Miracles

Hola familia!

well its has been a pretty good week i would say. Definitely i have seen some miracles this week with our investigators. The good thing is this week we were able to find some new investigators and we were able to work a little more with the members so that is really great.

So this week I want to tell you about two of our investigators.

First is Carlos Chafoya. He is the reference of the member that has the pizzeria. We had started teaching him a couple weeks ago with the member and he has been super positve. Last week he didnt go to church because he had some meeting he had to go to. But anyways he has been one of our main progressing investigators that we have been excited about and planning and preparing for baptism in august. But this week we went to visit him on friday (we never have set appointments with him because for his work he has to leave at whatever moment so its better that we just pass for him) and when we got to his house he came out and said he didnt want to keep receiving us and he wasnt going to keep going to church...apparently he had had some arguments with some family members or something and he just didnt want to keep receiving us and he said it would be a waste of our time. That was so hard to hear. It is so hard to just find investigators who will receive us and so when they finally receiving us and are progressing the last thing you want to hear is they drop you. So we left in that moment pretty sad and disappointed. Friday night we were just praying that somehow he could change his heart. We just prayed because we knew that there wasnt anything else we could do... just pray that something could change in his heart and that he would have desires to go to church. The next day on Saturday we were walking in the street past a members house and one of the hermanos left and told us "hey ive got something to tell you" (this member is kind of less active) but he told us that he had talked with one of his old buddies and turns out it was Carlos. They talked a lot about the church and they were talking with another member too and apparently he said he felt really bad for what he told us and that he wants to keep going to church. I am so so so grateful for the members who helped to give him encouragement because he came to church on sunday and we taught him sunday night and all is good now. We almost lost him as an investigator but God really does answer our prayers.

 

Our other investigator we had in church is Julio. Wow he is quite something. he is 32 and he got high of of paint for practically his whole life...so he practically acts like a drunk guy...he can hardly walk without falling over but he stopped getting high like a month and a half ago. We have to teach him like a little kid because he doesnt understand everything super well. But truth is is he is super positive. He knows a lot of members and he is always walking around in the streets telling the members that he is going to go to church on sunday. He wants us to teach us in the house of member because he doesnt like the influence of his family. We left him so pamphlets and we reminded him to read them and so when we left the house we were walking away and he just came out in the street and yelled "hermanas!! aquí tengo los folletos!" and he was holding up the pamphlets in the middle of the streets. Apparently he was talking with a member the other day and they were talking about how his walking has improved a ton and julio told the member that he thinks when he is baptized he will improve a lot more. He told us during the week that on sunday he could be baptized when he went to the church...but then we explained to him that he needs a little more preperation for baptism. But we´ll see what happens with him. I really actually love to teaching him though because i feel love that the savior has for each one of us. There is no exception of people. He came to church on sunday and we are going to keep teaching him a lot.

Anyways those are some of investigators and i just wanted to share a little about them with you guys today. This week we have an activity to go to the temple on wednesday with investigators so im excited about that.

I havent received your package yet but i probably will really soon.

I cant believe that you guys had hermana culotta over for dinner!! that is so crazy. I remember telling her that i hoped one day she would meet you guys. Find her and have her over for dinner again and send me pics and tell her hi! i have her email so im going to send her an email. That is so neat though.

Anyways i hope all is well. I cant believe we are now in august, its crazy!

Sounds like all is good at home. Enjoy the rest of the summer!

Love ya

Hermana Groneman