her The Restoration and then we committed her to baptism and we testified how the gospel will truly bless her family and will help her raise her children with more success. We shared Mosiah 4 :14-15 about how we need to raise our children walking in the ways of the Lord and to teach them to love and to serve one another and the Book of Mormon has instruction from a loving Heavenly father that wants us to learn to live happily and wants to help us with any problem we face. she loved it and she loved the part of the intro to the BOM about it teaches us to have peace in this life :) she sure needs it her kids are trouble makers and i finally got him ( Saul 3 years old) to pray! it was an accomplishment, i started off with: "if you can hear me touch your toes, if you can hear me touch your eyes, if you can hear me touch your belly, if you can hear me fold your arms, if you can hear me bow your head and close you eyes, if you can hear me repeat my words." And that is how i got him to laugh and obey:) so then me and my companion filled out a calender to arrange all our visits for the next three weeks in preparation to her baptism :) unfortunately she wasn't able to make it to three lessons last week, wow that was a little complex to fix it all and she didn't come to church so we will have to push her date back another week! so bummed

 

Well the next case with her father in law Saul, he works super hard all day in the heat in landscaping, so he was always too tired to meet with us, but he truly wants to follow Christ, and so we have to push his date back as well:(

Last Sunday well yesterday we reaped the fruits of our labors, we went to wake people up in the morning for church, as always, and we got five investigators to come who otherwise wouldn't have came, it was glorious! And let me tell you, i loved when the members came up to them and wanted to be their friends ! it made me so happy, for they made them feel welcomed and loved! Now the daughter of the mom is going to start coming to young women's and both her children are going to start practicing a dance at mutual in preparation for this cultural celebration that will be happening in Sep 15th. I am so glad the mother love the classes, and she will learn to come out of her shell, i am excited to see the transformation the love of Christ will bring into their lives :)

I think today we are going bowling and are all going to wear our new red zone shirts. so I'll send pictures of us next monday if i have time.

Oh ok record updating is so important folks! every night it is important to do that. so, funny story, we went to go teach a "part member family" the Dad was "not a member" and we went to teach him The Restoration, he loved it and by the way we are doing better at teaching people according to their needs, so we promised the blessings he would receive and how it will help his family stay more united and the spirit was super strong and my trainee had to take the lead in the lesson because it is part of her training and she did Fabulous! oh i am so proud of her! then she extended the invite, "Will You follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by someone holding the proper priesthood of God?" ans he said yes.

We set a date and ask if he would prepare. then he said "well i already got baptized in the Mormon Church"

aaawww

well we were shocked!

then we just taught him about enduring to the end and how by small and simple things are great things come to pass.

He said he will make a better effort because he knows it is true, so we are going to be visiting that family more to make sure they are strong :)

so updating records is so important ! moral of the story 

Ok so we were riding our bikes one night as usual and i see this girl and i said hi then we went on by going to our next appointment and i thought to myself why didn't i stop to talk to her, because my companion didn't see her. and i have seen her for a few night now, but never stopped to talk to her. then the person wasn't home so i thought ok if she is still there we are so talking to her. so we rode by and there she was we introduced ourselves and she said "i am glad you two finally stopped"

Indeed, it is important to talk to everyone, forget about yourself and your awkwardness, and your inabilities and think about others instead of yourself, and share this glad message with them because they need to know that they have a Savior who loves them and this knowledge will help them with all aspects of life. I have really come a long way since the beginning of my mission I am more confident now, plus being a trainer has helped me a lot because it has made me reach out of my comfort zone because i have to be an example of what a servant of the Lord needs to be. Of course i am still working on my patience, ans other attributes, and it is great.

well i wish i can write more but we have less time today, so see you all later!

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