Dear Family, 24 Sep 2012
This has been a great week. The work is really just exploding here. 8 investigators came to Church yesterday and one of them told us she wants to be baptized this Saturday!!! Her name is Cynthia and we were totally shocked and really happy for her. The APs are in our Ward but they hardly get time to work with their investigators because they are in the office most of the day. So they have been handing over a few investigators to us. Especially the women that they have a harder time teaching because they have to have man present in the lesson. So Cynthia is one of them and she has been going to church for a long time but has never wanted to be baptized until we taught her on Tuesday about the how the Lord answers our questions and how to recognize the Spirit. The next time we saw her was on Sunday and she said she wanted to be baptized. The only challenge is that she lives outside of the Ward boundaries but attends this Ward because her boyfriend is in the Ward. So we´re just waiting to get the Mission President’s approval. We´re also teaching a family that has been less active for a while and they all came to Church yesterday for the first time in months. Their daughter’s name is Nancy and her boyfriend’s name is Jacobo. Every time we visit their family he is there and participates in the lessons. This week after one of our lessons he wanted to talk to us. He told us that when we talked about the Plan of Salvation and the Purpose of Life, he got a really strong feeling in his heart that what we were teaching is true and that he feels like this is that path he needs to take. We are so happy for him! But his situation is also like Cynthias in that he doesn’t live in the Ward boundaries. In fact he dosn´t live in the mission boundaries but he is always in the Uruttia´s house. So we´ll see if he can get baptized here or in his own Ward. We´re just really happy that he´s experiencing a true conversion.
We are also teaching a woman named Zulma. She works as a house keeper-nanny for another one of our investigators and she has read the Book of Mormon up to Alma! She says she feels like it’s true and says she wants to be baptized but she doesn’t feel ready and doesn’t know when. But she attended a Ward baptism on Saturday and went to Church yesterday for the first time.
The work is really just exploding here. I am so grateful that the Lord has blessed my companion and me with the opportunity to be a part of this work.
Hope you all have a wonderful week,
Love,
Hermana Jackson
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