Hello everyone! I´m so happy to have gotten all or your dearelders this Friday! There were a few that were really late... like from may. One from Mitra, Victor, Ben C., Ariel, and Anna. There were also a couple more recent ones from Casey and Anna. Thanks so much. I really love and appreciate you all!
So this week was a lot better, and we finally feel like we´re progressing with the area a little more. We had some good investigators in church finally! One was this lady we visited Friday. We hadn´t gone with her much, but the lesson on Fri was cool. We asked if she had read the Restoration pamphlet, and she had. What´s more, she remembered stuff! haha. Usually they all just say... "yeah, it was interesting, but i didn´t remember anything." She´s seems to have been really well educated, and we think that her kids and her could be super great members of the church! Also, Juan Francisco is walking better now, and came all on his own. One day he will get baptized once he can work on his leg and live on his own. He´s read like all the way to Alma 32 since we gave him the book to read four weeks ago! He reads more than we do... haha. He´s gonna be awesome.
We´re working with a really sweet family that´s already married, Jessica and Wilmur. Love them. They are really interested, and we are going to help them prepare for baptism. They just need to start coming to church, and they´re a go. They really like us, and they are a reference of a lady we recently helped come back to church who went inactive. Mari. She´s so excellent. She´s so excited to be living the gospel again, and helps us a lot! When we call her to come to a teaching appointment with us, she says, "yeah, I´ll go over right now before the appointment to remind them to read and everything." Missionary´s best friend!!!!! Love her.
We have found that this week we are learning something that is hard for two north Americans to learn. Slow down!!! Focus on the investigators and their needs. There´s no substitute. Goals are great, but there´s no number better than baptisms. And no one is going to get baptized if they don´t think you care about them. It´s tough to think that we´re just learning this for real right now, but it´s the truth. Not to say we´ve been stone cold robots, but we just have been so focused on the work and not slowing down to really think in the moment. When you´re with the investigator is the most crucial moment. Some of the best lessons are when you just feel the Spirit and say "okay, we´ve gotta go, thanks for your time." Then they´re just stunned with the Spirit. It´s hard to do that just right, but it´s cool when it happens. They almost always seem more likely to progress after lessons like that.
I love this mission! It´s going by way too fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I´m not even half way through, so I´m happy. Just keep going, that´s what I´m going to do.
I love and miss you all. I will do my best to stay in contact with all of you. Permit me to send a quick personal note to Victor. I think that the Lord sent me your letter late for a reason. You said some things that I really needed to hear, and I´m glad that I got it when I did. Love you man. You´re awesome!
You´re all awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Thalman
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