I am
not even sure where to start! This week has been a really good one for Hna Muro
and I. So last Tuesday Hna Muro and I were walking around with Hna Valdivia she
was coming with us to make visits. We visited our usual people, nothing too
exciting until we decided to look for some less actives in our area that we hadn’t
been able to find. We came to one house we had tried to visit but nobody was
ever home except now! The less actives name is Cleotilde. She has an adorable
family. She used to live in a place called San Blas and had moved to Tepic
about 8 months ago and hasn’t gone to church since. It was a total miracle that
her address showed up on our lists of less active. She never had her records
moved and the address she lives in was actually under her mom’s name and her
mom has never lived there.... so I have idea how she was on the list. She
remarried someone named Andrew and get this…he’s from New Zealand and doesn’t
speak any Spanish. He has two kids that are 16. One is Claudia and other is a 20
year old but we haven’t meet him yet. They don’t speak any Spanish. And then
Cleotilde has 3 young boys who don’t speak English. We aren’t quit sure how
they all communicate with each other but Claudia agreed to have us come over
tonight and teach her... so we will be teaching her in English. Hna Muro and I
made a practice of our lesson with her today and wow talking in English to
teach a lesson feels SOOOO weird. We will see how it goes ha.
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After
we meet them we went to go visit a woman named Marie Eva. We contacted her on
the street at her little Torta shop and it's funny because at first she was like
“no I don’t want to learn more I’m catholic.” But we stayed and talked with her
a while and then she agreed to have us come visit! Well she wasn’t home when we
went Tuesday night to find her but her son was. All I can say is wow. Her son’s
name is Abel and he is so interested in what we have to teach him! We were able
to teach him lesson one on Thursday and I have never seen someone so engaged in
a lesson before. He asked good questions and added comments here and there. It was
awesome. He wanted us to come back the next day to teach lesson 2. We weren’t
able to until Sunday because of our schedules and him not being home but again
it was an amazing lesson. He is so accepting and willing to listen to
everything we say and always wants us to come back the next day to teach him
the other lessons. I really do feel he was being prepared by God because he is
an amazing investigator. For some unknown reason though he didn’t come to
church. When we found him on Sunday he told us he didn’t want talk about it, so
who knows haha. And not to mention he understands my Spanish wahoooo!
Then
on Thursday we didn’t have a lot to do and nobody seemed to be home so we
started to walk towards Clotilde’s house to see if we could visit with them and
we ran into a woman named Lupita. She saw us walking up the street and called
us to come to her and she took us in a huge hug and asked if we have ever meet
cause she felt like she knew us. We have never seen her before but she invited
us into her house and we sang “Families Can Be Together Forever” and she loved
it so much that she called her son and had us sing to him over the phone. She
just kept saying how she thought we were angels and she just kept talking about
how cute we were. We went back to teach her on Saturday and it was another
really good lesson. Sadly though she cannot understand a word I say... she’s
62. I have noticed that the older people and the younger people don’t
understand me very well but the in-between don’t have a problem ha. I said the
opening prayer for our lesson with Lupita and after she asked Hermana Muro to
tell her what I had said then she made sure that she knew how cute she thought I
was, but that she didn’t understand me ha oh well maybe it will be better next
time.
Then yesterday
was another good day for us! We had our cute investigator Karyme come to
church. It was a little rough because she didn’t really want to. Its hard cause
she really likes what we teach but gets bored at church... we are working on
that but she loves personal progress and has her scriptures all marked up and
she told us that the BOM makes her happy. It’s adorable. We had a less active
who hasn’t been to church in 7 YEARS come to church yesterday! His
name is Rafael. It’s funny cause we went to pick him up in the morning and he wasn’t
home and we were bummed but we got to church and he was sitting in front of us!
It was the happiest moment to see him there! He even stayed for all three hours
and participated in the class. We went to just see how he was doing Sunday
night and he told us that he was so happy he went to church. I hope he goes
again next week!
Also
Sunday night Hna Muro and I had 2 hours where we had no appointments and were
trying to find people to teach but nobody was home. We were trying to walk
around and contact as many people as possible. While we were walking down the
street a man with his son on a motorcycle stopped us and asked us what church
we were from and was wondering if we’d be willing to visit with him and his
family.... OF COURSE! We are going to be seeing him tonight. After running into
him we decided to walk a street we had never been and while we were again
walking a man stopped us and saw our Book of Mormons in our hands and told us
he had one and he wanted to show it to us. He had taken lessons with missionaries
before and told us he wanted to again so we are seeing him tonight too! Then he
introduced us to him mom who lived next door to him and she too wants to meet
with missionaries again! And we had some other contacts yesterday of people who
told us we could come back it was a good day for contacting!
It has been a really good week for us and I
really do believe it was because we never gave up we just kept working and
walking.... and walking. And after we felt like there was nothing else we could
do we would find someone who wanted to be taught! I love the quote mom sent me
by Pres Uchtdorf... (idk how to spell that ha) But it says something like when
we do our part the lord adds his POWER to our efforts. And I know that to be true.
We
had interviews with President on Friday also. I love being around President and
Hna Clayton. Hna Clayton ended up not going on visits with us because she was
tired and needed to leave for Vallarta. But my interview went well it’s nice to
talk to President, he has such amazing advice. He told me there will only be 6 missionaries
instead of 9 in this area after exchanges this Sunday.... he made it sound like
Hna Muro and I are staying but we will see... This Friday Elder Piper of the
seventy is coming to have a conference with all of us missionaries. So Tepic,
Puerto Vallarta and Santiago will all be together for the conference!
Hmm
today we spent the day with a member named Paola Padilla and I love her. She
makes visits with us all the time. She is only 20 and has the cutest style. She’s
actually going to school to be a nurse right now and only has a year and a half
of school left. It’s fun to talk with her about nurse stuff, I still wanna be a
nurse if you were wondering (: She came with us to buy groceries and then she
let us wash our clothes at her house and her mom made us lunch it was a good
day! These past few weeks I have befriend the man outside our house that sells
banana bread every day, I like him because 1. he one sales good banana bread
and 2. he always compliments my Spanish and how impressed he is. He has agreed
to make me banana bread with chocolate chips I’m very excited. I love you
all. Have a great week.
-- con amor
Hermana Acor
