What an awesome week!
First off, one of our investigators got baptized! Woo! His
name is Jose and he is 27 and awesome and he got baptized on Saturday and
confirmed on Sunday. I have a picture attached.
On saturday, we there was a huge stake activity at our
building. They have these dancing activities here where all the wards
prepare different culturual dances and such, and then they kind of
perform/compete every once in a while. Anyway, so saturday was the huge
event. I also have a picture attached and it was so cool to see all the
different outfits and dances and be part of that culture! So our investigator,
Jose, was kind of in charge of a lot of the dances (even though he wasn't a
member) haha. That lasted pretty much the whole day and he was really
tired that night when we were supposed to have the baptism, but it ended up
working out (huge miracle!) and he got baptized! It was cool because we had a
"Noche Blanco" in our zone/stake. All of the baptisms from our
zone got baptized in one service, so there were 14 people baptized that night!
The Stake President came and so did President Archibald. It's amazing to
see things like that and realize how much the work is progressing! The Spirit
was really strong and everybody was happy. Jose got confirmed on sunday
and is happy. Yay!
This saturday we had a mission conference with our mission
and Lima North Mission. Elder Callister came and Elder Grove from the
area 70, I believe. It was really powerful and motivating. I love hearing
Elder Callister speak. He spoke about the Great Apostasy. He said that to
be able to appreciate the Restoration as much as we need to, we have to
understand the Apostasy, and that is very important doctrine to teach to our
investigators so that they will appreciate the Restoration. He gave us a
lot of really cool insight on that. We all got to go shake their hands,
and when I shook Elder Callister's hand, I brought up the fact that he stayed
at our house once and he said, "Oh of course! Creed Jones from
Joplin!" haha, so he definitely remembers you, Dad!
Last sunday, a lady showed up to church that we had never
seen before. The other Hermana in the ward said that they briefly met her
on the street and told her what time church starts and where it was. (We
probably tell that to people 10 times a day, and usually nothing comes of it.)
Anyway, so this lady, Maria, showed up to church! What? that never happens! So
it turns out that she is in our area. We went and taught her this last week,
and on the first lesson she asked when she could be baptized. We said, uh
yeah. We can definitely help you out there. Haha. So she is going to get
baptized this week!
We have been trying to work so hard this week and it's been
so awesome to see the results. We've seen so many cool things happen that
can only be explained by the Hand of the Lord. We are so committed to
baptizing weekly, and that is making us work really hard. The harder we
work and the more Faith we have, more miracles happen. It's incredible to
see the Lord's hand in this work and I absolutely love it. Missionary
Work is the best and I am so glad to be here and be part of it. The
Church is true!
Love you all and best wishes for the week,
Hermana Jones
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