I ask for Your Prayers

Written December 31, 2012

Hey there family!!
 

It was super fun to talk to you guys at Christmas, but the truth is that I really only had one hour to talk. Someone told the elders that we had two hours, but in reality we only had one. Oh well! One hour really is super short but we take what we get. Now we can only read emails until the next 5 months during mothers day. 

 

Mom I love the idea and the focus of the relief society. I hope that you can help the members get excited about the work and go find those people who have forgotten a little of the importance of the gospel. I'm super excited for you that you get to go out and work with the stake and help people come closer to Christ through the relief society. This really is our goal to come unto to Christ and then help others come unto him as well. In all of your work and service, this service will come to be of the most worth for you because it is an eternal work. I told Dad about Brent that he had told me before I left that he wanted to serve a mission but since so much time has passed since then I thought that he lost the fire and had moved onto other things. He is going to be amazing!! Way better than I ever could be since when he has a goal, he goes and gets it. This will be a huge blessing and trial in his mission!
 

This week had its up and its down and I'm ready for the holidays to be over. I really did enjoy talking with you guys at Christmas, but truly I feel like I don't want to be in the house passing time. I want to go to work. This week was kind of slow and we didn't find many new investigators since everyone told us that they were busy but we could come back later, but we did have some big successes as well.

One of our investigators who is 15 years old had a fight with their parents this week about the church and they told her that if she wanted to keep talking to us that they would call the police. She was super upset because she has come to church for the past 4 weeks now but her parents really don't support her in investigating another church. Well, we ended going and talking to her mom and getting everything figured out, but they still don't support her in getting baptized but at least they are letting us still talk to their daughter and letting her go to church. We have some plans that we are going to do this week to get to know her parents some more and we know the power of fasting and praying so we are also going to fast with Belén, our investgator, this week. 

 

We also had another strange, never saw it coming, thing happen to this week. The Elders in our sector have a golden investigator who has been super amazing. Hermana and I have taught her a few times as well since she wanted to get to know us as well, and since shes 20 years old it's a little easier for her to talk to us as Hermanas. But this week she told us that now she doesn't know if the church is true or that God really exists. We all thought that it was a joke. But in the end it wasn't. Hermana and I went to her house yesterday to see her and it was like night and day. 3 weeks ago she was super amazing, reading praying and going to church. Now she doesn't want anything! But at least today she called us and thanked us for our visit and that she still wants us to come by this week. Well, I only ask for your prayers for our investigators...Belén, Isabel and Gerardo, and Susanna.

Oh Mom you don't have to send bug spray...I'm totally fine! Don't waist money on that because they have it here! And I have some!! No worries. The bed bugs haven't bit in quiet some time. Well, know that I love every single one of you!!! Hope you start the year off BIG!


con mucho cariño!

Hermana Thaccker