Here I am! So today we had cambios, and guess what, I am in a trio again. Hermana Sampson and I are staying in the same sector, but we now have Hermana Perez from Guatamala with us. Its going to be really great. She has 6 more weeks in the mission than I do, but we will be going home at the same time because I was in the MTC for longer. I am so excited because we are going to baptize the world! We have a lot of really great investigators, we just have to get them to come to church, but we are working on that.
Ugh, so speaking of church, this Sunday we finally got one of our investigators, Maria Soledad, to go to church. She is a little bit older and she started to fall asleep during sacrament meeting and she started to snore a little bit. My companion and I were trying so hard to keep her awake nicely by moving around, making small noises, and even occasionally nudging her gently, but to no avail she would just keep falling back asleep. I think some people when they feel the peaceful feelings of the spirit it just puts them right to sleep. Anyways, one of the members in front of us, leaned over to me and said, "Hey, wake up your investigator so they don´t snore!" Anyways, I think Maria Soledad heard that because she didn´t fall asleep again during sacrament meeting. Then in Gospel Principles, our lesson was on the milenium and the teacher made up her own lesson. I have a strong testimony that the manual is there for a reason, there is just some stuff that is not exactly perfect to teach someone who is just getting to know the church. I also don´t think its good to tell an investigator that if they reject the message of the missionaries they will be condemned, but that´s kind of what happenned. Sometimes I feel that the investigators would be better off if they didn´t come to church. Hopefully Maria Soledad wasn´t offended, but she wasn´t there for our appointment later on that night.
Oh, so we found out that we can skype for Christmas! I don´t exactly know how or when, but I do know that there is a four hour difference between Chile and Utah right now. So here as I am writing my email at 5 in the afternoon you guys are just getting done with lunch! I will try to figure out what´s going on more, but we just barely figured out that we will be in this sector for Christmas.
This week was so good! We passed by a couple of our investigators, se llama Miriam y Geraldo. They are a couple that are probably the same age as you, mom and dad. They have 2 kids that are like 13 and 11. When we passed by only she was there because her husband had to work last minute. It was so cool though, she told us how they can feel a huge difference in their lives. She is very involved in the Catholic church, she actually prepares the kids for their confirmation, and so she is not quite ready to get baptized and everytime we talk about it she kind of takes a few steps backward as far as progress, but she has noticed the Spirit acting in her life and the difference that it can make which I think is a huge step. Her husband is pretty much willing to accept anything, the only problem is that we can only teach him on weekends, but no importa, I´ve decided we´re going to baptize their whole family!
I am just so happy, we have so many great investigators, and the thing that makes me happiest is that it´s not like they were golden investigators or anything, but through our study and prayer we were able to find them and teach to their needs and remove their doubts and they are starting to progress. I am just so happy.
I love you all!
Hermana Evans
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