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Well two of our investigators, Elmer and Maria are getting married soon but we already had the reception that we've been helping them plan for a while. We helped set up everything with the branch AND we were the photographers. It ended up being simple, but sweet. Still had a distinct catholic feel, with the dances and traditions they do. All church appropriate, just different than white people wedding receptions. Not a complete disaster anyways!
Elmer and Maria are so ready for baptism, but legal problems are getting in the way of them getting married but it's all getting worked out and they should be getting baptized within the next two weeks. But I won't know unless I get a call because I'M GETTING TRANSFERRED AGAIN!!! AND SO IS SISTER BERNSON!! WHAT THE WHAT? I can't seem to stay in an area for more than 2 transfers. I'll be going to Moxee, which won't be too far from Yakima (Sister Bernson's new area). I've never even heard of this place before! I'll also be serving with Hermana Williams. I think I may have met her my very first day in the field and we rode in the same car part of the way because she was getting transferred. Well, the Lord wants what the Lord wants, and He knows best, so I'll follow along faithfully.
There are so many people here in Royal that are so close to baptism! Elmer and Maria, the Salas family, Jacob and Jose. We had a lesson with him last night and we went in fully intending to drop him, because he hadn't been progressing. He was doing good things, but was still afraid to fully commit himself to the things we've been inviting him to do. Everything he did he was lukewarm about. But going into that lesson he was SO DIFFERENT. He was wearing a coat and tie and dress pants! Which is so not like Jose AT ALL. And he's been reading The Book of Mormon from the beginning and he understood the story and made notes and had questions. He's been praying and feeling good when he does it. So we invited him to pray about April 12 as a baptism date, and we'll follow up with him tomorrow on that! So hopefully he'll be on date before we leave!
There are so many people here in Royal that are so close to baptism! Elmer and Maria, the Salas family, Jacob and Jose. We had a lesson with him last night and we went in fully intending to drop him, because he hadn't been progressing. He was doing good things, but was still afraid to fully commit himself to the things we've been inviting him to do. Everything he did he was lukewarm about. But going into that lesson he was SO DIFFERENT. He was wearing a coat and tie and dress pants! Which is so not like Jose AT ALL. And he's been reading The Book of Mormon from the beginning and he understood the story and made notes and had questions. He's been praying and feeling good when he does it. So we invited him to pray about April 12 as a baptism date, and we'll follow up with him tomorrow on that! So hopefully he'll be on date before we leave!
We've been having such success out here this last week. We finally hit our goal of having 10 investigators at church and we got 11! The Lord has definitely been blessing our efforts to work harder than ever this transfer.
The members have been awesome too! Driving us out to this new part of our area that we didn't even know existed called Wanapum village. VERY native american- I just love that culture- and VERY set in their ways. But we do have new investigator there. Her name is Tasha Buck and her brother passed away recently and was really open to our message. We got invited to a big feast that the tribe will be having and I'm pretty bummed we won't be able to go to that! I hope these new sisters will be able to click with her as well as we did.
The members have been awesome too! Driving us out to this new part of our area that we didn't even know existed called Wanapum village. VERY native american- I just love that culture- and VERY set in their ways. But we do have new investigator there. Her name is Tasha Buck and her brother passed away recently and was really open to our message. We got invited to a big feast that the tribe will be having and I'm pretty bummed we won't be able to go to that! I hope these new sisters will be able to click with her as well as we did.
We also received a referral from mormon.org for this guy named Joe who lives in Wanapum village. So we called him and he said he was already a member! So we were like " why did you refer yourself then?" and he was like "Well the real referral is for my friend Eric and I just wanted to be there when you went over". Well Eric is legit. Has a true friend in Joe who can answer all his questions. Weird thing is, he's actually from Spokane, but works at the Wanapum dam (apparently there's a crack in it) so he's there during the week and in Spokane the weekends, and he meets with other sisters there. So we had to get permission to talk to those sisters in the Spokane mission and coordinate lessons with them. Kind of complicated and I feel so bad for these sisters who are getting thrown into all this. I would not want to get swept into an area. (swept = both you and your comp are new to the area so you don't know the members, the investigators, the area, nothing. Scary.)
So I have had a lot to write about today, but here's a cool story:
So there's this sister in my zone and her sister was part of that story in the Philippines with the typhoon and they had to escape from the apartment. I hope you know of the story. It's really famous right now, and they're making a movie about it and so when you see it in theatres in 2 years, I can say I know the family who it's about! It's super weird how small the world is!
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