Sounds like it was a good week! Glad everyone's alive! haha. We had a super good week here too. We had a bunch of miracles.
One of them was that MATILDE finally came to church!! We have been working with her for two months now and every week she has told us she would come, and every week something has come up and hasn't been able to. She sorta old as well, so I think sometimes she just forgot haha. But SHE CAME! A member brought her as well, so that was even better. She loved it! She's going to get baptized! She always tells us she wants to, but hasn't been able to because she hadn't come to church, but if she keeps it up, she'll be baptized real soon. She saw a picture of Jesus´s baptism on the wall and asked if that would happen to her too, it was cute.
As well, we found a new investigator named Frank this week. He's from Libera, 28 years old, and just moved here. He's kinda like Billy. Super tall. He lives with Billy, that's how we found him. Anyway, we set a batismal goal with him and he came to church as well on Sunday! We had one of our African members, Steve, translate for him. We asked how it was afterwards and he said "it was awesome!" haha, made my day. He will hopefully get baptized this month as well. He was a miracle.
As well, we are teaching the boyfriend of one of the young women, named Guillermo, which actually means William, FYI. He's 18 and from Spain. He doesn't have any experience with religion, only what he remembers from being a little kid in a catholic school. We had a lesson with him this week, and invited him to pray at the end of the lesson. It was his second time doing it, ever in his whole life, (the first time was a week ago with us) so he was nervous, but he said a really sweet prayer. I think that's one of my favorite things about the mission, is teaching people to pray. Most people don't really know what it is, or they think its a repetitive thing. But when they try to say a sincere prayer to their Father in Heaven, it's always a really tender experience. He came to church as well on Sunday, we were so crazy busy watching over some of our other investigators that came, that we didn't get to talk to him a whole lot, but he had his girlfriends whole family watching over him. The dad sat next to him in every class and explained it all, it was really great.
Anyway, as always, life is really good. I feel like things are really picking up in this area, we have lots of people that are really ready to be baptized, we just gotta help them take the leap of faith and do it.
Transfers are this next week. I'm sorta nervous, I think I may be outta here, but you never know. Anyway, so I'll write on Tuesday. That's all really. I love Hermana Vance a lot, she's super fun. We laugh all day every day together. It's fun having a blonde companion as well :)
love you family!
love Hermana Reid
I look super not that cute in these pics..but it is what it is. Its too hot to look cute here..
But the first is Matilde.. love the crocs she's wearing.. and the second is Juan and Lolin. they are our Spaniard parents (or grandparents) they feed us once a week, they are investigators.
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