So this week was another great week

So this week was another great week, not a lot happened though. All we are doing is teaching and teaching 

and more teaching. Our contacting method is making it a little easier and less stressful on our legs now a days. 

All of our lessons are like three streets apart for most of the day, with the occasional long walk to another 

person's house just a few blocks away. Its been pretty dang good, and a lot of them are actually progressing 

and committing to going to church, and are reading praying and following the commandments. 

The first story for today is quite funny. So we found these two people a mom and her daughter. 

They had heard the missionaries before in mexico DF, and had really liked the messages. 

So anyways the missionaries were teaching them and all, but they "weren't progressing" 

like the missionaries wanted them to. They explained more and told us that they had talked for two weeks 

with the missionaries and didn't feel ready to be baptized. There was another girl that had only been talking 

them for like a week or two and got baptized. So the missionaries started to lecture them how they weren't 

going to heaven and stuff like that. Well the story continues and they told them that that's not true, and said 

we will be baptized when we feel ready, when we have received an answer. The missionaries got really mad 

at this and more or less never returned to talk with them, but they continued to go to church and everything. 

Well one day, a Monday, they went to the mall to buy some stuff, and when they entered the mall the 

two missionaries were leaving with the girl that had been baptized, and one of the missionaries and her were 

holding hands and all over each other. And a bunch of other stuff happened during this time and after 

everything had passed they decided to leave the church and not be baptized. So anyways we contacted them 

and started talking to them, and we were trying to gain their confidence back, and boy did they just open 

up one day and went on for like an hour and a half about all of the problems and doubts that they had. 

So anyways we were just talking about this all, and then I popped the baptismal invitation and they said 

that they know if they do everything they are suppose to do they will be ready in three weeks to be baptized, 

so whoop whoop. 

Another thing that happened this week was with the family we had baptized. The mother was raised and 

studied the the iglesia evangelista. So it has been really hard for her to except the BOM, and she told us 

this week that she doesn't know she can go all in with the church if she doesn't find something in the Bible 

that talks about the BOM. And my companion, love him but is more prideful then I have ever been, and 

thinks he's the best missionary, starts talking about a passage in John that talks about Jesus doing a lot 

of other things that it wouldn't all fit in one book, and she cut him off and said well yeah we know that 

but its not saying that there's another book. He starts getting mad and I say, 'Hermana Podemos tener un 

vaso de agua'. This was just an excuse to get us alone. and my companion turns to me and says she's 

gonna go inactive and other stuff like that. And I said, 'Just shut up and don't say anything for the rest of the 

lesson, cuz with that attitude you can't teach correctly and aren't in the right mind set'.  So I share two passages 

in the Bible that clearly talk about the BOM. The one the talks about the Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph 

being one in the hands of man, and another that talks about a sealed book that God will unseal in His own 

due time. I've always known about these two passages but my companion just always uses the same one, 

so its just whatever. Afterwards she looks up and tells us that its all true that the Book of Mormon in 

true and the evidence has been right in front of her the whole time. And then said 'I'm now a Super Mormon 

and am never leaving this church'. After the lesson my companion asked me how long I knew about 

these scriptures, and I said 'Ummm like three or four years'.  Then he said, 'Why didn't you ever share them?' 

And I said, 'You'll learn one day on your mission that you can't expect to get results if you use the same 

things every day'. He didn't take that too well but he got the point and every lesson we have been 

shaking it up and using different teaching techniques. 

That's really all I got for this week to be honest. One thing that I learned this week is that Joseph Smith 

restored the church, well obviously. But what a lot of people overlook is his wife Emma. We overlook the 

fact that she really sacrificed her whole entire life to help restore the church as well. She didn't translate 

anything or baptize but she kept care of the family and helped uplift him when he was down. Man if every 

married couple had the dedication and sacrifice willingly for God and for the other that would be a 

great world. 

That's all I got to say this week.  Have a great week.

Love you all. 

Church is true go be awesome (#annebagley)