So,
Marilu has moved away. Yeah. That's exactly how we heard about it
too. We were gonna start teaching her the new member lessons since we
baptized her and all. She didn't show up to church the week after she got the
Holy Ghost. That was weird but we figured she just was out of town or
something. Then she wouldn't answer any of our calls or texts. So
that kind of worried us. Then we went to her house, cars gone, house
empty. So that kinda worried us. Asked around the ward if any of
them have seen her or talked to her or her kids for the past 5 days.
Nobody. That made us more worried. We kept calling her then she
finally texted us that she had moved to San Jose and that she found work there
and that she was really grateful for us and what the gospel did and was still
doing for her. So yeah. At least she's still strong and going to
church and stuff, BUT SHE MOVED AWAY! We didn't even get to say Nos Vemos
or Hasta Luego or Cuidase! She just left! Dang!
Anyway, enough
crying. Here's what’s going on over here in Adam-ondi-desto.
1. My Spanish is
coming along super good! Elder Bartold and I went to branch council
together on Sunday and I was able to understand everything and tell
them everything I wanted to! YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!! Gift of
Tongues POWER! That's what I'm talking about! Good thing that I've
got an all powerful God to help me out right!?
1 1/2. Also went
on exchange with Elder Bartold. THAT was interesting. So his
Spanish is worse than mine, I didn't have that much confidence in mine either
at the time, he didn't know his area at all since it was like the second week
of the transfer and I still don't know the area either since it's the city of
Modesto which is 200,000 people! So we went on exchange in his area and
ended up knocking doors for 3 hours. It was actually pretty fun.
Every Spanish person we ran into was an adventure and it was fun to get to know
Elder Bartold better! Poor dude. His body doesn't like him right
now, so it's doing everything possible to make him go to the doctor!
He'll get through it though! He was an endure to the end runner before the
mission too, so he's got it!
2. Erick says
he's 70% ready for baptism. We told him that's baloney and that he's 100%
ready and that we'd prove it to him, so we went over the baptismal questions
with him and turns out he's more like 30% ready. We asked him the Law of
Chastity question and he said, "Chastity, what's that?"
Whoops. We talked over his baptism again and he and we feel more
comfortable with the 20th of December. So we are going to be going
over there a lot more to teach him!
3. Ok, coolest
story of them all. So the Robert and Elizabeth Renteria have the dates
for the 27th and we were focusing on solidifying them for that day. We went
over Wednesday night and before we even started Elizabeth told us
that she knew she needed to be baptized on the 27th and that she had been
putting it off too long. She told us that she wanted to wait for her
husband but that she knew that it would take too long for him to accept the
gospel for her. YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH! It was
super amazing! Her mom was in tears! Then her and her mom bore
their testimonies in church on Sunday on her baptism and on eternal
families and we were all temporarily translated! Their testimonies were
super powerful! Oh man! I wish all of our other investigators could
have been there! Robert still is struggling with a testimony but with a
mom and sister like that (and missionaries like us) he’s gonna be baptized for
sure.
4. So the
Pentatonix Christmas album is probably the greatest Christmas album in the
world. Listen to it and be filled. (BTW, we have permission to
listen to any Christmas music after Thanksgiving so don't think I'm all
apostate or anything.)
5. We are also
converting to President Clark's mission vision and we are visiting solely less
actives to do our finding. We haven't seen much fruit from it yet but we
will. We have faith.
So yeah that's what's
going on. Also, as a Christmas gift President Clark gave us a book to
read called Believing Christ. I've read it twice so far! It's
amazing! It's about Christ and his Atonement. The overall theme is
you can believe Christ, believe that he's real, believe that he's the savior,
believe he was born and died on this earth, believe that he's the son of God,
but, do you really believe IN Christ. Do you believe that he can heal
you? Do you believe his Atonement covers EVERY SINGLE ONE, of your sins,
no matter the seriousness? Because if you don't, you actually don't have
enough faith in Christ to be saved. It's an amazing book!
Love you all!
Elder Frame
Also,
disclaimer. I may have told you that writing handwritten letters is
better. I was lying. I didn't know that we only have Preparation
day to write letters when I said that and our Preparation Days are so crazy, I
hardly ever have time to actually write a letter to you all. So if you
sent/ are sending hand written letters, I will love them and cherish them, but
I will most likely end up answering you by email. I love yall! Stay
true!
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