Hola Familia!!
Well it´s been another week full of surprises.... haha
The Gambarte family is progressing. (Well part of them anyway.) We read Ether 12 with them Tuesday, and by Thursday Andrea (the mom) said that they were still talking about what a beautiful lesson we had had Tuesday. (I love Ether 12!!) The two little 10 and 12 year old girls are the cutest things ever!!! They are such examples of why we should try our best to become like a child! She said that they are always waiting for her with their Book of Mormon to read right when she gets home from work. haha They had a million questions during the week. My favorite was this "So let's say there is someone who only went to church once... how long would it take for them to get baptized?" hahah
So cute!!!! So we asked "Do you two want to follow the example of the Savior and be baptized?" and with THE biggest smiles on their faces they looked at their mom "Mamá, Can we?" hahah I love them so much!! Andrea said it was up to them and they both accepted. :) We set a date for the 3rd of December. Sad thing is they lost the baptismal date because they didn´t come to church yesterday. Here´s why...
So I think I told you that the parents are separated but still living in the same house right just because the dad doesn´t have any other place to go. Every time we´re there the dad seems fine. We can tell he´s got an angry personality but nothing ever happens and he actually seems interested in the message. Well, apparently he is abusive. Saturday night we got a call from one of the older daughters saying that her mom told her to call and let us know not to go looking for them in the morning before church because they won´t be there. They went to sleep over at a friend's house. We tried to understand more, but she wouldn´t give us anymore information than that. Sunday night we had an appointment with a less actives at the park. So we went but we couldn´t find him. The park was crowded so we decided to walk around, and if we couldn´t find him we´d just do contacts. Well for some reason we had to meet at the park even though we never found the less active we were trying to meet up with. All of a sudden one of the little Gambarte girls ran up to hug us. :) She looked so shocked "What are you two doing here?" So she took us to where her mom and uncle were sitting and she introduced us to her brother and explained what had happened. Apparently the dad went a little crazy Saturday and they left to get away from him. One of the little boys got hurt but nothing serious because he was off playing soccer at the park.
Hna Smith and I were soo happy to have found them! We were worried about them all Saturday night and Sunday. and the Lord helped us find them! :D Que Bendición!!
Well, about saving me turkey, haha yeah that would be fun!! :D
Wow, I feel like I JUST found out where Derek is going, I can´t believe it´s already time for his farewell talk. And YES!! I would love to see Derk in the TRC. haha That would be fun!
I think memorizing the Living Christ is a wonderful Idea, just like Elder Scott said how when we memorize a scripture it can be a friend for us in a time of need. I love my Savior. That reminds me, right now we´re working with a less active who no longer believes in deity. She started taking some philosophy courses at the university, stopped reading her scriptures, stopped going to church. Her husband still comes every week with his little boy but asked us to start seeing her. Although it strengthens my own love and testimony of Jesus Christ, it makes me so sad when people don´t believe in their own Savior! Hopefully we can help her trust in what she already feels. Her thing is she´s just scared about believing in something that isn´t real even though she´s had experiences to prove that it is true. We talked about the story with Moses and the serpent on the staff. JUST LOOK In the end, she committed to read the whole Book of Mormon again and we promised she´d receive a firm answer before she finishes.
Well, I gottta go now but I love you all!!
Talk to ya next week,
Love,
Jess
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