Hola familia mia,
Como estan todos? Gracias for your letters and love. I really appreciate. Its fun to get filled in on the goings on back home with all of you and fill like I can be loving and serving the Lord, but also get to be a part of your lives as well. Thank you very much for that. I'm going to try to be better about writing some of you back time is limited sometimes. (And, if its a P-day like today then we have to end P-day early to go and teach some last minute things to our investigators/go to a early dinner appointment)
This week has been pretty busy with much to tell...and I'm not really sure where to begin! I suppose I'll go through with highlights of the week.
Last Tuesday night (17th)
~We went to the Castro's at 5:30 and taught the fam from D&C 59 on going to church to keep ourselves unspotted from the world as well as other laws that help us to keep ourselves unspotted. Mom (Shayla) agreed to do what she could to make it to church every week and to only drink coffee every other day!
~We were able to help the Ramirez fam get their testimonies of Pres Monson by having a powerful lesson by the prophet himself on DVD
~Went back to the Castro fam to teach EVERYONE and we sang "Familias Puedan Ser Eternas." Pa (Daniel) easily accepted commitments to read, pray and Come to Church!!...not to mention that he accepted the same baptismal date as his family (17)
-It really really helped to have our ward mission leader there to explain why its important for him to go to church personally (Especially with his own crazy work schedule that has kept him from church for a month.) It was perfect.
Wed
~Zone meeting of awesomeness. Our whole zone plus Pres and Sis doll were there. We ate breakfast together and then got to work with a lesson about our new contacting goals. Instead of QGC or quality gospel contacts (where you can count it if you have explained who we are and they have the opportunity to listen or not...usually is very short) we are doing Potential Investigators. You have to get to the point of scheduling a return appointment, or getting all their information-proof that they are interested to learn more. It’s going to change how we contact for sure and for the better. I want to get better at opening my mouth with everyone I see. Its easy to rationalize "Oh, well we only have 30 seconds standing here in line...etc" but if you have to find 12 potential investigators every week you need to be looking everywhere you can. I feel like I had that feeling the very first weeks here and I'm grateful for another reason to have that drive again!
~A totally Spirit driven lesson with Rosario-who's questions were everywere.
~Counselors at Juanzerias house-there was so much going on that there was no way we could have taught anything...however we gave pictures of the Savior to both Juan and Nazaria and Juan candy cane sticks to use in place of his cigarettes...and now we pray.
Thurs
~We had a NDH with Juanzeria and la familia Salazar (Elders Quorum pres). We waited forever for them to get home to follow us over there and then when they finally did and we got there then Jorge wasn't in the car! We got really sad that he couldn't be there because we knew that he would get along with Brian-at least because they are both in love with video games...so we sent Juan back for him....then at church he didn't want to go to class. There’s an iceberg-we've got to find what it is! It was great though that after we left they stayed and hung out. Awesome.
~Another lesson with the Castros-this time Presidente and his wife came! It was a really powerful restoration lesson and pres just took it away for the last 15 minutes on a really inspired personal-fatherly counsel and Bishop like commitment. (Them coming was totally an answer to prayer...I had thought earlier how that would be what would make the difference in our lesson so we sent out a text to all of the presidency and Hno salazar-we didn't even expect to get Hna Pres there!) (Hna Benavides)
Fri
CRAZY day!!! We had a full day in Beloit. After every appointment we had to scrape off the ice on our car and brush off about 3 inches of snow. It was so crazy nuts. It was pretty fun...just not when the windshield wipers would have ice on them so they wouldn't wipe very well. We were almost able to give Antonio a baptismal date. He is falling in love with the BOM and picks it up and reads random chapters here and there. He's getting his answer and testimony...we just have to help him the confidence to work past his doubts of going against his dad's wishes who is very catholic.
A RM sister went with us to the appointment with him and a few others and was a real help-she's a solid missionary.
On our way home and to the Ramirez home to eat and talk about the interview q's again we found ourselves in a pickle....
Have you ever seen the hot wheel car tracks? And how the tires are set on opposite sides of the track and then you send it off to go whizzing around the track>?...well that was us, but we weren't going anywhere. Haha. There was so much snow on the road that still needed to get plowed so I couldn't see the median very well. I turned to soon for the same reason into the oncoming side of traffic (there wasn't anyone on the road though). The medians in Belvedere are only like 3 inches high so Hna Noyes told me how I could try just going over it. I agreed...but we were in Rockford. Their medians are a little more mean. It was windy, 5 degrees outside and still snowing...and we were stuck high-centered on a median. We got out and just laughed. Soon the Schwan man, a random guy in a little car like us, a snow-plow guy, and eventually our zone leaders came and got us out. I'm grateful there are still reasons to believe in humanity-they were funny and nice (and one had a fowl mouth...the Schwan guy who I quickly told to hold his tongue-if you will so kindly. thanks.) Nubu is fine and handled the ordeal very well. We're still going to get it checked out though.
Sat
I had my first experience with interviewing a family! Elder Eager came over and gave the boys their interviews and we rescheduled the Parents to this Wednesday so they could be interviewed without a translator-aka by Pres Doll who speaks Spanish. The rest of the day we planned-an answer to prayer I suppose that all our other appointments canceled.
So 17 on date with Daniel
then 16 because we decided to drop Ezekial since we can't find him and he isn't ready. The ball is in his court. We'll happily keep teaching him when he's ready.
and 17 at church!!
Totally rocked to have all three of our families on date there plus rosario y agustin our eternigators.
We taught the lesson in YW-fun
We ate at the Gomez house-an answer to missionaries' prayers for quite a while (and she offered to go out with us-another answer to prayer-we know just who we'd use her for)
Lesson to calm some nerves at the Ramirez house and to plan the baptismal service!! Its going to be awesome I'm so so pumped!
Contacted 2 of our referrals from the English sisters and got 2 return appointments!! Its awesometown.
With all of that...that’s my week in more detail than I should've taken time for and more than you all probably have time to read. It was fun to see the whole week unfold like this though. The Lord knows his Children and is in charge of this work. He will lead and guide us to bring his children to him. We just need to be willing and follow the little impressions we get. Josh 1:9
Love you all!
Hna Moffat
Questions: Will you get to attend the temple if or when you are near it? “I can go on p-days if I'm in one of the areas closest to the temple. The area I'm in now is a definite no. I miss it though...I could definitely use a temple trip. It’s not very common though. We'll see what happens!”
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