February 25, 2019
So this week was a good one! Lots of hard work. We were able to achieve all of our goals, which is something that we haven't done for awhile. I was super happy when we doubled the number of investigators, attending sacrament meeting, from four to eight! We also extended two invitations for baptism this week, both for March 23rd. We extended one in Tagalog and the other in... signs and pictures?!?!
So, there's this single mom and her son who live far up on the mountain. The 18 year old son has been unable to speak or hear since birth. They are both super active and they walk like two hours, every Wednesday and Saturday, to clean the church! No one tells them to, but they are just awesome and want to do it! Then, of course on Sunday, they always make the long journey, yet again, to come for church! A couple weeks ago, the mother asked me if her son could be baptized. I talked to my Mission President about it, and he said that if he can understand the basic doctrines and then pass the interview then then we might as well baptize him. So Elder Villalobos and I have started to try to teach him. We learned the alphabet in sign language, and with the help of some people, including my awesome little sister, Sara, we've learned a couple little basic signs regarding the gospel. Our lessons have involved a lot of drawing and pointing at pictures haha! I wish my sister Sara could be with us, because she's super good at sign language! He's super fun to try and communicate with, and I'm sad that I'm most likely going to be transferred and won't be there for his baptism!!
Thank you all for your prayers! I feel them, I really do! Just know that my prayer list at night is pretty long for a lot of you. Please let me know if there is anyone else who could use some extra prayers!!
The computer shop I'm at doesn't allow people to send pics. Next week we'll hopefully go to a different one so I can send some!!
LOVE YOU ALL!
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