Well this week brought us gold, after dropping all our investigators to find new ones, and maybe, just maybe, a new hope to bring someone to the waters of baptism.
Our gold this week is detailed in two stories.
The first: Alberto Altamira will finally have his divorce finalized by the end of this week, which means he can get married AND baptized. Alberto, I haven't said much about since I first got here because he was largely in this stand still with not having an official divorce, so not much has happened really. However this week we passed by to see how they were doing, and his fiancee told us, before Alberto was even there, that the paper would be ready next week. We all cheered for joy and we are now working on helping them prepare for these two wonderful moments that will pass in their lives. It will take them about a month to get married really, but at least that countdown is for sure.
The second: Tamara Lopez. On Thursday, we did a huge crunch down on contacting, largely to find someone who would honestly progress. In the morning, Elder Hone was to lead in getting the first contact of the day. It took a while because we were just running around, even he said to me, " I have no idea where I'm going really, just feeling where I should go." With that feeling behind it all, we found Tamara, who when we knocked the door, told us to come in immediately. We started to talk a bit about the Book of Mormon, and during it all, she asked us questions of some of our beliefs. She informed us that she is Catholic, but when she asked us if we believed in the Virgin, we told her no, in the which she followed saying, "Good, neither do I!" This passed for most of her questions, in which, while she was catholic at one point, she doesn't believe anything they believe. She even informed us that she hates reciting the catholic prayer and prefers conversing with God in her Prayers. In other words, she's golden. The only things we really, really need to do with her is that she needs to get married to her boyfriend, and we have to get her to church. She even asked us when we gave the Book if she could read it all!
That was the week for me, the temperature here has been funny, but it's been spring for the most part.
I've also happened to step in a few dead frogs this week.
Well, love you all!
-Ian
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