The zls bribed us with ice cream to reach some of our hardest goals and surprise- it worked!
We have been learning and working on inviting to baptism in the first lesson and every lesson afterward with power and authority. It can be intimidating but it is really important that everyone understands exactly what our purpose is. We have even been contacting with this line ¨ buenas! we are representatives of Jesus Christ and we would like to teach you and your family the restored gospel and prepare you to be baptized in the only true church!¨ We get a lot of ¨ummm.. no¨ but we have had some really awesome experiences of people who have let us in and listened to our message!
Our goal to invite helped us to reach our goal of investigators with baptismal dates. We have been teaching Betsy for a long time and she is reading and praying and she is ready! Last week we shared the family proclamation with her and challenged her to share what she has been learning with her husband and 2 kids. So when we came to teach on Friday we were able to teach her 14 year old daughter as well and she is super shy but she has a desire to learn and she accepted the fecha immediately and didn't hesitate at all when we invited her to say the closing prayer!
This week we taught Kathy about baptism and the priesthood. She has been evangelica all of her life and feels very attached to her church. She wants so badly for there to be exceptions- maybe God can give other people the authority outside of the church if they are faithful or maybe any baptism can be valid if you have enough faith. It can be tough to teach without offending her but it is pretty incredible at the same time! She knows and LOVES the bible and she reads and studies all of the chapters we leave in the BOM. She really likes it and I know that her testimony and answer is going to come first from the BOM. My favorite moment in the whole week was when she told us (after reading 2 Nephi 32) that the Book of Mormon is really beautiful and clear and teaches her things in a different way than the bible. What?! I know she is so torn because she wants her church to be true so badly but she also recognizes that we have something different, something really really good. We pray constantly that we can help her find the answer that helps her make the change. The Book of Mormon is so powerful and so so so true!
So good/awful experience of the week- We have this inactive that cuts hair in her house. Everytime we pass by she hides and locks the door but yesterday when we stopped by her son let us in the house and she tried to kick us out by telling us that she had to work and she had people coming for haircuts. I wanted so bad to talk to her so without thinking I asked if she could cut my hair. 1st mistake. Then I asked her to just take off the tippy tippy tips and give me a tiny bit of layers. 2nd mistake. She went nuts and cut off all the hair I have worked so hard to grow out since the mtc and gave me the worst layers ever! Buuuuuutttt we schmoozed her up and we have a return appointment so it just might be worth it!
Hermana Smith
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