¡Hola familia!
This week was full of all sorts of ups and downs. We had a baptism on Saturday and the power was out for the whole thing so that was pretty fun! It was a wonderful service and I have finally had a baptism in which I was involved with all of the teaching! WHOOOOOT!!!!
I´m pretty happy about that.
We found a super awesome investigator through a recent convert. We were going to her house because we are supposed to teach the lessons again to people who have been recently baptized and we asked to invite a man over to the house (we aren´t allowed in houses without a man a least 18 years old). So she said she would and when we got there, she had invited a friend she a had made recently. He´s this guy about as tall as Emily who had more
metal in his face than Iron Man (just a few facial piercings really). But he was super nice and he loved the first lesson and was really excited when we gave him the Book of Mormon. He said he would definitely read it and that he was very excited because he loves to read the New Testament. Then the girl he was friends with gave him the complete Bible because he didn´t have the Old Testament. The whole lesson was super cool and he seems really legit about learning more. So we are going to teach him again on Saturday.
IN other news, we have been teaching this 14 year old girl who was visiting her cousins who are members. So they have been bringing her to church and she loves it! We´ve taught her all of the lessons and she loves them all. She wants to baptized b ut she lives in Bogota with her mom. Her mom doesn´t know she´s been taking the lessons and she is going back to Bogota this Tuesday. So the last half of this week has been encouraging her to keep up with the church and share it with her mom. She really wants to and says that she wants to be baptized with her mom (who sounds like she would be accepting of the gospel). And when this girl prays, she always asks God to help her keep the faith and testimony she has and always thanks Him for "putting the Elders in my way". !!!!!! One of my favorite parts of the
mission is hearing our sincere investigators pray to our Heavenly Father. It´s truly amazing. Her cousins have been an amazing help and they are so supportive of her exploring the gospel.
I have been little discouraged about Spanish because I feel like I´m not progressing and studying is usually super hard to do. My comp wants to help but he doesn´t really know how to teach (kind of like me with English). It´s been hard but I´m still trying and have a goal to try harder this week.
Love you guys! Keep being awesome.
Love Elder Skinner
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