Im going to apologize in advanced if this is really short.
First, Happy thanksgiving to all, i almost forgot until i read the email from my mom. we dont celebrate thanksgiving here so i wont be doing anything different besides the normal. I dont know maybe my companion and i will offer a prayer of thanksgiving but we wont have time to do anything other than that.
This week has been really good. something suprising has been happening in our area. we have been finding more and more people who are ready for baptism. there are only a few... road blocks. I have been here for almost 4 months now and I have really grown to love Latina. Im scared that im going to be sent to a new area. i feel like things have just started to get good. I feel like if my companion and i could just stay a little bit longer we could change this area. I have heard it is a lot harder than a lot of areas but then again, i feel like this is the best area i could of hoped for. we have cambios (changes) this next week so we will see what happens.
One of the things that has made me the most excited for this area is the families that we are teaching. We have been teaching two girls for a little while now, Paola and Mirely. who are 16 and 18 and they have been progressing really well, but its hard to find them durning the week. they had a baptismal date for the end of this week (we had to change it, they are not quite ready yet), but the miracle with them is during one of lessons their older sister Karla came in to listen. She is attending a catholic church and is studying medicine. we had left 3 nephi 11 with paola and mirelli to read before the lesson and when we arrived they had a few questions about baptism and how it works. we explained we are baptized the same way jesus christ was baptized and asked they beleived if it was important to be baptized in the way jesus christ taught. They all afirmed that they beleived this was the way we should be baptized. we were able to later in the week challenge karla to baptism. so the three sisters have a goal to be baptized the 15 of december. and their little brother is going to start listening to us too. their mom is a member, the only hard person to teach will be their dad i think, but i shouldnt judge the situation yet. I havent been able to talk to him too much. So we have a whole family to teach!!!!! im so excited. (and sad becaus i might not be here to see them all be baptized.)
(Karla is an investigator of gold, she reminds me so much of junior, she has a really tender heart and we have had some really great lessons with her. every time we teach her we can feel the power of the spirit. she knows what the spirit feels like, and that is the most powerful tool anyone can have as they look for answers)
somehting else interesting has been taking place here too. There have been a lot of trials in the lives of the people who we are teaching but it seems to be opening up the hearts of their families and the members of the ward.
I wont be able to share a whole lot because a few of the situations are a little delicate and i dont want to be throwing personal information everywhere. but i will share what i can.
Junior´s family has been passing through some hard times. His sister had her baby, but there has been complications. The family is really heart broken and humble right now. I have taught this family the whole time i have been here in latina and its been hard to help them progress. they are a wonderful family and they keep their commitments and listen to us and invite us in their home, but their hearts havent been always open. They arent hard hearted, they just havent seen why our message is so important. We had the opertunity to go to the hospital (its nothing like a hospital in the united states, healthcare is REALLY different here) and give a blessing to natalies baby. ( long story short, i know these little ones are straight from heaven because of the spirit in that room ) and the ward members have been stopping by their house to offer help to the family. we have really seen a change in the family. their hearts are more open and i know its been an answer to our prayers. I hope we can continue to help them.
The other miracle is with a man we are teaching named franko, franko has had a really crazy past. I wont go into everything, but he hasnt always been a church going guy. he really wants to change his life and we are so excited to teach him. he loves when we visit and he never wants us to leave and he loves to go to the church. the only problem is his wife is super catholic. she sometimes doesnt let him leave. this last week she had an accident. she got burned really bad by boiling water so franko has been taking care of her. we stopped by to visit franko and she was there. she has always been nice to us, but has never wanted to talk much with us. we started talking to her and asked if we could help her in anyway. i think it softened her heart.
she let franko go to church this week
I love you all
always turn outward adn keep smiling :D :D :D
Sincerly Elder Bunker
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