We met with Gustavo and Dunia last Saturday, and they were ready to get married and baptized this Friday and Saturday. We saw them in church, where they promised they would gather their papers and talk with a lawyer that Tuesday. We stopped by Wednesday to see how everything went, and Dunia told us they had a fight and she no longer wants to get married. We tried to help her, but we told her we would come back later when Gustavo was home to help them get through this. We stopped by Thursday and shared a lesson all about opposition, that especially now that they have knowledge of the truth and are still choosing to not live within the commandment, they are inviting opposition and a spirit of contention into their home. But they still wanted more time to think about it, so we came back after church this Sunday with the Relief Society President and shared scriptures, videos, everything, but they are still convinced that they need more time to think about marriage.
This upset me a lot his week, because we are offering this family everything to accept the gospel, live within the commandments, and get baptized. A member sends a mototaxi every week to pick them up for church, and offered to pay for all of the papers for their wedding. And we were visiting them at least twice a week, which is a sacrifice for us because they live so far away. And they still are choosing to let opposition win! But we all have their agency, and one day it will be thier moment to accept the gospel.
We are still working with the grandma of the twins Jefferson and Josue to have their permission to be baptized. We got to watch The Restoration with them this week and they LOVED it. They could not stop talking about "Jose Smith" and asking questions about the movie :) We gave them a Book of Mormon this week and each wrote our testimonies in the book. They are such sweet, special kids.
And guess what, we are going to have a baptism this week, for sure! Haha, there is a little girl in our ward whos records are not found anywhere, so she has to receive missionary lessons before being baptized. Just hoping she can can two little boys also join her in the baptismal font this week.
And this week was our first time having interviews with President Chase! He is awesome, normally president gives a workshop of some sort while we are all there, but he asked us all to read a chapter of the Book of Mormon and come prepared to discuss. We didnt have a focus, but we all sat in a circle as a zone and were searching through the scriptures sharing what we learned. We were all in unity as a zone, learning from one another, cross referencing one another, I loved it!
And when it was my turn to be interviewed, he asked me to pray first, and I have completely forgotten how to pray in English. I sound pretty ridiculous now trying to speak English!
1. FHE with Delma, frying tacos!
2. FHE with Delma, eating tacos!
3. To celebrate 5 and 13 months! We complete months the same day.
4. These are Mamones, they have a shell and a seed in the middle, and are really really good. We saw some little kids gathering some way up high in a tree and yelled at them to give us some. Everybody loves the misisonaries!
5. Feliz Cumpleaños Ariana! Celebrated with ice cream.
6. Started making maps of our area as we dont have any, just hope no missionary here gets as lost as I was!
7. I like Cholu(teca/texas)
Hasta El Fin.
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