So this week we somehow managed to get a decent number of lessons...I don´t know how because I feel like every appointment we made fell through on at least 2 of the days this week... We´re going through a bit of a rough patch because a lot of our investigators just have AWFUL lives and no money and there´s not really any work available...like at all...and so it´s not that they don´t have interest, it´s just that they can´t give the attention to our message that they know it deserves.
But anyway, they´ll get baptized one day. Now is just not the moment.
We have a date with J for January and we got one with R for December 22. I don´t really remember what I´ve told you about R but she´s 20 and studying to be a translator. She´s super cute and nice and just eats up everything. We were teaching her the plan of salvation this week and usually we just gloss over the Fall of Adam and Eve because it´s usually way too complicated for our investigators to understand but I felt like I should explain it more thoroughly so I explained about how they were in a state of innocence and couldn´t really know or understand anything until they partook of the fruit and left the garden. And she understood it! She kept saying "Oh, that makes so much sense! I´ve never understood why they fell but now I get it!" It made me really happy!
Also we had a really interesting week with Y. We had a really intense DTR with her on Thursday (if you don´t know what a DTR is just ask a BYU student) and she told us that she didn´t really have the desire to come to church and that she didn´t really want to read the Book of Mormon because the Bible is the Bible and the Book of Mormon is just a book. So we explained that for us it´s equal to the Bible and we invited her to pray about it. Then we didn´t see her again until last night, and we were super nervous to ask her if she had prayed or not. As it turns out she had, but didn´t feel that she had really received an answer. We had planned to teach something...don´t remember what...but after she said that I got the firm impression that we needed to show her how the Bible and the Book of Mormon support each other. So we read John 10:16 and talked about the 12 tribes of Israel, and how God looked over the Nephites, who were part of those tribes, and sent them his gospel just as he had with the Jews. She was asking a ton of questions and was really interested. We ended up leaving her with scriptures to study on the same topic from the Book of Mormon and the Bible, so she could see how they expound on each other. It was so cool and I could feel the Spirit, especially at the end when my companion and I tied everything back to Jesus Christ. There is a power in the testimony of the Savior that you can´t find in anything else.
For Thanksgiving we all went up to the B´s and ate a real American dinner with the stake president and his family!! We got to go up early and help cook everything, as you´ll see in the pictures I´m going to send of when we were making rolls and my hands are covered in sticky dough... It was really fun but it was a little weird that we were talking in Spanish the whole time because we were sitting at the table with the D´s... But basically Hermana B is the best in the whole world!
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