GASPAR IS GETTING BAPTIZED TOMORROW!!!!! We are so excited for gaspar, the lord always provides away for his children to return to him. I can't believe its actually happening after all the fasting and prayers he's here and he is going to make the greatest little missionary sometime soon! :)
So this week there were many miracles like always... first of all I have always been a little scared to teach atheists because it is just plain awkward talking about God when they don't even believe he exists! So I prayed to have help in overcoming this fear as you could call it so I could be better and Heavenly Father answered my prayer! This week we were able to teach 3 Atheists the restoration and I invited them all to baptism! They all three are our investigators now. Amazing huh? So Chase is the first one, he is a student here at Gustavus (a Lutheran college we go contacting at) and he was such a nice person! So we taught him and I was a little nervous but I just let the Lord guide me through and I knew I needed to be bold even though we have different beliefs (well not for long;)) haha and so the lesson went great and by the end we always invite them to pray and so of course we invited him to do the same. Strangely enough he accepted! I was SO happy!!! Here is someone we just met who doesn't believe in God and there he is praying to God. I know it was a miracle and we were meant to find him that day. I will just tell you about one more, his name is Regis. He is a funny guy with a HUGE dog I mean he is my size. He said that he would listen to our message because it is something "we have to share" haha so of course we shared the restoration and he said that if it was true he would be baptized. He also said that any thing is possible and we were like yes it is all you need to do is experiment!!! We are so excited to go back and teach him more, at the end he said "you know the dog is never this good maybe its a sign from god" haha yup Regis that is exactly what it is! So exciting.
So another exciting thing that happened was Travis received an answer that the book of Mormon is true and I finished the book of Mormon this week!!! I know it is true with my whole heart and it is essential to our wellbeing! It really is the word of God. Anyways so Travis, he said he's been praying to know if its true and one day he was just walking and he thought to himself I need to read the book of Mormon! So then he was watching tv and he said he had this feeling where he just wanted to read the book more than watch tv! He said how could it not be true if I wanted to read it more than watch tv! And so he's been reading and is doing great! Also, he loves the book of Mormon so much that he has been reading it on break at work with his co-workers what a good little missionary already huh?!
The work is truly hastening here in st. peter! Another ward has opened up in Lakeville all Spanish speaking!! So awesome. The stake presidency said that everyone deserves to hear the gospel in their native tongue and I was just filled with the spirit when they said that, its amazing this opportunity to speak Spanish and this week I did really well. The Lord is blessing me soo much I felt like I really could understand what the people were saying better and im just being blessed in my efforts. It's so cool.
Missionary work is so awkward but always ends up good-here's a little glimpse: So we are tracting knocking doors Saturday afternoon and everyone is out because its beautiful! We start talking to everyone and we literally were going from person to person doing the same thing we did with the person right next door teaching the restoration. It was so awkward because they had seen us doing the same thing we were now doing with them to every other person haha but you just have to get over that and share share share! It was an awesome experience though and we got 3 new investigators from it all Spanish speaking! I LOVE the Spanish culture and people they are so accepting to the palabra de dios (word of god)!!!
I love you all so much and was filled with SO much happiness to hear that cole is a national champion! WOW what an amazing accomplishment. He is such a little star.
I hope you all have an amazing week and take time to reflect this Easter on our savior and his infinite love he has for all of us. He is truly the reason we are here living the reason we are able to have hope and happiness. I know Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, the only begotten son and because of him we are forever blessed. He lives!!!!!!
Love, Hermana Pentelute
XOXOX
The pictures:
1. Jay'cion the cutest little baby ever. (pictures don't do justice)
2. Me and my comp went to Elagave today so this is a picture of our wonderful food made by Gaspar!!
3. Me and Hermana Jones with Marcial a less active, Isidiro and Jacinto both investigators at a cottege meeting!
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