Yet again, I have had another great, crazy week! This morning I actually was in jail for a few hours... And by that I mean I was at the court building where the jail is helping translate for a former investigator who had to go because of this really long story that I'll explain after my mission.. haha. She speaks no English and this past week we have helped her a lot with talking to different people. I still don't know what I want to do as far as a career goes, but I think if I can find a way to combine using Spanish and something to do with law that would be awesome. We'll see!
Anyways, our investigators are still doing great! Brother K is doing more than great actually. We saw him Monday night and taught about the gift of the Holy Ghost. We asked Him to be baptized and he said, "yes, I think I should be." We set a date for him for January 24th, and although he seemed a little nervous he said if he is ready by that day he will be baptized!! We taught him again the other day about prophets and he loves the idea that our church continue to receives guidance through living prophets. Unfortunately he was on call this Sunday and couldn't come to church, but soon! He loves reading in the Book of Mormon and he even shares things that he likes from it with his friends or the people at work. :)
We had a good lesson with Gh and our lesson with Ge yesterday went really well! He seems to be a lot happier. Hopefully we can help him!
I can't remember if I've mentioned Ju and her family. She has two brothers that are less active members and the whole family has connections to members of the church in Missouri. We are teaching Ju, and her two sisters and all their children. There's about ten kids all together. We have had some fun family home evening lessons with them and they are all doing really well. On Friday, Bishop met with one of the sisters who is going through a divorce and some other hard things. There are a lot of problems in the family but slowly they seem to be realizing that the gospel of Jesus Christ can help!
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was really good. It was our preparation day. A family in our ward had a bunch of other families from the ward over for Thanksgiving and they invited us as well. It was delicious! We played games for a little while with another member afterwards. We even did some Black Friday shopping! Haha, just kidding. We had made some pie earlier and did go to walmart to give some pie to a girl who was working there. We had met her on Monday when we got our groceries and she told us that she had to work Thanksgiving and has no family or friends here. She just moved here recently. So, we decided to give her some pie :)
I just wanted to share one thing that I really liked from church yesterday. The brother speaking asked us 'what is the one thing that makes you the most happy?' He said that for him it is his family and he then shared about his life and how he came to meet his wife. He is a convert from England and had different plans in life that didn't work out. Because of certain things not working out he was able to meet his wife at BYU and now has his family. His point was that sometimes we think we know what will make us most happy, but as humans we are very bad at actually knowing what will bring happiness. The Lord does indeed know though exactly what will make us most happy, and so sometimes he lets us miss opportunities so that other things can fall into place. I really liked that and am just so grateful that I have something that will always bring the most happiness and that is the gospel! Live it and love it! :)
Love,
Hermana Pierce
P.S.
This morning when we were helping the lady with translation she had to go to meet with someone who deals with people involved in alcohol/drugs (she wasn't into drugs/alcohol but its a long story)... while we were they we saw many, many people going in to get tested... they have weekly appointments. We talked to the guy and he sees so many people every week. I was honestly shocked. And these are just the people who have been charged with something/been in jail... not everyone who does drugs. It just made me so grateful that for one, I don't do drugs, drink etc, but I was especially grateful that I have such amazing parents who never had any of those things in our home or anywhere else. Thank you so much!!!! Love you!!
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