Mi Familia!
Que tal? Como les ha ido? Thanks for all the emails! I was thinking about the Ogden Marathon this week. It really rained? It never rains for that! It's because I wasn't there. No, that can't be right because the Logan Marathon gave me no such preference.
So. This week was good! We have some really solid progressing investigators and it's so great to see the gospel change their lives. We set a date with Carlos Escobar...June 8th!! He is sooo amazing. He's already thinking about a mission and he prayed to maybe someday become a bishop. :) He really wants to change and follow the gospel. He reads and prays about the Book of Mormon, he goes to church, and he goes to mutual. He is seriously such a good kid. I'm SO happy for him.
And on Wednesday we had a lesson with Fabiola. Fabiola is a former investigator whose records we found in our area book. She was taught a couple times last June but her schedule was crazy and the missionaries couldn't keep visiting her. We had planned an appointment with her last week but she wasn't there. But we decided to stop by again anyway. She was there, and she told us that she wasn't at the appointment because she had to take her daughter to the hospital for her broken arm and she didn't call us because she had pena (stupid pena).
Anyway, we taught her the Restoration and she understood everything. She was basically teaching us. Then when we invited her to be baptized she said "Si" without any hesitation. We were kind of taken aback and asked again. She said, "Si, yo queria." So we set a date! June 15! She said she's been looking at a lot of different churches and this is the only one that "fills her heart with light." How great is that?! We haven't seen her since then though and we just pray that she feels the same way when we see her again. The only problem is that she works 12 hour shifts on Sunday (she's a single mom), but she told us that she's going to pray about it and that she knows anything is possible with God.
Also, we've run into 9 menos activos that we didn't even know existed just since the transfer began! 9! They just spring up out of nowhere. We find them while we're tocanding (that's Spanglish for knocking...just a heads up, I'm probably going to use that word a lot) or walking around our complex or living with other menos activos in our ward. We're praying to know what to do with them, especially the ones that don't have any ties to the ward already.
And we had 9 menos activos at church yesterday! It was nuts! All these people just came! Most of them we've visited recently but some we haven't seen for a while. But God works with people while the missionaries are away. I have such a strong testimony of that. Honestly, that's when the real work is done.
We have been working SOOOOO hard. And Heavenly Father has been giving us things to do! I love Hermana King. She's so passionate and driven. She sincerely cares about these people and wants to do God's work. It's been great. Exhausting--absolutely exhausting--but great.
And it's finally hot. Probably not Mexico hot (actually, I'm sure it's not that hot) but hot. Hot enough to make you fall asleep standing up. Welcome to Texas!
I love you all! Have a great last week of school and first week of summer! Read the Book of Mormon and have FHE. And don't forget to pray!
Mucho mucho muchisimo amor,
Hermana Lund
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