Dearest family and friends,
Greetings once again from
the land of 22 (billion) languages! Things are going great, however,
Saturday was a really tough day. We went to visit Elvira and Erick, but
they weren't home. Elvira's ex mother in law came down and in her broken
spanish-mam told us that Elvira and Erick had gone to the coast and
that they didn't want anything more with the church... It was quite a
low blow. We were planning on them getting baptized in August, but it
doesn't seem too promising anymore. Basically everything fell that day
and it was extremely frustrating.
However, yesterday a few investigators showed up to
church and that just kinda calmed things down a little bit. It made me
pretty happy to see that the people had still shown up to church. There
is one less active guy that we have been working with whose name is
Jorge. He has been coming to church lately after like 15 or 20 years of
being inactive. It is pretty crazy. I have enjoyed seeing him at church
every Sunday. Also, yesterday, Rodrigo passed the sacrament and it made
me very happy. Last week, Marili brought some new investigators to
church and we have been working with them. It has been really great to
see how they are working with us. Marili and her family have been so
blessed by the gospel. I did exchanges with Elder Sanchez who is in a
neighboring area, San Mateo, and Elder Avila went and visited them and
found out that before Rodrigo's baptism he was always drunk and would
beat his wife, but now he's dropped his friends that he would drink
with, doesn't beat his wife, leaves the house when he gets angry. Marili
has got a sweet testimony. I love this. There is honestly nothing
better than being able to help people makes their lives better. It is
such a blessing and a joy. I love it and I love the Lord.
Love,
Elder Hilton
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