 |
| Sister Sprunt & Sister Crandall |
Querida Familia,
Hermana
Sprunt and I have been working really hard and the area is starting to
become something!! We started with absolutely nothing and now we have
some really great families we're teaching!
Kelly is the
amiguita of one of our members. (I think I mentioned her last week.) We
were able to teach her, her mom, and her younger brother Hirlim in the
house of the member. The father passed away a few years ago, and Kelly
is really happy that she can live with him again!:) She came to church
yesterday. We were chatting in Sacrament Meeting, and she said (in a
super concerned voice), "I haven't been baptized yet!" Ohh, we can take
care of that:) We just want to get her mom and brother on board too. The
mom also opened up to us a lot in the lesson, so we're heading in the
right direction!
We were able to teach Maria and her family
twice this past week and she's now progressing! Maria is the one with
whom we saw the miracles last week--they were at Popeyes and they have a
BYU sticker on their car. Her husband, Vidal, reminds me a bit of
Absalon. When we asked when we could come back, he suggested the
following day. Then he said we can come back every day to teach their
family! They are so prepared! They're a little nervous about coming to
church, so hopefully we'll find a good fellowshipper family.
Christopher
is not progressing towards baptism...his family wants him to get
baptized, but they don't want to reactivate. I don't want to baptized a
less-active, so we want them to start coming to church regularly before
any covenants are made.
We had another lesson with
Marcelino! In the first and second lesson, we invited him to pray at the
end. Both times, he kneels, closes his eyes, and prays without saying a
word. (Not en voz alta...) Hermana Sprunt and I just kind of look at
each other and wait for him to finish. He says really long prayers. We
had a member with us in the second lesson and she was a little confused
and thought maybe she couldn't hear what he was saying because she's
older, haha.
We've been receiving a TON of referrals
because we've been doing what PMG teaches: pedir referencias a !todas
las personas! The past two weeks we got between 15 and 20 each week! A
member gave us her neighbor. Her name is Sebastiana and she's golden!
She wants to be baptized and she was taught by missionaries a year ago.
It was funny though because while we were teaching her, missionaries
from another church showed up... Anyway, she seems really great. The
only challenge will be getting her and her six kids to church when she
doesn't drive and her husband works on Sundays!
We also
talk to everyone. We chatted with this black man named Stan. He said
that while he was attending school in Tennessee, something happened with
his lease and he had to move out of his apartment. He wasn't sure where
to live, but a family friend (named George F. Curtis, a Mormon) offered
to let him live in their home. He said they had lots of kids and that
in order to live with them, he had to be involved in all of their family
activities. He said he did family scripture study, family home evening,
family prayer, family talent night, and family movie night. He said
that everything he knew about being a father he learned from George
Curtis. Apparently George Curtis went on to coach BYU football. How cool
is that story????:) He accepted to receive the English missionaries. We
never know the power of our example!!!
Anyway, lots of great things are going on in the mission right now!
On Saturday
we started our Book of Mormon read-a-thon. I decided to read it in
Spanish. Right now I'm in Mosiah 23! I've discovered that I can read
about 20-25 pages every hour. We still go to our lessons, but all extra
time is devoted to reading the Book of Mormon. Planning is super easy
every night;) Our goal is that after the read-a-thon, we'll use the Book
of Mormon more in how we teach and we'll have stronger testimonies of
its truthfulness. I can already see the effects because we've started
using more verses while we're teaching. PMG says that it should be the
main source of our teaching!!
I will also have the
opportunity this week to see the "Meet the Mormons" movie that will be
available in select movie theaters in October. All missionaries around
the world are watching the movie before its release. And we also have
interviews with President Wilson! I can't believe how fast the time is
flying!
Speaking of which...I must tell you what happened on my
one year mark! Our District Leader, Elder Grange, always asks how he can
help. So Hermana Sprunt and I started telling him that we need Chinese
food. We get plenty of arroz y pollo y frijoles, but we're not getting
any Chinese food.
On Thursday,
we had just started weekly planning when he called us. He said that we
should check outside our door. There was a bag of Chinese food waiting
for us!!! And he and his companion had drawn on our car windows with a
car window marker. They drew a large birthday cake and Chinese
characters on the front window, and they wrote "HONK it's my birthday!"
on the back window. It was really funny and a lot of people honked at us
that day:)
Mommy, I missed you a lot
Saturday
night at the Womens Meeting! I decided to watch it in Spanish. I
remember watching a regional conference in Spanish last March, and I
understood almost nothing. This time, I understood the whole conference!
I'm so happy!:) Except I had a headache afterwards, haha. The Hermanas
made funny comments throughout. It was really cool to sit with them in
the Relief Society room and and feel the Spirit and understand. I really
love my Hermanas and my calling!:)
Anyway...love you all so much! Pray for me to be able to finish the Book of Mormon this week! Pray for my investigators!
Love, Hermanita Crandall
*PS
- Shout out to LINDSAY, who sent me a package this past week with a
flashlight in it. We got home that night and our neighbor was having car
problems and was trying to change a tire. They didn't have any light so
I was able to let them borrow the flashlight! Definitely inspired:)
Mommy also sent me a package, so thank you:) My zone LOVED the hi-chews
while we did zone sports last P-day. We played oompa again!
*PPS
- Sorry I will repent and take more fotos. But this is me y mi
companera, Hermana Sprunt (at top). Her mom is Peruvian, but her dad is American
and she didn't grow up speaking Spanish. Sometimes people get confused
when I'm the one speaking Spanish;) haha. But her Spanish has improved A
TON and we're working really well together! I love her so much!:)
No comments:
Post a Comment