Que Onda!!?
Family! How is everyone doing!? heard its heating up back there, sorry to hear that. Hope you can stay somewhere cool. If it gets too hot, hop on a bike. The breeze will cool you right down ;)
This week we had a great week of miracles!
First off is Wendy's baptism! This was a very stressful road to get where we got but we made it so all is well! To give a little more background on her, She is a "Rancho" meaning she grew up in the sticks away from all the city in El Salvador. So her Education/ Language/ Manners aren't really where most the other youth's are, the Young Women's president, who has been so great in taking her in and caring for her, described the first couple of weeks she was there - "The best way I can tell it to you short is some what like Tarzan." haha. Not lady like and foul language. She wasn't like a savage but church and all this was new to her.
She told us a super awesome story the other day. We were teaching her the importance of the covenant she will be tacking at baptism and she told us how on the way over here her cousin got really sick and they both said a prayer, neither having ever attended church before, and promised God in the prayer that if he allowed them to make it to the states they would both find a church and get baptized and be faithful to that church. The amazing part was that when she got here we were already teaching her grandmother! It was so cool to hear that story and how she already had it in her mind that she was making this covenant with God to fulfill with her promise before. She said her cousin is getting baptized as well, in NEW YORK, how she ended up there no one knows but she did! Wendy doesn't know what church but she knows she is getting baptized! It would be crazy, but seems natural, that the missionaries found here there too!
Wendy is living with her Grandma but there is also her "ex-Aunt" who has been having her watch her baby and stay there, she is not a good influence on Wendy and doesn't like the church. I don't have time to tell all of it but that's where all the problems came from. It was pretty nasty! but Hna Guajardo, the YW leader helped so much!
Another miracle is after Elder Golden came we set our goals pretty high. And we worked really hard to get them. really hard! We hit all our goals and exceeded total number of lessons the only one we didn't have was we were short 1 Less-Active lesson. We had a good week and taught more lessons that we planned so we were pretty content at 8:45 to start wrapping up the night. But then we both decided we came too close to quit. Elder Leiva called a less-active who lived kinda far, and who we had already tried once earlier. He answered and said we could come over!
When we got there He told us that his mom passed away on Friday and he hadn't seen her in 10 years! It was good that we were able to talk with him and share our testimonies of The Plan of Salvation! It was a testimony builder to me of setting Goals and then including and depending on the Lord to fulfill them! and also the Love God has for all of his Children. Even though this man hasn't been going to church and doing exactly what he should, He still looks after him!
We also had a mini-missionary come with us for a few days! He was cool, not quite ready yet but he'll get there! He is the only member so far in his immediate family so props to him. But he was always catching some shut eye when he could ;) we worked hard! haha.
Con amor Y respeto
Elder Erickson
Elder Erickson, Wendy, Wendy's Grandma, Elder Leiva
Mini-Missionary, Elder Erickson, Elder Leiva
Mini-Missionary catching some shut eye.
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