This week has
been good. Ashley, the 13 year old girl
is still planning on getting baptized, but we may have to stop just teaching
her and try to start teaching the whole family. Her mom won't give them rides
to church which is rough, so we figure we need to reactivate her and then maybe
we will be able to get Ashley baptized! Also, we will hopefully have another
couple of dates by the end of this week! The 9 year old girl (Naomi) we
are teaching is progressing really well, and her dad who isn't a member is
really warming up to us a lot since we found out he was trying to get her to
get baptized Catholic, and we taught her a lesson on Priesthood authority. Today
we are planning on having a family home evening with their whole family, so we
will see what happens. Our goal is to get the father and maybe even the
grandparents interested too, so we will see how that goes. They've all investigated at one point or another
because the uncle and the girl’s mom are both members. They all live in the
same house. We also have another investigator named Patricia. She is really sweet and half her family is LDS.
Apparently her husband is too, but inactive and we didn't even know he was a
member. We invited her to be baptized 2 weeks ago, and she is praying about it
right now, so hopefully we will have a date with her by the end of the week!
Other news!
We have transfers this week!! We got calls on Saturday morning while at
service. Hermana Budge is going to New Mexico to serve with a Hermana from El
Salvador. My new companion is going to
be Hermana Flake. I've heard she is really fun and bubbly. She's a sister training leader, so I guess
that means that we will be going on a lot of exchanges, but that should be fun!
I will get to know a lot of people! I am super excited though!
We were super
close to hitting standards this week, which is good! Also we had some really
fun lessons with Naomi and her little sisters. This week the elders went with
their uncle to go through the temple for the first time, so they left their car
at their house to drive up all together.
Whenever missionaries happen upon another companionships car you
obviously have to leave sticky notes or something all over it. However we didn't
have any, so we asked the little girls if they did and they decided that we
should probably just draw all over it with expo marker since it's a white
truck. So they had a lot of fun with that, and we turned it into a great object
lesson on repentance haha :).
Also the
other day we were trying to drop by one of our former investigators, and when
we were walking up the stairs to her apartment I saw this 18 year old guy
sitting on the other stairs. He was looking
over at us, and I just had this feeling that we needed to go talk to him, but I
was kinda scared. However just as I was
about to go up the stairs he called over to us and asked us to share with him
what was in our "Bible." We
walked over to him and he puts his cigarette out and turns off his music then
shakes both of our hands and asks to see one of our Book of Mormons. He spoke English, and the ones we carry are
in Spanish so we told him we can go get an English one for you. He took one of them and just started reading
the introduction. We were trying to explain to him what it was, but I was really
surprised that he seemed pretty content to just read. Once he was done, he was like that's nice
thanks for letting me look at it. Then
he shook both of our hands again and said God bless you. We managed to ask him
if he wanted us to send some missionaries over with an English Book of Mormon. He agreed and showed us where he lived. It
was really strange, because it's not often people ask to hear your message
here. But definitely a blessing!
Also I was
reading in 2 Nephi 33 this week and I love verse 10 and how it tells us 3 times
to believe in Christ and how if we don't believe in the Book of Mormon to
believe in Christ. If we believe in Him
we will know it is true, because it testifies of Christ and teaches us to do
good. I love that. It's so silly to me that people don't want to accept the
Book of Mormon because they think it is "of the devil". I mean all it
teaches is good and it teaches you to believe in Christ. There is a really good
institute talk that explains 10 reasons why to believe Joseph Smith was a
prophet and one of the reasons is why in the world if the Book of Mormon was
evil and that Joseph Smith just made it up would Satan tell him to testify of
Jesus Christ and encourage people to believe in Him. That would literally make
no sense. I just wish all people would give it a try, because if they just read
it with real intent they would know that it's true.
I love you
all a lot! I hope you have a good week! Thanks for everything!
Love,
Hermana Burgoyne
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