And...The Heat is Here!

Mi familia!

This week has been good and eventful. And hot. The heat is here and no one has, or at least uses, air conditioning. I had gotten comfortable and begun to forget last summer. Now it's all coming back to me. At least I won't get the worst of it, come August!

This week we found 3 people/families who are that type you only hear stories about, the Justin/Mari-type who accept it without reservation. Two were referrals from members, and one we ran into on our way out of a member's house..they literally were right there. We've passed two of them off to the English wards after teaching a first lesson and setting them with baptismal dates, but that's totally fine with me. We're also teaching Rocio, a referral from a family in our ward. Rocio cuts Hermana Gutierrez's hair and last week at her salon Rocio was asking all kinds of questions. I guess the los Gutierrez gave her a Book of Mormon about a year and a half ago and they've always tried, but it wasn't until this week that they told the missionaries about her. Hermana Gutierrez told us that we HAD to go get our hair cut by her immediately, that we couldn't wait until P-day. (It probably would have been easier for her to have just invited us all to her house, but whatever. Haha.) So we went the next day to the salon, and she cut our hair as we talked about the Restoration. She told us to meet her at Hermana Gutierrez's house the next day at 12:30 to teach her more. So we did! And she told US that she would like to be baptized before we could even invite her! We had another lesson with her this morning and she told us that it all fit with what she already believed. She was raised Jehovah's Witness but never really believed it whole-heartedly. She is incredible. She also has a 10-year-old daughter and a husband who we haven't met, but are trying to meet. Her husband apparently isn't that interested, but we'll see. ;)

Being a missionary is the coolest thing. When it's done right, you see that you really haven't done anything at all. Heavenly Father is doing all of it, and He's just nice enough to give you a front-row seat every once in a while. Every day, actually. It's the greatest.

Oh! And I just found out that Seth, the one from Del Rio who was so close to baptism, FINALLY got baptized! Somehow Sister Ludeman got to be there and she sent me pictures.

Also, I went on exchanges with Hermana Rodriguez this week! She and Hermana Clark are companions. :) It was so nice to spend the day with her and be able to communicate to her in Spanish so much more smoothly. It was a good day for me to see my progress. She is an incredible missionary. We had a good day.

I love you all! Go out and be missionaries yourselves and tell me all about it next week!

Mucho amor y besitos,

Hermana Lund