Buenos Dias!!!
Hola mi querida familia, como estan toditos?
Well all is well in Gilbert, AZ. It's quite cloudy
right now but we've got a little bit of rain the past few days so that's good.
This past week was transfers and we had an AWESOME transfer meeting. Man, I
just love President and Sister Nattress. They are the best. They are always so
good at inspiring us missionaries and giving us the animo to be better, more
effective and sanctified missionaries, while at the same time expressing so
much love for all of us:)
Anyways, this week was a good one. We found some
new investigators! We had an amazing experience with following the promptings
of the Spirit. We were on our way to visit the Arlandiz (a cute couple of
viejitos that got baptized last year) and we drove past two older women working
outside. I immediately knew we had to go talk to them, and then Sister Haycock
said "We should go talk to them." So we parked the car in front of
the Arlandiz' house (which is right around the corner) grabbed some copies of
the Book of Mormon and walked over to them. We started talking to the younger
of the two, who in broken English told us that her name was Carmen. We asked
her where she was from and she said "Sinaloa, Mexico"! Naturally, we
started speaking to her in Spanish. She is very religious and has a firm
testimony of Jesus Christ so we had a great gospel discussion and invited her
to read the Book of Mormon. As we were about to leave, the other older lady we
had seen with Carmen earlier came out from the house. So, we went to introduce
ourselves to her and (thinking she was American) started talking to her in
English. But she didn't speak very much English either and we found out she is
from Guadalajara! I could not suppress the grin on my face as we started to
speak to her in Spanish:) Her name is Victoria and she is 87, and she is
suffering from the beginning stages of dementia, and she recently lost her
husband. She invited us inside so she could show us her house... haha it was so
cute! We sat down at their kitchen table and chatted for a while and I told
Carmen I had been to Mazatlan before and we chatted about that and other things
for a bit, and then we gave Victoria a Book of Mormon as well and shared a
scripture and invited both of them to read it!:) They were SO sweet and willing
to listen to us. And then later in that week we went by again, this time with
the Arlandiz, who live super close. We went by and they weren't home, but their
daughter and her husband were there cleaning the carpets. We talked to the
daughter for a little bit and she opened up about the difficulty of losing her
dad. She new he was older and he had lived a good life, but it was still very
hard for her to say goodbye to him. We were able to testify of eternal families
and invite her to watch "He is the Gift". She kept on thanking us for
coming by and seemed really surprised that we had showed up again because
Victoria had told her all about us after we had stopped by the first time:) It
was a very cool experience, and I know we were led to go to the Arlandiz that
day so we could meet that family. I don't know what will happen with them, but
I know that because the Spirit guided us to talk to them, and we followed it, a
seed has been planted:) I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY.
We were also able to find a new friend from the
UK! He is at the flight school and was very interested in reading the Book of
Mormon and very willing to hear our message. He was actually a street
contact. We talked to him and gave him a pass along card and he gave us his
number and address, then last week we went to see him and we gave him a Book of
Mormon:) He is a cool guy and says "Cheers" in a british accent
whenever we say bye to him. It's the best! haha
So, yep! Our week was a good one:)
Here are the answers to your preguntas, Mamita:)
1. see above for new investigators!
2. Ricardo is doing well, we still haven't seen
him but we've been in contact with him via text for the past little bit. He
went to a fireside in the Mesa mission a few weeks ago and got in contact with
the missionaries there! He is also reading the Book of Mormon and he loves it!
He wants to be taught with the Jensens still so we will continue to teach him
over there as soon as things calm down with his wife:) He is awesome!
3. Tim is awesome!!! We gave him a little break
this past week but we saw him on Saturday and a miracle happened! He got a new
job offer! And it's one that pays better, he'll be doing something he loves AND
the schedule is way more flexible so he'll be able to come to church on
Sundays!!:D GO TIM! So when that job starts, I'm sure he'll be progressing a
lot faster than he is now. Max’s prayers have been answered (thanks Max for not
giving up on TimJ).
4. I didn’t realize I never explained the T-shirts
we had on New Years Day! The Giraffe is our Mascot because we are the Gilbert
Zone:) haha it started out with our Zone Leader, Elder Hoffman saying that we
were the giraffes and it has escalated to a giraffe with a snapback on a
t-shirt:) GO GILBERT GIRAFFES!!! Haha #
LES QUIERO MUCHOOOOO!!! Have an awesome week!
Moroni 8:3
Hermana Lattin
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