Great week out here in Visalia California! The work has been progressing a ton here! We have a huge baptismal goal of 127 baptisms for the whole mission so we've got lots of work to do! We have 8 baptisms planned for this month so far and 4 for the next month! We also had 6 investigators at church yesterday and 5 of us Elders in the ward sang "Cuenta Tu Bendiciones" for a Sister's homecoming talk!
Two of the Elders in our area got transferred out to fill in for an Hermana who got sent home for medical reasons so we took over their area and now have 2 huge areas! Basically 2/3 of a stake! A lot of work needs to be done but I am super excited!!!
We are teaching the Ortiz family here who have 2 kids and they are Solid!!! They have been coming to church the past couple weeks and have a desire to be baptized! We are planning for the 30th for them! We also have been teaching 2 kids from part member families named Marcos and Andy and they both will be Baptized on the 23rd! Our last two most progressing investigators are Alejandra and Isabel! Alejandra is a bit older and has 2 kids, one is a member, she says she is ready to learn about the church and wants to have the peace and strong family relationships that come from the church! Isabel is in her 70's and has 36 grand kids who almost all live in the same apartment complex! She says every day the missionaries would pass by her and not talk to her or some would give her a card then leave for the past like 15 years but one day she yelled at us to come over and said basically she was tired of waiting and needed the word of god now! We then had a super awesome lesson over the plan of salvation and you could see the sincerity of her desire to learn! The plan salvation means so much to those who haven't heard it before! We then had 2 more lessons with her and they were both super solid but her husband is this super gordo old mexican grandpa who loves to talk with us and tell jokes! Randomly during our lessons he will make some random super loco comment and then laugh hysterically! Isabel then scolds him and calls him a borrchicho (Little drunkard) and tells him basically to get a life! Lol.
This week we met a crazy mix of people! Some who are die hard Christians, some who are on something, some who are super nice and give us water and tell us stories, some who come to bible bash, some to praise us on spreading the good word of god, some who are ready to change their live and are super open to the gospel, and then the best are the ones who god has prepared for us who were only kept from the truth because they knew not where to find it!
The work is going strong here and I love the work so much! My Spanish is getting better everyday!
This week I studied the Book of Mormon a lot! One part many people overlook is the intro, It's super solid and is a perfect explanation of what the Book of Mormon is and it's importance! If you haven't read it yet I invite you to check it out!
y que un hombre se acercaría más a Dios al seguir sus preceptos que los de cualquier otro libro”.
Love all you and have a solid week!!!
Con Amor,
Elder Houssian
Flips at the church!
A day out in the Church Vineyard!
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