May 14, 2018



First off transfer news: staying here in san vicente with elder eros (my comp and son in the mission bc I trained him) for a 3rd transfer but I will be the new district leader! haha not going to lie I really liked my position of senior comp and not having to do extra stuff hahaha but we all gotta change at some point right. But ther hermanas in my district have 2 with a baptismal date so I will start doing baptismal interviews!

GOOD NEWS: Emili and Joalid will be baptized this Saturday. Jaloid asked me to baptize her. The ward is stoked since there has not been a baptism here since like September! We had 5 in church (technically 6 but one of them is 8 so we can't count them).

SO MUCH HAPPENED THIS WEEK. I swear Satan is working against us in every way possible.

1. Matias and Josefa. They came to church and we went to the temple with them Saturday. They want to be baptized and their parents are super inactive and do not want them to baptized until they are like 17. Anyways the mom got a text from another woman this past week saying that the dad had another family and then he left with the other family... but then i saw him yesterday at the house again so idk but the family was devastated.
2. Emili and Joalid. They live with their mom and their dad is CRAZY and they are trying to get a restraining order on him (he held them at gunpoint about 4 weeks ago). Yeah well Saturday morning the dad came to the house and tried to take the girls with force and Joalid was just balling bc they are scared of him. We called  that night to check for church and the mom just collapsed. Turns out they were physically and sexually abused by their dad. BUT THEY CAME TO CHURCH AND so did their superrrrrr inactive mom which was a HUGE step for the mom.
3. Rodriguez Family. Found them last week and they came to mutual and our coco movie night where we talked about the plan of salvation and temples. They called their dad to come pick them up and they were parked outside the house. Someone tried to rob them and ended up punching the kids all in front of the church and then we came outside and there was a huge fight and the kids were balling. Crazy. LUCKILY, WE PASSED BY LAST NIGHT AND THEY STILL want to come to the activities.
4. Belen. Told us she wanted to commit suicide and everyone was teasing her and calling her fat whale. she also cut herself. said that she would be baptized!

At mutual we had 11 investigators haha i felt like an efy counselor walking with them all to church. Also, contacted an Arabic woman in the street and she told us the government killed all her family in front of her eyes. So happy to have the plan of salvation. haha she told elder Richie and I in the middle of the lesson "I thank you for talking to me but i do not understand anything haha".


~ Elder Nord

















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