Week 57- September 15, 2014- Pomona

Jenny and her mom are getting baptized!

Dear home,

This week we were very blessed to be able to baptize Sara and Jenny

Nava. It was a great service, the spirit was really strong. Something

that really stood out to me in Sara's testimony after she got baptized

was: "They (the missionaries) listened to me before I listened to

them." Which was exactly what we have been focusing on these past few

weeks. It was great to be there and be a part of their conversion. The

cool thing too is that Luis, her 21 year old son, came to church with

his sister and mom! We had a great lesson with him the day before at

the church and we reset him for baptism for the 19th of October, which

he was pretty excited about.

Jenny's baptism

This week we had zone meeting. Elder Merrill and I focused on helping

our investigators be converted and being more charitable to them. We

used the talk "The challenge to become" by Dallin H. Oaks in the

October 2000 general conference. What I really liked was that he

talked about how about how charity is a condition, not just something

you do. Really great! Our sister trainer did a great job in sharing in

her testimony as well. It turned out that the missionaries who

baptized her when she was around 10 years old didn't put in too much

effort on helping her being converted. As a result, she went inactive

all the way up to about a bit over 7 months before she came on her

mission. The spirit was really strong through out the meeting, it was

awesome. 

This week we have zone conference and president has given

elder Merrill and I the opportunity to talk to our zones for an hour,

so we are excited for the opportunity to follow up on it.

Yesterday we had a meeting with the area 70, elder Haney and the

"Arcadia Council." I didn't even know this kind of thing existed, but

we went with all the ZLs and sister trainers in the mission and the

Arcadia Council. This just consists of all the stake presidents, stake

relief society president and all the presidencies, all this fancy

stuff. 

 Elder Haney introduced to us this program called

"Just Serve." Justserve.org is the website for this program. So far it

is only rolled out in Texas and California, from what I understand.

Justserve is a really useful way to find service opportunities within

the community. You should definitely check it out, I don't want to

spoil it haha.

Love you all!