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This week was a good one! We have been working a lot with Valesca who is getting baptized on saturday! I think I talked about her last week but she has been coming to church for a while but hasn't wanted to get married to her husband. Well I guess he's not her husband because they aren't married but they do have three super cute little kids. Anyways they have to get married for her to get baptized and she didn't want to for a long time but then the day before I got to the area she told the Elders that she wanted to get married and baptized now! So we've visited them or had family home evenings with them and other families every day this past week. Saturday is gonna be a big day and we're super excited!
Also this week I got to meet Juan and Melany. They speak PERFECT english! And so do their kids. They actually grew up in Tennessee and met in high school there. Anyways they are SO pilas! They have been coming to church for a long time now but also just need to get married. But the dad is originally from Mexico so they needed some extra paperwork for them to get married and are just waiting for that to get through. But they come to all the ward activities and participate and the dad bore his testimony in church on sunday and it was super motivating! So everyone feels like they are already part of the ward and we are praying that the paperwork comes through quick so they can become members.
Yesterday I was on divisions in an area called Belen (which used to be part of the Montserrat zone where I was born but now it's part of the Florida zone because it's closer) with an Elder from Ecuador named Elder Altamirano and the appointments fell through so we were trying to figure out what to do. And then we saw this guy with a BYU shirt so of course we went and talked to him. He thought it was a yahoo shirt but we talked about what BYU was and used that to connect to the church and how we are missionaries and he said we could visit him this weekend! And turns out he lives in Santa Marta and not Belen!
Also the stake center here is one of the nicest I have seen. It has this super nice garden that makes you feel like you're at a temple!
And I still don't have pictures of the house but honestly it's not that exciting haha. And we haven't taken a picture as a zone either because we haven't been all together as a zone yet but we'll probably take a lot of pictures with the zone and other missionaries tomorrow because it is a multizone conference and not only that but it's the last multizone before the mission change so it's the last time we'll see missionaries from most of the other zones and one of the last times we'll see President Shumway.
Our area here isn't too small but it's not that big either, especially compared to Jutiapa. And there are a lot of members here and it has been super tempting to think that anyone who would accept our message has already been talked to. And although I would bet that in all the time that missionaries have been here every door has probably been knocked on. BUT that does not mean that there aren't elect people waiting for the gospel and we just need to find them. If you're on a mission just keep working hard and don't lose faith that there are people waiting to hear the glorious message of the restored Gospel!!
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