Wow, this week has FLOWN by! So fast that I didn't even write in my journal, so i'm not really sure what I'm going to write in this email. haha. All I know is that it has been soooo humid! Like I am honestly perma-sweaty! It's not even that hot but just so wet and muggy. Sometimes I feel like I can hardly breathe because the air is so thick! Pretty crazy! But I love it haha
This week we actually had an investigator come to church! His name is Elido and he was a former investigator of other missionaries from about 2 years ago. He was dropped by them because he wasn't progressing and his whole family had lots of health problems. We have been teaching him and his family off and on for the whole time I've been here and its been really difficult to teach them because they are all on completely different levels of understanding and knowledge. But we went to visit them on a back-up plan and we had a member with us. Elido was home alone and we could go in and teach him because we had another female member with us! How inspired was that!? We finally got to actually teach him a lesson and find out how prepared he has been by the previous missionaries! He is so close to ready to be baptized but we just need to finish all of the teaching we need to do. He came to church this week for the first time! He was even there 30 minutes early! He told us that he has read the whole Book of Mormon and believes that it's true and he started reading it again for the second time recently! That's so amazing!
It's so cool to be the missionaries who get to cultivate the seed that others have planted. And those missionaries don't even know the impact they had on him and how much they have helped us. That just gives me hope that even if we don't baptize anyone, we have planted seeds that others will be able to gather later on when the person is truly ready.
I am so excited for all of the new focus on Member Missionary Work and I challenge all of you to help the missionaries out in your area and find them people to teach!
I love you all so much and I hope you can feel the love of God in your lives always!
Love, Hermana Bloxham :)
PS - I forgot to tell you guys this but in our meeting on Sunday morning with the bishop and other people I was called on to say the prayer, like always haha and he told me that I spoke completely without a gringo accent! sweet right?!
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