This week...(you guessed it,
tracting!)
Not a lot new, the weather has
been gorgeous and this Saturday there is a "Fiesta para La Familia"
here in Liberty so we are taking advantage of this opportunity to find people
and setting up a table and bringing in missionaries from all over our zone to
help us out. It should be sweet! I'll let you know how it goes next week.
Last night we were able to
visit with a lady named Maria from Guatemala. She is so wise and although
sometimes we have to pull in her 11 year old son to translate for us I love
talking to her. She loves talking about God and she has a lot of family that
lives here...I have a feeling that if we can get her to know the truthfulness of
the this gospel she'll be the key to getting others as well. Last night when we
went to go talk to her she started telling us that it must be hard getting
doors shut in our face (yes) but we need to keep persevering because we are
doing an important work. It's like Heavenly Father told her just what to say. I
am so glad for those tender mercies of the Lord. I'm not grateful enough for
all the little miracles we see everyday!
On Tuesday we visited Trish,
one of our investigators. She had a mini stroke a couple weeks ago and we had
the elders go give her a blessing. She's started to pray and when we went to go
visit her on Monday I could see a difference in her countenance. It's hard for
her now to move the right side of her body (the doctors told her with physical
therapy it will get better) and she said she has been really frustrated but
prayer is helping. That made me so happy to hear and we asked her if she will
get baptized and she said yes :) Tomorrow we are going to set a date with her!
We also have been meeting with this lady named Almida (a Dominican). We met her on main street one day and she gave us her address and told us to come over. We did and it turns out she met with sisters a while ago so she already has experience with our church. She has a son in jail and that is really hard on her (I'm sorry if I already told you about her!) and she has schizophrenia. Last week when Sister Barlow and I went to go visit her she kept talking to herself and I thought oh no she probably has schizophrenia (I was right) but she takes medication for it. We met with her on Tuesday with one of our members Roxann and (thank goodness for members!) Roxann talked a lot to Almida about forgiveness and baptism. Almida was baptized in the Catholic church when a baby and thinks that's all she needs. We talked to her about baptism in our church and asked her if when she knows this is true for herself if she'll be baptized. She said yes so we're going to keep working with her!
We also have been meeting with this lady named Almida (a Dominican). We met her on main street one day and she gave us her address and told us to come over. We did and it turns out she met with sisters a while ago so she already has experience with our church. She has a son in jail and that is really hard on her (I'm sorry if I already told you about her!) and she has schizophrenia. Last week when Sister Barlow and I went to go visit her she kept talking to herself and I thought oh no she probably has schizophrenia (I was right) but she takes medication for it. We met with her on Tuesday with one of our members Roxann and (thank goodness for members!) Roxann talked a lot to Almida about forgiveness and baptism. Almida was baptized in the Catholic church when a baby and thinks that's all she needs. We talked to her about baptism in our church and asked her if when she knows this is true for herself if she'll be baptized. She said yes so we're going to keep working with her!
I think that's about it. We
find a lot of spanish people here but the problem is that they ALL say we can
come back later (excuse to get us to go away) and then we never see them again.
So we teach a lot of first lessons but then we never meet with them again. It's
frustrating but oh well. I'm trying to decide if Heavenly Father sent us here
to prepare the hearts of the people or if he actually wants us to baptize some
of them...
Gracias por sus cartas, amor,
apollo, chistes...etc :)
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Richardson
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