Three Days of Snow

Another transfer has come and gone! But Sister Daines and I are both staying in this area for at least one more transfer. 

 

This week we had a couple different investigators drop us for various reasons. But because of that we were able to focus more on our other investigators and get them to progress more. 

 

On Saturday we were teaching the Saavedra kids (the family with the 10-year-old who got baptized last week) and I was talking to the oldest kid Nestor while Sister Daines was playing a church game with the rest of the kids on the other side of the room. Nestor is a really smart kid and we had an extra copy of Jesus the Christ in our apartment so we gave it to him earlier this week. So when I talked to him on Saturday I had him read the part about when Jesus was baptized. He's only 14 but he understood what he read perfectly and explained it back to me- that Jesus didn't need to be baptized because he didn't have any sins, but that he was baptized to show us the example that we need to follow, and that it is really important for us to follow that example by being baptized. So then I asked him if he wanted to be baptized and he paused for about 30 seconds then smiled and said "Ok. I'm ready." He said that he thinks he can be ready by March 15th! So we're super excited about that. 

 

Also we have this Puerto Rican investigator named William. He was a referral from some members who live in the same house as him. We've been teaching him for about a month now but hadn't made much progress until this week. He talks a lot and we've had a really hard time teaching him simple Gospel truths because he never lets us talk. But this week we visited him with the Roses (a senior missionary couple in the branch here) and we read the introduction of the Book of Mormon with him and it was by far the best lesson we've had with him. Then he came to church yesterday and after church I asked him how he liked it and he said "So what do I have to do to become a member?" So I was pretty excited and just said "Well you would have to get baptized!" and he asked what he has to do to get baptized. So we explained to him that there are still things we need to teach him and then he can have his interview. His main barrier right now is that his eyesight is really bad so he can't read the normal-sized Book of Mormon. So we ordered one in large print from the mission office and hopefully we'll be able to get that to him this week. We're excited to help him progress further!

 

Other than that not a whole lot happened this week. Once again, the weather was really bad a couple days this week and we had to cancel some appointments and stay inside because it wasn't safe to drive. It's March now but it doesn't look like the weather will be getting better any time soon :(

 

<3 Hermana Harris

 

A random Mexican grocery store in the middle of a largely Mexican neighborhood