Hello again everybody this week has been a solid one
Another thing that happened thus week was three police officers died about four minutes away from where we live. But no worries, we are safe!
Okay so now here are the good news. One of the lesson active families that we had been working with had their 8 year old boy Baptized. Their family will be leaving to montana in a few momths but it has been a great experience working with them and teaching their boy!
Member Visits
●We visited la hermana zobaida, she spent about na hour telling us about her crazy experiences. She was going through a time when she wanted to get divorced, at the same time she had cancer, she was lookikg to find God, and so one night she literally prayed the whole night asking for help, then the next morning the missionaires came and knocked on her door! She eventually got divorced, then baptized, then helped her friend get baptized! Then we talked to her about la hermana Wendy from last week that we visited, they had the same cancer problem so she has been trying to help her.
●We had a great lesson with someone we are teaching named la hermana blanca we walked to her house and had a lesson with her and her 3 year old kid, we taught them about the restoration and invited them to read the book of Mormon and prayed, she received the lesson really well and has a lot of potencial!
●We had a really nice, smoke and distraction free lesson with la hermana Josefina. She is the mom of three kids that got baptized but never were active. We taught her about the restoration of the gospel and we are excited to see her start reading the Book of mormon and progressing!
●Then we visited this other inactive family and it's another interesting situation. The wife of one of the inactive families sons got baptized about 2 years ago, but never came back and got confirmed so we started teaching them.
Less active visits
●Then we had a visit with a less active family and it was interesting. The mom is la Hermana Bustillos, and let me say she is very crazy. She is still honestly convinced that covid doesn't exist because she has never got it. On the way out, she showed us her Marijuana plant...we thought she was kidding and didn't believe her until we decided to smell it, but uhhh yup she wasn't kidding. Then her daughter la Hermana azul kept calling me some name that I didn't understand because it was one of the thousands of slang words they use down her. But apparently she was trying to tell me that I was a guy that had a lot of girlfriends back at home...okaaaayy
●We gave a bible an inactive dad that we are going going start working with
The food
●A member made us super good discada this week - Sausage, ham, salchicha, weenie, cow meat, potatoes, tortillas, cheese, salsa
I want to finish with a quote I enjoyed from my studies from the prophets about prayer, agency, and action.
As parents and leaders, we must remember that ‘it is not meet that [the Lord] should command in all things’ [D&C 58:26]. Like the brother of Jared, we must carefully consider the needs of our family members, make a plan to meet those needs, and then take our plan to the Lord in prayer. This will require faith and effort on our part, but He will help us as we seek His assistance and do His will” (in Conference Report, Apr. 2003, 15; or Ensign, May 2003, 16).
"The Lord wants us to grow and learn as we make our own decisions. He also wants us to take our conclusions to Him frequently for His confirmation. When the brother of Jared asked the Lord about the matter of light for the vessels, the Lord answered with a question of His own: “What will ye that I should do that ye may have light in your vessels?” (Ether 2:23). According to President Harold B. Lee (1899–1973), the Lord’s question was similar to saying the following:
“‘Well, have you any good ideas? What would you suggest that we should do in order to have light?’ …
“Then the Lord went away and left him alone. It was as though the Lord were saying to him, ‘Look, I gave you a mind to think with, and I gave you agency to use it. Now you do all you can to help yourself with this problem; and then, after you’ve done all you can, I’ll step in to help you.’”
After considering the possibilities, the brother of Jared demonstrated his great faith by asking the Lord to touch 16 stones and supply light. The Lord answered this plea and not only provided light for the vessels but gave this faithful man a vision unlike any other.
President Lee concluded: “This is the principle in action. If you want the blessing, don’t just kneel down and pray about it. Prepare yourselves in every conceivable way you can in order to make yourselves worthy to receive the blessing you seek”
Pictures
1. Baptism
2. Discada
3. Food
4. A cute chihuahua en chihuahua:)
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