Dear Family,
This week has been super good!
This week we stopped by a members house because she wanted to give us a bag of extra food that she had and there was about 45 minutes left of the night and she asked us if we had anything to do and wanted to come in. We didn't have anything planned, but we just said that we were going to go out and talk to people and find someone to teach. She responded with "just have faith!" We went to go contact a referral and when she opened the door and saw who it was she let us in right away! I was so grateful that we had told the member that we were go out and find someone and then we actually did! I know that was an answer to a prayer as I am trying to be more diligent.
Laura is so cute! We went over to meet with her this week a few times, and she told us that she had been flipping through the Book of Mormon and read something along the lines that people had prayed for some people for their hearts to be softened so she asked us to pray for her boyfriend to be open and understand why she wants to get married, and then the next day he sat in on our lesson! He wasn't super keen and being involved in the lesson but it was a huge step in the right direction!
Fernando is doing making such good progress as well. He has figured out a lot and opened up his heart up a lot on his own. Something I have realized(again) with Fernando and Laura is that we really have nothing to do with them truly finding joy in the gospel and receiving their own answers. Everything happens when we are gone and they make the effort to open up the Book of Mormon with an open heart and pray! Saturday we had a lesson with Fernando and he told us just how all these things that have happened to him the best 6 months have been preparing him to study with us and he just wants to take his time, and that it wasn't a coincidence that he kept running into the missionaries and we caught him right before he left and that he has been so happy lately even though all these other bad things are going on. Once he started reading the book of mormon and reading it with an open heart he stopped being so defensive and allowing the changes to come! He also told us he wants to try a English ward which I think would be better we were just waiting for him to voice his opinion. We keep inviting him to be baptized, but he never says yes or no, but he's coming along. We can tell he knows it true he just wants everything to make sense and not jump into anything, but he'll get baptized:) There's no way he can just leave all this!:)
Right now we are working on opening another English class unit that is a little bit closer all the latinos that we work with since a lot of them don't have cars.
We helped the Reyna's paint and clean their house a little bit this week which was super fun. We were cleaning the grout with some wire brushes and when we were done mine was was smaller and some of the bristles had fallen out...oops:) but my area of the floor looked super good:)
Happy Birthday Gabrielle! You're the best!
Have a great week!
Love,
Hermana Ford
SISTER SHEPARD
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