First, Jorge is doing awesome! He had a hard week last week because he posted a picture of him in church, and a lot of his family said very rude things to him. So he got really discouraged. We prayed so much that he would be better and he did! We had 4 lessons with him this week! On Tuesday, we had a lesson with him and we had a girl named Sarah out teaching with us. She's preparing to go on a mission and she was so helpful. We read in the Bible about Judas betraying the Savior and how the Savior knows how he feels because he had his closest friend betray him. That really got Jorge thinking and Sarah bore such a powerful testimony. She told him that she's so proud of him because she's been a member all her life and has never had the courage to put anything on Facebook. She said she was always scared of the criticism and judgments others would make and now, looking back, she realized how selfish it was to not say anything. It really hit home in the lesson. She cried, Jorge cried and we ended with a kneeling prayer. He texted us after saying that he has a lot to think about. Heavenly Father is so good, Sarah was exactly who he needed! On Thursday, he came with us on a church tour with our new investigator and that helped him. Friday, we had a lesson with him about 3 Nephi 11 and how Christ visited the Americas. Hermana Davila came with us and she also bore a powerful testimony of how she was disowned when she joined the church. That helped him. Saturday we ate dinner with Obispo and Jorge. That was great! He came to church yesterday in his white shirt and tie! SO COOL. He told us that he's praying his mom's heart softens and that his heart does as well. We look forward to his baptism on March 27. Please pray! We saw miracles this week!
Sherly, our 12-year-old investigator, came to young women's this week, LOVED IT and was at church yesterday in a dress. She has become such good friend with one of the girls in the ward. She wants to go to girl's camp and everything! We scheduled her baptism this week for April 3 and she's excited. We just need to get permission from her mom in Honduras and her aunt here, but her aunt is really nice, so we don't see a problem there. We just want to make sure, 100%, that she will have the support she needs to stay active. And she's 12, so we can get her to the temple! Love that sweet girl. She has such desires to do good.
We finally taught a new investigator this week! Her name is Edilia. We contacted her 2 weeks on the street and she told us that her son had the missionaries teach him in Mexico, but that she never listened, but they were over all the time! Well, that was the perfect lead in to allowing us to teach her because she was familiar with who we are. We saw her on Wednesday and taught her the Restoration. SHE LOVED IT. In the beginning of the lesson, the Spirit told me that if we teach with Him guiding, she will cry, and when she cries, we will know that she understands. Well, after we finished the lesson, we committed her to read. She said that we have left her with a lot to think about and she committed to read! She starting talking about salvation and how she wants to know what she needs to do to be saved. She wants her children to be saved and then ... TEARS. She got it. She told us that she needs us to give her the answer and we told her we have it. She came to English class on Thursday and we gave her a church tour. She loved it and recognized all the pictures from the pamphlets. SHE'S AMAZING. Pray for her!
The Lux family is great, too. We spoke to Miguel this week and he really wants to change. He's soooo willing and ready. We need to help them progress and we know that they will come to church soon when they understand the importance it will have on their family! Please pray for them, too!
I have been studying about prayer lately and I just love the fact that we can communicate with the All Powerful Creator who loves us beyond imagine. In Preach My Gospel we are taught, "The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the telephone and ordering groceries—we place our order and hang up. We need to meditate, contemplate, think of what we are praying about and for and then speak to the Lord as one man speaketh to another" (Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, 469).
"If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish, and we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in our emergencies. We should remember the Most High day and night—always—not only at times when all other assistance has failed and we desperately need help." (Howard W. Hunter, The Teachings of Howard W. Hunter, ed. Clyde J. Williams [1997], 39)."
We need to pray with real intent ... as if we are in front of the Father. I invite you all to make your prayers better and more focused on others with real intent. That's my goal this week!
P.S. We street contacted this random man on our way to an appointment and as I stuck my hand out to shake his, he grabbed it, pulled me in and planted a kiss right on my cheek. OH MAN, it was so awkward. I pulled away so fast, telling him that we can't hug. My companion, thinking she was in the safe zone, stuck her hand out and received the same "gift"... ha, ha, ha. That was an adventure. We biked away with the best laugh ever.
I love you all! Have an awesome week!
Sister Sanchez
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