Hello all! This week was awesome and super busy. However, I'm probably spoiled by how crazy these past few weeks have been, because even though this week was super busy it was relatively pretty boring haha so this might be a quicker letter. BUT, there were a lot of great things that happened!
So these weeks we changed! Like I said, it was hard to lose Elder Mendez and it was hard for Alejandro too, but Elder Sawyer's great! We're pretty similar intellectually so we have a lot of great conversations haha he was studying computer engineering in BYU before coming here so there's a lot of similarities there. I'm excited to see how the change goes with him!
So I think I talked about the Bolivian sisters that recently moved here and just started coming to church for the first time in about 12 years or so. They don't remember a lot so they wanted us to teach all the lessons and they have a 9 year old daughter that they want us to baptize. And we started that process this week! So that was fun, they're a great family and a lot of fun to talk to. I probably won't be here for the baptism but it should be soon after I leave so I'll get pictures!
We also had a big miracle happen, there's a less active that Alejandro introduced us to forever ago called Rosa Machuca who was active when he was still in the church 16 years ago. She was a return missionary, and since then, has gotten into a relationship without being married and had a kid. She lost her rights, and the members and leaders treated her horribly and left her on her own so she's stopped coming. The first time we went there it was basically just an opportunity for her to vent, and Alejandro went back alone this week and she vented to him for another 3 hours. However, after those 3 hours of venting, she told Alejandro that she wanted to back to church and she wanted us to baptize her son. That'a boy Alejandro!!! Anyway, we were excited about that, and heard about that on Tuesday, the same day as the changes. So we went by there to teach them too.
Patricia! We went by and taught the Plan of Salvation and it went really well, though there were a ton of distractions on the part of her son. We gave her the baptismal date invitation though and she accepted for the 18th of March! And it wasn't a wishy-washy acceptance either, she said the words ''I really want to be baptized'' so it's a pretty big deal. The great thing is, is that this time with her we were able to focus on the entire Doctrine of Christ and really hit repentance in hard way before ever talking about baptism. So she understands completely well the importance of repentance and knows she has to repent before she gets baptized, and has already committed herself to coming to church every week for the rest of her life.
We also started teaching a Spanish woman who's living with a member of the ward! Her name is Mari-Carmen, and her accent is way different, but it's awesome, and she talks in vosotros! (basically like biblical language, but she talks in it all the time.) She's had a really hard life and has been trying to find God in a ton of different churches, and told us that she thinks she's finally finding Him here, and that she's finally finding peace for the fist time. We talked about the Plan of Salvation and the atonement, and it was probably one of the coolest and most spiritual lessons of my mission. It was a great experience, and I hope that she can continue progressing because she is awesome.
Okay I ran out of time, so the title of the email is based on a hilarious story that I have to tell next week so don't let me forget. I love you all! There are so many miracles always! Life is great! Always be positive! Have a great week!
Love
Elder Fox
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