Dear Family,
Its sounds like things are carryiing on as before. Grandkids still crazy and running around the house every sunday. Thats too bad about the wasps. and your knee dad. i hope it gets better soon! And mom, thats great that you found the ¨pot of gold¨ in the dumpster. haha! Keep at it!
So this week hermana alvarado and i were walking to a members house when we saw a woman and her children on the side of the road net to a big mound of dirt filling these little bags with dirt. They were right next to a nursery kind of place with lots of plants and trees so i´m pretty sure thats what they were for. So hna alvarado asked if she could use some help and the woman kindly accepted. So we got down in the dirt with our skirts and all and dug in! It was actually kind of fun. We would fill a bag and her son would pack it down. We talked to her and got to know her while filling the bags. When we finished, we asked her if we could come by another time to share our message with her and she agreed. So the next day we returned and taught her family and we were really blessed because her sister with her own kids came by at the same time and listened to our message too!
The other night we went to a house of one of our investigators but they weren´t home so we started tracting near by. By this time it was pouring rain! We hadn´t had any success until i saw one house with its door opened a little . Hna alvarado made me initiatethis one so i was a little nervous. i knocked an said ´buenas!¨ and a little onld lady started walking to the door. All i had to say was ¨hola hermana, como esta? and she just started talking away and let us right in. We started teacing and within minutesit stated raining really hard. All the homes here have roofs made of metal so when it rains hard it gets really loud inside. it always seems to hapen at the most inconvenient moments. So i´m talking and its getting louder and louder to the point where i couldn´t even hear myself talk! and i wass literally yelling in spanish hoping she could understand me. Then i asked her if she could hear me nad she said yes so i hestatingly continued. Eventually we waited for it to calm down. While it was slowing down, she started singing to us. I know that it sounds kind of random an strange she would just sxtart singing but for some reason it was one of the most beautiful moments i´ve had while being here. Even though she was an older woman, she had the most smooth beautiful voice. In contrast to the tumultous ranistorm pattering on her tin roof we sat in complete peace as she seranaded us with her soothing song. She is a great woman. she has a lot of faith and almost everything she talks about she relates back to God and how he has blessed her life. She said she felt really blessed that we came to visit her that night. We asked if she would come to church but she hesitated becasue she has heart problems and can´t walk much. So we´re going to try coming by in a taxi to bring her and we hope she decides to make the effort.
So we had a marriage and a baptism this week but i don´t have any time left to tell you about it! Next week. and i´ll send pictures too.
love you all!
Hermana jackson
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