Quick Week

Hey fam,

I dont have a ton of time left to write so sorry beforehand if this letter is short. But thank you so so so much for the support and your words of advice from everyone. I really have the best family on earth and im so grateful for your support and your prayers for me.

This week was hot as always. Im just waiting for when the rain comes so that it can cool down just a little bit at least.

As far as our investigators we are just working with a few to progress..but i dont have a ton to say about them, we are still working on finding a bunch of new people. Its hard because sometimes people are super positive the first day when we teach them and we are super excited...and then the next time they dont want anything or they run away from us haha or things like that. With the time i have here in the area i dont really mind knocking doors that yeah ive already knocked or talking with people ive already talked...but sometimes i feel bad for my comp because i swear everytime they are like..."oh yeah the last time we talked with you" and they point to me and then they dont want anything..haha but oh well. Its kind of incredible how many people i have met and talked to in this area.

I just want to share a kind of funny cool experience that i had this week. We were in intercambios so i was with one of the hermana leaders but i was working in our area. There is a family of recent converts but they are also inactive (the family diaz) and in all of my time here we have always been visiting them. They always receive us and everything but hardly ever go to church. But this last week we contacted the mom and the brothers and sisters of claudia diaz and we are going to start working with them. We had an appointment with them and when we went to teach them they had other preachers in their house from a different church...super awkward...and they told us to enter and join with the other preachers and we could all talk....yeah super awkward.. We had the appointment with them but i guess these other preachers are friends of them so they couldnt say no. So anyways there was the investigadores, familia diaz (menos activos), us and our members, and these other preachers. The other preachers were basically giving the lesson and really the things they shared were actually good things, but yeah we tried to share comments too and it was just super awkward. But at the end of the lesson the investigadores (the mom and her husband) said that they want to learn more from us and that they have always seen good things from the mormons and in the example of her daughter and how her daughter has changed since she has become a member. I just imagined how mad satan probably was in this moment haha. I felt like when they always say that we are on the team of the Lord and in the end the Lords team is going to win haha. It was great. but yeah the brother and sister of Claudia diaz went to church this sunday and we hope the next sunday the whole family can go. I dont know if this story made sense but yeah haha.

Also this saturday the familia orellana (miembros) and going to be sealed in the temple. Hermano marvin was our ward mission leader for a short time and literally this family is so important to me and i cant even explain. Weve always been encouraging them to go to the temple and its been a struggle but i have seen how their testimonies have grown and when they called us the other night and told us they have their reservation for the temple on saturday i just started to bawl. I literally couldnt be more happy for them. technically the rule is we can only go if they are our conversos or if we reactivated them...but i am praying that presidente will make an exception to the rule, but this family really means so much to me. But either way im so happy for them.

Anyways i dont really have much more time. Thanks for everything. Hopefully i can write more next week. But i love you all so much and thanks for you support. Really your emails meant a lot to me.

Hermana Groneman