This week was bomb. Hermanita Sager and I
worked hard and smart and we definitely saw the fruits of our labors. I
love when that happens! I feel that for awhile we were working with some
people who weren't really progressing but we had come to love them so
much that it was way hard to "drop" them as investigators. We've been
praying a lot to know the things that we needed to do in order to have
progressing investigators and more people who were committed to a
baptismal date. This week we worked really hard on that, and although we
needed to cut ties with some people whom we love so much, I know that
it is a blessing because it is giving us the opportunity to work more
with people who will actually progress and not waste our time. Our time
is so precious, and we need to make sure that we're using it in the way
that the Lord wants, and with the people that He has prepared to receive
us! We now have 5 more investigators on date and we also had a baptism
this weekend for Juanito. He is so stinkin adorable!! I'm going to send a
bunch of pictures because I've been super lacking on that lately. Here
we go!
The members here think we don't eat, so
they give us a whole salmon at a time. This is at Hermana Fonseca's
house, and her husband is a truck driver. His route is to go to Seattle
and so he always brings home fresh NW fish and seafood! This beautiful
little salmon reminded me of home :) He was delicious.
Hermana
Sager says she "doesn't like fish", welp, you best believe she loved
that salmon! Ate the whole darn thing. (Also, this was after a huge
rainstorm, yes, it rains here, it's still just 100 degrees while it
does. Excuse our appearance.)
This
is Elder Fischer and Elder Dyer, our Assistants to the President.
They're MATCHING. I admire these Elders a lot for all the work that they
do for President Mullen, aside from carrying a full proselyting load!!
Also, I'm glad that I'm not an AP because they never get to sleep.
<3
This was at ZDM, and this is what it looks like when you let an Elder take a picture with your camera. Nice try, Elder Fischer.
Top Row: Elders Page, Mercado, Mulcahy, Williams, Delvecchio, Gillete, and Waldron (missing Elder Harmon)
Seated: ME, Hermanas Sager, Babb, and Castrillon :)
Look
at this HAPPY family. Their transformation has been unreal. Rogelio and
Juan are both baptized now. And Zulma is next! She is waiting on her
divorce papers so she can get married to her boyfriend then it's her
turn to get in the water! I love this family so much. I remember the
first time they came to church, they were in sweats and being dragged
along by their neighbor, the boys sat on their phones the whole time.
Now look at them! WHITE SHIRTS AND TIES. They're just preparing for
their future missions :)
Look at these two. Stealing my heart! Juan took a long time to decide to be baptized, but man, it was worth the wait!
Here he is in his white lil' jumpsuit!!!! Hermanita Emerson got to come too, whooooop
.
Have the best week ever, all!
Con Amor,
Hermana Rutherford