I just love you all so stinkin much. Thank
you all for the wonderful support that I feel from each one of you!!
This week has been a real good one. Hermana Babb and Sager and I are
getting used to the trio life and we are learning how to get the
teaching down a little smoother. It was a weird adjustment from two to
three, but it's getting there! We also have a lot more opportunities for
splits, so we are able to get more work done. Having two areas is rough
because we just have so many people to visit (which is a good problem,
right?). We sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, and stressed, but then
we just use our face masks, see below.
This Sunday
was really great. We had the Garcia family, Marvin, and Betty at
church. They are all progressing, just at different rates!! In sacrament
yesterday we had a little extra time and so Obispo Stauffer got up and
asked me to come and bare my testimony, but I was the only one he asked
and so all the members got really confused and thought that I was
leaving. I'm not leaving Hemet yet... but I'm pretty sure it will be
coming next transfer. At least ten ladies in Relief Society came and
asked me where I was going. They'll all be surprised when I show up at
church again on Sunday haha. I was really grateful for the opportunity to share my testimony though!!
Last
night we ended our night at Marvin and Karla's house. Karla is a less
active, and Marvin is investigating the church. They have been together
for 8 years and have 3 kids but they're not married yet. They live in an
apartment complex that is owned by members, and so they get to talk to
them really often about the church. Marvin was expressing to us how much
he loved church, how they felt so comfortable and welcomed there and
how he felt that all the talks were directed toward him! He is currently
on date for baptism, but he knows he needs to get married to Karla
first. When we talked about that with them when we taught the first
lesson, they seemed really apprehensive about the marriage. After church
yesterday, Marvin says he really wants to get baptized!! He mentioned
that to us, and said he knows that they needed to get married first.
Then he stopped and looked down and said... "I've been talking to
Hermano Garcia [the one who owns the apartments] and he said to be able
to be married in your temples there is a lot of preparation. So how long
do I have to wait to get baptized?" SO CUTE! He thought when we said he
needed to get married first that he would need to be married and sealed
in the temple before his baptism. Haha we obviously corrected him and
then he was real excited. Woot! We're going back in a couple days to set
a marriage date with them. Investigators are so cute.
We
are still working with a lot of other people and trying to get
baptismal interviews this week for Betty and the Garcia family!! On Saturday
I also got the opportunity to go to the baptism of Diana Zavala. I was
so excited!! She had been waiting a really long time to be baptized and
her face shone with excitement as we watched her take that step towards
Christ in her life! I am so grateful for this gospel and for the
opportunity I have to share it with other people.
Also, sorry for anyone's confusion. I didn't get on Facebook on Saturday
and our mission doesn't have access to Facebook on iPads, we don't even
have iPads haha, and no I'm also not home from my mission. A member I
was with changed my profile picture on my account for me. That's all!!
Have the best week ever :)
Con Amor,
Hermana Rutherford
Hermana Rutherford