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On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:37 AM Megan Reynolds <megan.reynolds@myldsmail.net> wrote:
This week was another week of miracles!Man, I don't even know where to start. Well, first of all, Transfers are next Tuesday. While I'm praying I stay in Brownsville, it's a possibility that I'm leaving, soooo, send all mail to the mission office until further notice. :)Jorge! So, we've had a lot more luck finding him this week. His mom had a stroke and had ulcers and now has tumors, so he spends most of his time in the hospital with his Dad, and he's been pretty worried about her. She can't even talk right now, and it's all been pretty recent. So on Tuesday, elder Cruz and Gibson went with us to the hospital and they gave his mom a blessing. The whole family was really touched and it was a sweet experience. We've been teaching him and he is doing super well - he has a baptismal date set for this coming Sunday and if all goes well he can for sure be baptized. The week before baptism is always the most crazy because that's when Satan is trying his hardest, so if you could all keep Jorge in your prayers we'd appreciate it! He is just so very sweet - we taught him the Word of Wisdom and he told us that he hasn't been having problems with everything and was super committed to live it, and at the next lesson we asked him "so is everything still going well with the WoW? Are you having any problems?" and he said, "yeah, I have a problem... let me get the pamphlet." so he went inside and I was so very sad and just HOPING that it wasn't serious. he came back out and said, "so, my mom is really sick right now, is that because she wasn't living the word of wisdom?" So his "problem" was actually just a question. Also, we were teaching him about the Atonement, and I explained what it was and what it meant for us, and he was pretty silent and so we asked what he was thinking and he just said "Wow, I'm just thinking that God must love us so much if he's going to take all of that for us." He also has been reading the Book of Mormon and explaining/translating it to his Dad. He'll read chapters 2 or 3 times if he doesn't understand them, and he has such sincere desires to improve and get closer to God. So we'll be working and praying super hard this week!We also have an investigator named Brenda, and she's super funny. She is curious about a lot of things, but also trusts us a lot and wants to learn. We taught her about the restoration and the Book of Mormon, and after the lesson on the Book of Mormon she was like, "okay, Wow. I'm going to do this. I'm going to read it. But I need you to tell me something else I don't know." "Okay, well next time we're going to talk about where we lived before this earth and where we're going after." "no, like something new, something that I don't know." "okay.. well remember how we talked about Joseph Smith and how he was a Prophet? We still have a living Prophet on the earth today." To which Brenda responded "WHAT????? Oh my goodness. Okay, like that was too much. I shouldn't have asked. I just need to focus on the basics. I'm going to read the Book of Mormon, and I'm going to pray, and, wow. yeah. I just need to trust you guys." ha ha.Oh, another funny story. So remember how I spoke in church last week? So one of the other elders spoke, too. Yesterday, an older member of the ward was talking to me and said "you spoke last week, right? And the Elder, too? You too need to get together. I want to see you too holding hands, married in the temple. If you want you should tell him to come over and I can tell him that, too." Ha ha ha.... Oh, how I love the grandparents in this ward :)
--Hermana Reynolds
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