Buenas!
This
week has been pretty potente (awesome).
We had almost zero success with investigators with plenty of dropped
appointments, dropped commitments, and overall dropped investigators. However,
we have been working a lot with the members and I really love it. Every time
that we go with the members we learn a lot more about them and I find something
more to love about them. Along with
that, after hearing a lesson from us they tell us that they would love to help
us out more by going to lessons with us and thinking about friends who would
accept the gospel.
One
of the members told us basically all about her whole life and how she felt
really bad for having gone inactive a couple of years back. She is the grandma of C., the niño that
I was able to baptize and she told us that she feels like God can't forgive her
because she feels that she caused the inactivation of her kids too and that her
daughter didn't marry in the church because of her. Interestingly enough, that morning I read
Mosiah 27 which has to be one of my favorite chapters because I feel like it
applies to my life pretty well. In my
studies I had no idea why I came upon that chapter because I began studying
about Conversion, but I found out with this member. I shared with her the last
two verses and told her that she was "bringing about the salvation of
souls" and it started with her grandson. She told me, "muchas gracias, Elder" and we then
gave her a Book of Mormon that she wanted to give to a friend. All in all, working with the members is the
way to go even if al principio (in the beginning) we don't have many
investigators. We're starting to feel like we have the support of the whole
ward now and that they actually want to help us— not that we're burdens in
their ward.
Along
with that, we went to visit a recent convert, R. Her conversion story is really neat because
her husband is really, really Catholic and she was pretty anti-Mormon too. We
went to share a scripture with her and her family but let me tell you, I was so
scared because her husband is pretty intimidating. Then the quote by Elder Eyring popped into my
head that says something like "The Lord is preparing people to hear you
BOLDLY declare your testimony" or something like that... We went in and I
shared a scripture but then I challenged the whole family to pray that night to
know if this church was true and invited them to church, something I definitely
hadn't planned on doing. The next day at
the church I didn't really expect to see them there (oh ye of little faith,
eh?) but lo and behold, here came Hermana R. with her daughter. Apparently
her daughter has always wanted to come to church but had been too scared of
what her dad would say to her. After we
left, she asked her mom if she thought their dad would let her go and R. said that she (A.) needed to ask. As
you can guess, he said it was fine! This Sunday we talked to her and asked if
she would want to receive the discussions and even the bold Baptismo
question... she said yes to both! We're
going to be working with her this week, and hopefully soon her dad will come
through.
Yesterday was the presentacion de
los niños (children’s program) and let me tell you, it was so for cute!!
Hermana R.'s grandson R. is such a cute little guy and he was one of
the fun ones to watch. You know, the ones. He lives close to our house and he always
waves to us when he walks by the park where we go running. You'll have to look
up "Tazos" on the internet because I always play tazos with him. Somos amigos. (We are friends) (That's my go-to phrase with everyone we teach. If there's ever a tense moment after an
invitation or if they don't feel comfortable I just say something like,
"Puede hacerlo! Somos amigos ¿no?" (You can do it! We’re friends,
right?) Elder V. gets a kick out of that when I say it)
Have a
great Thanksgiving week and be sure to eat some pumpkin pie for me... ah.......
(drool on the keyboard) I'll be sure to
eat some frijoles for you and some rice!! And possibly some soup made by Nacho!
I love it! It's the beyst!!
Taylor, Tay, Elder Jaussi, Elder
Howsee
--Sea feliz, sea Mormon (Be Happy. Be a Mormon)
Elder V. and I with N. G., our little amigo, wearing one of my nametags. He is the son of the ward mission leaders. They are probably my favorite family in the ward. They're so great!!
Me surrounded by angels and by Jesus like it says in
DyC 84. President gave an awesome lesson with the cardboard cutouts. It was
superb!
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