Hola Familia!
This week was full of success and wonderful experiences! We added 6 new investigators and have three people on date for baptism for the second of December! The cold weather isn't slowing Elder Fuentes and I down at all but actually makes us faster because members have taken pity on us in the snow and go on splits with us almost every night. We also get people that stop and ask if we need rides while proselyting in the afternoon. We cannot thank them enough for helping us use our time more effectively. The Lord is blessing us so much with people prepared to listen and ways to get to all of them!
I had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I ate a wonderful traditional Thanksgiving feast at an American family's home named the Duvalls. They are 88 and 96 years old respectively and we had such a great time with them. They stuffed us full of hilarious life experiences and wonderful food. Elder Fuentes and I waddled home for the evening to take a nap and prepare for the Thanksgiving night Mission Proselyting Game. The game is where you get 1 point for every investigator and recent converts you visit to wish a Happy Thanksgiving and 3 points for every referral. Elder Fuentes and I ran around like crazy and met with 14 different families and got 18 REFERRALS. Through this we have added many new investigators!
I cannot tell you have much I loved the lovin' from home in all those packages I received! I have been really enjoying all the candy, and the hot chocolate was perfect for Elder Fuentes and me on those particularly cold nights. I appreciate all the time, thought, and effort you put into every item in the packages. THANKS! Oh, I really liked the testimony cards in the Christmas package, they were such a wonderful idea! I shared them with Elder Fuentes and we will look for ways to use them with our new investigators. Thanks for that great idea and for taking the time to make those for me!
One of the investigators we have on date named Lucio and his wife (who we will be putting on date soon) are the best investigators that I have ever had. They just soak up every lesson and love the Book of Mormon. They came to church with us this last Sunday and just ate it all up! The members did a wonderful job of befriending them and they were basically smiling the whole time! We have gone to their house everyday this week because they want to learn everything and do everything they can to learn. We took them to temple square to see the Christmas lights and go on the Families Forever Tour which they also just loved. They were a family we found while tracting and we feel so trusted and blessed by the Lord with the opportunity to help them prepare for baptism.
Leo Paur, the less active guy we met last week, went to church with us this last Sunday also for the first time in a long time with his daughter and one of his sons. We visited him a couple of times before church to remind him and he was just so thankful for us coming by. He also told us that we knocked on his door literally 5 minutes after he had prayed to the Lord for guidance. He also told us that if we hadn't been Spanish speaking missionaries, he probably wouldn't have listened to us. He didn't clarify why that was the way it was but we are thankful for the opportunity we had to help him. I am also so humbled that I of all people was the answer to a prayer. The Lord really does qualify those he calls because without the Spirit we would not have been able to help Leo in the way we did!
I love all of you soooo much! Thanks for all that you do and all the prayers.
Love,
Elder Janis
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