no quiero cumplir mis anos de la juventud!
Well to start since I some how forgot to tell you about Senaida I tell you her story first. We found her a long time ago. Me and Elder Clayton did. We were in this G- Trailer park knocking some doors and there was a family moving in so we starting helping them carry stuff in. When we were done we offered to share a message with them and none of them were really interested, but the ladies mom was there, Senaida, and she was like ya you can come to my house. It was super far south. Right at I-10 so we didn't really get down there for a while. We started teaching her, sadly like a lot of the areas we cover are poor people with poor habits. She said she wanted us to come back but we didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to her but she isn't married and lives with a guy married in Mexico...sound familiar? and she is so far away and we had so much going on. But we invited her to church and she came! so we started putting a lot more attention on her. The changes that I have seen in this women's life are unreal. When we first went over to her house she couldn't answer any questions about God or Jesus Christ, nothing. But yesterday we went over there and told her we were going to review a little of what we talked the time before and mas o menos this was her answer "oh yeah, the atonement and how Jesus Christ made it so we could go back to heaven, we just have to have faith, repent, be baptized, and....i cant remember the other two but I read about that in the Book of Mormon."....haha I was blown away. Some lessons with her are really awkward, she says how she wants to get baptized and then explains how she cant because they aren't married and her pareja isn't really doing anything, but last night he said he would get baptized when they were married if he got his answer and said he would start praying about it! But she always just looks at him and tells us it's his fault and that he if doesn't decide he wants to marry her soon, she is going to kick him out because she is the owner and she is the one with the job. It's really awkward but I love how straight up she is with him! We don't openly encourage it but sneakily I try and encourage her to be bold with him! haha
Another awesome story with her is that one lesson we had with her outside in the cold because no one was home. She told us how she had to work this Sunday, we told her just to ask her boss for it off and tell him she had to go to church, then she told us how she can't do that because she is lucky to have work as it is. We promised her blessings and needless to say that the next Sunday, in a huge Texas rain storm, she and Jose made the drive and were at church! She is awesome! She is making progress but still got the same problem as this area seems to be...Marriage!
Another awesome story with her is that one lesson we had with her outside in the cold because no one was home. She told us how she had to work this Sunday, we told her just to ask her boss for it off and tell him she had to go to church, then she told us how she can't do that because she is lucky to have work as it is. We promised her blessings and needless to say that the next Sunday, in a huge Texas rain storm, she and Jose made the drive and were at church! She is awesome! She is making progress but still got the same problem as this area seems to be...Marriage!
Armando Monreal came to church again with his whole family! we had to move his date back because we want his wife to be able to be baptized as well. So his date is now the 27th. We went over the commandments with them and they loved them, all except coffee, His wife drinks it a lot so that is the problem we have been running into.
But the area is doing good. They have been talking a lot about splitting the area and asking for borders, so it is very likely that we could be getting a lot of missionaries, so we'll see!
Hope you are all staying warm sounds like great weather back home.
Con amor y Respeto
Elder Erickson
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