The good news is, pretty much all zoos are the same. Something about us all living in the same world where all the same animals are close to extinction. Something new is that I didn´t really like it. We went to the zoo for p-day today and really all I could think was "poor animals" they sit in cages all day long with people annoying them, nothing to do, no one to visit. And lots of annoying, loud, people pointing, taking pictures and chucking edibles at them. And there weren´t even good explanations/plaques of information to talk about the animals. Not my favorite experience ever. And I´m not going to get on any animal right bandwagon or anything, but I think the zoo just became one of the places I´d rather not visit. Oh well, you learn something new about yourself every day right. The good news is, my companion LOVED IT! And as along as she´s happy, I´m happy. we have a billion pictures that I´ll send a few of to you. No worries. We look great.
On a more spiritual and happy note. This week has been crazy. Good, but crazy none the less. The best news of the week comes in the form that Johanna got baptized! Hurray. It was a close call because there was a Relief Society activity at the same time and we literally had to drag the Young Men Group Leaders from Mutual to be witnesses, and the Priesthood leader that led the service did the baptizing as well. It´s a good thing we have some amazing members in Nuñez. The better news is that Johanna is doing amazing, she was confirmed Sunday by the Bishop, it was a beautiful blessing. And Johanna was really touched. She understands the importance of baptism, we know this because she got baptized-desipite her phobia of water. A phobia that we didn´t know about until she entered the water. She is a tender daughter of God, and there are a lot of people that congratulated her on Sunday.
For other investigators, we´re kind of in a flux right now. Eliana and Deysi now haven´t been to church in two weeks, which is really unfortunate because they loved it, and we had worked with Deysi to the point that she wanted to be baptized, but now she seems to be dropping a bit. We´re going to try to have a lot of contact with her this week, and hope that helps. She´s so close. We need to do better at teaching the importance of taking the sacrament. We´re going to do that this week si o si. Because I don´t want to drop her and her family. If we have to, we will, because there are people who are out there that want to listen. But her family could really use the blessings.
Other than that Bel Grano has been really nice in giving us lots of references. We´re going to make contacting a high priority this week because, as you can see, we have a lot of people to contact. Lots of references, or at least names of neighbors that we can talk to.
One thing from my personal study comes from Alma 6:6 which talks about fasting for the benifit of those that don´t have the Gospel. This is something that we always can do. It can be general or specific, but it´s something that every member of the church can be a part of. And this was Alma talking! It still applies today. And then I´ve been studying the story of Ammon and Lamoni, and there are just so many perfect examples of Christ like attributes and inspired questions. I love it. It is a really good missionary experience. I´ve learned a lot.
Sorry that this e-mail is lame, there are next to no stories, and very brief, I´ll try to update more next week. One funny moment came when there was another baptism of the ward. We went to drop off some pants for him (ward baptism, he´s 8 years old). So he goes to try on the pants comes out with his shirt up and starts dancing disco....which immediately made me think of Ethan. Love you little bro.
Thank you for your inspiration and prayers.
Hermana Reed
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