So this week was full of its ups and downs. It was pretty difficult, not because of Spanish, but stress and emotionally. So primero, Huracán Patricia...creo. We definitely heard about it, crazy. All we got was lots of ran and wind -nothing too serious. Wasn't even hard rain -just lasted forever. But, the first day, Presidente Mejorada made us take precautions and we had to buy 3 days worth of food and water -just in case we were unable to leave the house. It rained all Friday and Saturday morning, but by the time we had to leave the house, (we leave around 12:30-1:00 everyday), the rain had stopped and we were able to have a normal day. So now we have a whole bunch of food in our house and no time or stomach space to eat it -jaja- oh well. Had an interesting week. It was kinda difficult and all because of one investigator, Nicolas. So he has a baptismal date for the 31 de Octubre. a little less than 1 week now. We have had a hard time getting a hold of him to see or visit. No se por que, but we call him everyday and he always answers- he's just busy or something or other happens. ugh. But, finally he talked to us for a little bit via telefono and he expressed to us his concerns for baptim and was backtracking a bit on his earlier decision to be baptized. So we met with him right away, and the first lesson did not have the spirit. So we stopped it and told him to come back later that day. The next lesson was so much better we had two other recent converts with us -Ricardo and Isabel. They bore their testimonies on baptism and we all bore our testimonies on the truth of the gospel and the blessings of baptism. The spirit was tan fuerte! It was awesome -one of my favorite lessons, so we left it, feeling very optimistic. Pero, he told us he was coming to church on Sunday and he never showed up... not sure why -so we have to talk to him today. Its just full of ups and downs with him. He's been an investigator for 3 years and only just started coming to church regularly. We are hoping we don't have to change his baptismal date, but that just might be what's neccessary. Although we continue to try and stay optimistic, it's times like these where all we can do is focus on the spirit and what the Lords will for him. What would he have me do. On another note, we got a new investigator!! She just showed up to church -she was an antiguo investigador, I met her very very briefly my primer Cambio. She showed up and asked to be baptized...so naturally we were super excited!! We are meeting with her Martes y Jueves to see what she wants and what she needs. But, should be awesome!
Ok, so my spiritual thought for this week, actually came from the experience of Huracán Patricia, I was reading this morning a talk by Presidente Thomas S. Monson,about being prepared, and it came to me the importance of that. Normalmente I would ohave disregarded a talk on personal preparedness as not as important as other things in my life right now. I mean food storage, being debt-free. They are just suggestions right?..NO! It came to me that we can choose certain storms in our lives to AVOID! Choose to avoid them, by choosing to be prepared. God cares for every aspect of our lives- both spiritual and temporal. Entonces, we need to be prepared for both, both are important and connected, like our bodies and our spirits are connected, and at one point will be connected for eternity. How can we expect to prepare ourselves for the eternities if we can't prepare ourselves for the temporal things we face today? Also, this is something that Heavenly Father, through many prophets and apostoles, have told us we need to do. Why is it so easy to disregard. It is something our Father in heaven has counseled us on and we would do well to follow it. I realized that our lives can be unpredictable and we need to take precautions now while we can.
I love you guys very much it looks like everything is going pretty well at home! tell preston I said HAppy Birthday!!
Con Amor
Hermana Sever
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