15 August 2011

 This week has been a great week here in Cuidad Aleman. We get 30 lessons agian andthings feel like they are picking up a good momentum again.  i dont remember much of the first part of the week to be honest, but it was basically just givivng lessons as normal.. This week end we are hoping to  baptize Daniel and Guadalupe,. THings with them this week have been a little crazy. Pretty much every lessons with them turns out to be a marriege class or helping them fix some little problem.  they usually take about 3 hours to be able to have a lessons with them. BUt this week was a roller coaster.  We are working to get all of the papaers ready so that they can get married and baptized by next sunday.  the goal was for this last saturday, but we are having some complications to get them married.  Everthing was normal with them untill this last sunday, we went to get them to church and when we went to pick them up, hermana guadaklupe was crying telling us they got in a huge fight they night before, and now daniledidnt wasnt to go to church and bla bla bla... so we went and talked to him, hetold us about the fight bla bla,and about how he doent want to live there anymo0re andhewant to move back to cordoba bla bla, then we told him to just go to church and dont worry about it right now, so he went to the other room and got ready for church bla bla, and we talked to guadalupe and animated her to go to church bla bla, and they went to church, they didnt say anything to the other but they went.  This week was stake conference adn so we had to go to tuxtepec where the stake building is, it was a good stake conference, but what was really cool was by the end daniel gave guadalupe a hug and they kissed up and made things better a little bit, bla bla,.  then we went buy after the conference adn talked to them.  ALot of teh time out lessons with them are really long becasue Danile is always talkingforever about his past life.  Wich apparently was all the great, he was a chollo basically anddid all kinds of fun things with the cops and what not. and most of the time he is always telling us about that. so we had a really neat lessonswithhim, It was one of those lessons that you dont finde in Preach my Gospel or in the Folletos, it was really neat. My companion tells me that the way the a teach is alot like a phycologist, (ha i guess the mcc classes paid off) but we were just working daniel to the core, just helping him to open his heart to make the changes necesary to allow his mariege to work so they could get baptized.  The spirit 100% dominated what was said to him, it was such an incredible expereince, it was about all that stuff dad said about forgiving oneselft and others adn situations that he told me the call for christmas and also and how even though guadalupe has seen the worst side of daniel she still loves him and wants to be with him, about how God really Does love him, and then we asked him, if Daniel loves Daniel.  WOW it was incridible, after these for questions he completly changed, he realized alot of the problems was he doenst love himslef for what he has done before and becouse of everything that happened before.  BUt most importantly he realized that he is loved, it was all just a really neat experince, maybe in the spirit world we can put my life on replay so you guys can see it and feel it.  It was such a neat expereince. SO we are really hoping to get themin the water this saturday.  THis week is also last week of the transfer so it will be interesting to see what there is to tell you guys next monday, if there is anything.  We have been togerther 2 transfers, so if things go as normal on of us will probably be changed, but we will see what happens.  elder flores has 3 transfers here, but anythign could happen, so we will see.  Our companionship is good for the most part, it just really bugs him that i am a quiet person adn that when we are walking or in the bus i dont have much to say.  But pacience is a virture worth having.  We are working with serveral other people.  We havent been able to get a hlod of Jose or his Mom Marie de la Luz for 3 weeks now.  Its a real bummer that we lost them, they were progressing so good. we are working with the parent of miguel adn loren.  Lots of repenting to do there as well.  buT Wwith the Atonement,andthier dilligence it can be done, alot of the time they stuggle pretty badly with depression and motivation, but things can work out well if the choose to act.  All of out converts here are doing great, Yair and Tereda are going to move to exico city to live the Teredas husband. THe is very little work here in this region. BUt all of our converts are doinggood and the Branch just keeps going on. I lovef you all and thank you for you love adn support, definable couldnt do it without you guys!