Hola hola! :)
This week has been fantastic! (I think I start all of my emails like this)... But it doesn't make it any less true! Really, you can't have a bad week when you have the Gospel in your life. We should walk around with smiles on our faces everywhere we go :D Corinth is wonderful. I kind of like the little town feel. We are constantly seeing people that we know and know us. Everybody waves at everybody around here. It's great :)
We had a lot of success this week in finding a lot of people. I have found when you have a full day planned with appointments, the Lord blesses you even if those appointments fall through. We had two days this week where we had an appointment for every hour of the day. Not all of the people who said they would be there were there, but we ended up finding people anyways. Let's start out with the best news. We had 2 investigators at church yesterday. Jesus and Rey!!! Father and son :) It makes me happy to see them coming to church together. Rey was super nervous when he came in. I can't imagine being the only latino in a room full of hard core Americans, but he did a good job. They only stayed for sacrament meeting, but we are making progress! Rey said he would have stayed but he came with his dad, so Jesus wanted to leave. He said "This was the most important meeting right"... "Yes"... "So I've stayed for the most important meeting and I can leave now." He's a funny guy. He said he will eventually stay for more meetings but he is taking it slowly. They both are. It's a bit frustrating, but I need to be more sympathetic and see it from their point of view. I translated again. We actually got some equipment now, so I don't have to sit next to them and whisper in their ear. I sit out in the foyer and translate from there. I'm not going to say I did the best of job, but the spirit speaks all languages so I hope they at least felt that. The ward members think it's awesome that we have Spanish people coming to church :)
We saw Rey after Church and he said he liked it he was a lot of new things to take in all at once. Understandable. He is really great though. He told us that he wants to take things slow because he doesn't want to run before he can walk. He wants to make sure he can do the little things, like daily scripture study and prayere, before he commits to the big things, like baptism. What he says makes sense. We talk about baptism almost every time we are over there so he knows that's our goal right now, he is just going to take a bit more time and that's fine. Some people need that. I know if he continues doing these things he will recieve his answer and it will probably be, "line upon line, precept upon precept," but it will come.
Other investigators. We have had a couple people commit to baptism. Which is fantastic! None of them will set a date though... We are teaching a Lesbian couple, Law of Chastity should be fun when we get to that. They're sweet and they love what we are teaching, but it's kind of hard to tell them that they need to split up their family in order to be baptized. They have kids and all. Oh the world. Our other investigator Luis we see EVERYWHERE, I mean everywhere. We taught him in a laundry mat the other day because we saw him waiting for his laundry. He is always in our path and he knows and we know it is not by coincidence. He is super Baptist, but I think slowly he is starting to see the blessings he can recieve from the gospel. Sister Barroso and I were talking and we can just see his little Guatemalan self in a 12 year old size baptismal suit ;)
Other than that, I LOVED the Relief Society General Broadcast. I feel like their focus on Covenants was exactly what I needed to hear and exactly what my investigators needed. They need to see the importance not only of baptism, but the covenants that go along with it. Gospel truths will always trump any other manner of trying to convince someone of something. Our ward mission leader is awesome, so I think that our missionary work in the ward will start to take off. Maybe not when I'm here, but soon.
I'm tired, I'm happy, I'm in love with this Gospel, I'm excited for things to come, I'm grateful, I'm healthy, and I love all of you!!!
Love, Hermana Masey Decker
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