Hi Familia!
I'm doing awesome!!! Fresh off cleaning our house last week, we decided
we were going to work even harder this week, especially with our current contacts
and that's exactly what we did! In fact one day we had the most lessons
we've ever had in a single day (8) and they were all super awesome. A
bit of sad news though, we learned at one of those lessons that one of
our most interested investigators is moving back to Peru for 2 months,
so Elder Smith had to say goodbye to him - Since he will be home before he returns from Peru. Hopefully when he comes back
I'll be able to reconnect with him. Also, Jorge (the elderly guy) who has
been super sick recently such that we haven't been able to pass by for a
couple weeks told us that he was too sick to progress any further/talk
with us/attend church. He was more or less ready to be baptized for a
while, but my companion wanted to be sure that he'd attend church after
his baptism so he kept delaying the baptism date. When he told us that
we couldn't come by any more my companion described the experience as
kind of like breaking up with a girlfriend.
Sandra
and her family are doing super well. They are loving reading the Book
of Mormon and 3 of them showed a lot of interest in being baptized
within the next month or two, which is crazy compared to just a few
weeks back.
Andony Joseph has been going to
seminary every day and he always comes to church with us. He's kind of
becoming like our little brother which is super awesome.
We
were anticipating some problems with the Word of Wisdom with Mario but
he decided he's all in with it. He says he doesn't understand the
reasoning behind not drinking tea, but he knows that it's what God wants
for him. He's getting baptized this Sunday
and we're super excited for him! Every time we talk to him, it uplifts US spiritually. When we taught the Law of Chastity I think he gave his
testimony on the subject more than we did.
We
also performed with the choir at Stake conference and it was
actually way awesome! I never thought I'd like singing in the choir, but
I loved it. We sang "Señor, Te Necesito" (I Need Thee Every Hour) at the
beginning of the conference and the song kind up built up to a line-
"Te Necesito, Sí, Mi Salvador" and wow it was just way powerful.
I almost had to eat tomatoes this week!! We were in the home of a hermana in our ward and I assume she would get offended if I didn't eat her food.
Thankfully she went to the bathroom at one point so I could spoon the
tomatoes onto my companion's place. (It was a close call)
We also went to the temple again today and I have to say it was my favorite time I've every gone! We're going again in one week.
I'm doing great and we're getting super excited for General Conference in a couple weeks!
Talk to you next week!
Love,
Elder Birrell
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| At the temple |
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| My first Zone leader going home |
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