Hola! Como estan? Hope everyone had a fabulous week! I know I did. haha being a missionary is seriously the craziest, but greatest thing ever. And so much happens. But I love it. So here's how this last week went! So earlier this week, we went over to teach our investigator Maria. She's great. So we go to her apartment and her son was sleeping on the couch in the front living room and so we had to go into the back room and sit/teach her on the big bed she had in there. With her little granddaughters running around! haha it was quite the experience. But it was great. We taught her about the Restoration and about the Book of Mormon. And then we extended a baptismal date to her for June 8th and she accepted! We then found out later in the week that she has no problem with getting baptised and she would like to but she cant get rid of her belief in the virgin mary, because she was catholic. So we pray that she will be able to get rid of that and be able to be baptized. I love her so much. She is the sweetest! :) And what was so cool was that I started the lesson and I was able to contribute and I know that everything I said was completely from the spirit. I dont remember what I said but my companion told me it all made sense. And that definitely was not from me! The Lord really does qualify his servants and the gift of tongues is real. The language is hard but it is definitely coming. So we also met this lady named Timo. We found out she was baptized down in Brownsville but is inactive. She hasnt been to church since she had her kids which was like 7 years ago! Bless this sweet girls heart though. She has 2 kids and they are a handful. I think both of them have disabilities and are very demanding. But she is doing the best she can and she really loves them. Its amazing. So we try and go over there and leave her with a message and we asked her if she would come to church but she is so busy! Hopefully she will come. Then we met Alicia. We were knocking on doors and she opened the door and we told her who we were and she let us in! She is a hard catholic, LOVES her bible. But she is so open to religion and said she would listen to whatever we had to say. And that we were welcome to come over whenever. She even was like "Ya never know. I could join your church next week. I just gotta feel it." Perfect. We can help her with that. HAHA she is so sweet though. And she knows english and spanish. perrrrfffeeeccctttt. love it. So we also have this investigator, Jorge. He has been an investigator forever and he has a date for the 15th but he is so shy. And he didnt come to church yesterday. He is busted. ;) But for reals... we are crackin down on him. he is so prepared and so ready! But pray for him. :) Then we were knocking on doors again the other day and this family from Iraq let us in! They didnt know much english so it was really hard to talk to them but they offered us food and water and loved talking to us. it was the coolest thing. and they have only been here for 10 months! They loved us too. And said we were welcome anytime! And yesterday we were walking into another apartment complex by theirs and they drove by and honked the horn and waved at us and were so happy. soooo cute! love them. new friends. :)
Ya know how they say when in rains in Texas, it really rains? Well thats true! It rained yesterday morning! sooo hard!! it was awesome! I love love the rain!! But... ha we are idiots. we left the windows cracked in our car and the rain SOAKED the seats and floor and everything in our car. hahahhahahaaha we are so dumb! but we do that because there was a flood a few weeks ago and it soaked the inside of the car so it stunk. and now its worse! too funny. Oh! I forgot! we met another arabic family yesterday. and they knew like 3 english words. English, yes, and thank you. And of course they invited us in. And when they invited us in they started doing their own thing. So we were just sitting there on their couch in silence. Then they finally came and sat down and just sat there. They didnt know how to communicate with us and we didnt know how to communicate with them. AWKWARD.... hahahah so we were like okay.. we have to go but it was so nice to meet you! bye! hahahahaha so great.
So we all know about the Jehovah's Witnesses yeah? Okay so today we were doing laundry and we were sitting with the english elders and they saw the spanish jehovahs witnesses outside talking to people! And of course they saw us and came in! so they went to the back and were talking to people. Then they of course came and talked to us and told us how its a commandment from God to preach the gospel and we were like "mhmm... yeah we know. look at our badges!" not really but we were thinking that. hahaha they were too funny! gotta love em! ;) oh and gotta love the fights at 3:30 in the morning outside of our apartment! Well more like a drunk girl going crazy banging on peoples doors. But anyways! Missionary work is amazing! I really love this gospel so much and my testimony has grown so much while ive been here. I know that Christ lives and I know that Heavenly Father answers our prayers and knows us individually. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and is the word of God. It testifies of it right in 2 Nephi 27-29 I believe. I love this work and I love all of you so much! Thank you for your love and support! :)
Love, Hermana Dorian :) or Hermana Putt-Putt as one of the staff members called me ;)
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