We had a fantastic week! Gregorio finally accepts the Book of Mormon as the word of God and understands that he needs to get baptized. We had a powerful lesson on the Book of Mormon and got on our knees right there and prayed with them and just waited. We were literally down on the ground for a good 15 minutes. But he felt the influence of the Holy Ghost and knows the Book of Mormon is the word of God. He's still hesitant about a solid baptism date but he's reading Alma 34 where it talks about not procrastinating and is praying about a baptismal date. Concepción still has a lot of doubts, but she'll come along too.
Mari is working on quitting smoking; she just wants to finish off the cigarettes she has right now before she starts. But we gave her some things that should help her make those steps. On Saturday we watched Finding Faith in Christ with her, and we feel she's willing to come to church now, except that she's usually having to do something for her family, either watch grandkids or take care of her mom with dementia.
On Tuesday we had a sweet miracle: Our dinner appointment cancelled so we called a member so that we could eat, and that member happened to be working with a less active member who overheard our conversation and offered to feed us. So we met this less active that we'd never even heard of before who we wouldn't have been able to find because her address was wrong in the directory, and what's more, her husband-boyfriend is a nonmember that was taught by missionaries a year ago and likes coming to church when he can. We've been trying to set up tours and appointments with them but so far they've always been called in to work, but we have another appointment tonight which will hopefully go through.
The meeting with Elder Perry was pretty legit. Elder Clayton, one of the presidents of 70 came too, and we certainly had a spiritual feast about study, companionship unity, and stories from Elder Perry's missionary and military service. We also talked about Less Active work and using Less Actives to bump up our lessons each week to 20. It was really weird to see the Seattle missionaries too. At one point Elder Perry asked our mission presidents how many lessons each companionship taught each week on average. Seattle said '6 or 7' (I know, we were all shocked when we heard that). President Weaver is still really new and didn't know the exact number but said jokingly 'A whole lot more than that,' and to an apostle! The entire room just busted out laughing.
Hmmm, what more? We had some fun on P-day today by playing some board games. Usually we just get together with the zone so there were 5-6 of us that played Godswar Risk (a pretty fun version of risk that involves mythology).
Anyway, love you guys! I hope all is well!
Elder Greg
