Hola Everyone!
This week has been crazy awesome! It was filled with so many
miracles!
On Thursday, we finally caught up with Joaquina, one of our
spanish investigators. We haven't seen her in two weeks because she was
never home when we stopped by. Finally, we caught her and were able to
teach her the plan of salvation. She had just lost a son and her mother
passed away too. She loved the idea that she could live with them again.
We invited her to be baptized and she said she would pray about it and let us
know next week! We think that she sincerely wants a better life and to be
able to see them again. That same day, Hermana Smith and I were trying to
find a potential investigator who lived down the street from one of the less
actives in the ward. We looked over and we saw Amanda (LA) sitting on her
front lawn looking a little worried. We decided to go over and see what
was going on. In turns out that she was locked out of her house and both
of the people with her spare keys were a few hours away. We were able to
teach her according to some of her concerns that she had and why she left the
church. The Lord has such a sense of humor. We'd been trying to get
in touch with her for a few weeks. It was just what she needed and just
what we needed to keep our day full of miracles.
On Friday, we decided to go visit Shan-Shan, another
investigator with a baptismal date. She had been in China for a
month and all we knew was that her and her husband were going to get back in
town at the end of August. When we stopped by her house for the first
time, they were there! We found out that they had just pulled in the
driveway two hours earlier! The Lord obviously wanted us to get working
with them again really fast. They're the sweetest people ever and they
gave us some Chinese treats/snacks! They were really good! Later
that same day, we went to visit another less active/recent convert,
Nancy. It's been really hard trying to get a hold of her because she's
working two jobs, but when we were finally able to sit down and have a good
conversation with her we found out that she really does want to come to church
more often than she has been and bring her non-member husband and son.
During our mini lesson with her, her neighbor knocked on the door. Her
neighbor only speaks spanish and apparently Nancy didn't know that we could
speak spanish too. (Spanish is her native language, but she prefers to
speak in english.) She invited her neighbor in and we finished the lesson
in spanish! At the end of the lesson, Nancy told her friend not
only how we pray, but made her say the closing prayer! It was really
neat! Maria, the neighbor, said she wanted to read the Book of Mormon and
wanted a copy of "Lord, I Believe" in spanish too! Our visit
with a recent convert turned into a lesson with an RC then to a spanish lesson
with a potential then to lesson with a member present and then into a new
investigator! We've been trying so hard to find new investigators to
teach and Heavenly Father is starting to answer our prayers and bless us.
The Moorpark 2nd Ward sisters had two baptisms on Saturday!
Matt and Eddy. They technically live in our ward boundaries, but they've
been going to the 2nd ward services so it counted as their baptisms. It
doesn't really matter though because we're all on the same team and bringing
people unto Christ is what counts!! I'm so excited for them!
We were on familysearch.org
earlier this week and I found a line that goes back all the way to 238
AD! Granted, I don't know how accurate it was, but still it's pretty
cool! Hermana Smith found a line that went all the way back to Joseph of
Arimathaea! Crazy!
Sorry this email is a little shorter, I was having internet
problems earlier! Thanks for all the love and support!
Con amor,
Hermana Halliday
The mansion across the street from a member's home.
The coolest looking Dr. Seuss lawn in the history of the
world
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