Here are some miracles to report: First of all last week before stake conference a member came up to us and told us that he wanted his 12 year old son to have the missionary lessons so he could be baptized! He just finally got custody over him so there shouldn't be any problems there. So we taught him on Sunday and officially put him on date for the 2nd of October! We had to teach him at the church because they live in Kent, which happens to be a bit into the Seattle mission, but they go to church here so we'll baptize him!
We met another man last night in Graham who was actually taught and went to church for 4 weeks when he was living in Seattle, but now he moved down into our mission and we have a lesson scheduled with him in a member's house for Wednesday. Again, that was basically just a miracle that fell out of the sky; God has just been placing people in our path basically, for the which we are very grateful.
While most of our investigators have stopped progressing, Mari is doing fantastic. She obviously has doubts and questions because so much of what she's read with us contradicts what she's firmly believed for most of her life, but she's very open. We were trying to commit her to just pray straight up about the Book of Mormon because that would resolve the concerns she's had, but she told us 'I don't need to do that, because I already know the answer. A better question to ask me would be will I follow through and prepare for a baptism.' The Spirit's always way strong when we teach her and the main thing that's keeping her from putting herself on date is the obstacle of tobacco. But we're going to try and do a fast with her later this week and just do everything we can to help her take that step.
So we also had a fantastic P-day today! We all got together as a Spanish zone, which is something that we're not able to do very often, and we went to the Point Defiance Zoo, up at the very north tip of Tacoma, near the Puget Sound. It was pretty awesome; we saw polar bears swimming right up next to the glass, tigers, falcons, elephants, the whole she-bang, which was pretty legit.
Anyway, love you guys and I hope you have a fantastic week!
Greg
Peace out
