his week has
been crazy, but lots of miracles! The family I was talking about last week is
still getting baptized! So the exciting thing is this past week we got to visit
them a few times and actually extend a date to them. They are all
scheduled to be baptized the 5th of March! They are a little nervous about it,
but that's what we are working towards.
The problem is they have yet to be able to come to church. We love them
though! We are actually teaching the Mom, her two kids, and one of their
cousins who is the niece of the primary president in our ward, so that was a
funny coincidence! Their names are Carmen, Deyra (daughter), Luis (son), and
Ilene (cousin). They are super awesome, and like I probably said already they
get so excited for us to come over. It's
super awesome. Their mom is super awesome too because she is not a member, but
we will be teaching lessons and she will agree with everything we say and try
to explain everything we teach to her children. It’s cool because she was one
of the Hispanics in Tucson who almost shut the door on us because they are Catholic,
but now she is totally open and it's great!
There are
also some other neat things that happened this week. We were trying really hard
to find new less actives to work with in our area, because we don't know
many. We have just been going through
our ward list searching for people who for the most part have moved. The cool
thing is that although we haven't been able to get in contact with the people
we have been looking for in specific we ended up finding others to teach
whether it was another less active who had just moved into their house, or a
new potential investigator who is willing to learn. One of the best miracles
this week was when we had been walking back to our car from a less active’s
house and this lady walking around with a stroller just smiled and waved at
us. I didn't think too much of it. Then
we drove down the street a little bit and there was the same lady who had been
walking her stroller. She just waves us
down and was like hey! Are you missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints? Of course we said yes, and went over to talk to her. It turns out she is a less active member who
just got baptized a year ago and had kind of fallen away, but she really missed
the church and just needed help returning.
She asked us when the soonest we could come over and visit with her was,
so we have an appointment with her tomorrow.
We are super excited :)
The last
miracle for the week is we were trying to visit some of our investigators, but
they weren't home. We started walking
back to the car, and this man from behind us calls and asks us if we would like
some water. We turned around and went
over to go talk to him. It turns out he
had felt a prompting to ask us if we needed water. It was cool because at first
he didn't seem too interested in our message, but we talked to him about the
Book of Mormon. He thought it was the coolest thing that Jesus visited the
Americas after His resurrection. It was really awesome. God has definitely been
leading us to people who are prepared to hear his message.
Yesterday, I
got to give a talk in sacrament meeting about following the prophets. It's kind
of funny because I have been on my mission for almost 8 months, and I still have
yet to give a talk besides when I was in the MTC so that was really fun. I used
the talk from October 2014 by Sister Mcconkie. It's really good and tells the
story of Elias and the women who gave him the last of her food. I talked about
how the prophets are God's servants and how they ask hard things of us, but
when we do them we will be blessed so much. It's also really cool because I
spent most of my personal study yesterday preparing for that, so I didn't have
much time to prepare for our other lessons.
However, I ended up being totally prepared! I was even able to share
some scriptures that I had been studying that totally fit in with our other
lesson on obedience and being willing to keep God's commandments and the Spirit
was super strong during all of our lessons yesterday. I am just so grateful for
the help God gives me and that we can be worthy of the Spirit at all times to
guide and direct us!
This week was
Hermana Anderson’s Birthday, so I made her a cake and got to smoosh her face
into it. It was really fun, I will send you the video, don't worry she was ok
and actually she wanted me to do it. We went on a hike today for p-day. I will send pictures!
I love you
lots and lots!
Love,
Hermana Burgoyne
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