Companion: Hermana Galvez
Oh boy! This week was a doozy. We worked really hard and we were able to see some miracles as a result. It was really cool (even though it is starting to get really hot here!). Things are going well and we are having some success here in Delano.
Like I said, it
has been getting really hot the past couple of days. We have been
spoiled by an unseasonably wet and cool spring, but summer is now coming
on with a vengeance and it has been really, really hot! For some
reason, a lot of people here in Delano don't have air conditioning. It
has been the struggle of life. Every time we step outside of the door,
we start to sweat and we don't stop until we get back in our house at
night. Even with all of the sweat, the heat is nice because everyone is
outside their houses and we are able to talk to a lot of people!
Last
week, we had exchanges and one of the things that they suggested that
we could do in our area was to look for more opportunities to do
service. We have been wondering for a while what we can do to help out
the community, so we set aside a morning to go on a service hunt. We
went to the city hall and the Chamber of Commerce to get some ideas for
places that we could help out at. They gave us a long list of phone
numbers to call and we made every attempt possible and we were still not
having any success. In the end, we decided to go to funeral homes and
hospitals in the area and put our names down as clergy that people could
call on if they needed help. Hopefully, all of our hard work will pay
off and someone will call us back to let us come and help them! :)
We
have been working with a family that the elders were teaching for a
while. The husband has been taught everything and the only thing that he
needs to be able to get baptized is to be married. We have been working
on that for the entire transfer and we have finally been having some
success with getting the wife on board. This Wednesday, we went with
them to talk to the Bishop about what they needed to do to get a
marriage license and how the marriage ceremony is going to be.
Hopefully, they will be able to get the license this week and they can
get married soon after. It has been really cool to see them working
towards their goal!
Something a little creepy
has been happening to us recently here. A lot of the people that we have
been talking to on the street have been saying that they have talked to
missionaries in the past couple of weeks. They are tall and have white
shirts, ties, our name tags. They also say that they speak Spanish and
they ride on bikes. All of the people that we have talked to have been
super specific about all of the details and they all match up. The only
problem is that there haven't been any missionaries that match that
description for the past couple of months. We have talked to the other
missionaries in the area, and they also say that they have heard people
talking about the same missionaries in their areas. We don't know what
has been going on, but we are conducting a low key investigation.
Mission drama!
This week at church was really
nice. A couple of the families that we have been working with were able
to come to church and afterwards, we were able to do a small church
tour. It was really spiritual and I feel like it helped our
investigators have a renewed desire to come to church and feel the
spirit there!
That is just about it for the
week! It has been a really good one! I love being a missionary and
seeing all of the miracles that the Lord gives in the work out here in
California. I know that the church is true and that this truly is the
gospel of Jesus Christ! I love teaching and learning all the time! I
hope that you all have a good week and that all goes well for you!
Hermana Blau
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