What a week. This week was a testimony that you have to know the bitter to be able to experience and appreciate the sweet. This week was rough!
But, it ended SO good because Reinier was baptized yesterday! AHH! It was such a good day! The Spirit was so strong throughout his whole baptism and my goodness you should have seen his face when he came up out of the water! And even better was his testimony after. He bore a super super powerful testimony about the Book of Mormon and how it contains all of the answers that we need in this life and how we can find soluciones to every problem that we face in this life. He said over and over that he knows that Christ is our Savior and that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true. It was incredibly powerful. He was so happy and so was I!
Other good things about this week is that sweet, darling Mailyn is finally progressing! Im serious, I could go on and on about how darling Mailyn it! I am not sure if I have ever talked about her but she is 16 years old and lives here with her aunt who is in our ward. Hna Caballero and her old companion started teaching her over the summer and Maily had a baptism date and everything but then right before kinda got scared and then went on vacation for 2 months at the end of summer so they lost contact with her. When she returned and school started we started visiting her but she wasnt really progressing. Well, last week we started seeing SIGNIFICANT changes in her and we couldnt be happier! We brought a recent convert who is 18 to our lesson the other day and we read Alma 36 with her and talked about repentance and the lesson went SO well! Recent converts are so so SO amazing and help us out a ton! Then on saturday there was a young womens activity that we had invited her to but she said she had plans with her friends so she wasnt going to come but she showed up on Saturday and had such a fun time! She met tons of new friends and totally fit in with everyone. And the best part was that she totally participated in everything spiritual as well. She bore her testimony of the Book of Mormon and was answering the questions just as much as all of the other girls! We are super excited to teach her this week. But, we are taking things very slow with her.
Yaremy is still great and has a date for the 16th of November! Wait, Ive told you all about Yaremy right?! Well, if I havent tell me and next week Ill write about her because she is definitely one of my miracles!
Ok now briefly on to the rough parts of the week. But only briefly bc even though this week was definitely not one of my favorites, there was tons of miracles and tons of good things that did happen (like Reinier and Mailyn)!
Our investigator Dani was supposed to get baptized a few weeks ago but felt like he wasnt ready and as Hna Caba and I gave him the interview the day before the Elder was supposed to, we all three (him, hna caba y yo) felt like he wasnt ready. It was sad but we were hopeful that with just a little bit more time he would be ready. Well, then he smoked again and a few other things that have really set him far behind and now he doesnt want a date right now and we are trying to figure out what he needs. He is such a great guy and has a desire to learn but struggles with putting in practice what he learns. But, we are trusting that the Lord has a perfect timing for everything. Then we found out some news about Carlos and his group (Im not going to write it becuase lets be honest, its too exhausting and Im so not in the mood to cry right now but maybe one day Ill tell you about it but probably not bc I am hoping to learn all that I can from it and then never remember it again haha!)
Hna Caballero and I are workign really hard this week to find new investigators because three of ours are now baptized (!!!!!!!!!!!) and we now only have a few. So, we have been contacting a lot the past few days and our plan is to do a lot more in the next few days.
Oh, on a side note.... Fam! Go to all of the baptisms that you can!!! That is one thing that we have such a hard time with here in Mardid. We tell our investigators over and over and over that this church is a family and the ward is there to help you and support you and we obviously emphasize a ton the importance of this step in their life and how this is one of the most important decisions they will ever make in their life and everything and then only like 4 people from the ward come to show their support. So, fam, do all that you can to go to the baptisms even if you dont know the person!!
Thank you for your emails this week! They were just what I needed! I love you all! Thank you for your support and prayers! I hope you all have a great week!
Love, Hermana Heims
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