Buenos días Presidente:
Cada semana es mejor que la última. El área de San José
realmente es increible. Los miembros del barrio siempre están dispuestos
a ayudarnos y apoyarnos en lo que nesecitemos, y esta semana casi la mitad de
nuestras lecciones se ensenaron con miembros presente.
También, nuestro asistencia sigue mejorando cada semana. Esta
semana tuvimos 97 en la iglesia, y casi logramos nuestra meta de 100.
Familias menos activas y más investigadores llegan.
Tenemos ahorita un hermano que es muy bueno con una fecha bautismal
para el 7 de julio. Ha dejado de tomar, y ya ha llegado dos veces en la
iglesia. Todavia tenemos algunos investigadores que se impeden por no
llegar a la iglesia, entonces una meta que tenemos en la samana que viene es
ayudar cada uno de ellos resolver sus dudas y hacer y guardar sus compromisos,
especialmente el de llegar a la iglesia.
He aprendido mucho esta semana en mi estudio personal. Estoy
terminando el primér libro de Nefi en El Libro de Mormón, y de su ejemplo de
diligencia en obediencia a los mandamientos del Señor, aunque sus hermanos
siempre tratan de impedirlo, me ha ayudado en esforzarme por siempre estar
obediente.
Hello family!
Here I am at another Monday. When next Monday comes around I
will have had as much time in the field as I had in the MTC. Four months
already. That´s pretty crazy for me. Thanks so much for sending
pictures this week! It´s great to see how things are going back
home. Mom, it looks like crossfit has been working well for you--you look
great! Keep up the good work!
Update on San José:
We’re going to be having another baptism the 7th of July!
Salvador, who we started teaching two weeks ago (and was drunk the first time
we taught him), has stopped drinking, and has been to church each Sunday since
then. The only downside of this is that his wife doesn´t really like us
(although she has become quite a bit more happy with us since he stopped
drinking) and won´t listen to our lessons. With a little bit of time
though I´m sure she´ll become a lot more open and ready to accept the
Gospel.
We´ve had a little bit of trouble finding Cesar again this
week. He works a ton and that can be a problem a lot of the
time. We´re hopefully going to find him tonight though and set
a baptismal date for him for the 14th.
We have a lot of people who are progressing right now that should
have baptismal dates right now, but have a couple things impeding them.
For example, we´re teaching a mom and two daughters who are really animated
(not sure how I would translate that well in English... "excited"
just sounds like a weird word there) to listen to us, but the dad makes them go
to church with him every week and won´t let them come to ours. There´s
also a really old couple (like REALLY old, I can understand aproximatley 4% of
what the old man says) that´s going to be married within the next couple weeks,
and then they can get baptized as well. They´re awesome, even though I
can´t understand a blessed thing they say. A sentence that Victoriano
(the husband) says sounds about like this to me: "a aflkañsdjf aeifa ñf e
jñaiefja ef jñefjaw e "lamina" (which is like a metal sheet that
people use for roofing here) asldkjfaeñi jfefjefj ji aiefjñe "luz"
lkasjdf jñjieife". It goes something like that anyway. His
wife can´t talk or hear, but she just always smiles and is really happy and
gives us thumbs up. I´m really excited for them to be able to be
baptized! Also, there is another family that Elder Howell and Elder Rios
taught for a while before I got here who moved out of town my first week that
is moving back into the ward. They´re also going to be getting married
within a couple of weeks and they also have a 9-year old that are all going to
be baptized right after that!
Something cool that we have going this week is that there is a
priest in a ward who is going to be accompanying us all week. He´ll be
with us from 8 in the morning when we start our studies until 9:30 pm when we
finish planning, and then he´ll go to his house to sleep. His name is
Mario, and he´s Adam and Jared´s age. He actually reminds me a lot of you
guys other than that he doesn´t speak English and that he´s about a foot
shorter. But he´s awesome and it´s going to be a really good opportunity
for us to help one of the young men see a little bit about how missionary work
really is. He started with us yesterday, and it was reallllllly good to
have someone there that forces us to speak Spanish all the time and to just be
an example for.
Funny story from yesterday: Elder Howell and I were doing
divisions so that we could pass for all the people that were supposed to be
coming to church. Mario and I went by Gabriel´s house. This part of
the story is not that funny because Gabriel didn´t come to church. But
his dad came out after I woke him up banging on the door and was not very happy
with us. Anyway, we went toward the church and when we were almost there
a drunk guy that stopped us and was asking us about Joseph Smith (that happens
all the time). We were almost late, so I told him that I we needed to go,
but that we´d like to invite him to come to church. He said he´d go put
his bike away and then come. He was reallllly drunk, so I didn´t think
he´d even remember, but 5 minutes later, he actually showed up. We
weren´t sure what to do, because we started walking into the chapel right
before Sacrament meeting started and he started yelling greetings to the whole
congregation (he wasn´t being antagonistic or anything, he was just really
happy to be there and very drunk), so we took him out to a different room and
just talked with him a little bit, gave him a word of wisdom pamphlet, took
down his address, and told him we´d come back and talk to him when he wasn´t as
drunk.
That´s about all I have to report this week. I love you all!!
Con amor,
Elder Nickerl
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