Hola Familia,
Wow this week went by SUPER quick. I know i always say that, but really it
went by super quickly. It was a pretty good week and we have found more people
to teach this week.
To start off on Tuesday we had our meeting to welcome Presidente Spjut and
Hermana Spjut. It was only with 2 other zones, so it was smaller groups. They
are awesome! So nice and so humble and im so excited to learn a lot from them.
When they walked in they came and shook hand with each one of us and they are
already trying to learn all of our names. When President Spjut read my last
name he just stopped and thought for a minute and then he asked, "do your
parents live in springville?" haha yep so i guess he knows you...or well he
knows that you know his sister dad. Remind me how you know her? she taught you
spanish or where did you know her? Anyways im really excited to work with them.
I think we are going to have personal interviews with president this week, but
we´ll see. We havent seen a ton of changes in the mission but something that he
told us that he learned from his training is that now as missionaries we are
going to be teaching the lessons from lesson 5 before baptism now. Before we
were teaching lesson 5 after baptism...so that will be good. Lesson 5 is a lot
about temples, the priesthood, temples, family history, missionary work...so
yeah im excited. Also presidente Spjut wants us to start focusing on temples
with our investigators from the beginning. That they can see baptism as their
ultimate goal. I think that will help a lot.
Well this week we were able to find some new investigators and i am really
grateful. Truly it is so hard to find the people. And knocking doors isnt that
effective. But this week we have received several refferals from those miembros
and im really excited to keep working with these people. There is a member who
lives in our boundaries but assist another ward but he has been super helpful.
He has a pizzaria called Pizza Helaman. its great. But he has invited his
neighbors to come to his house, we chat for a little and share pizza, and then
after we share a message. its been great. Im SO grateful for the members who
help us in this work. It is not easy to find people and the truth is we NEED
the members.
We have a few investigators but they dont have baptismal dates yet. They
are newer investigators. We are teaching a 19 year old and this week we watched
the joseph smith movie with him and he said at the end when josephs dad is
baptized he got the chills. Afterwards we knelt and had him say a prayer. But
he prayed in silence...so we dont really know what he said....but it was thee
longest prayer ever haha and after he sat their for a long time just thinking
and such. He said after that he feels calm and everything...but he still isnt
completely sure. I think he knows its true but he is just doubting but his
whole family has always been catholic. But we are going to work more with him
to recognize his answer. he is just a little shy but he is great. The only
thing is he doesnt like to wake up on sunday early...So sunday we went to pass
for him at his house but no one was awake in his house so no one answered the
door. But we´ll keep working with him.
Also we are working with the husband of one of the members. He wanted to
be baptized before and had an interview with the mission president but because
of things in his past he has to wait several months and has to assist church
regularly. Before he wasnt really motivated to do it but he has had a great
change and we are visiting him once a week. We are trying to help him become
like a member while he is waiting for the opportunity to be baptized. He
probably wont be able to baptized until december...but it doesnt matter if im
here or not for the baptism, we are here to work and invite others to christ and
im grateful for the opportunity to work with this family.
Anyways It was weird that the other day was the 4th of July. Time is
flying! its super crazy, but im glad that you all enjoyed it. I hope you are
all enjoying summertime.
Dad im really excited to read your history when i get back, that is really
neat.
I hope all is well and i love you all so much!
Until next week,
Hermana Groneman
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