Gooood afternoon familia. Thank you for all of your emails and letters and whatnot! And the pictures! Sounds like everything is going good. I miss you guys, but I love hearing about all the great things you're doing.
Anyways, we had one of the greatest weeks in our area yet! We had the highest numbers of lessons with a member ever, about triple what sister tejada and I used to get. We had a lot of just random people show up in our area that were prepared. I had heard that you learn from Christmas lights that the Lord can take better care of your area than you can, and that is so true. We have found or heard about so many random people that seem prepared for the gospel. It is such a blessing. It really does seem the case that when we're going through a hard time, the Lord just kind of carries us through. The greatest miracle of it all would be Giselle and Alexis. I've known those two since the first week of my mission, and this past week was the turning point with them. I don't know if I mentioned that we met this random RM girl in walmart one day, who said she would come on splits with us. So we got her to come to Giselle and Alexis with us, and she took great care of the kids, (who have been the major roadblock in lessons), and Giselle loved her. It was such a miracle to have her with us. Anyways, so this past Saturday we decided to all go to the VC, with Giselle, Alexis, and Neela (the RM). Alexis seemed like she was kind of in a bad mood when we went, she was just kind of quiet and tired. Anyways, so we went through the VC, and at the end we went into the room to say a closing prayer. We had Alexis say the prayer, and in it she was like "Thank you for how welcome I feel here and for how good I feel in my heart, and I hope we can come back soon." Ah! melts your heart. Then afterwards she started crying, and then Giselle kind of started crying, and it was just such a good moment. So then Neela shared this awesome scripture about how the Holy Ghost will help guide Alexis during hard times after she's baptized, and we set a baptismal date with them! And then the next day they came to church for the first time since August! Miracle! So good. It definitely made Sister Holladay feel better. So that was a great miracle, we're so excited for them. We have a lesson with them tonight, and then they're planning on going to mutual tomorrow. good stuff!
We also have some good potential investigators with this one family, the Soto family. A less-active family just moved into their guest house, whose youngest daughter isn't a member. Then last night, we went there for dinner and his nonmember coworker was there to eat with us! We started talking about the BOok of Mormon, and Hermano Soto just bore his testimony and was super bold and it was awesome. It was exactly how member missionary work should go down. So tonight we're going to teach him again.
Javier, Luis, and Francisco continue to be awesome...except Javier is super weird about church. They always claim they're going to go, and leave like half an hour early for church (they live like 1/2 mile away), and then they never show up. Strange. We also found out that David continues to not drink anything, so good. Oh...also two other prepared people this week...the daughter of Familia Cruz whos visiting from Mexico, and then the sister of Hermana Hurtado whos also visiting from Mexico. Two great people that just seem way prepared. So, it's been such a blessing.
Anywhozle, I must be off. Thank you for all of your love and support. I hope you have a great week! Love, Hermana Fors
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