My Dearest Family,
Well, this week has been very... busy. I guess that's the best way to describe it :) The Hermanas (Hermana Reed and Hermana Banaswzeski that live with us) had a HUGE rollercoaster of miracles and opposition and stuff. They taught a woman who is the mother of our ward executive secretary and she is from Puerto Rico -- so they taught her. Well, she was here for vacation and the family has been working on her for over 15 years -- she got baptized on Saturday. (with special permission from President Nelson and the Puerto Rico mission president and everyone because she was just on vacation here). But yeah, it was WAY cool. President Nelson came to the baptism and we got to go as well and it was really really cool. The son though, our exec. secretary, was the opposition. He freaked out and was so mad that the missionaries were teaching her and that she wanted to be baptized because he told them that there was no way that she would go home and be active without any support. Yeah. There will ALWAYS be opposition -- even in the ways that we really don't expect it. But, it all worked out and Brother Cuaves (son and exec. sec.) had a change of heart the night before the baptism. He finally talked to his mom and his wife and the missionaries and realized that his mom WAS ready for baptism and that everything was going to work out. So she got baptized -- on Hermana Reed's birthday. So me and Sis. Smith tried REALLY hard to make that day really special for her and everything. I made an AWESOME cake. :) yeah - I just said that. But it was three layers - funfetti on bottom, brownie middle, and funfetti top. We each had one piece and then realized how much cake was there and how few sisters we had to eat it and so we made the elders' day by giving the rest to them.
For us, we had a crazy week too. Example: Yesterday we went to a less-active's home and we walked in and their grandma who lives with them was just sitting on the couch with only a towel wrapped around her waist. Awkward. And the family was just kind of taking things easy and they told us that they were taking the grandma to the emergency room because she couldn't breathe. So we weren't sure what to do and they told us to keep going and give them our message - so we put in the Restoration movie and the grandma is just sitting there and panting and gripping the couch and speaking in French because she doesn't know English and we were so awkward -- so we just told them to watch the movie with their family and we would call it good.
We met with Stacy and Chris again this week and it was really cool. Like I said last week, it's cool to see Stacy feel like she can finally share her testimony with Chris and he started reading Our Search for Happiness and we have really high hopes for them. We found a family of five people that were really receptive to us and it was really cool. The entire time the one brother (there are three brothers in their 30s ish and two wives/girlfriends too) but anyways the main guy we were talking to - he calls himself "the one" kept bashing the Catholic church and telling us how much he hates it. Well buddy, do we have a message for you!!
We found one lady this week that is a former investigator -- well we knocked on her door and she said that she wants us to come back so bad and that she wants to go to church and become a member -- the only thing that is stopping her is that she doesn't have a dress for church. Woot! If Satan thinks that a stinking dress is opposition -- oh no. Very very wrong :) The other Sister Smith got proposed to this week by some really drunk dude. And we met this lady named Shemane - she thinks she is a prophet because she has a whole bunch of visions and thinks she can heal people. Well, her last vision was of two guys in white shirts coming to her door and she was told not to turn them away. That was the day before the elders knocked on her door ;) yeah - God is real. We taught her with the elders and it's a little tough to make her realize that she isn't a prophet, but it was really good!
Well family, I really do love you. I'm praying for you everyday and I hope you know how much I love you. Pretend that I'm there and that I'm giving all of you a really big hug. I love you. God loves you. Christ loves you. The church is true.
Love,
Sister Smith (Sister M. Smith -- we have to distinguish now :) )
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