This week my comp was having a tough time. The miracle was that on the day we were having a hard time we found a ton of new people to teach! We have our goal of 10 people contacted every day and normally 1 of these 10 will tell us that we can come back and maybe maybe but probably not are in their house when we come back. But this day I was feeling so crappy so I started to contact houses and 4 right in a row told us to come back and gave us references. Then the 5th house was this crazy old man that I think is mentally ill because he was locked inside his patio and he told us that he had 65 kids and who knows...maybe I´m one of them! Doing missionary work and seeing God try and help us out a little reminded us why we are here and helped us laugh it off a little. It also prepared us for the next hard day.
On Thursday we called Betsy in the morning to confirm our appointment and we were so excited because she had beed reading and the spirit was so strong in our lessons. She told us how much she wanted to come to church and we had plans to go pick her up. Well when we called she told us that her husband didn't agree with what we were teaching and that to avoid problems in the marriage it is better that we don't stop by anymore. Then in the afternoon we had a lesson with Kathy and we watched the restoration video and bore fierce testimonies about the Book of Mormon and the prophet Joseph Smith and she basically told us that since we have been teaching her she has been feeling really confused and that she is comfortable with her own religion. Boom. Our favorite investigators both in one day. That was super tough but we put them in the area book and hope the future missionaries will take the time to find them when they are more prepared.
We had a ward activity on saturday night about family history and all of the members made familysearch accounts and tried to start their family trees. The problem was that none of the family history consultants (basically the 3 youth that know how to work a laptop) showed up so they roped me in to 3 hours helping people make accounts and input names and let me tell you- that website is just as frustrating in spanish. But the cool part is that most of the members are the only ones doing family history so all of the names they were putting in we were able to print out and they are all going to the temple this week!! Today I am going to help one of the hermanas who has more than 60 names to put in!
Sunday was just a full on miracle. We only had 3 lessons but in every one we had awesome members and in every one we were able to put a baptismal date.
This transfer flew by and we are praying for one more transfer here togehter becuase we know there are some amazing miracles coming our way! I love it here in Biancheri and could spend the rest of my mission here! Who knows what God has planned for me but I am going to enjoy this last week of the transfer just in case:)!
Love you!
Katie
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