Another week of miracles!

Another amazing, miracle-filled week! There are definitley challenges everyday, but it´s just Heavenly Father making sure that we deserve the miracles! On Tuesday we were searching for a menos-activo familia. We didn´t really have an exact address, but I thought I knew what apartment building they lived in, so we just went to a random door and asked if they knew the family. They didn´t...so then we contacted them. We asked them if they believed in Christ or something like that and they said ¨were baptist¨ and then sent us away. But we were determined to find this family. So then we went to a different member´s house to ask where the menos activos lived. (Elder Fortuna...he´s a 70 and lives in our ward...haha) The wife told us that it was the second building on

the second floor to the left. So we went back to the other building and went to the second floor and the door on the left. We yelled ¨BUENAS!!¨because knocking doesn´t exist here. A woman stuck her head out and told us to wait a second. Then a minute later a guy came and opened the gate of a door for us.We asked them if they were members, and they said no. But they told us to come in. We went in and we sat on the couch. It was a little unconfortable how it seemed like they knew us so well. But we got talking to the mom, whose name is Dalma and her son, Sanky who is 19 years old. She said ÿou´ve been here before! It´s been a long time!¨ we told her that
we had never been to her house before and she seemed just as suprised as we were! She told us we looked like missionaries from a different church that had been there before. We explained that we were different missionaries and then Sanky started showing pictures that he had on his phone of the TEMPLE! He said that he could see it right outside one of his classroom windows and he has always thought that the gold guy on top was cool. This 19 year old non member (yet) literally had pictures of the temple on his phone because he thoght it was cool. Like....that´s a miracle in and of itself! They then fed us dominican pasta and invited us to come back on Saturday. So on Saturday we went back and we found that Dalma has other sons! We ment Yohansel, who is 30 years old. The second we walked into the house, Yohansel was so suprised! He was so attentive to the lesson (which ended up being like 2 hours long because they had so many questions and were SO interested!). We gave Dalma and Sanky copies of the Book of Mormon the first time and they had read it, and Yohansel was telling us that he wanted one as well, so we gave him one as well! He kept it close to him the rest of the night (they fed us dominican spagetti and tostones....again.....just becasue I said I liked tostones. You really need to be careful about what you say you like in this country....because the people will give it to you. For example one time I told someone I liked their shoes and they tried giving me their shoes...haha) at the dinner table he had it as well. We invited them to be baptized and Yohansel said yes! He´s preparing for the 29th of this month. He was a little nervous about it being so fast but then he was like ¨YES! I CAN BE BAPTIZED ON THE 29TH!¨ The next day he came to church and he loved it! and was particiapting a lot! Another testimony builder that Heavenly Father truely prepares his children, we just need to find them! We are still working with the rest of the family for baptism. And we still haven´t found the menos activo family...

Sunday we had 7 investigators at church! It´s crazy how one week it is difficult to have one investigator and then this week we had 7! Hard work is paying off and Heavenly Father is blessing us! 

We were doing a cosecha in Villa Francisca on Sunday, in which each missionary was given 2 copies of the Book of Mormon because President told the zone leaders that we would see a lot of success if we used the Book of Mormon in the cosechas. Hna Jensen and I contacted a 10 year old girl using the Book of Mormon and then we left. A couple of minutes later we saw her running down the road towards us and panting said ¨my grandma wants a book! Can she have one?¨ We then went back and gave her grandma the Book of Mormon! It was a cool expierence! We gave away our four books within 30 minutes! We needed more! Everyone has seemed very excited when we have given them a book!  We have been giving away a TON of books of mormon recently and it is so much fun! I LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON!

Legna is getting baptized on Saturday! She´s amazing! I am praying that everything goes well! 

LOVE YOU ALL! Have the best week ever and try to see the miracles in every day....every hour even :)

Love, Hermana Lawrence