Happy 8th birthday Amie!!! Be sure to send me pictures of the baptism :) Wish I could be there!
Almost a month ago we were knocking dooring in the night time when we found this family. They had a ton of visitors in their house so we set up an appointment to come back a few days later. When we came back, only the wife (Ana) was there. We quickly found out that she was baptized when she was 9 years old but stopped going to church 2 years later. She is now 29 so she hadnt gone to church for almost 20 years. But she was super positive and started coming to church that week with her two daughters (they are the cutest little El Salvadorenian girls ever!). They all love the church. Ana is reading the Book of Mormon and is just soaking up the gospel. Her husband, Fernando, is not a member and almost always hides from us when we come to teach him. We have tried for weeks to get him to come to church and finally this week he told us that he would come. We arrived at their house early Sunday morning to bring them to church and Ana told us that he had left early in the morning to visit a friend who is sick. Our hearts plummeted. But we were waiting for a few minutes while Ana was getting the girls ready to go. We had someone else that we needed to pass by for so we were about to leave when Fernando came out and asked us where we were going. He was all ready to go to church and everything. It was all a joke. ha! I could not have been more happier than to see him ready to go to church with his family! I really really love this family! They went to church and I hardly could pay attention because I was praying so hard that he would like the church and feel the spirit. When we got to Relief Society Ana told he that he had been asked if they could leave early. I dont have a clue what the lesson was in the class because all I could do was think and pray that he would like the priesthood class. After church we didnt have time to talk to him so we passed by in the afternoon. He was sleeping so we visited with Ana and she said that he liked the church. We were determined to talk to him so we came back in the night time. He was in the street with his friends but invited us in the house so that we could talk. He ended up REALLY liking the church. He said that when he left the church he felt like a great burden had been lifted off of him. This family has visited a lot of churches but never had found one that they liked. But he liked the church even to the point of defending the church when talking to his super evangelica mom. ha! We still have a lot to teach him but we invited him to be baptized the 4th of August. We didnt know but that day happens to be his birthday and he agreed to prepare to be baptized this day! He said that he wants to keep learning and attending the church, wants to baptized and married in the temple. In that moment you could not have found two happier missionaries in the world! Satan still has a lot of time to get him to change his mind but we are praying with all our might that that wont happen. I honestly havent found a family that I love more than this one in El Salvador. Fernando likes to hunt and fish and tease so he reminds me a lot of Clif and Allen :) I hope to send a picture of them soon. Pray for them please!
We have had several crazy thunder storms. I just love it because I dont have to worry about fires so I can just sit back and enjoy it. The other night the power went out at about 9pm and didnt come back until 9am. Luckily we had a few flashlights so we didnt have to stumble around in the dark. We have a balcony and right before we went to bed we went out and just watched all the thunder storm and had moved to the coast. No one in the colonial or neighbor hood had power so it was super super cool to watch the storm. I will definitely miss all the lightning and thunder when I get back to Arizona. Luckily I have a lot more time to enjoy it :)
I hope all is well. Love you all!!
Hermana Heap
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