May 30, 2011

Hola Familia. How's it going? My week was definitely interesting. But all in all it was another good week in the mish. We worked really hard and had some good trials. A lot of the people weren't letting us in to their houses to teach. They had a lot of excuses and such, but we kept working hard through our trials. Then at the end of the week when we had our investigator, Jhampier's baptism, he told us he couldn't do it that day, and scheduled it for Sunday. So I was pretty sad, but we kept working hard. Everything turned back around when I saw the investigators that we were priviledged to teach and baptize come to church. Even the less actives that we have taught came to church. This made me way happy and I knew without a doubt that my work was not and will never be in vain to the Lord. We never know who or how we are helping people when we are serving the Lord. It has a profound affect on many people. But I got permission from the President to go eat dinner for Mother's day here on the 27th and eat dinner with the mom and daughter we baptized. They gave us two big plates of food to eat and I don't know how I ate it all, but it was awesome! We got to give the grandma a libro de mormon in quecheua. It's a language here that some of the citizens speak. Some of them can't speak Spanish. But she was happy and she is attending Church and will most likely be baptized soon. Then we got to eat dinner with the family that cooks for us and we had lasagna. I love lasagna! It was so good. We gave the mom a bible and some gum from United States ha ha. She loves the gum and wanted a bible that had the old and new testament in it, because her Catholic bible only has the new testement. She isn't a member. Only her daughter is, and she is secretary in the relief society of the stake. I don't know if that is right in English. But I was privileged to baptize Jhampiert yesterday. It made me very happy. He has been an investigator for years and finally accepted to be baptized. He said the water was freezing and his feet were numb, but everything went well. But something sad happened. There is a mother of this member in our ward. We were talking to her and her mother Thursday night, and then she died the next day on Mother's day. It was way sad. The other thing that was sad was that her mom wasn't a member her whole life. She even supported her son and her daughter to go on missions. She just didn't believe. She finally gained a testimony and accepted to be baptized, and then she passed away. I felt way sad, but I had this strong feeling that everything was perfectly fine for her because she was willing to be baptized and because of the Temple work for the dead. It was a strong feeling and I got teary eyed with this feeling and for the member talking about her mom. But Transfers(cambios) are this week, so we'll see if I will move areas or have 6 more months in Bajio ha ha. I will let you know next Monday. Things are great, and my health is good. On Wednesday I can even start exercising again. Thanks so much for all of your love and support. I will continue to serve faithfully. Elder Christoffersen