Wow what a week. Conference was sweet. It went by way way way fast. I don't even remember what happened much since last wednesday. All I know is that we set this lady Marcela for baptism. We went to follow up with her reading on Friday and we didnt' have a plan for a whole lesson with her, so we got in and we said a prayer and she got her book of mormon and we started talking. I just started getting this really strong impression to start directing the conversation towards baptism, and I looked at Elder Zobrist and I could just tell he was getting the same one. So we starte talking about how baptism by proper authority is a commandment of God, and after about 20 minutes, we just asked "Marcela, will you prepare yourself to get baptized the 8th of May?" and she just says 'Yes, I will." We were really excited and this lady is SO prepared. The first time we came over and taught her she said she felt sooo good and wanted to feel that more often, and she absolutely loves when we come over, her face lights up and she jsut gets so excited. We're going to bring 2 recent converts Gilasio and Martina over there on Friday. They got baptized in July of last year adn their testimonies are stronger than most of the members in teh branch. It's amazing. So wer're really excited about that lesson on Friday. Dionicio isn't doing so good. He doesn't want to talk to us anymore and won't pick up his phone, and when we call his neice, he jsut has her talk to us. So we don't know what's going on, he got up and bore his testimony 2 weeks ago and now won't even talk to us. It's really weird. So I don't know with him. Jenry is doing good, but he's working so much taht we can never see him. I think he's starting to lose his momentum a little bit, becasue we really haven't gotten him any lessons with members. That's our bad. But we're going to get him a member lesson on Saturday. He's SO close, I just am praying sooo hard that he doesnt' fall off. Mauro is doing good. He's progressing a little bit. He came to priesthood session on Saturday and we went over and visited him on Sunday, adn he asked us about the priesthood. This was one of the things that he didnt' get before, but we spent about an hour talking about authority and the importance of authority in baptism and everything, and I think he started to understand it a little more. He's going really slowly, but he's going. Our big focus this week is to see our investigators more and not tract so much. It's tough, but I know it'll have big blessings. Our area is so huge and we don't have that many miles, adn none of our investigators live that close to the others, so we usually can't see them all as often as we'd like, but we're really trying.
The weather here has been absolutely brutal. It got up to 92 yesterday, I was dying. MOst of the trailers don't have air conditioning, so it was hotter inside than it was outside. It was insane. I got SO dehydrated.but we bought some gatorade mix, so we've been making that everyday to take with us.
The thing we're most excited about though this week is what Elder ZObrist and I learned in personal study. It was crazy. We both studied the same topic in PMG but in different sections. We've realized that we've been trying to take over too many responsibilities of the branch, when God has already given us this perfect organization to work with. Why should we try to reinvent it? So we're correlating with the Branch President tomorrow to make sure we can get the fire burning underneath a few members and help them step up and WORK! hahaha So I also have a challenge for you two this week or next. But the challenge is that within the next 2 weeks, you get the missionaries to bring an investigator over to the house and you have a lesson there. Do you think you can do it? I've seen the importance of members in the work, and I've got two of the best sitting back home! So lets get some people baptized, right? I want you to let me know how it went when it happens and see if it's not a great thing!
But yeah, that's my week in a nutshell. Pretty sweet right? Yeah, I got the easter box adn we've devoured the candy inside. The camera is working perfectly. I'm going to start taking pictures of the places that we tract so that you can get a feel for VA beach as well! But, the next time you send a box, whenever it may be, instead of candy, would you be able to send some useful food? Like, wheaties fuel cereal or something healthy and good like that? Kellogs Special K with fruit and yogurt is also a favorite over here :) It's just that we get so much candy from all the other people that send us stuff, but we could use good healthy food so much more. Just a thought :) hahahaha
Love ya, Skyler
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