July 30, 2012

Great Week! updates on everyone..

.Paco and Jaquelin are doing good but their non- wedding plans are making it hard for them to progress in the gospel. They know its true and they KNOW the doctrine but they must now be UNDERSTANDING it because if they did, then it would change their heart. The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about changing and sacrificing in order to come closer to our Savior Jesus Christ.

Phoenix is at a standstill because of his parent's non desire to learn, which make it hard for an 8 year old to want to continue to learn and go to church when he knows his parents are at home swimming and such while he is at church... pretty sad situation

On a more positive note, we got a new investigator this week :) Emily is a 14 year old who has been coming to Mutual for a long time and has even been to girls camp twice, and now her parents have finally given her permission to learn! it's so cool to see what just a simple invitation to Mutual can turn into. Those simple activities are so much fun and the spirit is there too, so its hard to not enjoy yourself.

Ginny and Kevin are AWESOME! They are progressing very well - they aren't on date yet, we just extended and baptismal date.  They have only been to church once and that was on Easter, and so on Thursday they committed to come to church. I swear right when they agreed, the adversary was right there. Something random happened to both of them causing them to have to REALLY change their plans in order for them to be able to make it to church. Thankfully, they recognized it was the adversary causing all of these problems, so they hung on strong and told us on Sat. that they still would be there on Sunday. Kevin told us some concerns that he had with Temples but we were in a mad rush and pretty much left it up to his fellowship family to answer his questions, which was pretty scary. Then on Sunday, both of the adult talks in Sacrament meeting were on temples -which could've been scary too, but their talks were the BEST I've ever heard about the temple! Seriously, it was awesome, and then after that, Gospel Principles was all about sacrifice and they BOTH commented in class. They are just truly amazing and I love them so much. Satan knew how amazing church was going to be and how it would be exactly what they would need, so he tried his very hardest to get them to not come, but it didn't work!

favorite scripture of the week 3 Nephi 5:13

love you all to pieces
Sister Martin