That’s awesome that he was activation was started by the Kansas City temple open house. We have definitely seen miracles from the Gilbert open house too! Gotta love temples. :) Thanking you to Jenn for putting together the package and to you for writing a card to go in it. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY this week!!!! 39 years. So amazing. Thank you for your wonderful example. That’s awesome that Becca was called as a seminary teacher. She will do so great. Adelyn is starting kindergarten??? I still can’t believe that. We are all getting so old.
Monday and Tuesday were pretty uneventful so I’ll
just skip to Wednesday. :) We went to the temple in the morning and it was wonderful. We got to see
the new video which wasn’t my favorite, but it was still good. Then afterwards
we went to Kneaders as a Zone for breakfast. I don’t know if you’ve ever been
there…but they have this really delicious, huge French Toast that is all you
can eat…we are in a zone of mostly Elders so it naturally turned into an eating
competition. I can eat…that’s one of my talents. One I would probably be okay
without! J But anyway I was just eating, holding my
own, I had eaten 5 and was feeling fine…one of our zone leaders is pretty
competitive and doesn’t like to lose (cough…prideful…cough :) and he told me if I ate one more than he
had to eat one more too and he was begging me not to. So I’m probably a little
prideful too, and I ordered another. :) I finished it before him, easily, and he complained the whole time. He
admitted to defeat. I didn’t feel the need to eat another although I’m pretty
sure I could have eaten one more. Only one of the Elders ate more…this really
tall, really skinny elder. He ate seven. It was a lot of fun and the other
Elders were cheering us on. Good times.
That afternoon we went on exchanges. Sister Linford
left and I stayed. We had a miracle night. We had a great lesson with our
newest investigator Maria and she said that when she knows these things are
true, she will be baptized!!! That lesson started late, so we were late to our
next appointment. Which President Nattress came too!!!! We also had the Primary
President there with us. I was all nervous that he was there, but during the
prayer the Spirit told me to knock it off and to just focus on Manny. So that’s
what I did! The lesson was great and the Spirit was there. We invited him to be
baptized on September 20th and he said yes!! They said they would
come to church too, but they didn’t so we have to work on that. :)
Lots of musical things are going
on right now in the mission so we had 2 musical rehearsals on Friday that we
had to go to. One I played the piano for, and the other we both sang at. Then
that night we had a good lesson with Concha and Rene at the temple. Miguelito
was there and he was asking why they are not baptized yet and then he asked
them why they don’t get baptized tomorrow. They said they can’t yet and he
said, “Pero manana esta bueno.” It was so cute. :) He had a good point! But they are working
towards baptism and they really want to do that.
Saturday night we had a MLC at
President’s house from 8-9:30…weird time to have it, but it was good. It was
prep for the meeting we are going to have this Saturday with Elder Robbins of
the Presidency of the Seventy. I’m excited for it! I love being able to hear
from General Authorities.
Life is good. Read 3 Nephi 17
this week. I read it this week during my Spanish study and it was just so
beautiful. It actually made me cry! Haha just sitting there on my bed, reading
aloud in Spanish and the tears just started rolling down! Couldn’t help it. :)
I hope you have a wonderful
week! Love you!
Con amor,
Hermana
Baria
