Update with Investigators
Jo is getting BAPTIZED this Sunday, I am super excited. Her husband the less active member who came back is going to baptize her. We jsut have a few commandments that we still need to teach her but after that she is getting baptized. They are super excited as well.
The Garcias are doing better, they are reading a bit and have been praying and Armondo has been thinking a lot about baptism and he really wants to be baptized, so we told him what we need to do and what he has to do before that happens, I am sad that I wont be able to see them getting baptized. I know they will do great.
On Thursday evening for the hower of power that we do every Thursday at 5:50 we get in with a member and share a scripture on faith then we get on out knees and ask the member to pray for us that we will be able to find a family, the whole mission is doing this and the general authorities go the temple on thursdays and prays for all the missionaries. After the member prayed for us he told us we could go see this older lady that he knew who we could try that they knew and did not know if she would accept us or reject us. We tried but she was not home. we started to knock around her and a guy opened his door and let us in, He does not really believe in a God but knows that there is something out there but does not know what it is yet. He was really nice had a three year old boy and he told us that he would talk with his wife if and would give us a call if they were interested. that was pretty good have not gotten a call from them yet. We kept knocking around and met a single mother who has two young kids who goes to the baptist church, very friendly she has heard some things about us but not a whole lot. We talked with her for a bit gave her a pamphlet and said she would visit the website ang got a return appointment for tuesday which is tomorrow. We had a few more minutes so we knocked on one more door. A young dude answered the door and told who we are and that we share a very important message about Jesus Christ. He said that we could come back on Saturdays. After the saturday morning session we went to see michael who was the one that invited us back. He let us right in and began to talk to him. He is another one that believes that there is something out there but does not know what it is. A few minutes after we talked he was calling after his wife to join us in our discussion. A few mimutes went by and she still did not come so he got up to go get her, they both came in and sat down, we got to know them they have three daughters who are all off in colllege, the wife which I can not recall her name but I will call her Cynthia for the time being. She is a baptist, she told us that when they were dating that Michael was going to church reguraly and she thought that he would still continue but fell away, and she has been praying for christlike people or someone that could talk to her husband and build his faith in Christ. She started to cry and began to bear her testimony that her prayer has been answered. That she knew we were the answer to her prayers and she knew then that God does listen and is mindful of us and he does answer prayers in his own time, and she thanked us. We told her how we were led to them. We left them with a restoration pamphlet and a book of mormon. we are going to see them this saturday. I know for my self that God does answer prayers it might not be right away but it will come just like Cynthia that her humbled prayers have been answered and waiting patiently because she knew it would eventually come. I love being a missionary it feels so great that God trusts us to answer one of his childrens prayers and that we followed the voice of the spirit.
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