Hello Family!!! This week I have some pretty crazy news. I will no longer be serving in the Lakeville Ward. Instead, I will be serving in the Lakeville 2nd Branch! We have known for a long time that something was in the works, but yesterday they officially announced this new branch which will be 100% Spanish!!! This whole time we have been working in the English Ward with translation for Sacrament Meeting (but with bad equipment and often times bad translation done by myself hehe) and then a separate gospel principles class but nothing for third hour. Needless to say this will be a huge improvement! In the letter they read from the Stake Presidency they mentioned how this will be a great opportunity for people to learn the gospel in their own language. It was very much focused on missionary work and Hermana Rawlins and I are so excited and feel so privileged to start this! We have faith that it will help so many people- active members, less active members, and investigators! :):):)
Not a ton has changed with O or R or P... our most progressing investigators for the time. They all are still doing good! This week we had some good experiences with them and other people! One lady's name is H. The first couple of times we met with her she was very closed off. She was nice, but wouldn't really answer our questions. She basically has no knowledge about God. We have gone very slow with her, but we have started to see her open up. This past week we saw her and for the first time she let us in to her house. She even had questions about the Plan of Salvation. Hermana Rawlins and I both have felt such an incredible amount of love for her. I honestly love everyone I teach, but there is something different about her. I think maybe it is because there is a strong feeling that she has been through a ton in her life and that this message really is meant for her at this time. We are excited to see how things go with her.
We have also found some other people recently. Last night we taught an adorable family: W, G, and their two kids J and P. G especially really gets it and they accepted the date of May 31 to work towards baptism!
On Wednesday we had New Missionary Training which went really well. It is a meeting with President for new missionaries and their trainers and we learned a lot of great things! Also, a definite highlight of this week was going to the Lamb of God concert performed by the Minnesota Mormon Chorale. It was absolutely amazing. If you haven't heard the Lamb of God, go look it up and listen to it because it is so good and perfect for this time of year with Easter!
Things are all good here! I am seriously so excited about the new branch that I kind of can't remember anything else that has even happened this week. Haha. We have one more Sunday that will be in the Lakeville ward and the next Sunday, the 27th, will be the first Sunday as a branch!
Love you all! Have a great week and happy Easter!
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