Buenas Tardes, a todos! 07/28/14
Last Sunday we dropped off Alexia
and America(8 and 7) from church, and as we were walking away, a neighbor,
Alexis(10) told us he wants to go to church and to talk to his parents. So we
talk to his parents, and they asked us to come back and teach in a couple
hours! So after lunch with the Familia Espinoza, we go back and have a really
good lesson with them. Turns out that the Mom, Marisela, was already baptized
at 12 years old. Her husband, Efraim, and Alexis accepted baptism. They're a
good family, but have had to go through a lot, especially economic problems.
But they came to a baptism on Saturday! We honestly thought they wouldn't, but
they came :) And they came to church Sunday!
Martes(Tuesday) We taught someone
named Pedro Antonio. He learns really slow. But he has the desire to learn, and
is reading and praying. The problem is with his work schedule. He works all
night and sleeps in the morning, wakes up, and goes to work again in the
afternoon. And that's why he won't go to church! Most frustrating thing ever!
Hermana Bobadilla and I promised him that if we went to church he would receive
the rest he needed. Nope. He doesn't want to try. So...we'll see where we go
with that.
This week we finally contacted a
less-active family - Familia Avila. Norma was the only one in the house when we
contacted her, but she would not let us in. She told us she wasn't going to
return to the church and shut the window. After about 2 minutes she opened the
door and reluctantly let us in. We had a good "lesson" with her and
hopefully she'll build up her faith again.
Everybody listen to me for a second.
Just for a second. Please, don't ever let anybody else affect your faith. Don't
let anybody else's actions discourage you from doing what's right. Always
remember the atonement of Jesus Christ and that it can help with Anything! It
doesn't matter what calling you've had in the church or going to have. It
doesn't matter how big of a testimony you have if you don't keep letting and
helping it grow! There are a lot of people here that have been bishops, relief
society presidents, elder's quorum presidents, etc and are now less-actives.
Agh! Don't let your testimony fade! Don't lower your faith or your standards!
Ever!
Friday, was rather interesting,
because we had weekly planning in the morning and after that appointments, and
then a ward/mission activity. All of our appointments fell through except for
1. So, we went to prepare for the activity. That was fun, because the bathrooms
were pretty bad. Good times, cleaning bathrooms in the church :) But the
activity went well! We watched the video about John Tanner and the other about
the Stonecutter. Both amazing men that gave up a LOT for the service of the
Lord.
At the activity was a young man
named Leo. Leo plays baseball(note to Matthew) everybody here plays soccer, but
he likes baseball! And he gets paid to play on a team, too! And he really
want's to be baptized, but his Mom won't let him. There's a lot to this story,
but basically we are working on getting her trust and teaching her also, so
they can both get baptized.
Saturday there was a baptism for the
other ward! Yay! And yay because the Familia Romero Gonzalez(Marisela and
Efraim) came! AND! Lupita and Julio Elizalde! Their kids are gone for
vacations, but they still came! They really are an awesome family and we really
hope they progress.
Oh, the title? Yes. It rained a lot
Sunday night and our house got flooded. It was pretty fun, having 1 1/2 inches
of water in our house. Good times :)
Yup, still teaching piano - although
this week everybody went to EFY in Culiacan, so not much teaching piano this
week. I play in church every week! Even though there's a young woman that can
play, I guess she doesn’t like to or feels like she needs practice. Not sure.
Working on that, though.
Spanish? Pues...estoy mejorando cada
dia, pero todavia tengo mucho, MUCHO aprender. A menos, mi companera es
paciente cuando siempre digo, "huh? no entiendo..."
But it was good week! Lots of work
contacting and first lessons. Now we have a lot of work following up with them
this week and finding a lot more investigators. Thank-you for your support and
especially your prayers!!
Have a good week!
-Hermana Daniels
I don't know if you can see the
second picture very well, but see that outlet? and the other behind it? There
was water pouring out of one farthest away. Yay for electrocution! Just
kidding, nothing happened. We just had to sleep without the fans, which was not
fun because it's so HOT! But it was good.
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