Hola,
It's been a super crazy week at home! 2 weddings, a baby, and Fathers day!
It's been a super crazy week at home! 2 weddings, a baby, and Fathers day!
Well It has been even a more crazy week in Liberal, Kansas. Sister Kammeyer and I had two really solid referrals from members. One referral was from the Bishop. One less-active member decided to start coming back to church and his girlfriend decided to find out more about our church. So we started teaching them June 7th, and now Christina wants to get baptized on July 11. We are so excited for her and her faith. She's reading the Book of Mormon like crazy and trying to keep all the commandments of God. We got a new ward mission leader and he had a genius idea of having 3 families pray for each investigator we had that was progressing. So we did it.. and we watched the miracles happen. Billy and Christina have been engaged for 5 years and have the cutest 4 year old daughter named Jojo... so it's time for them to get married before she can be baptized. Just last week we taught them the law of Chastity and they committed to living it. Well it looks like we'll have a wedding this weekend! We were so happy we literally jumped up and down for joy when we heard the news. We've been praying so hard for them to just pick a date to be married. We know we still need to keep praying because you know Satan, he likes to get people when they're super close to making a right decision.
We know that prayers really are answered. We called to tell the families that were praying for them about them getting married! One of the members said,"Well I guess God really does answer my prayers." Yes, yes he does.
Another amazing miracle from Heavenly Father happened this week. Ever since I've been here, a member of our ward, Sister Ramirez, has told us about one of her friends that she might have us teach. We put it on the back burner for a while and then forgot about it. Well actually everything was perfect timing because we had dinner with the Ramirez family and we asked beforehand if she still wanted us to come teach her friend Herminia. Well she agreed to, but she was pretty nervous about it. We asked her,"What's the worst that can happen?" She was worried about their friendship and that their friendship wouldn't be the same. But she held on strong. When we first met Hermania, her face lit up and she smiled from ear to ear. She wasn't expecting us to come at all, but she let us in her apartment. Sister Ramirez started talking to her and telling her how much this Gospel means to her and she didn't want it to change their friendship. We started just talking to Hermania about her life. She's been through a lot. She recently moved from England and then before than she lived in Cuba. She really doesn't have any friends or family. She told us that her best friend in the whole world was Sister Ramirez. After she finished telling us everything about her and everything she felt, we were all in tears. She told us that she prayed just a day earlier for something to happen in her life. I can't remember exactly what she told us. But I just remember she was praying and yearning for something. We then told her about the Book of Mormon and read a little in it. Then we asked her to be baptized on July 11. She accepted. She was so open to everything we were saying. I've never seen anyone so prepared for the Gospel. She was just so humble and so close to the Lord, she knew that's what he wanted for her. She told us that she had to work on Sundays, so we didn't even remind her about church, because we figured she couldn't come. Well since Sister Ramirez works with her, they pulled a couple of strings, and she came to Sacrament meeting! It was so incredible! It was all because of Heavenly Father.
I'm going to be transferred to Guymon, Oklahoma with Sister Rosell, who was my companion in the MTC! It's so weird because I had a feeling I'd go there! I'm so excited because I can still go to the wedding this weekend because Guymon is only a 45 minute drive from Liberal. I'm also excited because Guymon is a cute little town and also because I'm already friends with my companion. I know that's were the Lord wants me to go too, and all these other things are just a bonus.
I'm going to be transferred to Guymon, Oklahoma with Sister Rosell, who was my companion in the MTC! It's so weird because I had a feeling I'd go there! I'm so excited because I can still go to the wedding this weekend because Guymon is only a 45 minute drive from Liberal. I'm also excited because Guymon is a cute little town and also because I'm already friends with my companion. I know that's were the Lord wants me to go too, and all these other things are just a bonus.
I love all of you!
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