So, this week we are going to need to go three forward if we want progress. None of our possibilities got baptized, even though we did some good work.
We had a lesson on Monday with Rita. We immediately saw that something was different with her the moment we saw her. A good different. She just seemed so bright eyed. haha. That´s the best we can describe it. We taught her the atonement using Mosiah 3 verses 5-11, and the spirit was really really really strong. She knows it´s true. But she wouldn´t accept the date. We visited her quickly every day this week. On Friday (her birthday) she said, "I don´t think I´m getting baptized tomorrow (we´d been reminding her all week) but soon though." So we feel good that she at least has admitted that she will do it now. She puts up her catholic faith as a front, but now she´s starting to just accept that she can´t deny it any more. We ran by the house quick last night and shared 1Nephi3 verse 7. At the end we asked if she had any questions and she was just glowing...she wanted to say something but said, "no, I´m good." We left and looked at each other. "She so wants to get baptized now!" We both had the same thought. We´re going to set the date for this Saturday. But as it turns out, her nine-year-old grand daughter is a tough little cookie. She´s just too darn Catholic! haha. But she´ll come around.
Kevin will be getting the new job this week selling water, which will give him better pay, and free in the evenings and on Sunday. We´re really happy about it, and we know that it´s because Kevin is exercising his faith to live the commandments. He told us that what he´s praying for is a job that is free on Sundays, his own house to raise his daughter, and a wife who will marry him legally. Preferably who´ll go to church with him. We told him that those are righteous desires and that he should keep praying for those things. I promised him that if he lives the commandments, within six months after his baptism he will be able to move into his house with his little girl. Right now he lives in some tiny apartment and we don´t like the environment. But he already has a house, but there´s no floor or anything, and he doesn´t have the money to make it livable yet. God is really blessing him, and has really prepared him. He said that he´s was praying for months before he was invited to church to be able to find a church where he felt happy. SO COOL!
We are teaching a young thirteen-year-old named Nelcy who is really tight. She was a reference of a member, and we didn´t see too much in her at first. The second time we found her, we asked if she read the pamphlet, and we quickly realized that she is very prepared to hear the gospel. We taught her in the house of a member this Saturday, and we started the Plan of Salvation. She, at the end, bore her testimony to us. "At the beginning of this school year, I was thinking of not entering because i had nothing. I thought I would have to drop out. But then Reina gave me the shirt I needed, and Orbelina gave me the bag. Then someone gave me the skirt. I know that my Heavenly Father is watching over me, and it´s because of Him that I can study this year."
We hear stories like that a lot, and honestly, this was way more sincere. We both just felt the Spirit really strong, and we could feel the love that God has for this young woman. It was cool, and we feel good about it all.
This mission is the best. It´s really hard, and sometimes it feels like what we´re doing isn´t bearing fruit, but I know that´s not true. I can feel us changing lives. We will move forward!!!
I know that Christ is our Savior, the Redeemer of the world. He came to suffer for all, that His own may come unto Him and receive everlasting life.
Love,
Elder Kent Thalman
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