Another week in Metapan

Another week here in Metapan! Well family its been a long, hard week but we ended with miracles! I am really seeing how the Lord is blessing us with miracles. The only thing he requires is faith, obedience, and diligence....it doesnt matter if we aren´t the best missionaries or if we have weakeness but the Lord really does bless us. First off let me tell ya Metapan has brought in the Christmas Spirit!! maybe i can´t go to temple square this christmas but Ive got the next best thing in el salvador. Metapan city park! its so beautiful with all the lights. Ill have pictures next week. And this week we just happened to be walking through the park when they turned on all the lights. We were walking through the park and there were a ton of people and we were contacting a family and all of a sudden fireworks went off and all the lights turned on. It was great timing for us to be there haha. Also fun fact for the week: Apparently I sleep talk in Spanish. hahaha well thats what my comp says. Im feeling pretty proud of that. Anyways now ill let you know about our week. So the beginning of the week was pretty rough. Not horrible but i was just so tired. This week my comp (like i expected) was struggling a little bit more with the spanish and getting used to the culture. But what I love about her is even though i can tell there are some things that are hard for her, she still has a really good positive attitude. Its just so funny to see how much I have probably changed. But during the week days I felt like everyone we talked to was catholic and didnt want anything to do with us. We had lots of lessons...so it was nice that we werent walking around in the sun all day....but i almost feel like its worse when the people let you in their house but they dont even care what you say and they dont want anything to do with it. I was feeling down just because I am here to help people. And they people dont understand how we can help them. But then saturday we had a day of miracles. Saturday afternoon we had an appointment with a lady that had stopped us in the market on monday. We were walking through the market and she was like "Hey I have a question for you hermanas" she wanted to talk to us and wanted to know where the church was. So we took her number and set up an appointment for her. Saturday she met us at the church and we just started talking to her getting to know her and we found out that she actually was a member that was baptized in Tacuba in a different area when she was little...but shes been inactive. We just started sharing with her like "hey we are here to help and we want to help you spiritually in your life" and then all of us sudden she came out and was like "Necesito tu ayuda" (I need your help) And then she explained to us that she has problems with the law of chastity. I felt the spirit so strongly in that moment just that someone actually wanted our help. After days this week with no one appreciating us, I felt like it was a tender mercy that monday we walked through the market and she passed by us. I told her how I felt so grateful that God had put us in her path because I want to help people...and the both of us were in tears (yeah just sitting out on the side of the street because the church was closed haha). But her name is beatriz and Im excited to help her and keep working with her. She was a tender mercy. Then Saturday afternoon we had a lesson with the familia Posadas. We had planned last sunday to go visit them with a member who was baptized last week. He is a little bit older and I just had a feeling that he would help us commit them to church. We went and we had a super long lesson...because the familia posadas and the member were just talking about everything...but i felt like it was fine because they were forming a friendship. but then the member who is a convert shared his testimony and his experience and they said they were going to go to church. So yesterday they went!!! It really was a miracles because I have been praying so hard for them to go. I know they want to know what church is true and I know with patience that they will accept this gospel. They had a great experience and a lot of members were talking with them. Im excited to see what happens with them. For december we are still helping Cesar (another investigator) to keep preparing to be baptized on 20th of december. Hes doing good. He has had problems with the law of chastity too but I think hes gonna be ready. Also the familia torres. I havent told you much about them lately. The hno torres hasnt been coming. So in ward council yesterday we talked about it and it looks like we are just gonna baptize the hermana and her two kids. So Im excited because I feel like we have good things going for us. Things are going great with my comp. Its so hard because she really struggles communicating in spanish or really just understanding the people. But little by little she´ll get it. Im really happy with her and Im really happy with what is going on in the mission right now. I love you all so much! I hope all is well and enjoy the holiday season! Tell everyone hi! Also tell grandma mimi hi....i feel like i havent heard from her in awhile. Tell her I love her. Much love from El Salvador! Happy Holidays! Hermana Groneman