show details Sep 26 (4 days ago)  |
Hey Everyone,
So there wasn´t much this week. A lot of dropped appointments and a lot of trials but we are starting fresh today and going to start with new investigators and everything and we are really excited. We are going to be bold and find people that are willing to run to the gospel with us. We know that as we make these goals and keep them that the Lord will bless us and put people in our paths and we are excited and ready!!
So we do have one good investigator that we found this week. Last Saturday (the day of Antonela´s batism) we ate with the Familia Leneri and they were like you can visit our next door neighbor we don´t know them at all and haven´t talked to them at all but they seem like nice people. Well we go there and we talk to her, her name is veronica. She tells us when we had just contacted her that her mom and a couple of her siblings are members of the church and we were really excited. Then we found out who her mom is and she is one of the strongest members in a different ward that the elders work in. Then we got really excited. Well we then set up an appointment and the first appointment she wasn´t there and we were a little upset but it´s ok. Then we just decided to go back the other day and she was there and we had a great little get to know you lesson. We just talked a little bit and got to know her and she is great. She has three little girls and is ACTUALLY married!!!! (that is really rare in Paraguay, hardely anyone gets married here). So we got excited about that. Then we were talking to her about her religious beliefs and she said that she is Catholic. We asked her why she likes the Catholic religion and then she was like, I´m just going to be honest with you guys. "I hate the Catholic religion. The worship Mary and Saints, not God and Jesus Christ. The Bible says to avoid worshipping idols and that is exactly what the Catholic church does." We were like ok well do you ever attend, "oh no, I would never attend their church!!". Us . . . "Well you read the Bible then?" Her . . ."Yeah I love the Bible I read it almost everyday, oh and I gues I have to add in there that I love the Liahona and I read it every month." (the church magazine the Liahona) Well after that we got really excited. We are really excited about her. We have another appointment with her tonight and we have really high hopes for her and her cute little family.
This week we started teaching English classes. We didn´t make it very well known so we didn´t have anyone show up for the first 30 minutes of class. We were about ready to leave and then one guy showed up and we let the Elders teach him while we listened and kind of helped him. Hermana Knapp is a English major so she is kind of good at it.
Then the last experience was the baptism that the Elder´s had. His name is Jorge and he is amazing. We are really excited for him. He used to be a massive achololic and such and had some pretty bad stuff on his sin list but he is realy good now. He is absolutely dirt poor, doesn´t even have a place to live and his third Sunday to church he had bought himself a pair of church pants and he was just beaming. His baptism was the most spiritual experience I have had yet on this mission. You know that he knew what he was doing, he know that he was making a covenant with God and that it wasn´t a joke. He already has a strong testimony and he strengthened all of our testimonies of the power of the Atonement and Repentance. We are really excited to watch him continue to grow and become better and better. Oh and he has not touched beer in like two and a half weeks and is doing really well. Now with the help of the Holy Ghost I think he is going to do well!!
Well nothing much more so I hpe everything is going well for everyone and I hope that everyone has the desire to write me . . . . hint, hint, hint. Oh and we have no money, literally so I have written a lot of people (Alex, Sari, Elder Kraus, and Elder Davis, Angie and Dustin) but I don´t have the money right now to send them out. But now that I wrote you guys!!! I´ll send them out next week when I have money.
Love you all!!!
Hermana Hubbard
P.s. These are pictures from last week (the baptism of Antonela) and some from this week.
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