Querida Familia y amigos,
This was an amazing week for us. We invited three people to be baptized and they all accepted! The next lesson we had after we invited one Sister to be baptized she already picked out who she wanted to give talks, her hymns, a special musical number, and her witnesses. She said she researched on the internet how to plan an LDS baptism because she was so excited. On Friday they went on a double-date with another couple in the ward. She reads what we leave her and even more. She said that she feels like her testimony is really growing. We are very excited for her baptism!
The nine-year-old from Chiuhuahua is so cute. She hasn't been enrolled in school yet because they have to get some records sent over from Mexico so she has plenty of time to read the scriptures. She is so excited to be baptized!
Last week the English elders tracted into a 14-year-old named Jose who told them that they could send Spanish missionaries back because he thought his family would be willing to listen to our message. Often when this happens and we arrive the parents are upset that their child told someone to come back. We stopped by one day and were able to talk to Jose who was very charming. Then on Sunday we were able to meet the entire family. The mother looked a little confused when she answered the door but when I asked her if we could share a message with her family she invited us right in. In talking with the family they told us that they were raised Catholic but that they don't have strong ties to any certain religion. The mother just a week ago had what seemed to me to be an anxiety attack for the first time in her life just last week and she is very open to listening because she said that it startled her. They both said that they had never heard of our church but then as we started to teach the first lesson we asked if they had heard of The Book of Mormon and the dad said that he had and that he even had a copy and had read a lot of it. It turns out that years ago when they first arrived here in the United States and he had come up here to work while his wife was still in California that his bosses were Americans and members of the Church and had given him a copy of The Book of Mormon. He had never met with missionaries or anything so he didn't know that we were from that church. They said that before they went to a Christian church but they had a bad experience there and stopped going but that they are open to go to another one. I just can't help but think about the bosses of the dad who probably will never know that one of their employees from years ago would come in contact with the missionaries and accept the invitation to learn more. I am thankful for their missionary-mindedness and I hope that all of us have the courage to be missionaries and the faith to believe that we can participate in God's work to prepare the hearts of His children to receive the gospel.
I love you all very much!
Hermana Kinghorn
