This week we went on exchanges again. This time I was with Hermana G. This is her second area and this would be the first time she stayed in the Spanish area by herself. She was really nervous, especially since I pretty much couldn't help at all, but she did really good! We actually were able to teach a couple lessons in English so that was awesome :) We went to one house and the mom was making iguana tamales. Interesting huh? Luckily I didn't have to eat it since she was just making them. But it was fun to be in the Spanish area again even though I don't know what anyone is saying! :)
This week we visited our 2 women who are going to be baptised every day to help make sure they are doing everything they need to for their baptism and to be able to teach them everything. There has been a policy change from church headquarters that we now need to teach lesson 5 before baptism as well. So we have more to teach them still this week everyday again. One of the women actually had a seizure in front of us on Thursday :/ She felt so bad that she did that during our lesson and it was a little long. But she just spaces out and shakes a little bit, not a grand maul, so that's good. I feel so bad for her though. She is just so sweet. They bought us little gifts this week to say thank you. They had socks and candles and a little statue with a scripture on it. They were so excited. They told us this week that we were sent here to help them and they were so grateful for it. They are so so so excited for their baptism and are always telling us new blessings and miracles that take place in their lives, or things they learned. It's so awesome. They had to come to church or else they couldn't get baptized this weekend so we wanted to make sure that they wouldn't sleep in or anything so we told them we would come by their house and they could follow us to church. Well we pulled in and they were already in the car and pulled out ready to go! They just really love everything about the church. They got so shy and embarrassed when they announced their baptism in church today. haha cutest thing. They have their baptismal interview this week so hopefully they pass ;)
We had a "scary" moment this week. Not really, it was more so just funny. So we went to go visit a less active/part member family. (kind of, its a complicated story) Anyway there were a ton of cops on their street. There was a huge trailer that said police on it and a bunch of cop cars as well. So we didn't know what was going on. Of course I jump to the worst conclusion and guessed it was a murder. haha. But anyway we go into their house and are teaching them. While we were reading the Book of Mormon there are these bangs and then one MASSIVE bang right outside their back door. My heart jumped out of my chest and was pounding SO hard. haha everyone jumped and we were all looking frightened out the door. My first thought is that the murderer was coming back!!! ;) But I was only terrified and irrational for maybe 5 seconds. Then someone looked out the back door and we realized that a HUGE tree had just randomly fallen onto their house! Luckily it didn't look like there was any damage. It was the weirdest thing because there was literally NO wind. It had cracked a part of the way up and a huge part of the tree just broke off! haha so that got our heart going for a few minutes and was our entertainment for the day. haha. :D
We had another lesson with our older investigator. We took a member over and read the Book of Mormon with her. She said she hadn't prayed about Joseph Smith yet so we asked her to do that that night. We had another lesson with her and her daughter who is a member later this week and we taught her the plan of salvation. She really liked that because her husband just died a few months ago. We asked her if she prayed about Joseph Smith and she said that she felt he really was a prophet of God and this was Christ's restored church on the earth today! WAHOO! She also feels the Book of Mormon is true. :) So we tried to put her on date to be baptised but she said she didn't want to commit to a date because she is old and has been raised a different way and so she felt she was going to need a little time to get used to this change in her life. So we asked her to pray about being baptized on September 20th. Hopefully she feels ready by then.
We also had another huge miracle/blessing. We had a lady call us and tell us that she was ready to take the lessons again! So she has taken lessons a few times I think. I had never met her before until this week though. Sister W had taught her a few times though. She was supposed to get baptized a long time ago but then she had some things in her life that she didn't want to give up, including a boyfriend that lived with her. Apparently the boyfriend had been holding her back because she finally kicked him out of the house and said he was one of the things that needed to change. Unfortunately she is pregnant...so it's a little hard for her right now. But Sister W said she seemed a lot happier so that's good. She is a super sweet lady. She also has 3 kids and 2 are old enough to get baptized so hopefully they want to do it too. We actually put her on date to get baptized on September 6th! She said did want to get baptized eventually so we helped her set a date. :) Miracles!
We also met a couple new people that we can hopefully have lessons with this next week! It has been awesome to be teaching so many people. I have seen lots of miracles and blessings since being here in Casa Grande. It helps to have such good companions and girls we live with. We all get along super well and have a good time together. I'm so grateful for the gospel. I'm so glad I came on a mission. I have learned so much about the gospel and about the person that I want to be. We are so lucky to have the gospel in our lives. Live up to it and be true disciples of Christ. We have to be an example of the believers! Don't take this responsibility for granted :) It's what is going to bless you now and in the eternities. I'm grateful for this knowledge.
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