Oct. 13, 2014 Tenemos 7 investigadores!

Oct 13, 2014 

Todas las hermanas en mi zona

¡Hola familia y amigos!

First! WEEKLY CHALLENGE!!!

This week´s challenge is to have a missionary experience!!! 

1-Read DyC 33:9, Jacob 5:70-75, and Elder Bednar´s talk from Conference, (and I think there is a chapter or something about this in the Every Member a Missionary book if you want to read that to.)

2-Pick a date by when you want to know who and do it. 

3-Pick a name of a friend and pray about them to see if they are ready and what you can do to help them and what you can invite them to

4-Invite them to FHE, Mutual, Church, to meet with the missionaries, have a church discussion with them, etc. 

5-Write me about your experience! Tell me what you liked, how it went, what you{re going to do differently next time, who you{re going to invite next!!!!

This is really annoying, since every single word is underlined in red because it is a Spanish computer and doesn´t understand how to read English. Also the ´button is in the wrong place. { Is where ´is supposed to be, so sorry about the misspellings and stuff. 

 

Todos los personas de el CCM who came to BAW plus one random guy

First of all, ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡el don de lenguas es muy muy real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously. Today is the start of my 4th week here, and I can already understand the majority of what people say, and can express myself decently. And my compañera says that I have a fantastic accent. So that is good. It´s funny, since every time I pray, my r´s are very rolly, but when I talk normally they´re not. Now I need to work on learning more words. 

We have 7 new investigadores this week! One is J-, a chico que tiene 12 años. He is super awesome! He loves to read and to learn and was really earnest when we were teaching him. I think he is Evangelico? There are a lot of those here. But we gave him a Book of Mormon and a folleto about the Restoration, and he said he would read and pray. And he has a baptismal date. 

 

    F-o is the abuelo de J-. He is not religious, but believes in God. But he is a very analytical thinker, and has a lot of tough questions he throws back at us. And he does not want to commit to anything. Every time we ask him to read, or pray, or attend church, he always says "trataré" (i will try). But then most of the time he does it. We made him pancakes on Saturday as incentive to go to church and to gain his trust more. I think he really enjoys the company, although he does not say it. 

 

    R-o is a young man que tiene about 23 años. He changed his religion one year ago from Catholisism to School of something or other. He was very persistant that he has his religion, but he shared his version of the plan of Salvation with us, and then we taught what we believe. He is very open to new ideas, but at the same time very set in his ways. But I think that we may be able to reach him since his church ("escuela"=school) believes in always learning new ideas and incooporating them into their religion. He agreed to read the follet and to be baptized in Noviembre if his prayer about it is answered. He understand the importance of baptism, but he was baptized as a niño en la iglesia Católico, entonces we will have to work on that. 

 

¡Hoy es mi cumple-mez! ¡Entonces tengo dos mezes en la misión!

 

Funny story: The office elders were bringing us another dresser, but it was very large and awkward. One of the elder´s said "Necesitamos planear. ¡Tiene su agenda?" (We need to plan. Do you have your planer?) (Because we use them constantly, etc.) 

Con Mucho Amor!

Hermana  Du-free (They can´t get our name right in Spanish either! It´s hard for them to say Durfee, but when I met someone for the first time and they read my nametag, a lot of the time they say it Dufree. No sé porque. :)