we have been working with the Abad family who is a family that we have been teaching that is less active and has family members who are not yet members. They area so nice and it had been a long time since missionaries had visited them, which is crazy because Celeste, the 18 year old, has been in need of a visit. We taught them about the gospel and didnt necessarily focus on teaching the doctrine but on testifying and telling them of the blessing that they will receive through the gospel and if they will go to church. This sunday they went to church and you could tell that she felt so loved it was incredible and we are excited that they enjoyed it because the hardest part is going to church for the first time after a while in reactivation of a member and the members embraced them and i have faith she will keep going. ITS SO IMPORTANT that we show love to every single member so they all feel welcome at church! We never know who is in need of our love.
I am loving being a District Leader because now i am in charge of running councils instead of workshops. We have had the most juicy synergy filled discussions! it has been great. The Spirit has been so strong as we go in there and talk about different things that we need to do in our work to gain success. It is always hard to know what the district needs but the Spirit guides me in knowing what they need and what to ask when i follow up with them.
We are working with this other family the Alvar family and they were so close to coming to church this last week. On tuesday we worked with three young adults and went around to appointments and having them helped a lot. When we taught the Alvar family, we get in there and they had not done any of our assignments and at the point we were a little disappointed and didnt know what we should do so we started to share the Restoration with them. She mentioned something about church so we started talking about church and we could tell that kshe was not intersted but after when we had the young adults testify of going to church and how it blesses the family they committed to go but something happened this last sunday. Hopefully next sunday.
Nadia is still progressing, she is so excited to get baptized. Really there is no problems! We got to teach her the other day and she is ready for May 25!
This week our fellowshipper was not able to go to church which was really sad because she was supposed to bring a lot of people to church but she got sick and felt bad because she wanted to go to church but we visited her and said a prayer kneeling down, praying that her and her friends will be able to go to church next week it was really great experience!
I love my companion he is so funny and english is not his first language. A funny experience with my chilean companion was i asked him yesterday if he knows who the Foo Fi
ghters are and he said that he does not know and then i said they are a band and after i said that he went straight up stairs and came down two minutes later and said you mean like this and had in his hand two BAND-aids. We both started dying laughing and he later realized that i was talking about bands as in music bands.
We visited Annie and their family and had a really good lesson about the Spirit and coming to know answers because they are really interested in the message and what we are teaching but they dont know exactly if they are true and they do not understand yet. We shared scriptures from the Book of Mormon and talked about answers to prayers and how they come. The spirit was really strong and Elder Arias shared a great experience about when he prayed for comfort before his mission. I love my companion. They are so close to coming to know the truth.
I just love this work so much and everything about it. All of the experiences are great i know that this week is going to be a great one! i hope you have an even greater week! I love you all!
Elder Wright
macopa
Annie and her fam
nadia and her daughter
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