Well, to start off, our baptism on tuesday was so wonderful! Ah. Olga (his wife who just got baptized a few weeks ago as well), Hna Scheu and I all spoke and it was just so wonderful to baptize Ridel and know that Olga is already baptized and that they already have the goal to go to the temple to be sealed in exactly one year. I wish you could have seen the look on Olga´s face as Ridel came up out of the water. It was so special to see. They are wonderful. Olga gave me this beautiful pearl bracelet that night to thank me for bringing the gospel into their life and so that I have something to always remember them by. Although I definitely dont need a bracelet to help me remember them it was so sweet of her.
Other super wonderful news is that Javier have a baptismal date!!!!! February 8th!!!!! I have told you all this before but really I have not met someone so sincere with such an incredibley strong desire to follow Christ and do what God wants him to do. We are just so excited for him. He has parents and sibligns that live in the states and two of his sisters are members back in his country. We are just so happy. A cool story is that we had a lesson with him Friday morning and the whole lesson was just on the Book of Mormon because he just LOVES his bible and reads it faithfully everyday and has had a harder time understanding and gaining a testimony of the Book of Mormon but we brought a recent convert of about 3 weeks with us who was just like him who didnt leave the house without her Bible and now doesnt leave her house without her Book of Mormon and Bible to help us in the lesson. It was such a powerful lesson and al final de esta leccion we invited him to be baptized on a specific date and he just kinda put his head down and smiled so big and said yes. Then he left and said that as he was walking down the street he started to get really nervous and was thinking oh shoot what did I just say yes to when he looked up and there was a banner hanging on a building that said "todo estará bien" which means "everything will be ok". He took that as a sure answer from God that what he just said yes to was true and that this is the camino correcto. Miracle happen every day in this work and I am just so humbled to be a part of it!
haha so this probably isnt going to be funny to you guys but Hermana Scheu and I quote it at least 3 times a day. So we were making some visits to less active members and usually when we timbre the door (everyone lives in pisos and outside of the piso is a timbre thing where you ring their door and over an intercom talk to them) we say buenas, somos las hermanas "Hi, we are the sisters" (which sounds so awkward in english but I promise it is not awkward sounding in spanish jajaj) adn they usually respond with, ohhhh uhhh uhhhhh ok come up. or uhhh we are just about to leave come back later, or something like that. Well this guy we had never met, jsut knew his name was Luis and so we rung and said hola somos las hermanas anad he said SUPER EXCITED, "las hermanas??? Que guay!!!!" jajaja.Which means, the sisters??? COOOL! You defintely probably have to be there and be a missionary where you get doors closed in your face several times a day to think this is awesome but we think its pretty hilarious! It was just such a change from every other person we timbre. Needless to say he invited us up and gave us cookies and hot chocoalte as we sat out in the hallway because he lives by himself and shared a message with him.
Ok gotta go, Adios! I hope you all ahve a great week! Thank you for everything!
LES QUIERO!
Hermana Heims
ps, I am sitting here in jeans right now. SO WEIRD! This is my third time wearing pants in my whole mission since I left home 7 months ago! We are going bowling today so we get to wear jeans!
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