Mayra, the younger less active we took out with us last week to a
lesson asked us what she has to do to get a temple recommend and is
meeting with the bishop next week!
Karen Reif, a neighbor of one of our members, wanted to come to church
again! This is her third week in a row! Missionaries started teaching
her a while ago but she wasn't interested--just goes to show that the
Lord helps everything happen in its own time. Now, she is soaking it
all in. We aren't teaching her regularly yet, but hope to soon.
We were hoping to set a baptismal date with the Guerras family, which
sadly didn't happen. But we were able to discover some of his concerns
and had a wonderful lesson about temples and eternal families. He had
lots of questions and was willing to say the closing prayer. We hope
to have family night with them this week at the house of our ward
mission leader.
We were also hoping to invite the Chanez family to be baptized. And,
well, that didn't happen either. The parents weren't available, so we
taught their twin ten-year-old daughters, Yajaira and Jaira, on the
trampoline in the front yard. They both love reading from the Book of
Mormon so we read third Nephi 11 and had a wonderful short lesson on
baptism, and this Sunday Jaira came with us to church!
Annie has been out of town and busy but we ran into her last night and
she gave us her work schedule so we could set up a time when her
daughter can watch the kids so we can have a more focused lesson.
We were hoping to invite Carmen, a friend of a member in the other
ward, to be baptized as well but she had to cancel the lesson on
Thursday because she wasn't feeling good. However, she said the
closing prayer for our lesson on Tuesday and expressed desires to join
the church but that she was afraid there was so much to learn. She has
been reading her scriptures and soaks up the lessons and we are eager
to see her continued progress. Next week the mission president's wife
will be joining us for one of our lessons with her!
Some weeks ago while we were an hour and a half outside of Willcox in
San Simon a train of events lead us to a less active, Julia Johnson,
who was very grateful for the visit and came to church again this
Sunday. She has been warmly welcomed back into the ward and expressed
to us her desires to keep attending.
Pictures:
Our cute zone
The Douglas Sisters. The one on the right was my second mission companion.
A picture from our exchange last week with the sisters from New
Mexico, (the one on the left was my third mission companion and I just
loved spending the day with her)
So this one needs a little more explanation. Usually, for
companionship inventory every Friday we give each other ten
compliments, but after so long together I guess there's just nothing
good left to say . . . No, but it does get harder, so last week we
went with gen funny questions and this week we decided we would just
draw each other's favorite animal and call it good. My favorite, in
case you missed it, is an elephant. Hers is a baby otter (but my
drawing didn't look much like an otter and has since been deleted). I
think it was our best companionship inventory yet ;)
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