Dear family,
This week has been great. We are working with a couple investigators and several menos activos.
One investigator is Ana. Ana found us in the Library two preparation days ago. She attended the church in Florida for a while. She is already reading the Book of Mormon and has been to church twice. She is difficult to understand because she likes to talk to us in "basic English", as she describes it, and I have no idea what she is saying. We have respectfully requested she speak to us in Spanish because we can't understand her in English, but she hasn't really changed. She also likes to try to speak to the members in English, even though she is Puerto Rican. She likes to talk a lot and can't really focus in the lessons. So, I feel confused about her because she frustrates us a lot, but she is also the most agent-like investigator I have had my entire mission; she had no ride to church and she still got there...twice, and she is reading the Book of Mormon. We are trying to develop patience. Although I feel frustrated with her, I also feel Heavenly Father's love for her.
We are also trying to teach Tony, who is also reading the Book of Mormon. He declares that it is true, but is impossible to have a cita with him. He thinks Joseph Smith was a prophet, but wants to know more about him to be sure. We've testified to him of the power of prayer, but he insists on learning more about Joseph Smith. He is cool and has been to church once.
Olga is a menos activo that we have been working with for several weeks...basically since we got here, and she is rather consistently coming to church and has started to read the Book of Mormon from the beginning. She is really excited about her reading and likes the story and the things she can learn from it. It is wonderful to see her really growing in the gospel. She bore her testimony last week in fast and testimony meeting, which I thought was a wonderful demonstration of her progress.
This week has been great. We are working with a couple investigators and several menos activos.
One investigator is Ana. Ana found us in the Library two preparation days ago. She attended the church in Florida for a while. She is already reading the Book of Mormon and has been to church twice. She is difficult to understand because she likes to talk to us in "basic English", as she describes it, and I have no idea what she is saying. We have respectfully requested she speak to us in Spanish because we can't understand her in English, but she hasn't really changed. She also likes to try to speak to the members in English, even though she is Puerto Rican. She likes to talk a lot and can't really focus in the lessons. So, I feel confused about her because she frustrates us a lot, but she is also the most agent-like investigator I have had my entire mission; she had no ride to church and she still got there...twice, and she is reading the Book of Mormon. We are trying to develop patience. Although I feel frustrated with her, I also feel Heavenly Father's love for her.
We are also trying to teach Tony, who is also reading the Book of Mormon. He declares that it is true, but is impossible to have a cita with him. He thinks Joseph Smith was a prophet, but wants to know more about him to be sure. We've testified to him of the power of prayer, but he insists on learning more about Joseph Smith. He is cool and has been to church once.
Olga is a menos activo that we have been working with for several weeks...basically since we got here, and she is rather consistently coming to church and has started to read the Book of Mormon from the beginning. She is really excited about her reading and likes the story and the things she can learn from it. It is wonderful to see her really growing in the gospel. She bore her testimony last week in fast and testimony meeting, which I thought was a wonderful demonstration of her progress.
Last week we went to Old San Juan again. It was cool. There are two main castle there; el morro (where we went the first time, when I was with Sister Thoms), and San Cristobal, which is where we went this time. It was cool. There was a really long tunnel and that was my favorite part. We also took a picture in the Christopher Columbus plaza, because it was the day after Columbus day. How appropriate! It was loads of fun.
Olga lives in the campo, but not super campo. There is a hill by her house that we drove up and we could see all of San Juan and the Ocean and Old San Juan and everything. It was a really cool "scenic overlook." and free! We took some pictures, but as always, our lame Point-and-shoot cameras just can't really capture the beauty of this island.
I love you so much! Thanks for everything!
Sincerely,
Hermana Miller
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