Dear Family,
Mom- Thank you for so many pictures. I love seeing little Reece. I am printing some out to show to people.
This week was pretty good. Yesterday we had four people at
Church. One of them was Reina. She is still so ready to get baptized but
her "husband" still isn't cooperating. It's sad because she is starting
to lose hope with him. But she is still doing great. We gave her the
Book of Mormon on CD and now she is 'reading' from the Book of Mormon a
lot more consistently. I can't remember if I told you, but she and her
family are in a tight financial situation right now. And a few weeks ago
she was offered a job at a restaurant for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
But she is so wonderful. She didn't take the job so that she could
continue to come to Church on Sunday. Because she has a large family and
she loves them so much. She wants so badly to see her whole family
together in Church with her. But until that happens she is still
faithful and comes every week with her two little daughters, Maryori and
Emily. I was telling Reina about you, Mom, and she is excited to meet
you when we come back to visit.
On of the other people that we had at Church yesterday was
Maritza. I've told you about her right? She is a wonderful lady that I
have an absolute blast teaching. She is so stressful, but I love it. She
has been investigating for over 2 months now and has come to Church 6
times. She loves the member; she loves the Doctrine; she loves the Book
of Mormon. Each time we go visit her she starts reading us a part of the
Book of Mormon that she liked that she read in the last few days. It is
really fun to have your investigators start reading you
scriptures and explaining why they like them:-D She is also a great
missionary. She goes around telling everyone about the Restored Gospel. Saturday night
after our lesson she walked us over to one of her neighbors, Book of
Mormon in hand, and introduced us to him. We then walked back to her
trailer with him and right when we sat down she started reading him
parts of the Book of Mormon that had helped her and that she thought
would hep him. It was a really neat experience. The only thing that has
been keeping her form getting baptized is that she has a boyfriend and
we haven't been sure if she is worthy to be baptized. But yesterday the
Bishop interviewed her and afterwards told us that she is okay. So we
are planning on getting her baptized this weekend. You'll enjoy meeting
her as well.
Then the last two people that were at Church yesterday were
Ana Hernandez and her daughter Sonya. This was the second time that they
have been to Church. They came last week also and love it both times.
Ana is so amazing. She always tells us how grateful she is for us. She
loves that her daughter loves the Church. She worries a lot about her.
Ana also loves the Book of Mormon and is always so amazed at how much
the Book of Mormon and Bible teach the same things. a lot of people,
including her boyfriend, have told her not to listen to us because we
are gong to confuse her. But every time we teach her she tells us that
far from confusing her we are helping her to learn. Ana wants to get
baptized but can't because her boyfriend doesn't want to marry her right
now.
But her 12 year old daughter, Sonya, does want to get
baptized and doesn't have anything holding her back. So she will be
getting baptized this weekend. We are really excited about her. We see
her pretty much every day. She is excited. we will be teaching her
tonight.
Mom- About Christmas,
President gave us permission to Skype for 30 to 35 minutes this year. So
I will try to find a member that will let us use their computer. You
said to call you after 12 but what time is that here in Florida. Are you
still going to be in Virginia with Kim and Sean or are you going to be
back in Arizona? Day Light Savings threw me off. How many hours ahead
of Arizona am I? I think I will be calling at about 4 or 5 my time. Will
that work? I will probably call you first like I did for Mother's Day
and then we can figure out the Skype thing.Sound good?
Well I need to be going. My time is running away from me and I
need to go catch it. I hope that you are all keeping up on our CPR.
Those three things are the "small and simple things" that bring about
great changes in our lives. I know that to be true. That is how we come
closer to our Savior.
I love you all so much. Have a great week!
Con amor,
Elder Kevin Reece
PS- I am sending a picture of President Anderson and I and one of
Elder White and I. I took them at Interviews with President on Saturday.
Also Mom, have you found Christmas Crunch this year?
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