Of course we didn't do anything overly spectacular for Valentines Day, but I did receive a package from my family containing a whole ton of candy!!! It is always fun to receive something sweet to make your day 10x better.
We have a new investigator named Maria Penalosa. She is amazing! We have taught her Lesson 1 and 2 and had a little BOM lesson with her. We asked her if she would be baptized and all she said was that she can't say no yet. She still wants to learn more. She came to church with her daughter Celeste on Sunday and they really enjoyed it. I am really excited for her and her family.
About 2 weeks ago we helped a lady named Anne move out of her apartment. While we were there Hermana Killian was talking to a guy who was helping with the flooding situation in another apartment. His name is Miguel and he randomly came to church yesterday! Awesome right? He walked into the room and we were wondering who he was, when it clicked! We are setting up a lesson with him sometime this week.
Bladimir is doing OK. We don't know what to do with him! He hasn't come to church for a month. Ugh!
One cool thing that happened this week is that we found this really old lesson sheet for a woman named Aracely Martinez. We didn't think that she would still live where the address on the paper said because it was all the way back from 2008. We went to the apartment and it had a calling thing that we had to do. So I was looking through all the people who we could call in the apartment complex and there was a Martinez. So we called it. It went to voice mail, but it was Aracely! Cool right? Maybe we will be able to find her sometime. She did used to have a baptismal date.
This week the Samoan sisters who live in the same apartment complex as us had their car broken into! After they had finished a lesson they came out of the house. Their car looked fine, but when they hopped in and shut the doors the glass on the back windshield shattered. Someone had been trying to get into the car and I guess weakened the glass! So we have been driving them around all week! Also it has been raining so when we drop them off they have to walk to all of their appointments. I feel so bad for them. I hope they get their car back soon.
This week was our special sacrament meeting where we had the members invite their friends to church and we, the missionaries, would speak giving all four of the lessons in talks. I did The Gospel of Jesus Christ. We had written our talks on Wednesday, but on Saturday night I re-wrote it because I didn't like it. Then when Sacrament meeting started Elder Moran took 15 minutes to give his talk and Hermana Killian took 8. So it left me and Elder Freeman with 7 minutes. I felt really bad because I took 5. Elder Freeman got up there (The newest Elder, on his first transfer in the field) and gave a 2 minute talk! Such a trooper. The Sacrament meeting didn't go as well as we hoped in getting new investigators. Only 3 people brought friends. Hopefully something good will come out of it.
I just want to let you all know that I love serving the Lord with all of my heart. I am not perfect and there are days that I struggle, but the happy moments are totally worth the sad moments. I can't wait until I can experience someone being born again in the waters of baptism. I know that if I keep doing my part the Lord will bless me and the people I teach. My advice to all of you is to continue doing CPR (church, prayer, and reading your scriptures). Set a time to do all of these things. With out them we can lose our ways so much easier. These three things are the key to our Salvation.
I love you all! Thanks for being fabulous examples!
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