Feliz Lunes!
It finally sounds like you had a normal week haha. I feel like you guys are always doing something crazy without me haha! :)
Okay well my week was another CRAZY week! I am kinda glad its over! But it went by super fast. Time goes by faster and faster! Only 2 more fast sundays left mom haha :)
Okay well the craziest thing we had this week was a surprise baptism! So you all remember Alex right? Well for some reason a few weeks ago he literally fell off the face of the earth. He entered the military so we hadnt met with him in forever. But this week we finally got back in touch with him and he was soooo ready to be baptized! He had given up everything he has had a problem with and has been clean for pretty much a month straight. He just told us that he wanted to do it and that he was ready! So we set up an interview and he passed and he was baptized on saturday! It was so amazing to see his face when he came up out of the water. He just had the biggest smile on his face and we could see how much he changed and how happy he was. He says he has goals to go on a mission so we are going to be helping him with that! But the only bad part of this is he didnt go to church on sunday to get confirmed haha! I guess he had another committment that he forgot about. But we went and talked with him and he will for sure come next week haha :) So that was a fun part of our week :)
We also had our multizone conference this week! It was my last one... so i had to give my last testimony. That was pretty hard for me. But it went really well! As sister leaders we had to do a training example in front of everyone! I was super scared haha but it also went really well :) Me and Hermana Sandison work really well together :)
Then on Thursday we had our sister training! It was sooo fun but soooo crazy haha! All the sisters in the mission together in the mission house.... yeah it was interesting :) But we learned soo much! Hna. Rasmussens friend from california was here visiting and gave the greatest talk about being BOLD! It was something i definitly needed to hear. She told us that sometimes sister missionaries often get in the habit of being visiting teachers and we are there and we talk and we are good friends but then we get too afraid to ask them to repent and be baptized because who wants to go up to their friends and tell them to repent haha! She told us that we get out of our comfort zones and tell them the things they need to hear. I think that helped us out a lot. We definitly saw a difference this week from putting it in action.
Last night we also saw a miracle. We have really been looking for new investigators with REAL potential to progress. We recieved a reference from the Elders a few weeks ago but every time we passed by he wasnt there. But saturday we were finally able to contact him and yesterday we had our first lesson with him. His name is Gerardo. He is GOLDEN! He has had contact with the missionaries before. He told us that a while ago he was in a really hard situation. His mom had been diagnosed with cancer and he was just so worried about everything. In that time is when he met the elders and they gave him a blessing. He said that within that month, his mom called him and told him that the cancer had somehow disappeared. He said that he was shocked and then remembered the blessing that he recieved and he is convinced that thanks to that blessing, he mom was saved. He is so willing to learn and wants to really know if the church is true. We were able to put a baptismal date with him and he is super excited to learn more :)
Well, that is the craziness of my week. Gosh i love it here! I cant believe that i have been here for 16 months now.... Its gone by too fast!
Momma, i will send you the other things you need in a different email :)
I love you all soooo much! Remember to be BOLD and share the gospel with someone this week. You will CHANGE THEIR LIVES! :)
Love,
Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)
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