This week we did a lot better. I feel like we got a lot of stuff done and visited a lot of people. We found a few pretty solid investigators, too, and we have built a pretty good relationship with a menos activo family that has been like MIA for a while. They came to church yesterday, though, so that was really cool!
But yeah... We worked a lot harder this week and had some great lessons. We are also excited to stay together for another change cuz we have some solid people progressing! First, we have a lady named Blacida. She is the daughter of this menos activo family (familia Sandoval) and we just recently found out that she isn`t baptized and she wants to work towards getting married (to her boyfriend who is actually a menos activo in the ward also...) so that she can get baptized and raise her son (who is going to be born like any minute--no, en serio... She is like 40 weeks pregnant and will have her baby like any day now...) in the church and stuff. So she is really cool and we are working with her. The only problem is that her boyfriend is married to someone else... Yeah. I know... Complicated. And he needs to pay to get divorced so that they can get married. Cuz the ``wife`` is like with some other guy, too. It`s just all messed... But yeah! And also, we are working with Blacida`s sister to get them reactivated in the church and stuff and her daughter who is 8 years old, named Leti, baptized and stuff. So that is what we have going on and the people that we are working with now. Also, Belèn (Angel`s sister) is planning on getting baptized this Saturday and is pretty excited. And Angel is going to receive the priesthood so that he can pass the sacrament and he is so excited for that. So things are going pretty good!
Other news is that we had a zone conference on Thursday with President McMullin and stuff. It was SOOOO GOOOOOD. Seriously... It was great. Like first of all, the zone leaders did a grand talk on how we can realize when someone is progressing and when we need to drop someone as an investigator... Even though that is really hard to do! But it was a really awesome talk. Then.... President McMullin gave his talk and it was so beautiful. Not even kidding. I about cried. Haha but really. It was a bit different because I guess some other hermanas asked him a question during our ``break`` and he decided to address all of us on this subject. So I guess they asked him if he had any advice for their investigator who had a problem with pornography... And he decided to pretty much give this talk on pornography and the dangers of it... It was honestly one of the most spiritual talks that I have ever heard in my life. He wasn`t going to use like the whole time to talk about this, but I guess he just felt really inspired to talk about it and I just don`t even know how to describe it. It was just SO GOOD! But also he related it to us as missionaries, cuz even out here on the mission there are opportunities for stuff to come up and you just never know... You could find yourself in situations. Like especially in the cybers when we are emailing home. He then was talking about how he wants everyone to have a ``video`` prepared in your mind. He talked about how he wants that in this ``video`` he wants you to think about the day you`ll be getting married. You`re in the temple and you`re with your future spouse and stuff. Then he just goes on describing this ``video`` that he wants us to have and if we ever find ourselves in this situation... Turn as fast as you can and play this video. I honestly can`t even do half as good of a job trying to describe what he said... But it was just awesome. Seriously one of the best talks I have ever heard in my life. President is just awesome. But yeah... That was like definitely a highlight of my week!!!
So that is about it. We did nothing really for p-day today. We had to go to a cyber that is like 20 minutes from Itaugua cuz the one in Itaugua was closed today. Also, Hermana B came to Itaugua to visit today! She just like found out yesterday that one of her companions had to go to Capiatà (the neighbouring place) for something, so she was going to take her other companion (cuz she has two..... haha) to Itaugua to visit me! And so that was pretty fun to see her. But we didn`t really do anything. We tried to visit Veronica cuz Hermana B wanted to see her, but she wasn`t home. So that sucked... But it`s been a pretty tranquilo day. Excited for this week! Especially cuz I get to stay another change in Itaugua with my companion! Should be a great next 6 weeks! LOVE YOU ALL! HAVE A SPECTACULAR WEEK!!! <3
Love, Hermana Whit
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