HELLO.
Well well, I hope you
are having a fabulous time at beautiful Cascade Lake. Hope someone can practice
the diving off the dock for me ;)
It was a great week here
in Hayesville! The best news of this week is that we had 2 investigators at
church! We really worked hard to be able to see this miracle this week.
The two investigators
that we had at church were Ruth (As well as her 2 children) and Lissandra.
Lissandra is 10 years old. Her mom is a
less active and the only member in the family. We visit Hermana Avalos
(Lissandra's mom) quite often. We recently have felt that we should focus more
on Lissandra.
Tuesday night we were
teaching Lissandra the gospel of Jesus Christ when Ruth came over! Ruth is their
neighbor. She sat down and listened to
the lesson. After the lesson Hermana
Avalos invited her to church! Ruth's
answer was," Oh perfect, my husband will be at work so we can go!" Her husband is very catholic. We went to teach
Lissandra again on Saturday and once again Ruth came over! We didn't get to teach a super long lesson but
we invited them all once again to church. We offered to come over at 8:30 to help them
get ready, and they accepted.
Sunday morning we went
to help Lissandra first. She was still in bed...By about 8:45 we got her out of
bed. Then we ran over to Ruth's house and knocked on the door. She came to the door with the look like, "I
just woke up why are you here so early..." She said she didn't have enough time to get
ready. I had a distinct impression,
"you can't let her off that easy". So...we helped her understand how great of
opportunity it is to come to church that specific Sunday since her husband
works next Sunday. And then I also told
her Hermana Avalos was waiting for her so she better go get ready...haha.
They showed up late but
they stayed for all 3 hours! Sacrament was focused on eternal families, Sunday
School was about working hard, and Relief Society was on temples!! It was a
great week to have investigators. We will be seeing Lissandra and Ruth
tomorrow. Keep them in your prayers por favor.
We taught Nazario and
Socorro this week about the Sabbath day. The ward mission leader was able to
come to the lesson and his testimony was so helpful! Before the lesson Nazario called us and told
us Socorro told him that she wants us to stop talking about baptism so
much. Well it’s not like that stops us
from fulfilling our purpose or anything.
So our lesson was focused more for Nazario. We may be focusing on him now for awhile until
Socorro lets us talk about baptism again.
Nazario went to do
baptisms for the dead the very first time this last week! He loved it. He said
he had a burning in his chest the second he walked into the temple. He is
planning on going in a few weeks again to baptize his dad and grandpa.
Because of transfers this
last week we now have 10 missionaries in the ward. A good chunk of our area was cut out which
took away 6 potentials we were working with. But that just tells me that there
are more ready investigators in a smaller area!
I love Oregon so much. I
love the people here, and mostly the Hispanics :) White people here are a
little cuckoo. I know that I am here Spanish speaking for a reason! I am
grateful for every single day that I have here. I hope that you have a
wonderful time at the lake and don't miss me too much ;)
Love,
Hermana Gifford
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