aunt christy is right once again--the personal item that i bring with me every day is an UMBRELLA. i use it every single day...for the sun or the rain. i think i would die without it. this week´s trivia question: what do people use to cut the grass? (grass being a very loose term that applies to anything green that grows where there are no rocks or cement)
this sunday we had a record number of investigators in sacrament meeting--seven!...
monica, with her two little girls. we recently started teaching monica and her husband. they are neighbors to a part-member family (familia decilia), who invited them to the ward christmas party. they live out in the campo (country) without bus service, so we can´t visit them as often as our other investigators. her husband told us that if we can convince him that the church is true, he´ll be baptized. glad to know that i don´t have to worry about the convincing part--i´ll leave that up to the holy ghost.
yayo, nonmember husband in the decilia family. he told his wife that for the new year, he would start a new life and start going to church with her. last week he came in a suit. that was cool. their son that is my age is the stake exec sec.
veronica and rosio. daughter and granddaughter of hilda. wrote about them last week. passed by their house to pick them up and they had just woken up. hilda couldn´t come because of a sick grandbaby she had to take care of. couldn´t talk to them after church, so hopefully they had a good experience in young womens and primary.
natalia and nicolas. also talked about them last week. they both have great desires to change, and both have a lot of changing to do. we set a marriage and baptism date with them this last week, so satan is working extra hard on them. they have been fighting all the time over dumb stuff, so we have been focusing on how to build family unity through family scripture study, prayer, improved communication, etc. a good, strong family in the ward has taken them under their wing and had a great family home evening with them last week and will join them again this week. nicolas and natalia LOVED fhe. and they love going to church. silvia joined us for a lesson with them last night and contributed a lot of good stuff to the discussion. working with members is the only way to go.
the seventh was a nonmember boyfriend of ward member. we haven´t been teaching him, so he was a gift!
helena is continuing to progress, though she´s been pretty sick this last week. because she´s so hard-core catholic (her uncle is some head-haunchito of the church in rome) the local catholic bishop called her in on sunday morning (so she couldn´t attend our church...grrrrrrr...) to try and talk her out of meeting with us. she doesn´t have a testimony of joseph smith yet, but has asked that we hurry up and teach her the word of wisdom so she can get baptized without her cigarettes. she talks A TON which is a little aggrevating...but it´s hard to be frustrated for very long with her. she really is pretty great.
today for my p-day activities, i searched through a bunch of old liahonas/ensigns that we have in the apartment for photos/illustrations to use as visual aids. i was in heaven. i love doing stuff like that. way better than cleaning or laundry.
thanks for writing me with news from home and for the prayers! it is appreciated!
the church is true!
hermana magnusson
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