Week 38: An Amazing Week

April 24, 2017

So this week we found a new investigator--Belen. Her sister is an investigator that`s getting baptized in a couple weeks and Belen accepted being baptized with her!

So my comp is a sister leader so she needs to do intercambios and I need to stay with the comp of the other sister leader (for some reason they don`t have them as companions in this mission... anymore :S No sè porque). So I spent Wendnesday in Adrogue and she spent Thursday in my area, Alejandro Korn. Her name is Hna Garner, and we`re basically comps after being together two days this week, two days next week, and who knows how many days in this next transfer. :D

In her area we got lost on the way to lunch, but were able to help the less active sister who fed us-- she has cancer and feels really weak but is trying to turn to God in this trial. She was so sweet, and it was an honor to meet her.

Then we had a lesson with a family that`s investigating--a mom with her two daughters (who are also moms). Her questions that no one has been able to answer are Where did the Devil come from and What is he made of? So we explained the deep doctrine of the preexistence with revealed the REAL question she had which was how can God permit evil to exist if He`s all good. So we read in 2 Nephi 2, and one of her daughters was super sweet and opened up how she`s been doubting her faith and she really wants to build it up more, so we invited her to read the BoM and attend the baptism the ward was having that Saturday.

It was great! 

The next day we traveled to my area again, and we contacted a family that was a reference from members--the father is less active hace 20 years and has four daughters, two of which can be baptized. He told us that his wife is evangelist (? I don`t know the name of the religion in english) and doesn`t accept the church, but when we visited the next day she was super open and we were able to talk about faith in Christ and why we celebrate easter. Her daughters came to the movie night we had Friday and attended church yesterday with their father!!!

But I`m getting ahead of myself... Thursday night after contacting in the four corners of our area (literally walking to our four limits) we had our ward FHE and we were in charge. We played some fun easter games and ended watching the new video Principe de Paz and talking about Christ. 

Friday we finished the intercambios and I was officially with my comp again, we had our lesson with that family I mentioned and that movie night I talked about already :D. Oh, and my comp (Hna Davis) used to work in a popcorn shop in Vegas, and so made popcorn for the movie night.

Saturday was amazing and full!! In the morning we helped the Primary President finish up a project (love service!!) Her husband was the one who led us to the family we`re now working with and when we finished helping his wife he took us to another less active he`d found and whose husband isn`t a member--another investigator!! We shared an easter message and they invited us to have lunch tomorrow!! :O While we were talking, a neighbor who helps her with laundry came in and said "Oh, I`m a member, too. If you want to visit me I live in that corner." ... Okay, of course we`ll visit you! :D

And that was just the morning. We ate a quick lunch, visited Brisa and Belen (remember, the girl from the beginning?), and then picked up a member to help us visit a less active who she used to work with when he was an active member. Poor guy, he`s super sad and loosing faith. But we`ll help him pull through!! Then we went for our last appointment, and the neighbor (Faima) came and told us that they moved out two days ago, but that her mom was a member and that Faima used to attend church with her. Then her mom came out and we set an appoinment with her. We went to the house to which our appointment (a less active and investigator) had moved but no one answered, so we went to see some new investigators, and their parents weren`t home but the girl (12) said that she`d finished reading the intro of the BoM and was in the Test. of the 8 Witnesses!!! :O Wow. We found out when her parents would be home, and are definitely going to be following up with her :D. 

We had five of our investigators in church yesterday and 20 people in total in our class of Principles of the Gospel with all of the less actives that came, too. I love Easter Sunday!! It`s been an amazing week seeing fruits. Now we`re working on helping those fruits lead to the tree of life, and helping the investigators accept baptism.

I love you all!! Thanks for all of the emails, support, and prayers. I really have felt like I`ve been walking in the clouds this week, it`s been amazing. 

Love you! Have a great week!

Sister Tova S Biesinger

Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission