Dear Family,
This week has been truly great! We had tons of success and I am shocked as I watch the work around me fall perfectly into place. It is truly magnificent! I can't believe that I am the one in charge of this area right now.....it is going beautifully. Truly it is another example of the Lord's hand in his work. This truly is his work, and I am so lucky to be a part of it.
One example of this is a really cool situation with a new investigator that we have here named Jose Rojas. This is a guy that I tracted my first week here in Florida! Crazy huh? Well, this man, Jose, wanted a Finding Faith in Christ DVD back in March after we tracted him, and he also said that he was going to be coming to conference back in the Spring. However, to my dismay my greenie week, he did not show up, nor were we ever able to contact him again to give him the DVD. Fast forward 3 months later, when we were teaching Liliana and her family for their baptism July 2.....one day while we were there teaching a guy comes walking into her house carrying all of her laundry, and she explains to us that this is her new friend Jose, who lives in her same apartment complex, and he is helping her out because she had her lesson with us that day. IT WAS JOSE ROJAS!!!!! However, at that time Jose was always busy and never had time for us or anything....but we began to see more and more of him when we were at her house and he would be there helping her out. Through this whole time I have felt that Jose is one that the Lord has been very patient with, and the Lord wants him to join the church, but Jose has been kinda stubborn. However, recently Jose decided that he is in love with Liliana (well I don't think that the love part is recent) but he has asked her to marry him. He is a Cuban guy and he is very attractive, I must say that I think that the match is pretty cute....However, Liliana refused him for 2 reasons....1- he is not a member of the church and she is dead set on a temple marriage and an eternal family (GO LILIANA!!!!! MY FAVORITE PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!! MY BABY IN THE CHURCH) 2- her sons are super against her being in a relationship with anyone right now, and they are her life. So, Jose decided that he wanted to learn more about the church....FINALLY!!!!! 6 months after we found him, yesterday I was finally able to report him as a new investigator, and we taught him the 1st lesson, and gave him a church tour! It was amazing! The spirit was there and was so strong! It was so incredible! I could not be happier about the whole thing! He came to church and partook of the sacrament. I am truly thrilled.
Also, our investigator Juan is coming along nicely....kinda slow, but I think that things are looking up. Right now we have a baptismal date with him for next weekend, but I am thinking that it probably won't happen until after conference, because he is kinda being weird, and I think that he may need more time. Plus, he is in love with Hermana Lopez....so I need to make sure that he understands that this is eternal life we are dealing with....eternal salvation....not a way to get a date in the future. So, kinda interesting, but isn't it always?
Well, I love you all!
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