Monday, October 26, 2015

long time no see


Pic 1 Meet the District! 


Pic 2 Eulicer and his family 

So basically every week is pretty normal, nothing too extravagent happens, and then there´s just one week where everything awesome happens and the spirit is super strong and you learn a ton and well, yeah.. 
One awesome thing was that we had the opportunity to go to the temple with the ward. 7 hour bus ride, all day in the temple, and then a 7 hour bus ride home. It was great, the spirit was so strong. And I´m just that much more grateful to have a temple 10 minutes away from home. I´m pretty lucky here, because usually when we´re this far away from Tuxtla, we can´t go to the temple unless a convert goes, but my companion hasn´t been to the temple since before her mission, 16 months. So our mission president gave us permission to go. Honestly though, when we were waiting for the bus to leave, I could feel the spirit so strong of the desire from the members to go to the temple, it was way cool. 

Another awesome thing that happened this week was that one of our investigators, Eulicer, got baptized this weekend! When i got here in this area my companion told me about Eulicer, and how he didn´t want anything to do with the church, and didn´t believe it. We went to visit him the first time together, and honestly all I can remember, is that we invited him to get married, and he said they would work on it. We invited him to be baptized after his wedding, and he accepted. My companion was in shock after, because it was the first time that he had ever accepted. After lots of work, fasting, praying, and saving up, Eulicer and his wife were able to get married last week, and this week he was able to be baptized. The spirit was so strong, and his desire to do what is right has been so strong too. These last few weeks he´s been super happy. Every time we´ve seen him he told us that he had been praying, and knew who he wanted to baptize him, or what day, what time, etc. The only thing he asked from us was that I would sing in English at his baptism, so we sang How Great thou Art in Spanish then English. Him and his wife are super happy, and they´re excited to prepare to go to the temple in a year. Honestly, everyone from this family is awesome, they´re faith is so strong and I´ve learned so much from them. 

Well, that´s it for this week, I love ya!
Hermana Leavitt

Pic 1 Meet the District! 
Pic 2 Eulicer and his family 

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