So...yeah. This week was pretty sweet. We were able to see a lot of miracles and laugh a little.
First off, Thank you Jill and Family for the package!! It was so fun to receive, and Ashlyn, you are so beautiful! Thank you for sending me your announcement!
Second off,
We were nearing the end of our day, and all of our plans had fallen through, so we went to the main road and decided to contact everyone we saw until the end of the day...and...we got to the road and it was empty. Not a soul, until we saw that there was a security guard in his little box thing, writing Jesús te ama (Jesus loves you) on the windows. So we were like...okay, sign. So we went to talk to him, and after we figured out how to get his attention, he came out and began to talk to us. We talked to him about the Book of Mormon, and when we offered it to him, he declined by describing to us a dream that he had supposedly had. In this dream, he had seen 2 girls, one with brown skin and the other a blonde, and that they were enticing all of the men to go to them and then they proceeded to eat them. And then rode off on their dinosaurs. I kid you not, that is what he said. While trying not to burst out laughing, we were like...if you don't want it, just say no, we won't bite. We thought it was pretty funny:)
On the more spiritual side, we had a wonderful week. Eduardo, an investigator from Palma Loma, was baptized on Saturday, and I was able to call and talk to him a little. He has progressed so much and just goes to show how the gospel can change our lives for the better, it doesn't matter what we have done.
We have 3 people with baptismal dates for this weekend, but we aren't sure if any of them are going to make it, because Satan is working hard on them. We have the Arrua Family. The elders worked a lot with them, but could never get them to commit to a date, because the husband doesn't want his wife to get baptized. We were able to put a date, and we fasted with them on Friday so that they would be able to reach this goal. Yesterday, Ramona (the wife) still wasn't sure, so she talked with the bishop, who told her to wait until she had the approval from her husband. We were kind of ticked, but then we realized that it would be better that way. We think. Keep them in your prayers!!
Other than that, we are just working hard, finding new people. When we fasted on Friday, we tried hard to find new people that would accept the baptismal invitation. We found 2! Juana lives behind our house, and we had talked before with her mother-in-law, but we had never tried to talk with her. When we prayed before leaving to start proselyting, it came into my head that we should go and talk with her. We went and were able to have a great lesson on the Plan of Salvation. The other miracle was Joana. We had contacted her house before, but she was way busy with her kids, so we finally followed up and had a lesson on repentance. She had her first baby when she was 17, and since then has been involved with drugs. She is awesome and is ready to start over. Our last miracle was Jessica. She was a referral from a member and we contacted her mom on Wednesday, and then we went back on Friday. She told us that she would come to church, and she did! She came because she has a friend who is member, and a wonderful example of how members should be. There are lots of people who don't want to talk with us because of bad examples, but if they have had a good example, there isn't anything better:)
The time has gone by SO FAST. Seriously, it seems like yesterday that I was crying my eyes out in the airport before leaving. And now, everyone is asking me "are you ready to go??", and I am like...no. Not even a little bit. Normally we don't receive our travel plans until our last transfer, so I think that is when I will be receiving them.
Anyway, on a more trunky note, EVERYONE asks us if we have boyfriends. It is RIDICULOUS. It makes me think that the main topic of conversation with the elders was their girlfriends, because the first thing they ask is if we left someone. Eesh.
I hope that you all have a good week, thank you for all of your support, and now that Josh is in the field (okay, weird,) keep him in your prayers!! I love you!
Love,
Hermana Farish
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