This week has been pretty good! We had the opportunity to teach so many lessons and even though a lot of them don't seem to amount to much, I know I'm spreading the knowledge of the Restored Gospel and planting seeds in these people's hearts.
Sad news this week, J.sent us a text yesterday saying that "he has lost the motivation to continue coming to church". He said he's been having a lot of problems and he needs to take a break from the church and meeting with us. I texted him back and told him that whenever we get close to the truth and what Heavenly Father wants to do, the enemy will do everything in his power to impede us and keep us from reaching our potential. We're praying that he will realize this and that sometime in the near future, he will return.
We were able to teach C. again this week. The lesson was a little scattered, but in the end we were able to testify about the importance of baptism and help her become a little more prepared for the 12th. As we get closer to the day, I have become very stressed hoping that there will be enough time to teach everything we need to in order to prepare her for this covenant she will make. But I'm confident that the Lord will provide us with the time we need.
When I say that Elder Shepherd is really prepared, I mean in the sense that he is so spiritually strong and mature. When I came out, I feel like my heart wasn't in it as much as it should have been and it was really hard for me to adjust to the change. But he doesn't seem to have any problem whatsoever adjusting to the drastic change that missionary life is. You can tell he has a deep love for the Savior and faith that He has a hand in this work. It's really helpful to have a humble, diligent, trainee like him.
We have an investigator named M. that the elders in this area before me were teaching. I hadn't met him until a couple weeks ago, so it had been about 2 months since he had contact with the missionaries (it happens a lot when missionaries get double-transferred out of an area). His record said he was super prepared and ready to be baptized, he just needed to get married to the girlfriend he's living with. When we finally met him, it so happened that he had been receiving a lot of anti-Mormon information over the 2 months he wasn't being visited. So we testified about Joseph Smith and the ability that he has to receive an answer for himself. We haven't met with him since then, but hopefully we can meet with him soon to help him with his doubts.
I've still been translating quite a bit in sacrament meeting. Me and Elder Hansen are pretty much the only ones willing to do it, so we usually switch off. Despite how difficult it is, I've come to enjoy translating for 2 reasons. One, because it is a great way to practice my Spanish and learn more, and two, I find that I focus a lot more on the talks and what is being said and it is a more spiritually edifying experience for me.
Other than that, not much happened this week... Oh I forgot to mention that a couple weeks ago we got devices similar to black boxes in our cars. They track our speed and acceleration and other things to keep us in check with speeding and stuff in order to decrease the number of accidents. I'm hoping it helps my speeding problem I seem to have!
I love you Mom! I love hearing from you and the family. I'll talk to you next week!
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