Can´t believe its Monday already! This week has been pretty great--we had a lot of lessons (the most lessons I´ve ever had here woohoo!!) and we´re excited to see the changes that are happening slowly but surely :) We have been working hard to strengthen the members and gain their trust and its worked! We´ve gone out with 4 different members to citas and about 2 more youth who have the desire to help us too! YES!! I love members!!!
Also we worked really hard with our investigators! I mentioned last week that this week we focused as a mission on inviting others to come unto Christ through baptism. We fasted as a mission and prayed multiple times a day for specific people and then went out and followed the Spirit! Hermana Vigo and I had a list of names of investigators that we felt prompted that we should invite them to repent and be baptized. So this week we set out to do just that! But when we actually had the lessons, we either didn´t feel the Spirit/ or we didn´t feel it was the right time to invite them. We also had two other investigators that we were SURE were ready to take this next step. But after a heartfelt long conversation, we discovered that they´re not. There´s a lot of commitments theyé not ready to keep and it´s just not their time :( (noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!) They were our investigators with the most potential too (after Isabel). So at the end of it all we actually ened up losing the two bautsimal dates that we had (isabel still doesn´t have permission and we haven´t been able to meet with Fatima for a month) BUT that doesn´t take away from the fact as a mission, we reached our goal of having 250 bautismal dates by the end of the week! We feel so blessed. It´s still going to take a lot of work, love, and prayers, to help these 250 people continue to put their faith in the Lord and change their lives for the better but we´re so happy to have that chance!
And we did have a lot of tender mercies this week! The Spanish ward organized a Valentine´s Day party and we were able to invite three investigators to go! It was actually a lot of fun and I have a couple good videos of adults playing musical chairs haha!
Our investigator Paula came to the dance with a family from the ward too! I can´t remember if I´ve ever mentioned her so I´´ll give a quick little background. We contacted her mom during the first week of this transfer and she invited us to teach her daughter, Paula, english classes once a week. So we´ve been visiting her for about a month now and usually we just shared small spiritual messages at the end of the class but recently we discovered she really does have interest! We felt prompted to invite two girls from the ward to accompany us to the last cita with her and they all hit it off! We were able to talk about The Restoration and we were all able to share our testimonies about its truthfulness and the affect its had in our lives. And then at the end, Paula prayed at the end out loud for the first time in her life! MIRACLES! She cried afterwards too, we all felt The Spirit so strong. The Rodriguez family (the family of the two girls that came with us to the cita) has really taken her in and it helps SO much! Its amazing what a difference members can make in someone´s conversion. It makes ALL the difference! We could be working with someone for months and see no progress but then introduce them to someone they can confide in and who´s a little less scary ;) and it makes it all the better. And I know that they will be stronger too if they have a friend to help them.
Another example of this is the Family Home Evening we had the other day. Our investigator usually stays after english classes at the chapel (English classes, thats how we get `em ;) and we usually have a lesson with her. Well this time, a member had come to English classes too and he also happened to stay and we had an amazing lesson about The Book of Mormon. He was so sincere and shared his testimony with her about the truthfulness of the scriptures. Even though she still hasn´t come to church, I know she felt something and was touched by his sincerity and kindness. What makes it even sweeter was that this man had recently been re-inactivated after a bout a year of not going to church. It was a special experience for me to see a truly changed person helping share the gospel again.
So this week is the last week of the transfer! Saturday we find out if anythings changing AH!! I really hope Hermana Vigo and I stay together--I really can´t imagine leaving her or Puerto right now!! Seriously, its been so good which scares me! In the mission (and pretty much in life too haha) it always seems that when things are finally turning around and are getting good something changes! But I know the Lord knows where I need to be and I have faith in Him. But that doesn´t mean I still can´t hope to stay :) haha
I love my companion, I love Puerto, I love the mission, I love my Savior and my Father! And I love you all! Cuídense! And know that I´m always praying for you.
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Hermana Morrow
Plaza de Toros in Puerto. Every town/city in Spain seems to have one. (The place where they kill the bulls with the red cape and everything)
Its a tender mercy when we actually have time to COOK! Our mini feast!
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