Courtney's Week #44

Well, I just realized as I was trying to remember the date for the subject line that I have 10 months in my mission. Yikes!

 

So anyways this week was super super Awesome. We only have 3 investigators with a baptismal date this week, but all three were in the church and they all are progressing. We also found a girl Saturday. We were just walking down the street and she was sweeping her patio, but she stopped to look at us and she just had this look on her face just begging for me to talk to her. So I went over and introduced us as missionaries and she immediately invited us into her house. That almost never happens so I asked her if she had shared with missionaries before and she told us her life story which started off with, "My family is Catholic, but I know that Catholicism isn´t true." She ran away from home a few years ago and found her dad, who her mom always said pretty much didn´t exist. Turns out her dad is a member. She started talking a little bit to the missionaries and went to church a couple times. At the time she was drinking, smoking, and doing drugs, but she stopped all of that, put her life in order and returned home to live with her mom. We taught her a quick review of "The Restoration" and really applied it to her. The Spirit was super super strong. She came with us to church the next day. We haven´t had the chance to ask her to be baptized yet, but we will. She is awesome, she fifteen but acts like she´s about 20 and is literally one of those people who have been prepared and is ready. We were a little bit worried about how her family was going to respond to her investigating the church though because they didn´t seem so excited, but she said that they talked about it that night and her family says that they will support her in her decision if this is what she really wants, but they don´t exactly want to hear the missionaries themselves. She is so awesome!!

 

We also have Coni and Emanuel, who we are going to baptize next week! Coni´s whole family are really active members, but she was kind of against the church because she was currently living in the same house as Emanuel. Coni and Emanuel have a little boy, Vicente who is three years old. A few weeks ago Coni and Emanuel showed up at church with the rest of their family. It was pretty much a miracle. We didn´t have anyone else in the Gospel Principles class so we really had the opportunity to talk with them, we found out their concerns and desires and what they really wanted. It was a little bit of a struggle to work to their needs, but they are getting baptized next week.

 

Well, this week was super super awesome. We received a lot of blessings, had a lot of super super powerful lessons, and we are really excited for the next few weeks. It is so cool to be a missionary, we have the power to change the lives of others!!

 

Love you all!

Hermana Evans