Ok... So this week was full of Awesome´s and No-So-Awesome´s. First of all... Let´s talk about how I got to go to the temple on Tuesday. Wow. It was so awesome! Did the session in Spanish (obviously) and it was WAYYYYYY easier! It´s crazy how much you can learn in like 2 months. Also... Let´s talk about how beautiful it was. It was LINDISIMO! (That´s super duper beautiful in Spanish...) Seriously. It was such a great experience. The spirit was just so strong and I just loved it. It was so great to get to do that. I only have to wait another year to do it again... ;) Hahaha but it was awesome. Totally took up our whole day though. It´s like 2 hours away from our house.
So this week we had a lot of good lessons and stuff. Not too many new things happened. My companion and I have to teach District Meeting tomorrow. That´ll be interesting. Hahaha. Everyone is doing good. We still really need to work with Vivi on getting her marido, Roberto, back to the church and them married so that she can finally get baptized. It´s hard though... because he is literally never home. Every time we go over there.... Never home. So that´s frusterating. We are gonna really work on that this week, though. Then we have Beatriz. She is like 66 years old and a little bit crazy. But I love her so much. She is the funniest lady ever and sometimes has no clue what´s going on. She always tells me that when I first got here, she could´t understand anything I said... It´s hilarious. She was progressing and going to church for a while and this week, she told us that she now has to work on Sundays so she can´t go to church. Sad. But we are still going to visit her and stuff and work with her. But let´s talk about this situation now......
Veronica... So this week Veronica changed my life like 8 different times this week. And I´ll tell you why. So she has definitely been like feeling the spirit and stuff, right? So that is all just great and stuff. We had a lesson on the Plan of Salvation and stuff that went great. A lesson with some members so she could meet some other people and have some other friends... That went great. Also, we had a great lesson with her on Friday, though. We pretty much just answered a lot of her questions and doubts and stuff and it ended up getting really spiritual and serious. So she is a super like shy and timid girl, right? And also, she is kinda lonely cuz she´s living with her cousin... So she kinda misses her family (who are Catholic--of course)... (And also they won´t approve of her being baptized in the church and stuff... ) But she has really opened up to us and we just KNOW that the church is true. It´s just so obvious. And then she told us... On Friday... That she knows that the Catholic church doesn´t have the authority and that the authority is in the Church of Jesus Christ. I wanted to cry of happiness. It was just so great. She like was talking about baptism and me and my companion were just so happy. So things went super good. The spirit was so strong. Yeah. Then we went to visit her on Saturday to teach the 10 Commandments. That went good. Then we took her to a baptism with us (it was the baptism of the other hermanas) that night. She enjoyed it. She met a knew friend, a girl in the ward named Romina, so things are going great. Then on the way home... She starts telling us that she is feeling like baptism is a Yes and then a No and it keeps switching in her mind. Oh no, right?? So the next day (yesterday), we go over and have a lesson with her on Faith and talk about when Peter walked on water, but then doubted himself and fell... But then Christ was there to help him again... It was a really spiritual lesson and stuff. Then she just starts saying that she doesn´t know if she should be baptized and stuff and she hasn´t told her family and she doesn´t know if she has gotten her answer yet. So I tell her... well not really me, it was the spirit for sure... That a lot of the time, I think we don´t ¨receive¨ answers cuz we are scared for what the answer will be. Because we know what the answer will be. And she totally got it... She totally understood where I was getting at. Then I told her that it doesn´t matter what goes on... Just like with Peter, there will be a storm all around us and we will always have problems, we just need that one time, the one testimony that we have felt the spirit testify to us, to know what we need to do. Then she tells us.. Yeah... I feel like I know my answer.. I´ve had my answer. So at this point, we know she´s gonna say it... So we ask her ´what is your answer?´ and she says.... ´No bautizarme´.............................
WHAT?!?!?!?! I was so confused! It seriously threw both of us off so bad. It was the weirdest thing. And it completely broke my heart in two. Seriously. And the worst part about it is that she KNOWS the church is true. She KNOWS! She told us! But, she is just so afraid of what her family will think. She doesn´t want to cause problems in her family. So then we told her that we want her to tell Heavenly Father her decision and if she feels good about it, go with it... IF NOT... Maybe it´s the wrong choice. We had her say the prayer and tell Him in the prayer. She did and at the end you could just tell that she knew.... You could just tell. So that we left. Feeling so sad. Like SO sad. But we are going back there tonight and we are going to verify with her on how her prayer went and stuff. It´s so sad and I probably told that story horrible. Sorry if you can´t understand. But that is definitely what happened this week.
That´s about it! I have been praying like crazy for Veronica... I´ll let you know what happens next week! This week is Semana Santa (Holy Week) cuz of Pascua (Easter) and they sell a whole bunch of chipa (this bread stuff that they eat here). So I´ll probably try some of that. That´s all I can think about that happened for this week.
LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
LOVE, HERMANA WHITTAKER
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