Hola!!
Mirta finally came to church!!! :D I don´t know if I´ve mentioned her but we´ve been working with her for a while now. She´s a member. Inactive. Her husband's atheist. Her oldest daughter got baptized when she was little and hasn´t gone since and her other daughter hasn´t been baptized anywhere yet. It´s been years since she had come to church, one of the reasons being that she has many addictions and problems that she wants to overcome first and THEN come back to church once she´s all in line. (I hope nobody EVER feels like that) It´s just like how in True to the Faith under Prayer, it talks about how sometimes people feel unworthy to pray and that thought comes from Satan. Well the same thing goes for church, we should never feel like we shouldn´t go, that thought comes from Satan. Coming to church to learn and improve even though you have things in your life that you need to work on... is one of the main reasons we go to church! To improve! To regain some extra strength, guidance and help each week as we continually get better. Where as if we don´t go, we will continually get weaker and further away from our Heavenly Father.
So anyway, last Thursday she promised us she would come to church this week! We went looking for some investigators Sunday morning who kept on sleeping, so we decided to go knock on Mirta's door and walk to church together. She said she had just woken up. We said "yay, you´re up"! She said no because it would take her a long time to get ready. We said we´d wait. She said no because she had to bring all the clothes on the line in from outside so we said we would help. haha She finally agreed and though we were late, we walked to church together! (Luckily sacrament meeting is last here :D)
The Acosta girls got confirmed! Although they were so nervous to go up in front of everyone to do it, they did! And they are now new members of the church :D Their mom was sitting behind me and gave me the hugest hug. haha It scared me at first until I realized who it was. "They did it, it´s done!" she said. They´re such a good example to their family. Even though no one else came, they will stay strong with the mom and it´s just a matter of time for the rest of the family to join with them! :)
DERK YOUR LEAVING IN TWO DAYS!!! :D Crazy!
Well, I love you all! Keep being good! :)
Love,
Jess
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