Another Great Week!

ANOTHER GREAT WEEK!!! You know what? This is what it is all about! I mentioned in my prior email that we had a former investigator ask to talk to us named Maricela. She is a teenager (16) and has read the whole Book of Mormon cover to cover. In our first lesson back with her we asked her about baptism and she shot straight from the hip and told us what was up… So we talked her through her concerns (mostly that it would make her different from her friends and that they would make fun of her) using the Book of Mormon. So I just straight asked her "Do you know that baptism is the right thing to do?". Her response was "yes". I followed up with "When are you going to do it?" She kinda started to delay the response so I said "how about December 27th?" She responded that that was too far away and we settle on Dec. 13th. She called us the next day and told us how the 13th wouldn’t work but the 6th would! She is ready! She loves church, and she is living pretty much all of the commandments. We have permission from the mother to baptize her so everything is a go. She was way sick yesterday (like many) so she did not make it to church, but we are going to have a good talk about the importance of Sunday attendance.

Another one of our investigators Maria (the mother-in-law of a recent convert) is doing well and loves reading but works on Sundays… Its only 18 hours per week/$140 so we are confident that the lord will bless us and she will have another job by the end of the week! She is incredible. She also told us that she wants us to start talking to her daughter (the wife of Mario the recent convert) and Mario told us that she is basically ready for baptism as well and he wants us to start talking to his teenage kids!!!! WOW!!! It’s a whole family tree!!!

Oh yeah, we also found some new people this week, one is Jorge, he is 14 and the friend of a member. We stopped by the members house (they are unenthusiastically active and there is no hometeaching program so we do the home teaching more or less.) so we stopped by and Jorge was there. My companion had talked to him before and said the he had been way way cool before and told us to stop by when his mom was home. So we came into the members house (I think that he is dating the 13 year old girl) and there was Jorge he seemed surprisingly excited to see us! We talked with him and taught a short lesson and right before the lesson, the Grandmother of his girlfriend started rubbing his buzzed head... The women proceeded to pet the kids head throughout the whole 15 minute lesson... I was fighting back laughter pretty much the whole time for this poor poor kid who might have had received two of the most awkward things ever 1. Talking to Mormon missionaries 2. Having your girl friends grandmother pet you like a dog! HAHA! But the kid told us he wanted to go to church and learn more about god. The grandmother called his mom and got permission and he went to church and really enjoyed it! (14 year old that likes church...weird?!) so we are going to be talking to his mother on Wednesday! Sweet Huh?! I figure any kid who can endure his girl friend’s grandmother petting him while the Mormon missionaries talk to him would have definitely endured just about anything the pioneers went through!

Soooo Basically life is incredible! I am Loving life!
P.S. the guy next to me in the computer lab here at the library is on WWE.com.... I love Ohio... Haha!!!

Love you all, Elder Stiles