So I am always super friendly with
the people and I pretty much always say hi to everyone and their 3 dogs. But
this tactic kind of backfired on me when I greeted a man working outside.
All of the sudden we heard the sounds of a motorcycle coming up behind us
and to my surprise it was him. He then said to me, "te puedo hacer
una pregunta?" and of course thinking he would ask what church we were
from, I gladly said "si!" But he then added "¿como puedo hacer
para llegar a tu corazon?". Google it...its pretty darn funny.
After that, I couldnt help but laugh! I told him that I am a
misionary and it isnt possible. Then he kept asking questions like ¿y puedo
encontrarte en tu iglesia?---then I just kept saying chau like 5 times. But
thank goodness for my companion because she got super serious and then said:
you are invited to the church but only if you are interested in the gospel.
Thanks to her bluntness he left us alone. jaja
other than random
guys trying to win our hearts, we havent had the success that we wanted with
our investigators. We find a ton of new ones but they just dont progress
or they have extremely dificult situations and cant. We find them one day
and then we set up appointment and then we arrive and they arent there.
But we have been really successful with the youth. They all want to
listen and be baptised but the problem is their parents dont want anything to
do with the church. Cielo is super smart and wants to make changes in her
life to be able to be baptized but her mom grounded her from going to church
and it has been so hard to see her go through that. Her mom practically
grounded her right in front of us and told her that she was very rebellious and
cant leave the house until she changes. I just remember seeing the tears
fall from her eyes as her mother tore down her self esteem. unfortunately
we cant do anything but pray.
But dont worry,
faithful Solange and Lucas are progressing! They have gone to church for the
last 3 weeks and Lucas even talked to one of the members asking if her would be
willing to baptize him. They are so cute and we are only waiting for the
permision of their fathers. As relief society president, we finally have
another activity and visiting teachers! WAHOO! Mariela our convert, also just
got called as my secretary! I am super excited to see the progress in our
little branch. Our mission leader is awesome and he is really encouraging
all of the youth here to participate in the church. Also a returned
missionary is helping us a ton with the work and giving a ton of references.
que tenga una linda
semana llena de bendiciones
oren por nuestros
investigadores
Hermana
Gunter
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