Familia,
Well. Its been another week. Not really sure what to write,
once again.
Transfers this week. No changes here. Still chillin' in the
Aurora Ward with Hermana Maughan. I'm pretty happy about that. Definitely hate
the uncertainty of transfers, and hate the changes.
Other news is that this is my last pday on Wednesday. Next
one will be this coming Monday.
Umm. I had a blast on New Year's. We were instructed to be
in our houses by 8, and I was definitely fast asleep by 10:30. Pretty exciting
night.
We can't find Rosa. We were meeting with her twice a day for
a week, and then she dropped off the face of the earth. She won't answer her
phone, and we can't just stop by her house all the time because its way too far
away, and when we do drop by she isn't home. She's the bishop's niece, and he
doesn't even know whats going on. So yeah. We have no idea. Last we talked to
her she really wanted to get baptized, but from what I understand is that she
doesn't have a lot of support in the house she's living in. Who knows what will
happen, but I hope we find her soon.
Good news is that we had a pretty sweet week finding people.
We found 8 new investigators. And our district set a goal that each
companionship would try to invite at least one person a day to be baptized, so
because of that we now have two new people on date. One is Irma. Irma's story
is pretty sweet. The English elders knocked into her and her husband before I
got here, and Hna Maughan and her previous companion taught them once, and then
couldn't really get ahold of them again. Then, on Christmas Irma called us to
see if we could come over and help her husband, Monico, study for the
citizenship exam. So we set up an appointment to go over there in a couple of
days. The day before we were supposed to go over there, we got a call from
someone in the English ward, but who speaks Spanish, with a referral for us.
She said that she works with a girl named Miriam who's parents we are teaching,
and the missionaries stopped by and said a prayer for her little boy who was
sick, and now she wanted us to come back and teach her. We were super confused,
because A) we weren't teaching anyone with a daughter named Miriam who is in
her 20's. B) We weren't the missionaries who prayed for her son. . . But we started to look in our Area Book to
see if she was on the list of potential investigators from when the other
missionaries stopped by, and we found her but she didn't have a last name
listed. AND THEN, Hermana Maughan thought about Irma and Monico- and wondered
if she was there daughter. Yep. Yes she is. So within two days Irma calls us to
come over, and we get Miriam as a referral.
Which was sweet. But- back to Irma, we started going over there everyday
to help Monico study for his test, but he was just super stressed and couldn't
study because he was making himself sick. So we just had a lesson with Irma,
and taught her the Plan of Salvation, and invited her to be baptized on the
28th of January. And she REALLY wants to. She is the sweetest lady ever. And
she keeps telling us how Monico needs to be baptized too, but he's too
stubborn. She is the awesome. And we met with Miriam and she is legit too, def
going to be baptized someday, just have to invite her!
Next person we set on date is Alejandra. She is the roommate
of one of our recent converts. She is pregnant, and I believe a single mother,
who is currently trying to find her one place to live. We went over to visit
with the recent convert, and she decided to listen in, so we ended up changing
the plans and teaching the Plan of Salvation. and oh man, the spirit was so
strong it was tangible. We invited her to be baptized last week, and she said
yes, but we didn't set a date. And then this past Monday we met with her again
and talked about the Book of Mormon, and invited her to be baptized on the 11th
of February. What is cool about that date, is that Hna Maughan and I didn't
talk about setting a date for her before we went in. But once we were in there
we were both feeling like we needed to, and Hermana Maughan was the one that
asked if the 11th would be okay for her. When we got in the car Hermana turned
to me and kind of apologized for setting her on date, like I would be mad or
something. :P I just told her that I felt we needed to too, and that if she
didn't I was going to and I really felt like it needed to be the weekend before
Valentine's Day, which is what Hna Maughan did, even though she went in there
planning on a different day, but felt like she needed to change it.
More baptisms that are in the works, are not anyone that I
set on date to be baptized, nor will I be present, but I am super excited about
them nonetheless. I found out today that the Hermana that is up in Rockford
just set a whole family on date that Hermana Summers and I found knocking
doors. They are from Panama and when Hermana Summers and I were teaching them,
it was really slow going because it was just the 15 and 17 year old daughters
who were interested and we could only go over every other week, but NOW the
girls, their stepmom and their brother are all on date to be baptized!! I don't
know what Hermana Noyes is doing up there in Rockford, but she is awesome. I am
super excited for this family to get baptized, they are THE BEST.
So yeah. I think thats about it this time. Lucky for you all
you get to hear from me in less than a week. I'm glad to hear everyone is doing
well, and I hope everyone gets back into the swing of things after vacation.
Don't worry about me, I think somehow I'll manage to get over the Holidays.
They were just so relaxing, afterall. :P
I love you all. Hope everything is going well.
Les Quiero,
Shaelyn
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