Hi fam!
This transfer is flying by! Well, I don't have much time to write today because it's not pday so let's get down to business... to defeat the huns! (Mulan)
Let me start with the great miracle of Horacio Aguirre....
Two weeks ago, we were going through the area book and searching through the past investigators...I had my eyes open for anyone who had attended church...Well we came across Horacio's record and he had been to church several times! I asked myself, what happened to this guy? He had a baptismal date and received all of the lessons! Well, he dropped off the face of the earth because there was a switch in missionaries and he moved..He last met with missionaries five years ago..We called the number and it was a miracle, he picked up. So we met with him last week, taught the Restoration and set a date with him to be baptized on February 8th! yeah. that just happened. We met with him again later in the week and talked with him about 3 Nephi 11 and the Atonement. He said that he was going to come to church and guess what? He did! His apartment complex is literally right next to the church so he just walked on over! His English is decent enough that he didn't need a translator so that was a blessing for Sister Hosking and I..
We also came into contact with a 26 year old less active named, Victor..He's from Honduras and he's so cool! It's a little bit hard to understand him because his accent is different from Mexicans and El Salvadoreans...he doesn't really pronounce the end of his words...so yeah..it's a challenge..Well...he came to church too!
Our Principios del Evangelio class (gospel principles) was awesome! Brother Toney, the member who teaches English class taught the lesson...We had all of the members that spoke spanish there and Horacio and Victor really enjoyed it.
Big miracle that happened Sunday night...So we wanted to find a potential investigator that we had knocked into a couple of weeks ago...we had tried by his trailer several times but he was never home..Well on Sunday night, we knocked and one of his kids invited us in..He wasn't home but his wife was. His wife was chatting with a friend when she saw us, said hello, and then pulled up some chairs to the table, inviting us to join them. I was blown away by how open she was. This is why I love the hispanic culture, if you knock on a door and you want to talk about God, they let you in and stuff your face with delicious food!!!
So we got to know them for a bit and then pulled out our scriptures, we wanted to share Alma 32 with them but we realized, this is a perfect opportunity to teach them the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! In the MTC, we learned to teach when you find and find when you teach...so, we passed out pamphlets to them and began teaching them..The friend wasn't as interested and she had to go part way through the lesson. But we continued teaching the wife, Victoria..At the very end, we taught her how to pray. We told her that through prayer, we can know that these things are true. We invited her to pray to know if it was true and she said that she says the same prayer every single day and never changes it. We explained to her that when we pray, we speak the feelings of our heart. God is our Father and wants to hear from us. "How do you think your father would feel if you came home every day and said the same thing to him? He'd be sad that you didn't tell him all about the amazing things you did that day or what you need help with!" When we told her this, she began to cry, she had no idea that she could just speak from her heart. She asked us to first say a prayer and then she'd say one. Hermana Hosking prayed and then Victoria followed and offered the most sincere prayer. It was beautiful.
It was such an incredible experience to teach someone that they are a child of God and to see them come closer to the Savior and our Heavenly Father.
I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to help people come unto Christ!
This week, we've also been teaching the Herarra family...Ah...the cutest kids in the world...They're hilarious..they went on and on last night telling us about their siblings embarrassing moments and Sister Hosking and I had tears rolling down our cheeks!
I feel so sad for the kids, they want to go to church so badly but the mom (less active member) never takes them. We offer to have a member take them but she always says that she can take them :\ I pray that she will have a change of heart and realize the importance of the Gospel...
To end on a funny note....On Sunday night, we tried to track down another potential. He lives right next to a church and Sister Hosking really needed to use the restroom....We decided to go into the church and ask...they had just finished a service..the pastor and his wife celebrated their wedding aniversary...well this wasn't your normal church..this was one of those churches where the big gospel choir sings in the background while every other word that comes from the audience is "praise the 'lawd'" or "hallelujah"...we were the only white people in the building and lets just say, we stuck out like sore thumbs...all of the men were dressed in three piece suites while the women wore dresscoats and skirts..I felt like I had been placed right in the middle of "the help"! it was so much fun! after we used the restroom, we asked if we could help them take stuff down and they gladly welcomed our service...they tried shoving peach cobblers and other foods down our throats and they treated us like w the were part of their family haha! oh they're my kind of people! mhmmmm
I hope everyone is having the time of their lives because I am! and I'm loving the weather...not to brag but it was 75 degrees yesterday...how's the snow coming? hehehe
Well folks....the church is true. Jesus loves you :) and I do too!
Con todo mi corazon,
Hermana Seymour
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