Dear home,
This week was another good one here
in Pasadena.
We started off with interviews with
President on Tuesday. My interview
with President was pretty brief.
Nothing super eventful there. But it
is always great to see president
Villanueva's great example of charity
and the warmth that he gives off. He
is a great man.
We had a cool miracle this week.
Mateo, the investigator, is still
doing awesome. He came to church and
everything. But the last lesson
we had with him, we saw his wife walk
past and we invited her to sit
down with us. I had never taught her
or anything, but I had talked to
her on the phone a few times to see
how she was doing health wise and
how Mateo was doing and we gave her a
blessing of health once. She was
actually the one who was originally
investigating the church but she
ended up not wanting to change. But
she sat in with us! We taught
about temples and family history. I
showed them my little "Mi Familia"
booklet with my family members, some
pictures, and some stories. They
liked it a lot! Norma (Mateos wife),
was talking about how she will
ask one of her family members for a
family tree she has. It was
awesome! She wasn't able to make it
to church because she was sick.
But it seemed to have surprised Mateo
too, because he went to church
and he said that he will make sure he
commits her to come next time.
We are going to be visiting them both
as a couple now in a few days
(they are in their early 70s).
We also got to visit Jose Romero this
week. He's been progressing
really well and been keeping all the
goals that he had set with our
branch president. The branch is doing
awesome at taking care of him as
well. Jose found a job and our Ward
mission leader bought him work
boots without even asking. But last
night we had a bit of a
heartbreaking lesson. He said he has
been having flashbacks of some
pretty bad stuff he did when he was
in a gang and on top of that he is
facing the possibility of having a
pretty bad illness. To make matters
even worse, his mom and sisters he
lives with don't support him or
really care for him at all and satan
is making him doubt his
testimony. We sat and watched 21 year
old Jose express all these
doubts and trials in tears. We really
felt for him. Although, he has
all these whirlwinds and fiery arrows
attacking him, he still wants to
serve his mission. We ended the visit
by giving him a blessing and a
big hug as well.
This week we also had exchanges with
the English elders. I stayed in
my area with the English district
leader. It was pretty cool haha. We
had a lesson in English and then one
in Spanish. We taught a lady that
we found recently named Maria Luna.
We gave her the restoration
pamphlet to read and she read it! She
was able to pretty much teach us
the restoration! It was cool, she has
a date for baptism for the
beginning of March. But Elder Brown
(the English elder) ended up
getting pretty sick so we had to go
home a bit early. Nevertheless, it
was a cool experience.
I have been able to learn a lot this
past week and I know I am in the
right place at the right time right
now!
Love you all!
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