February 16, 2015

Well here I am again writing my weekly email. It has been a pretty interesting week for the most part. We are slowly finding more people to teach that can be ready to be baptized, hopefully in March. My Spanish is still coming along, but it is still a process. My problem with the joke mom is that missionaries can’t have pets either, so technically this is a very disobedient missionary for having a frog. But I thought it was funny.

This week has been adventure in the teachings of Orquidea. This week when we stopped to visit, we brought her cousins with us.  They told Orquidea that if she didn’t get baptized, she didn’t really have any faith. The next visit she told us that she was going to be baptized on March 14 since she prayed about it. But she didn’t pray about being baptized on February 21, this week. So the next visit, I brought Elder Zorrilla to see Orquidea and he did a baptismal interview with her, which she passed, and convinced her to be baptized on February 28.

We also have been kind of teaching a mom and daughter who are the Adventistas. We joke that they are the future Mormons. The husband doesn’t really want anything as far as we know. But they went to church this week and really enjoyed it a lot. They come to church, and during gospel principles class they are taking notes and asking questions, which is not normal for investigators. They really liked but it will be hard for them to change churches when they receive their answer about this church.

This week we have been working a lot more with the members. Tuesday, we had a new missionary meeting.  The President really emphasized a plan to collect 60 names from members, then pray for every name, and have the member there when we visit the person. As we have started to contact people, there has really been a difference in how much more willing they are to listen to our message. The President promise that if we do this, we will baptize at least three people in March. But of course the goal is a bit more than that.

That is all for this week.  Thanks for all the support and prayers. It is something we always need. Gracias por lo que hacen.

Elder Ferrin