¡Hola a todos! It's been quite the week, and our next one looks even crazier. :)
A few days later Maria talked with us for a while, and we realized she had gotten the wrong idea about the baptismal interview.. she thought she was going to have to pass a trivia test. She seemed VERY relieved when she learned she didn't have to know Joseph Smith's birthday to become a member! Hahaha! We read her the questions, and she was so surprised about how simple they were. :) Maria is the best, and I can't wait for June 5th! And I bet she is too, now that she knows she doesn't need to be hitting the books to pass her interview.
Monday night we taught Maria about el sacerdocio (the priesthood). It went so good! She was telling us what she knew (which was a lot more than we thought, since she had never been taught it before...guess she pays attention when she comes to church?). She also told us how grateful she is for everyone and how the church has helped her family. Especially Oscar. Oscar was baptized in January and she says it's like he's a whole new person! She told us it was like he's been reborn since then (at least I think so, the Spanish is still struggling, hehehe).
A few days later Maria talked with us for a while, and we realized she had gotten the wrong idea about the baptismal interview.. she thought she was going to have to pass a trivia test. She seemed VERY relieved when she learned she didn't have to know Joseph Smith's birthday to become a member! Hahaha! We read her the questions, and she was so surprised about how simple they were. :) Maria is the best, and I can't wait for June 5th! And I bet she is too, now that she knows she doesn't need to be hitting the books to pass her interview.
One of the members called us and told us about a coworker named Eve, and that she'd like to talk with us. Eve is super cool. Her life kind of recently fell apart so we talked to her for an hour and she cried for most of it; but she is so sweet! We read some scriptures from the Book of Mormon with her, and she accepted one, AND said she'd read Alma 32. She also wants to meet with us again, so that's pretty epic.
We taught our homie José la ley de castidad this week. It went remarkably well. This guy is so cool, he agrees with everything we just can't get him to church. :( But give it time, he'll get there.
Hermana Coca and I were trying to decide what we were going to teach Mike (our neighbor who we walk with and then teach) for a good twenty minutes. We finally decided now was the time to break out the Word of Wisdom. We walked over all prepared and once we started walking Mike told us how hung over he was that morning, and then proceeded to mention alcohol like six times. Hermana Cocoa and I were giving each other such intense stares the entire time. But we both decided now or never, and taught him the word of wisdom, he said he'd live it but we'll see. I'm not 100% sure he was completely sober.
We visited "Tacos Todos Vuelven" again this week. Which is a taco truck that we do a lot of contacting at. :) Ricardo (the owner) was outside the food truck so we ended up talking to him for a good 35 minutes after we got our food. He was telling us him whole life story, he was doing about 60% espanol and 40% English. At the end he gave us a free drink! My first Mexican coke was pretty great! :)
Saturday night we had dinner with our investigator Haylie's parents! We were so nervous! Hehehe. Her parents are pretty against her speaking to us and tell her she's joining a cult all the time; but they seemed to really like us! Hopefully they don't think we're a cult now, and if they do at least we seem like a nice cult. :)
I would like to end this email by saying how thankful I am for google maps. Whoever planned out the cities in Oregon is an enemy of the state as far as I'm concerned. But Google Maps has helped me through it, unfortunately it let me down for the first time this week. We were trying to help some old lady in our ward set up a zoom link, and her house was OUT there. Google maps took us on like four different paths and none of them were right, we ended up calling her. And I realized how beautiful GPS is then, because old people can't give directions. "Swing a left by the old pine tree"?? Sister Russel we're in OREGON!?
But eventually we found it. We helped this old lady set up her zoom link...which was a little difficult because when I asked her to type in her email password she said she didn't know she had one...but all was well.
It's going to be a crazy week here in Roseburg, so I hope you all have a good one too!
Con amor,
Hermana Shelton
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