This week has been a pretty hard but great week! We have been having trouble with finding and keeping investigators. We do find people and get their numbers and addresses but then we are never able to find them! We started also making what we call the "hit List". It is a list of old investigators that we will drop if we are not able to see them by the end of the week. Our area book is now cleaned up and so we need to start filling it with golden investigators now. I know that if I pray and have faith this will happen this week! Also our mission president has mad a goal for every companionship to have a baptism in the month of may. So please pray for a miracle! I certainly am!
This week I was able to finish the BOM for my third time!!!! I got so much more out of it! It is so amazing! I have come to find a love for the BOM by reading daily and pondering it's words. Now if you were like me, and find it hard to read the bom I give you a challenge. Try to read the bom with real intent each day. Make it a part of your day and not something that you have to check off your list. Pray to have the desire to read (this actually helps a ton!). I know that the BOM is true! I know that you will know as well! Please just read it!
This week we were able to find a lady named Monica Aguierre. She is our most progressing investigator right now even though she is not progressing that much. We were able to teach her lesson 1 and she kept saying, "this is so cool! I have never heard this before." It was really amazing and the spirit was really there. We are having another lesson with her today. Hopefully it goes well!
Another Family that we are working on right now is the Muñoz family. Vanessa (the mom) was a potential investigator that we stopped by. She was really open to having us come back. So we set up a return appointment and stopped by. We taught her lesson one and she listened to everything that we said. He spirit was really strong! Then Roberto (the dad) came home. He walked passed us and said hello but didn't shake our hands! We were so nervous! Then he set his stuff down and we thought he was going to go and eat or go in the back room like all husbands do (usually the husbands aren't as open) but he sat down and listened to us intently! What!!! It was so cool! Even though we didn't have any time to teach lesson one again we talked a little bit about our church. He said that he had gotten a blessing before from his friend who is Mormon! We are teaching them again on Tuesday! I am so excited!
We tried our best to get people to church this week but no one showed up. We called everyone the night before and even stopped by a house early in the morning :(
This week we had the opportunity of having a mini missionary come out with us for Saturday and Sunday. A mini missionary is a youth that come out with the missionaries to experience the work. Her my name was Sister Vaenuku. It was fun to to have another person. I did feel bad hough because most of the lessons were in Spanish.
That is my week for this week! If I work hard with diligence and keep praying, reading and going to church I know that great miracles will orc cure this week! I know the same will happen to you if you do the same! Tengan una buena semana!
Hermana Hansen
