This week was much better

In essence, this week was much better.  And I have stories!  But I don't have a lot of time.

Things are doing good in Calle Larga it seems, Maricarmen went to the temple this week!  I'm not sure if she went to do baptisms but I know that she went.  Apparently she bought a full set of scriptures there and some other books, she's so awesome.  The ward keeps progressing, and Alejandro is working a lot with the missionaries.  This week he substituted for a new missionary who had to go home since his companion had nobody to work with.  So good stuff!

Things are doing great over here.  Tuesday we had interviews with President Harris which was awesome.  Me and my comp were also able to put some good goals of what we wanted to accomplish before I leave and we've seen some good miracles.

First off, Lorena and Cesar are doing amazingly.  She really wants to get baptized, they just need to get married.  They're some of the coolest investigators I've ever had, they're so ridiculously friendly.  We taught them the Restoration this week and it went really well.  They should be going to church this Sunday for sure.

Also, Lorenzo and Gladys (Angela's kids) are doing really well.  For kids that are completely new to the church, they're learning incredibly well.  I think they understand the Plan of Salvation better than I did at their age.  We taught the gospel of Jesus Christ to them and during the lesson Angela's sister, who we hadn't met before, walked in and we got to know her too.  She seems pretty interested, so we're probably going to go teach her too soon.

We also had a family home evening with a struggling family where the dad goes to church every now and then and the mom isn't a member.  They have a son named Diego who's 17 but doesn't go.  They invited some Haitians over for the lesson, so we got to teach them all.  It was a good lesson, we hope to help Diego more than anything, we tried to get him excited about preparing for a mission.

We also have hermanas working in our branch now!  Finally!  President Harris told the sisters from Centinela to work in our sector two days a week to visit the members that we can't because they're women.  On Friday we went with the sisters through the whole sector to show them where everyone lives and visit some people.  One of the sisters we visited was Lily Poblete, who's a girl who was strong recently but went inactive because she started smoking and didn't have any help from the missionaries because they can't go in her house.  So when we brought the sisters, she was really excited and seems like she's going to be going back to church.  Miracles!

Also, President Harris accompanied us this Sunday to the family of a kid in the branch who is going to go on a mission soon to Arkansas.  His mom is less active and his dad isn't a member, so President Harris wanted to go over and talk to them.  It was an amazing lesson, and the Spirit was really strong, and we invited them to read the Book of Mormon every night for 30 minutes.  If they do it, we know they'll come back, so we have hopes!

Also, we're going to be starting up a 12 steps class!  There are a lot of members we're working with that smoke, and probably some others that do more serious things, so we talked with President Harris yesterday about making our own 12 steps group.  He loved the idea, and said that we should just go ahead and teach the class ourselves with a member accompanying us, so that's what we're going to do!  I'm excited to start the class up, I've definitely never taught an addiction recovery class before but I trust in the Spirit to help us through the process.  It's gonna be great!

Anywho, I love you all!  I hope you all have a great week!

Love

Elder Fox