Merry Spring? (Dec 15)

Buenos Dias!

It really is like Spring here.. Its about 50 degrees and rainy! It's fine with me though!

As always, I was able to enjoy another wonderful, miracle-filled week and learned a lot! Last Monday we had a family home evening with some ward members and Gh. He loved it! He has met several members now and is making a lot of friends which is great.

We were able to see just about everyone this week and had some really cool things happen. Ca, Ju's sister opened up to us about her fears of coming to church and basically acting on the gospel. She really wants and needs it in her life, but she is nervous because so much is going on right now and she can't quite see how much the gospel really will help her! She committed to come to church on Sunday but then there was a weird situation with Ju's husband being stranded and out of gas Sunday morning when we stopped by to help them come. Satan is relentless with finding things to keep people from church.

We did have some people come though yesterday and it was awesome. Se came again and she is set for baptism on January 17! We had a really good lesson with her in the home of one of her young women leaders. She shared her testimony with us and the Spirit confirmed to Hermana Ficklin and I that she is ready! :)

We also had one of our new investigators, N come to church. We met her last week and she is amazing. She has one of the saddest life stories I have ever heard, but she is still somehow so happy and kind and she absolutely loved church! She felt so loved by the members who were awesome and reached out to her. She told us she will be coming every Sunday and she is going to bring her kids too who are teenagers! One of the members already knows her and her kids so that was cool too.

We finally saw Brother K and had a great lesson! He has been sooo busy because one of the doctors is having a baby and he has had to help out a lot and be on call a ton. Because of that, he couldn't come to church :( Next week! He told us some ways that he has changed his perspective since first meeting with us. He used to not believe that God really communicates with us individually. He now knows for sure that He does and has begun to see it in his life. His testimony of the Book of Mormon is growing and he always reads more than we assign him. :)

I think I told you all last week that I was struggling with being patient when people didn't keep their commitments and didn't come to church. Yesterday I decided to fast that Ju's family and Ma especially could come to church as well as our other investigators, but that if they didn't that Heavenly Father would help me to be patient. Well, they didn't come, but others did! (C came too!) And I definitely have felt an added amount of patience. I wasn't upset, but already looking forward to next Sunday and planning everything that we can do to get them there then. The Lord is in charge. This is His work, and I don't have to worry because He cares about them coming to church even more than I do, yet He knows what they need and when they need it.

I love you all! Have a great week!
♥Hermana Pierce