Hola Familia,
How goes it?? This week here in Tejas has been full of ups
and downs. This week we had two really solid families drop us! What??? It
was super sad. They had baptismal dates and were excited about everything
and then one day told us they don't want us to come back because they don't
want to change. We tried to figure things out but haven't yet.
We're going to continue to visit them and try to find out what happened, but
yeah it's sad.
Other than that though, this week has been dandy dandy! We
found some really good investigators that have a lot of potential and set a few
baptismal dates for the end of this month that we're praying can be kept.
We work with a lot of unmarried couples so that's a challenge, but definitely
do-able. We're probably going to be having a couple of weddings this
month so that will be fun!
This week I've seen a big improvement in my Spanish which is
great. I love those occasional moments when I actually completely
understand someone and know how to respond without much effort. It's so
fun. It's like I'm learning how to talk again. Well I guess I am...
haha. But I forgot how fun it is to actually have conversations with
people and get to know them and not have to have my companions re-cap me on
everything. Good times this week.
I've had some of the spiciest food I've ever had here and
it's great! Lots of rice and beans and tortillas and spicy stuff. It's
fun. My clothes are getting tighter, so I'm going to take that as a sign
that I'm a good missionary. :) Full of the Spirit or something... right?
Our ward here has 500 members, but only about 100 are
actually active. That's not a very good percentage. We've been
working a lot a lot with the inactive members and trying to get them to start
coming to church. We've been focusing a lot in our lessons on the
importance of taking the sacrament. It's a big deal! We've been really
bold with people this week which is super fun because I don't think they expect
these tres muchachas to be that bold but it's great because it's working and
we've had more people start coming back to church.
Cool story from this week. Kassi is one of our
investigators. She has two children, and I think she's 21 or 22.
She came to church for the first time yesterday, which was great. She
even went and bought a skirt because she always saw us wearing skirts
haha. Anyway, she shows up at church and apparently she had gotten a flat
tire on her way to church in the middle of nowhere. She didn't know what
to do and out of nowhere comes a guy and helps her fix it. So she made it
to church right in time! Super cool. She's great. And she really enjoyed
church!
Love you bunches,
Hermana Jones
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