Dear Family and Friends
This last week has been great!!! On Monday
we took bikes and just went and tried to find people. When Preparation Day was over we also taught a less active.
Tuesday we had a busy day we
had 2 dinner appointments and other lessons. They were all jam
packed together so we were just running around like crazy!
Wednesday we
walked and tried to do everything we could to find people because a lot
of our appointments have been canceling. So we were out in the 104 degree heat tracting it was pretty successful and we got some return
appointments. Then we had mutual and we had appointments at the same time
so we did a member split. I went with Hermnao Lopez to go to
appointments. What was the miracle about this day is Carmen and Isaac got
their marriage license! They still had to have the
ceremony for it to be valid so we had to contact the Stake President so
he could authorize the bishop to marry them. We weren't sure if that
was going to happen. Hermano Lopez and I went to a part member
family and they didn't read so we read with them. Then we went to Carmen
and Isaac and talked about their baptism. We made the baptism program and
they wanted me and Elder Bowes to baptize them!!!!!!! That was cool but
I kind of wanted a member to do it so they could be more connected with
the ward. They will have other opportunities to get those connections!!
Then on Thursday we had District Meeting which was really good. We talked about our area and our
goals it was really great! Then we went tracting and found 3 families to
teach! They all said we could come back and teach them it was super
great!!! Then we were, well I was stressing out about the wedding and the Stake President hadn't called our bishop back. So we called the Stake President and he answered the phone and said that our bishop was
authorized to do the marriage. We called the bishop and he was
surprised that President Esquerra answered the phone. He said Friday
night at 8 he could perform the wedding so that was another miracle. Then we
went to Carmen and Isaac to talk about their wedding. They were super
excited and said they should have been married 20 years ago!
Then
Friday we had a lesson with Karen and it went good. She is finally
reading but still not coming to church. So we asked why and her mom
doesn't want her to go alone. We are going to find a young woman from our ward to
help friendship her and bring her to church. Then we had a mission
conference and activity. The mission conference was sooo great!! Elder and
Sister Kasteller talked to us about how we need to trust in the Lord and
have real growth. They also talked about that sometimes we may be down on
the mission but really all our struggles and challenges will be for our
good and for our growth! Then Elder Hendrickson an Assistant to the President talked about how if we want progressing investigators we have
to be progressing missionaries. That will help us so that we can progress with our
investigators. Then Sister Becerra talked about how we need to have
faith to find teach and baptize. Then President Becerra gave a really
powerful talk about how sometimes we need to have a big trial to
increase our faith. He talked about the widow who fed the Prophet Samuel. After that we then had a discussion of how we need to put the Lords
will before our own and we need to have that great faith so that we can
find, teach, baptize and double the baptisms! Then we had an activity it
was sooo fun!!! We had all sorts of water games a water balloon toss,
water kickball and everyone got wet! President Becerra looked for the dry
missionaries and told them to come give him a hug while other
missionaries got a bucket of water and dumped it on them!! It was funny! Then we had a basketball three point shooting contest. All the Zone Leaders picked the best 2-4 players from their zone. They shot 10
shots and whoever made the most won and guess who won? It was President
Becerra!! He made 8 out of 10 it was cool!! Then we went back to working
and we got a few appointments. Then we had the wedding and actually
for such short notice we had a lot of members there to support Carmen
and Isaac for their decision to get married!!!
Then Saturday we went and
found and did some service by helping a less active with the headlights
in his car. Then we had weekly planning. Then Carmen and
Isaac had their baptism interviews. They are so humble, they have been through a
lot of hard things. To top it all off on Saturday their vehicle
broke down! Hermano Lopez was able to pick them up for their
interview so everything still worked out. Elder Alworth the District Leader almost cried because of
how humble they are and how willing they are to get baptized. We then
had a dinner appointment and did some finding.
Sunday we had church and
we had 4 investigators at church Carmen, Isaac, Patty and Sergio!!! We
made programs and invited all the members to the baptism. We then had a
lesson with Patty and Sergio they are close to being baptized as well. They haven't gotten an answer yet if that's what they should do. Then we
had the baptism it was crazy! We didn't know if there were baptism clothes so we
had to go to another ward to get clothes. We picked 3 different
jumpsuits for Isaac and thank goodness one of them fit!! The last one he tried of course! Then we
had the baptism service, the talks were amazing and the Spirit was so
strong! I had the opportunity to baptize Carmen. She said the water
was too hot so we ran the cold water and I was in the font trying to mix
the water around it was kind of funny to see! Then I had to do the
ordinance twice because she didn't go down all the way. The second
time she did it was great! Isaac was so funny he wanted to be baptized
as soon as he got to the stake center he said estoy listo = I'm ready! They really were so ready and it was a pleasure to teach and to baptize them
and to see all the miracles that took place because Elder Bowes and I
exercised our faith we saw miracles happen!!! I know that when we
are doing everything we can to be faithful we have to act. I know when we
are exercising our faith and doing the things that our Heavenly Father
wants us to do then we can see the miracles! I love you all so much and I
hope you are all having a great summer!
Que les Vaya Bien!
Love, Elder Reisner
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