More about Juany, Jorge, Geronimo and family:

Family!

I apologize in advance, I am not going to be able to write much in this email because I spent a lot of time writing individuals, but it was a good week! We finished up the last week of the transfer and we have wonderful investigators who will soon enter the waters of baptism. I was pleased to see that our numbers for this transfer added up to be higher in almost every category than my last change. This is naturally a good feeling, but a relief for me as it was my first transfer as the senior companion and I was training.. which means I was focused and stressed on many many things, but still we did better than the last transfer! Whoo!! Still lots of room for improvement.

Alright, I was convinced by Dad to share more about the family we are teaching. They are far enough along now that I dont think I will jinx it haha.

Juany is the mom and she is so wonderful. She has taken hold of the gospel and is applying principles to her life before we even teach them. This week we asked her how she knows the church is true. First she told us that the night she prayed about it she had a horrrrrrible dream and I was like "shoot... how am I supposed to explain this?", but she proceeded to tell us about it. Satan was pulling on her and trying to keep her from progressing. She said she was so scared, but determined that if he was trying so hard to hold her back, it must be because its true. Then she told us how their family has just been so strengthened since we started coming and she has desires to just be a better person. That is only a brieffff summary, but she is great. She loves church and is ready to be baptized. She is trying really hard to quit drinking coffee and is having headaches and such, but is pushing through. Pray for this sweet lady! Jorge is the dad, and HE CAME TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY!! He committed last Monday and teased me allllllllllll week that he was going to work on Sunday instead. He LOVES to tease me because he knows I want him to come so bad. But he came (and the whole 3 hours he kept saying he was going to go home... all with a huge smile on his face). Geronimo got together a white button down shirt and slacks for church, and a young man in the ward gave him a tie. He is soooo precious. Jonathan had to work this past Sunday, but we are hoping he will build his testimony strong enough to take the steps to change his hours.

Pedro, the doctor, is.. I dont know. He has so much going on his life right now and if we are being honest, I am at a TOTAL loss at how to go about teaching him. Its stressing me out haha cause this is so critical to his salvation and I am like "ahhh I have to do this rightttt". Welcome to the mission life. You feel responsible for the salvation of souls.

Angel came to the baptism of a little girl on Saturday and it was heart breaking because he turned to his friend that introduced him to the church and said "This was supposed to be my baptism..". Prayers that he can stay strong in these next years. 

Mere is supposed to get baptized this upcoming Saturday. There is MUCH to get done before then in the way of her wedding and what not, and I am not sure if it was all get done, but we will put our faith in the Lord and accept His will. 

I love you alllllllllllllllll. I was going to type up some scriptures I want yall to read, but I{ll just committ you all the reading them in your own time (like the missionary that I am). Alma 37:38-46 with special attention on 44-46. The course is clear and simple. Don{t be slothful because of the easiness of the way.

Have a fabulous week and eat LOTS of pie for me on Thanksgiving. Oh my gosh... pie. *tear*

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Roberts