So soo many things are happening, and you guys
get probably one hundredth part of what I want (anyone.... get it?.... anyone?)
but some pretty exciting things happened so here is what's happening!
Gxxxxxxa is not really an investigator
anymore. We will still visit and see her occasionally but we are not
teaching her. She has only been coming to the activities, and doesn't
really want to come to church. It is really sad to leave her, but
there is someone out there who will want to come to everything so putting our
faith forward! Funny story is that her son Axxxx got a popcorn kernel
stuck in his nostril and was freaking out. (HAHAHA) when you ask him
about the story he says "Estoy mucho mejor" haha.
The Sxxxx familia is just working ALL the
time, and especially on Sundays. We can never find a time to meet with
them. We are always going to see them occasionally though because she is
a member so that is good.
So this is the story of the week. Soo
cool. So we received a referral from the English Elders (they send us a
TON of good referrals). They said that the lady was basically chasing them down
to learn more about the church. So we were super excited and scheduled to
stop by her house. A couple hours before we were going to go visit her we
get a call directly from her asking when we were going to stop by!!
Crazy!! We were super excited to go see her.
So we drive to our appointment with her and
when we saw the house..... we recognized it. This was one of the first
weeks that I was here that we had visited this house. We had taught
doorstep lesson to the husband about prayer and he said he though it was interesting
and wanted to learn more. We kept trying to come back but we could never
get a hold of him. First off every time we went to his house his wife
would very bluntly say "we are not interested. Sorry we don't have time. I
am Catholic and my daughter is doing her first communion soon." Stuff like
that. We tried a couple times but eventually stopped because we figured
he was experiencing strong opposition from his wife.
We opened the door and IT WAS HER. She
is like come in! I was in shock! I could not believe I was
her. Later in the lesson she was like, I bet you never thought I would do
this after all the times I told you to go away. HAHA.
Basically she is a miracle. Something
happened at her church and she doesn't even want to go anymore! She didn't even
go to her daughter’s first communion! Crazy.
We invited her to a baptism, She came.
We invited her to church the next day. She came. She brought her
whole family! And she walked out with a Gospel Principles manual because she
loved the lesson so much. Must have been a blessing in disguise, because
she loved it and wanted to learn more. She is on fire. She even invited
one of her catholic girlfriends (who funny enough, we also know haha) to the Thanksgiving
dinner! I am so excited I can't even tell you!
Also this week I would like to honor my
trainer Hermana Skidmore. For her diligence, hard work, love, patience, virtue,
knowledge, temperance, “Hermana-erly” kindness, and humility…and because she
turned her driving privileges over to me. I am working on getting to know
our area better so I can lead it. That is love I tell you people.
If you ever have the chance visit her blog, she is amazing!
Also I would love to say I was ALMOST
successfully vegan. I can report more later, but I am feeling great, and
I love the idea of a plant based diet. Yes I will have to tell you more
later, because I got to go.
Love you all!
Hermana Sheffer
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