This week has been crazy!! Absolutely crazy!!
Hermana Woodbury and I ran around this week like chickens with our heads cut off! Mostly because we were trying to set up Lorenzo's baptismal interview! HE IS GETTING BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I can't believe it! This will be my first investigator ever baptized! It's so amazing! Just seeing him really work for this and now it is actually going to happen...you can bet I'm going to bawl my eyes out during the real deal. So needless to say, he passed with flying colors. President Martinez said that their actual interview was about 5 minutes and then the rest of the half an hour that we were waiting, they were just talking. We were half scared to death waiting out there for them to finish up! Jeez President Martinez! Haha!
We have also been trying to find like crazy! We are running out of investigators pretty fast because they are either not interested in our message or not willing to do the things we are asking them to do. It is so frustrating sometimes to have investigators that are not willing to keep their commitments because you just want to shake them and say "Don't you know how much this can bless your life?!" (I promise I haven't done that to anyone....yet) Anyways...we contacted someone named Mike. I will be sending a video about him.
So this week we had stake conference and there was so many good things that we learned there. Though it was a translators nightmare...everyone was speaking so fast in English! Thank goodness I wasn't translating this time. (Elder Ackley translated and never tell him this but I am super impressed that he was able to keep up with the speakers the entire time). Every speaker put a huge emphasis on member missionary work, repentance, atonement, and faith. Just really proof that this work is truly hastening!
Also before I forget. We had transfers and now I am with Hermana Niemann in North Sac. Lorenzo was heartbroken that Hermana Woodbury was leaving but he still has so much faith and love for the savior that it doesn't affect anything he believes or has come to know about this church. He says that after our missions, he wants to come and visit us in Utah! Maybe who knows.
Sorry that this was a super lame email. There just is to much to say and so much to think about that I can't get it all down in one email.
I will try more next week.
Hermana Paredes
Over and out
