Making Progress

Great week! My new companion is a really good missionary and I am learning so much from her. She has been out for a while now and goes home on Christmas or the day before. What a great Christmas present for her family! :) 

A lot has happened this week. Four different investigators accepted a baptismal date which was a miracle. Our investigator Tomas who has been working on the word of wisdom didn't drink coffee last week at all! He still wouldn't accept a baptism date yet though. Well, we were walking to our car after a long day and there was a door open to a little house. I remembered talking to someone in the street a few weeks ago who said she lived there so we stopped by to see if she was home. The man said that she didn't live there and so we just started talking to him instead. We taught him the restoration and then randomly our investigator Tomas came out from the hallway. He got excited and started telling the man about the Book of Mormon. We invited the man to be baptized and he said he wanted to learn more first. And then we looked at Tomas and invited him again. He never accepts a date, but this time he said, "Claro que si!" (Of course!) What!? We were so happy! Hopefully he can find a way to get to church soon.

He has talked to his boss and is looking for another job. We are praying for him, and I know that Heavenly Father will help him get there if he really has the desire to come. 

There weren't anymore earthquakes this week but we had a little excitement last night. The fire alarm went off again. It has gone off so many times since I have been here that I didn't think it was anything. We stayed inside for a little bit but it kept going for a while so we finally decided to go outside. When we got to the bottom of the stairs there was a ton of smoke and firefighters running around. The garbage room was on fire. I don't know how that happened. We sat outside for an hour and just did planning for the next day until the alarm went off. We went to bed and then in the middle of the night the fire alarm went of again. I just put my pillow over my head though so that I could go back to sleep.

Anyway, that's about all that happened this week. I love being out here! My companion is the best and I am so grateful for all that I am learning from her. :)

She Had a Dream of Two White Girls...

Hola familia. It was another busy week. We were knocking doors one day this week and this lady came out. She didn't seem interested at all but she listened to what we had to say. We came back the next morning to talk to her again and she said she had just woke up and didn't really have time to listen. Right when we were about to leave she said we could sit down for a little bit.

Sisters Breitenstien and Layton at the Newport Beach Temple

We taught her lesson one and towards the end she stopped us and said that the night we knocked on her door and this whole time we were teaching she thought we looked so familar but she couldnt figure out from where. But then she said that she just figured it out. As we were teaching she was facing the road and she saw a firetruck and two police cars drive by.

Then she said that she remembered where she saw us. She said that the night before we came she had a dream that two white girls, one a little bit taller and one just a little bit shorter, came to her door and were talking to her. In her dream she remembered  sitting outside with them and watching a firetruck and two police cars drive by. It was kinda weird, but hey, she was way more open after that. We wants us to come back now and teach her more. We will see what happens with it all.

We also had another great lesson with a friend of one of our recent converts. She wants go get baptized but still won't commit to a date. She wants to talk to her husband and see if he wants to learn too. They have four kids and she got excited when we told her about the different classes that we have at church for the kids. I am looking forward to teaching them more.

Zone at the Temple

This week we were able to go to the temple with our zone. It was so great.

Tomorrow we have another sisters meeting, so I am looking forward to that.

My companion is so awesome and I am learning so much from her. I love the people we are working with and I love being out here. I know that the church is true and I feel so blessed to be able to share this knowledge with others.

Bowling Zone Activity

I am so glad that Eric is loving BYU. Mom, hopefully you can go out with the missionaries soon. I love and miss you! Sounds like Sean is doing good. Dad and Curty, you two are Gems. :) Haha.. I love and miss you all so much. Have a great week!