We are doing our certification for lesson four. I’m getting tired of certifications… but it’s really good. I’ve been learning a lot. I just realized TODAY that I probably should’ve applied for school like 3 months ago…
Maybe BYU or UVU will have mercy and save some room in the inn… for a crazy ex-missionary…
My ex-companions are crazy. Sister Ellis is an 8th grade teacher–can you believe that!? She got home like 6 weeks ago and she’s a TEACHER!? I don’t know what happened with Sis Marquez. But I guess Sis Villatoro and Sis Duarte are doing tons of stuff in the Young Women’s in their wards too…
Hm. Okay, so, WE HAD 20 INVESTIGATORS IN CHURCH ON SUNDAY.
It was kind of crazy. Well, I don’t know. It used to stress me out before, but now I’m like, whatever, that’s cool.
It’s been a great week. One of the reasons we had so many investigators in church is because we found a family of 10. Yeah. 10. It’s a grandma and grandpa and their 8 grandchildren (the two different mothers of the kids were killed by gang members in Guatemala).
We found Sister America (she just turned 59 on Sunday–we had cake with them 🙂 ) when we were looking for another sister. And when we were talking to her I asked her about her kids and if she’s had daughters, and she started to cry because it was the anniversary of the death of her second daughter, and she had felt that something bad was going to happen to her daughter the night that she was killed, so was praying and praying… and the next morning she found out her daughter was dead. She said, ‘I don’t know why God lets these things happen.’
So we were like, “Sister, we have some scriptures we’d like to share with you…”
And they are so great. They went to the baptism of Jackson on Saturday…
Did I tell you about Jackson?? He’s an 11-yr-old kid (lives with his Grandma who is a member) and it’s actually a good story–I will have to tell you about Jackson when I get home because I’m running out of time….
And Sister America says she remembers being baptized like that “by the Mormons in Chicago Indiana…” Hahaha. They are such a great family. And they’re CRAZY children….
We still haven’t been able to teach them much because we only really taught America that time we found her before Sunday, they went to the baptism, they gave us dinner on Sunday, and we did a fhe with them and another family.
I’m really happy for Familia Ramirez too. They’re so great. The brother is so humble. He has a lot of apostasy in his head but he UNDERSTANDS when we teach him… he’s so great. He was a “predicador” when he came here, but he said the other day when we came over that he feels like he’s finally found the truth that he was always looking for, that it’s filled that emptiness that he’d had for all his life… It was really wonderful to hear him tell the story about it all how they’d heard the missionaries once before and always wanted them to come back, but they never came back…
I will take photos of all those who are going to church and tell you more about all of them when I get home… hopefully we will have baptismal dates with all of them before I go on Tuesday.
Love you all!
Pray that I can go to school in April… really hard…
Love,
Bek