GREAT NEWS!!!! We have a golden investigator!!! Her name is Brenda!! She is 19 and really interested in the church! We had a lesson with her in the home of some less actives and it went GREAT!!! We started on the Plan of Salvation which was odd at first but it just seemed to fit. Then she said that her Grandma had just passed away and we were like ".........wow......." That was cool. Then we had a lesson her house with her parents. Her dad is set against us but her mom likes our message. The only problem is that she depends on her husband for everything and straight up told us that she feels uncomfortable around him so that was just really weird. But Brenda is GREAT!!! She runs her own business selling flowers and she works on Sundays, but she came to church yesterday no problem and I am positive that she is willing to make the sacrifice every week because she can feel the greatness of this message. I´M SO HAPPY!!! Her fecha for baptism isn´t until the 24th and it´s going to be hard since she really does work all the time but I think she will do what it takes to follow Christ.
Another great person we are teaching is named Juel. His wife is a member but she has been inactive because of her baby. She is now coming every Sunday. Juel was not baptised with her because he had some legal problems in a city that's way lejos. So the missionaries before said he couldn´t be baptised. We talked to him and he still wants to be baptised so that he can live with his wife and son (who is adorable and reminds me of my nephew Logan) for eternity. We found out that the problem he has isn´t legal at all. It´s just a problem with a guy that tried to kill him on the order of his mom and so Juel retaliated in self defense and almost killed the guy. But not quite. He was just in the hospital for 3 months. Juel walked away. He is SO cool. He repented for what he did because he just felt horrible for doing that to the guy. He left his life in order to leave behind him what had happened. I would definitely say that that is repentance. He loves reading el Libro de Mormon and learning more about the gospel. He has his questions but he sees the worth of what we say in response. I am very excited to teach him this week. We don´t have a fecha for him because my comp still needs to tell the Presidente what all happened but we both are very confident that since the problem is personal and not legal, all will be good.
We have these 2 ladies that we are teaching as well. The mom is really deeply rooted in her catholic childhood so her thoughts keep turning to "God and Jesus are the same", but the last lesson went great and I think she finally understands that they are seperate in body but the same in purpose. She is really interested in our church and learning more AND she has accepted the invitation to be baptised. We are going to invite her to have a specific fecha this week. Her daughter too. But she doesn´t have the problem of constantly turning to a catholic past. She actually heplps us explain things to her mom. She is on the ball!! She just needs to read and pray to know if it´s true. That is the only problem that we are facing with her. She hears us, she learns and she feels the Spirit, but she needs to ask for herself and be taught the truth of these things through sincere searching and prayer. I know that she can, she just needs to see that there is more to learn than what we as mere mortals cannot teach her.
I don´t know if I will be here to see the progress of these investigators. Changes are this next monday and I could be gone. It is possible that I stay in this area nd that would be great! I´d love to see Juel baptised after a year of thinking that he is too far gone. But the truth is that the Atonement of Christ is so powerful that you really have to try in order to actually be "too far gone". It is amazing the power of something that happened roughly 2000 years ago. 3 days and we have the option of eternity. All we have to do is take the first step and act on hope of things that seem too great to be true. But I testify that it is not. It is so wonderful that it has to be true because Heavenly Father loves us that much. Christ loves us so much that he transcended death and time for us. I don´t know about you, but I love my Heavenly Father and my savior Jesus Christ so much, that I am letting everyone I can in on these wonderful things that we have from Them. Be a missionary where you can, and I promise that you will better understand what you have been given and blessed with each time you bear testimony. Such is the power of the Holy Ghost.
I love you all so much!! I keep you in my prayers!!! Live without regret and without fear.
