Monday night we went out with our 81 year old member to see if we could find anyone home and teach them. We were able to get in and teach the first lesson ish with this cute young couple. They are both in their 20's with a 1 year old boy. The family Espinosa. We didn't teach much that time, because our member likes to talk for an hour. But he seemed to get them really interested with what he said. Then we went back Friday without a member and they were there again, that's a first. But we did a lot of chapter 10 how to begin teaching on them and then taught a little bit about atonement, repentance, and baptism. They really seem super interested and they said they were looking for some way to alleviate something that's weighing on their souls. They also said they want help studying the scriptures because the Catholic Church never teaches you that. They want you to depend only on the pastor, which is why they said they are "Catholic" but don't practice. But I have a really good feeling about them. We did a soft invite to baptism and they said yes. So now we just have to make sure we have the spirit when we teach and we should be golden. :)
Tuesday not much happened but we did play volleyball with Manuel and a lot of people from the branch. He is so fellowshiped it's not even funny. We just have to get him the lessons and get him to want to read and he'll for sure get baptized. He knows he needs to do it he just wants to be sure first. We taught him yesterday after church and got a really good gospel of Jesús Christ lesson in. So we are one step closer!
Wednesday night we had a lesson with the aldays. It was good, but when we did the baptism invite, it wasn't a no but it wasn't a yes. He said that from our (lds) perspective baptism needs to be done with the proper authority and from his (Catholic) perspective the father has that authority. So we are going to really nail in the apostasy next time and hopefully that will help then understand. Another family that's really good prospects.
Thursday we had dinner/lesson with our dry member (basically member that's just not baptized yet) and tracted the rest of the day.
Friday good old weekly planning and the lesson with the young couple (Espinosa)
Saturday we went to the rich areas to see if we could hunt down any Hispanics using our phonebook method. And every single one was a Hispanic. We didn't get any new investigators from it but we did find a lot of potentials. Then we had a lesson with a white guy who's in the air force. It was a good lesson and we are going to do a pass off lesson with the English elders this Wednesday.
Yesterday was church, lesson with Manuel, lunch with the family alduenda, studies, dinner with our dry member again, and then a little tracting. Busy, but long day. :) for dinner we had tacos de buche. I.e. pigs stomach tacos. And they were actually really good. I just drowned it in salsa, but it was way better than cow stomach.
That's about it for my week!
Oh we are starting a 40 day fast today, which is where every day a member fasts for a specific investigator and a less active. We are hoping it is the push of spirit that we need to get all 15 of our really good prospects to be baptized! But we will see what the Lord has to say about it
��Elder Williams��
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