Another Miracle

Hola familia,

I dont even know what to say this week, but i feel like it has been a week of miracles and I have really felt Christ´s love this week. We had a much better week working with the members and we´ve got a few people progressing that im really excited about.

Well first off on wednesday we had an activity when we went to the temple with our investigators. We didnt get to enter but we just do a tour outside of the temple and then there are little classes in the chapel by the temple. it was a super great experience and we had several investigators who went. Hermana Moreno (a member) brought her husband and a few family members and then also we had Carlos Chafoya and Manuel Mejia who went. Ill tell you a little more about them. Also Rosa was able to go to the temple and participate in baptisms.

So ill tell you a little about our investigators.

We have Julio Casarez who i think i told you a little about last week. He is our investigator who had years and years with the addiction of getting high off of glue. It is incredible the love I have felt for this investigator. He basically looks like a drunk if you were to see him walking around in the street because he cant walk well for all of the side effects. But he really wants to change his life. It is almost adorable because he is like a little kid. We always teach him the house of a member and the thing is he doesnt have a good concept of time. He always remembers the day we say that we are going to visit him but not the time. The other day we went for our appointment with him and he wasnt there so we went around asking for him in the streets...and nobody knew where he was but they all said "hes not home but i saw him walking around with that book of yours"....so yep our investigator walks around the streets with his libro de mormon. But yesterday we had a lesson with him. Really he understand and we have learned the best way to teach him is to tell him the topic and then just let him talk and he ends ups teaching himself. Yesterday at the end of our lesson we were putting another appointment with him and he just went off saying that we can come whenever we want because when we come he feels more happy and went off saying a bunch of things about how happy one feels when they are trying to come close to God and he was like if you can come every day all the better because then i can feel happy every day and you two and two "angelitos" that God sent. Yeah knowing me i definitely teared up and i couldnt stop the tears. I have never felt the love of Christ more in my life. I cant explain how much people would normally judge Julio. But during the lessons i always think about the miracles in the new testament. Christ healed so many people. Physically and Spíritually. Christ may not be here on the earth in this moment but he lives and i know he can do miracles. Technically Julio has a baptismal date for the 31st of august...but we arent sure if we are going to wait more time because we really have to make sure he is prepared. But he wants the gospel with all of his heart. He always says he´ll be baptized when we say he is prepared to be baptized.

Also we have Carlos Chafoya. He is still progressing little by little. We want to help him to be baptized in this month. He really enjoyed the temple trip and this week at church he stayed for all of the classes first the first time so that was great! Apparently after the temple trip he stopped by one of the members (william the pizza guy) and was telling him that he has desires to be baptized but his family doesnt really want that. I think its because one of his sons is a pastor for another church in another town. But we´ll keep working with him and im sure he´ll be baptized soon.

Also Manuel Mejia. We have been teaching manuel for quite awhile now. He is one of my favorite investigators haha. He is an older guy but hes always walking around talking to people in the streets and he always gives us food or buys us food in the street and in his house he has these sweet rocking chairs. He is super postive but his challenge has always been to attend church. He never wanted to leave his house alone...but this week after the temple trip we were able to commit him to church and he went. definitely a miracle. and that is super great because he always says he wants to be baptized but we always say you have to attend church first and keep going. So we are hoping he can be baptized too.

Anyways its been a good week. Things are going good in this area and with my comp. My comp really has a great love for the gospel and we have fun screaming/singing Called to Serve when its pouring buckets of rain.

Also i got the package!!! SO great. I loved the shirt so much, its perfect, i wore it yesterday at church. also the treats were perfect. and dad I LOVED getting your autobiography. It was so neat to read some of your stories. obviously i havent read much. But its so neat. Thank you for writing it because its something ill cherish forever.

Love you all so much, thank you for your support in everything! Im loving the mission and time is flying by so fast.

Hermana Groneman