Well, this week has
been one of the hardest so far! But it’s also been one of the most rewarding!
This was our First week serving in both the Warm Springs (WS) and Las Palmas
ward! The Elders left us a pretty great area, we love our new ward!
On Tuesday we went and
met all of our investigators in Las Palmas (LP), and they are amazing!
Edvin has a baptism
date. He is going to be baptized on May 19th, because He is getting marries on
May 12th to his Fiancé Lucy who is a member. Edvin told us his conversion
story, He used to hate the church, he would make fun of the missionaries, he
had anger issues and he said that he would "never join the Mormons"
and this was all why he was dating Lucy, He had been going through the refiners
fire, and after a while he humbled himself enough so that one day when Lucy
decided to go to church on mother’s day he said he would go with her, and then
he said it was okay if the missionaries came for dinner, and eventually he
agreed to take the missionary discussions. And now he is preparing to get baptized
and their goal is to get sealed in the temple a year from his baptism. Edvin is
the sweetest man in the world, we love going over and teaching them, the person
he has become is amazing, and he is almost done reading The Book of
Mormon!
We also went over to
meet a less active family in the Las Palmas ward, they have a son on a mission
who is coming home in July and he told his mom that he wouldn't come home until
she had read the Book of Mormon. The Elders told us we needed to go over and
meet with her and help her keep reading. She loved the Elders and she had told
them that she was afraid to get new girl missionaries. So we went over and
started visiting with her and her young daughter and by the time we left she
was so excited to have us in the ward, and we set up a time every week to go
over and help her study and read!
Now here is an amazing
story! Are you ready?! We got a referral from Salt Lake for a woman names
Wendi. We had no information of her other than her address. So we went over on
Wednesday with one of the Ladies in our ward, Sister West, and knocked on her
door. After standing there for a while she finally opened the door, she stood
there with a walker, looked at us and then said "well I thought you would
have at least called first. Come in, Come in!" As we sat and talked with
her we found out that she was born into the church, her mom was a convert but
her dad wasn’t. Her mom was her best friend and she had died a little while
ago. Wendi has had a hard life, she suffers from fibromyalgia, depression,
PTSD, abuse, and is bipolar. But she is the sweetest lady in the world. She
fell away from the church when she was young and then about 14 years ago she
went back to church and her husband got baptized. He had a bad experience and stopped
going to church so she stopped also. She hasn’t been to church in 13 years, and
now because all of her health problems she can barely leave the house. As we
talked with her about the temple, we told her she would see her mother again, she
is watching out for her from heaven now. She started sobbing; then as we talked
about the power of the atonement and how all the pain that has been inflicted
upon us and that we have caused ourselves could be washed away she began crying
harder. We met with her every day this week read scriptures with her and slowly
helped her to see how the Savior love and the Atonement will be able to help
her, no matter what! We found out that it was actually her friend who had
requested the missionaries to come visit Wendi because she knew that Wendi had
been humbled by her trials and was at a place where she would be willing to
listen and ready to change! We invited her to come to church and she said she
would think about it, so when we came by on Thursday we told her that we had it
all worked out so that we would have a ride and everything would work out so
she could come. She said that she didn't think she could do it. So I asked her
what was stopping her and after a moment she said..."clothes" with
her fibromyalgia she can wear clothes that put pressure on her skin at all
because when there is pressure on her skin if feels like she is being stabbed
all over her body; the only clothes she can wear are sweatpants and a baggy
shirt. So I told her I had a solution. I brought her one of my dresses that was
just a loose flowy fabric. And it fit perfectly! I told her that it was hers
but she could only wear it if she went to church! And on Sunday she was there!
She stayed all 3 hours even!
Sunday was crazy it
was the first week we had both wards so we were running back and forth like
crazy between the two! But we are excited about it!! Tons of other stuff
happened this week but this is all I had time to share! I love you all!
Love
Sister Loveless
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