Hello my dearest family!
First of all, happy birthday mom! I hope it was great! I
love you!!!
Can you believe that I have been out on my mission for
over a year now!? Ugh the time is going by too fast.
We have had such a great week and have seen so many miracles.
Last night I was able to go back to my old ward for a baptism of someone I
taught there and it was so amazing! Her name is Sr. Gonzalez. Next week _______'s friend who we taught all last transfer is getting baptized and so
I am planning on going back again for that. He has been coming to church and
doing everything that he needs to to prepare. Also, _____ is still being the
best missionary and always giving the sisters more people to teach. I am so
proud of him and his desire to share what he knows with everyone. They have
been teaching one of his friends and their family and they all came to church
on Sunday! I am glad that all is going well back in Orange.
We have also had
great things happen here in Anaheim this week. We had a lot of appointments set
up because we have been doing a lot of finding. We taught _________ the
restoration at the beginning of the week. She was tearing up throughout the
lesson and after she said the prayer at the end she was bawling. She said that
she could really feel the spirit, and it was an amazing experience. She accepted a baptism date for the 3rd of Feb.
We also
had a lesson with another man. He is an atheist but wanted to learn
more about what we believed. We went back for the appointment and he wasn't
home, but his younger sister invited us in to teach her. She loved the lesson
but was started telling us about stuff her older brother would tell her about
religion. I shared my personal experience and testimony because it was
so similar to what she is going though. She said that she is going to read in
the Book of Mormon and and pray to know if it was true. She has so much faith
so I know that she is going to recieve an answer. She accepted a baptism date
for the 3rd of feb, and I feel very blessed to be able to teach her. She also
said that her mom and her brother would probably want to learn too so I am
excited for that.
Lets see what else... We knocked into a lady that asked us to
come back when her husband could listen too, and so we did, and it went really
well. The husband accepted the baptism invitation but not a date because the
wife was a little more hesitant. I think
she was surprised that he was so open to it. They both said that they are going
to read and pray every day and we are seeing them again on Wednesday. They have
the cutest little baby!
Since I've been out here it has been really hard to find
and teach a family so I am very excited to work with them. We had a drop lesson
with a family that the sisters have been teaching for a while but they weren't
progressing. It was hard because they were really close to the family, but one
day down the road when missionaries come back I think they will be ready. They
just need a little time.
Lets see there are some random things that happened
this week. I got attacked by a crazy cat. It ran into me like five times and
then crawled up me then kept running into me. It was weird. Also we got locked
into a car garage and realized that we didn't have the button to open the door
so that was fun... We got a new ward mission leader. They other one was amazing
but I guess he has been in there for forever. They new one seems good too.
Well, that's about it for this week. Love you all tons! Have a great week! :)
PS the cheese ball was amazing. :)
Love,
Hermana Layton :)
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