I've Grown A Foot Or Two!

Hey Family!! :)

So this week, this week was so crazy! So much happened. We finally found a family!! We haven't taught a family in forever and finally found a super cool family from Venezuela. They have two kids, a boy and a girl. Diego and Sophia. So cute!! We love them and they are so elect. They love reading the book of Mormon. Diego especially. When he reads it’s so powerful and he is only 10.

Dyana, the single mom who has been coming to church is going with us next Sunday on a temple tour!!! We are so excited!! She is amazing and progressing so much! I love her. She loves church!!

Roni, they guy with three kids and who is getting divorced and is coming to church got baptized yesterday!! We finally had a baptism and it was amazing!! It’s a really cool story. When we woke up that morning we didn't even think we would baptize, it just wasn't in our plans because the day before. Saturday we were going to have his interview for baptism but we couldn't meet with him. So we set up the interview for after church and we will have the baptism next Sunday. We waited for forever after church so the district leader could do his interview. When he came out from his interview he was smiling and we asked him what happened. He said that he was getting baptized, and we were like awesome! And he was like no, like today I am getting baptized and we said what?!?! Our district leader said it was the most powerful spiritual interview he ever had. He said that Roni said he wanted to wait to get baptized until after his divorce and our DL said OK. He shared a couple scriptures and bore testimony and said, “You know we don't get baptized until after our trials are over, we get baptized in our trials to help us overcome them.” Then there was a pause..... and our DL said, “Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized?” Roni said, “Yes I will!” Our DL was like we can baptize you today and Roni was like, really?!?! Can we!?! So long story short, an hour and a half after the interview he was baptized and it was so amazing!! It was such a spiritual high because this was my first investigator to get baptized that me and my companion found together. We love him so much!!

Roni's Baptism!

It was the highlight of our week because this week was so hard. We didn't find any new investigators and we had to drop people but Heavenly Father blessed us with a miracle!! It was awesome that me and Sister Calvo got to baptize one more time together before transfers which is next week.

This week I have been learning a lot about faith, hope and charity. In Ether 12 it talks and describes faith hope and charity so well. Some verses to read are 4,6,8,9,12,17,18,27,28,32, and 34. I learned that our faith in Jesus Christ must be active and not passive. Hope is a wish and it’s with an expectation of fulfillment. Charity is the pure love of Christ, it’s an attribute and not something you do for someone. All the time growing up that's what I thought charity was, service, but it’s so much more than that. It needs to be developed. All of these are very different but they all need each other.

Take faith and hope for example. In a car you have the battery and the engine right and there is a band that connects the two. You need to battery to start the car but you need the engine to run the car. Totally different things but one without the other the car cannot work. That’s how faith and hope are. One thing one of the elders in our district said once was faith is in Jesus Christ, hope is in his atonement, and charity is what he did. So powerful!

Sunset

Thanks so much for the quotes!! I really needed them. Yes there are times I feel like I can’t do this that I am failing because i can’t grasp everything quickly. I get frustrated because it takes me so long to learn and pick things up but I know that in time it will all work out! Heavenly Father sent me here for a reason and he won’t let me fail.

Thanks guys! I miss you and love you all so much!!!! :)

Hermana Heacock