This week has been a pretty great one. I had the opportunity to go on an exchange with Elder Lebaron, one of the zone leaders. That was pretty fun to be in English work, but it definitely helps me appreciate Spanish work a little more. Spanish people are just so much nicer I feel like. And I almost started throwing in Spanish words during the lessons and prayers. But it was a really good exchange and Elder Lebaron really taught me an important principle of understanding why you are in a certain area, and not leaving the area until you find a new investigator or a good potential. We had the opportunity to go and see a media referral who was a 7th Day Adventist. We were trying to use scriptures and stuff about the sabbath day being changed to Sunday and stuff, and then used references from the Book of Mormon that clear passages in the Bible. We will have to see how he progresses. We also went to see Ruth who was a former 7th day, and we found out that she is going to both churches, and still believes the Sabbath is on Saturday. Any pointers or tips on how to help her with this? Hector still has not been baptized. He was good for it, up until I called him on Saturday night and he told me that he wasn't going to be able to get baptized or come to church that day, because him and his mom were going to look at colleges. It was pretty discouraging for sure, but he is saying next week he will. I think there is just a lot of opposition from family.
We went and taught our recent convert Jan Ventura this week and his friend Manuel was there. He seemed to like the message and even came to church with Jan's family. So hopefully we can see good progress with that.
We have some pretty cool new investigators named Cheryl and Irene who seem to be progressing sort of. At least Cheryl is. When she prays she seems to be so sincere. I think I told you that the first time she did, and thanked the Lord that she knows who Joseph Smith is now. Last time she prayed, so gave thanks that we were able to come over again, and was a little sad that we couldn't be there for longer. But she's a pretty awesome 13 yr old girl.
We got to go see Trixi and Christian again and even started teaching their daughter Cindy. They seem to be doing well, and told us last night that they are still in the process of the divorce thing, but that things should be a lot better come the end of May. So I might not be here for their baptism, but they are pretty incredible people. Last night they agreed to live the law of fasting and tithing.
Pictures are worth a thousand more words. I'll talk to you on Sunday!!
Love you! The Church is True!
Love Elder Hicks
PS: The pictures were taken while we were helping one of our members clean the windows to his store. His name is Bernardo de jesus velarde, or Chamo.
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