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Hey Everyone
Well Í have now been on the mission for three months!! It is truly crazy to think about it. But it has been a great three months, there has been challenges and hard times, but most of all there has been more blessings than I can even count!!
So we will start this week talking of the familia Paniagua. This may be the last time that you really hear of them because we decided that we need to have faith and drop this family that we love so much. They are difficult and last night was just the last straw. We have talked to them again and again about prayer and about how we can know these things for ourselves. But when we asked them last night who they are gonig to ask about these things they said "padre" or their pastor. It was difficult to see that bcause we really thought that they were progressing. We do love them a lot but last night we just realized that they weren´t progressing and they haven´t been since we started teaching them. One good thing about it is we are going to lose some weight. Ramona also gives us fried food at like 8 at night and A LOT of it, she is the main reason both me and my companion are gaining weight. So that is going to be a blessing from it!! But we love the family and they are our next door neighbors so we will still stop and say hi we just aren´t going to spend time teaching them anymore.
We have found our golden investigator. I talked about her last week, Yvonne, she is amazing!! I love her and we are really excited about her. It is difficult because she can only meet with us once a week and so we have to make sure our lessons are powerful every week but she is amazing. THis last week we taught her about the book of Mormon and we couldn´t get out the door fast enough for her to start reading. She wanted to read it so bad and was so excited to have one in her hands and have the opportunity to read it. She is amazing. This last week we came with a plan to teach her in depth about the Book of Mormon but she always has amazing questions and so we spent most of the time answering her questions. She asked us about the organization of the church and how there is only one prophet and how does he acutally get around and take care of the church everywhere in the world and so we got ot talk to her about the perfect organization that exists in the church. She was very impressed and talked about how no man could form a church that was that organized and all the people worked for NO salary. Then she asked about temples and why people can´t go in them unless their members and how you can get to go in them. We explained to her the process of trying to become better and how in the temple we make sacred covenants and that is why not everyone can just come in. That they have to be prepared and have a strong testimony of God and of Jesus Christ and of this church as the church of Jesus Christ. She then was like, "I want to meet the people in your church, because they sound like they have found out how to be perfect" we then got to explain to her that we are made perfect through Jesus Christ and through daily repentance. She was just amazed and we talked about how all of this came about because of Joseph Smith and because of the Book of Mormon, She desperately wanted to read this Book of Mormon so we taught her about it and read the introduction with her and gave her some chapters to read and she started reading because we even left. She is truly amazing and we are so grateful to have her.
Next we have Bautismal Dates!!!! This is so so so so exciting after we haven´t had baptismal dates for FOREVER!!! But we have a family and Miguel. Both are amazing and we have been teaching them both before I even got here so they are all very prepared and ready to take this step. Fransisco and Fabiola (the family) aren´t married so we have to plan a wedding for them but we are girls, and that is just exciting. We don´t really know how to plan a wedding but we will see if it turns out, we want to make it special for them so we are going to work hard to do so.
Last of all the Sunday miracle. We always have a Sunday miracle. So we have the less active family that we are working with, the familia Gauna. They are truly great!!! We love them to death and they ahve such a strong testimony of this church but they have a prblem. They have a 7 year old son with severe autism and so it is really hard for them to come to church with him. Especially the dad has a problem, he is kind of embarresed about his son and doesn´t want him to be in public really. Well Sunday morning we called them expecting to get the same old excuse of different things. ANd of course they had one, they had a cough so they couldn´t come to church. Well the meeting started and my companion was up playing the piano and she all of a sudden looks at me with big eyes and mouths "Hermana Gauna". I turned around and was so excited to see Hermana Gauna with her two sons. The great thing is the meeting was amazing. The talks were amazing and Manuel (th autistic son) was great!!! He barely even amde a noise. Afterwards I told Hermana Knapp that I had never prayed so hard and so much in my life in a sacrament meeting and she said the same, we had both prayed and prayed and prayed that he would remain calm throughout the meeting. It was a miracle. And then we have a great and awesome ward. After sacrament meeting the whole ward came up and gave her hugs and welcomed her and just helped her feel welcomed. We couldn´t even get her out of the chapel because of all the sisters that were around her. We then went to Sunday School and Manuel went to nursery for a few minutes but then ended up in class with us. The teacher just gave him a piece of chalk and let him run around the room and draw on the board and everyone was so excepting and willing to let him just play so Hermana Gauna could enjoy the lesson. Then he got a little crazy and one of the men in the ward just stood up and helped manuel make a little bed out of chairs and manuel laid down while this brother stroked his head until he fell asleep. It was amazing how much the ward became like family to Hermana Gauna in just a few short hours. Everyone pulled together and helped take care of manuel so she could enjoy the meetings and she did great and basically taught the entire Sunday school class. She is an awesome women!!! We are grateful to get to associate with her.
But this week has been great and we are loving the mission!!! Oh will everyone please keep my best friend Alex Reeves in your prayers, she is in the hospital and she can use as many as she can get!!!
love
Hermana Hubbard
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