April 16, 2012

this week i had an especially entertaining contact...we knocked a door and began talking to the woman who answered, when out came what appeared to be her husband or some other male member of her family. we said hello to him and presented ourselves, and when we asked him his name as he was about to walk inside, he replied, ¨¡josé, pero no esmith!¨ or ¨joseph, but not smith!¨it was seriously so funny. he walked away after that and wouldn´t listen to us, so we just laughed, finished up the contact with the woman, and went on our way. i love the mission.

this week has been totally crazy. i´m pretty sure that´s not the first time i´ve said that on the mission, and i know it won´t be the last...

we are having cristian´s baptism THIS saturday...he had a little problem with the word of wisdom, so we pushed the baptism back, but now he´s doing so much better and we have no doubt he´ll be ready this weekend. at one point during the week he told us straight out that he didn´t want to get baptized; that it was just too hard to be good. man, that broke my heart. he´s had some really negative experiences in his life growing up, and he really hasn´t had that many good examples to follow, so it´s hard for him to recognize his own potential. that was a really sad lesson for us, but we just poured out our hearts and testified of the power of the atonement to heal and be changed through our savior, and he agreed to see us the next day. when we came back, he was completely different. he apologized for what he´d said, and after talking about what we´d left for him to read in the book of mormon, he told us that he really wanted to get baptized. he wants to be forgiven of his past. he wants the holy ghost so he can feel peace and be better able to understand and apply the scriptures. he wants to accept the sacrifice of the savior. we´re so happy for our little cristian. he´ll be entering the army a few days after his baptism, but we´re in the process of getting in contact with his ward there so they can know that he´s coming, and get him the priesthood! things will be hard for him, but he can do it with the lord´s help. 

sorry i don´t have time to share more, but you all should know that i really am seeing miracles here. the lord loves us, and he hears and answers our prayers. i have seen it in my own life, and in those of my investigators. pray to him and you´ll know he´s there. 

love you :)

hna wright