Here´s what I´ve been up to:
* Hna Scott and I have been assigned to teach a workshop at zone conference on "receiving revelation through the Book of Mormon" we are focusing on how to help our investigators receive testimonies through the Spirit of the Book of Mormon. We´ve put in a lot of work, so hopefully we´ll be well prepared to teach it on Thursday.
* Celeste and Mario, our favorite investigators, are still going strong. They didn´t make it to church yesterday because Mario was sick, but they felt really bad about it and said they are coming next week. This week they will start filing their papers so they can get married this month.
* Hna Scott has been doing her part to help us do our service hours this week by cutting hair (among her other talents, she went to a year of hair school before the mission). I think she did 3 or 4 people´s hair this week. It´s proving to be a great way to gain the confidence of the members and investigators. I can teach a thought while she cuts the hair of our captive audience. She cut my hair today too, just for fun, not for service. I´ll try to send a picture eventually. It looks a little different (more tapering around my face and layers), but nothing drastic. I like it.
* Our investigator Victor still doesn´t want to quit smoking and drinking. He was drinking beer in front of his house last time we visited him. We haven´t given up yet though. We´re planning on teaching him with a member present tonight and showing him the Restoration movie. We´re hoping that if he has a testimony of Joseph Smith, he´ll have the will power to quit!
* Teresa, the woman I committed to baptism a couple weeks ago, says she´s too busy to keep listening to us. I think the Joseph Smith story and prophets thing scared her off. I´m really sad about it. We´re going to stop by one more time today and see if we can explain things better so she feels more comfortable, but we might have to stop teaching her.
* We´ve started teaching a 16 year old kid named Alisander who´s dating a girl in our branch named Rocio. She´s only 14, so I´m hoping that if he becomes interested in the church they´ll make good choices together and stop dating until she turns 16. He´s a good kid, he´s just had a hard life and not had a lot of people to teach him what´s right. Rocio´s family is letting us teach Alisander in their house and Rocio´s older brother is a recent RM, so they are going to be a big help in his conversion process. He´s already come to church twice, so that´s a good sign.
* Otilia and Luz have started attending a pentecostal church across the street from their house. We invited them to church on sunday but they didn´t want to come. Otilia said she tried praying about the Church, but didn´t get an answer. We are encouraging her to keep praying, but I don´t know how easy it will be for her to get an answer if she won´t even come to church.
* We´ve committed Graciela, the mother of our ward mission leader, to baptism! She told us not to tell him yet, it´s a surprise. She hasn´t come to church yet, but we´re working on that. She has a lot of faith in God and really wants to be able to live with her deceased husband again. I´m excited to keep teaching her.
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