Mi Familia!
Besides the fact that I got a horrible stomach bug this weekend, we had such a good week! Things seem to finally be coming together. ALL of our investigators (though they be few in number) are super solid. We met this man named Rudy last week. He lost his wife of 51 years 3 weeks before and is heartbroken. He eagerly set up an appointment with us. Apparently he's already friends with 2 member families who live right by him, but they've tried to reach out to him and his wife before and they weren't interested. Anyway, we had a good couple lessons with him and he said that he would like very much to be baptized. He said he was baptized into the Catholic church but "that was different." He's going though a lot right now and just seems really prepared.
And he came to church yesterday!!! YAY!!!!! Finally, an investigator at church!!! He immediately made lots of friends with the Elders' Quorum and our Ward Mission Leader said that, to introduce himself, he said, "I'm Rudy from St. Matthew's and I'm hoping to be here for a long time." He has a date for the 11th and we're pretty sure it's going to happen.
We're also teaching the Harris family, which is actually the Louis family I wrote about a couple weeks ago. Apparently he was just the boyfriend and he's not a good guy. We stopped by last week and Michelle, the mom, said the police had been there just and hour earlier to get him our of her apartment. So he's out of the picture. Anyway, we helped her out around the house. She doesn't have anything. We're working on getting a mattress from a ward member to give her because her kids don't even have a real bed. We were sweeping her carpet with a broom because she didn't have a vacuum. We had a little lesson with her. Actually, she mostly just talked. She doesn't get to talk to other women ever.
Michelle is super attracted to the church. She loves the idea of Relief Society and activities for her kids. She has real desires to come closer to God and find a good church. We taught them the Restoration on Saturday and they all ate it up and accepted it. They are completely on board to be baptized. We set them with a date for the 18th but she works on Sundays. She's going to try to get them off, though.
Michelle told us that she knows God sent us because of how she feels with us around. She said that it was really weird that she let us come back another time but she could just sense something different about us. Rudy said that, too. He keeps telling us how beautiful we looked that day when we came up and talked to him in his yard. Haha. I think he recognizes that as evidence of the truthfulness of our message.
We've also got Peggy and Shannon, whose ultimate goal is also baptism, but they might take a little longer. But it's so neat to be teaching people who actually are interested and actually want to make changes in their lives.
Oh! And we had a missionary correlation meeting last night. It was the first correlation meeting I've had where ward missionaries came. Actually, we haven't really even had ward missionaries in my other areas. We did in Riverside but they didn't know what their calling consisted of. This ward is amazing! Everyone is so on board with their missionary work. Families keep asking us for Book of Mormons and pass along cards that they can give out. Almost every family we talk to has people they're working on. It's awesome. I can see now how it's supposed to be. I really want to be a ward missionary when I go home.
Well, I've got to go. Can't wait to talk to you on Christmas! Have a great week, love you all!
Hermana Lund
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