This week started with welcoming the Baldens to Honduras! They are from Utah and are here to be mission nurses / help in the office. We spent saturday afternoon with them taking them to Price Mart, grocery stores, helping them get situated.
We were pretty nervous this Saturday because after helping the Baldens we didnt have much time to visit our investigators before church, and few of those we tried to visit were home. But a lot of prayers and faith later we had...12 investigators in church!!!!!
That we could count, there were still a few people we didnt recognize and didnt have time to talk to that showed up for the primary presentation. But all twelve that were our investigators were brought there by members. This ward is the BEST.
The Familia Tercero is still waiting for their answers. They want to get baptized and keep going to church, but we want to make sure they are doing it because they knbow it is the only true church of Jesus Christ on the earth. Long story short, we thinbk they just need to read the Book of Mormon every day without fail. They have been reading and praying about it, but not with the dilligence we want them to. They are so close! They want to follow their son Dennis and be a family united in one faith, they just need to understand what is different about our message.
We finally got to teach the family of Dinora, a member who has brought her sister and two nieces to church for about a month. This family is in the process of moving and has distanced themselves from their church, so we are hoping this is their moment to accept the gospel. We had a beatiful experience with them this week, we showed up not knowing they had a big fight right before. we started to sing "Love at Home", said the prayer, and the mom and older saughter were crying. We continued with the lesson, trying not to probe too much, but at the end the mom offered the prayer and started sobbing. We sat in silence for a minute and the mom thanked us for what we shared because it comforted her to know things would all turn out okay in their family.
There are never coincidences in this work.
The other day we were contacting in La Fraternidad and met Catalina, who was practically waiting for us. Her husband died not too long ago, she has distanced herself from churches, but has felt the desire to be baptized. She accepted a baptism date and the church our very first visit!
And to celebrate thanksgiving we bought cookies and my favorite baleadas - tortilla, beans, mantequilla, cheese, eggs, and fried plantain. And to make the day even better we bought ingredients to make pumpkin cookies and surprised Marcial, a less active, with a cookie making fiesta and a message about Thanksgiving :)
I love Girasoles and I love this work! I know this is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and I couldnt be more grateful for it. There is no greater joy, and no greater motivation for me to knock down every single door in Honduras.
1. Zapote, a fruit here
2. The Baldens! We helped them eat their first baleada in Baleadas Kennedy.
3. We took some Zona Tegucigalpa christmas pictures and all dressed up in our christmas gear
4. Baleada Express feast. Happy Thanksgiving!
5-8. Making pumpkin cookies with Marcial
9. Where you can find us always at 6:00 AM :)
10. And Friday mornings - studying while we wait for our laundry in the house of Hna Elwin. Her cats love to read with us too.
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