This week was pretty crazy - we had MLC (mission leadership council? something like that.) in McAllen, so with driving time we weren't actually in Laredo for about 3 days. And then we had General Conference, so our schedule was a little nuts, but we received lots of inspiration from our Mission President and from the Prophets. 

Wasn't Conference great? While I was watching the sustaining of the new apostles, there was such a sense of reverence and respet. Not in a presumptuous manner, but being a missionary has helped me understand the weight that callings carry with them, and the inadequacy that one feels as new assignments and responsibilities are entrusted to servants of God. It's really amazing - these imperfect people are so trusted by God, and somehow he molds us to be the people he needs. It's pretty cool. I loved the closing prayer that said "where else do we find such order and inspiration, we are still awed by the calling to the apostleship we witnessed this morning..." and whatever else he said. It was a good prayer.

This week, we had stopped by an investigator's house, but they weren't home. Their next door neighbor was outside, so we stopped to talk to him, and as we were explaining what we do he said "Do you guys know about baptism?" .... "Yes, actually, why do you ask?" "Well, my wife and I have been wanting to have our daughter baptized, but we're not sure where to go and everything. Do you charge?" Ha! It was cool. They were about to leave, but hopefully they're prepared and are cool to wait a few years to have their baby girl baptized. 

Mario (our blind investigator) came to conference! I think he liked it - he only was able to come to one session, and we're going by tonight to follow up. He's quitting a lot of Word of Wisdom habits, so we've been calling him every day to follow up and see how it's going, and we called him on Wednesday while we were driving to MLC and he said "2 other girls came by to talk to me today (Jehovah's Witnesses) and I told them ' you don't know what you're talking about! I'm already talking to missionaries, and there's God and his son Jesus, and this whole Jehovah thing makes no sense. You don't know what you're talking about." :) He's a wonderful man. When we were trying to get him to conference, he said he couldn;t go because his wife hadn't left out clothes for him to wear, so we had him wait on the porch and we went into his house and found his clothes so that he could come. I love what we do :) 

Well, I love you all!
Love,

M

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Hermana Reynolds