Miracles! (9.26.11)

We had a good week and we are really happy about that. Ill describe the investigators a little bit.

We are teaching a couple named Gissel and Mauricio. We found them doing contacts out in a small town about 20 minutes away from Coihueco. Gissel is 22 and Mauricio is about 25 and they have a 2 year old toddler. They go to a church but they see that their church doesnt have all of the truth so they are really open. The first lesson we shared with them, we were teaching the Restoration and I had not even talked about Joseph Smith or the First Vision but my companion decides to pull out the Book of Mormon and teach about that. I went with it and tied it in as best I could and it ended up being really inspired. The next time we came, Gissel had read the testimonies at the beginning and had a dream about it. She dreamed that she was in the room of Joseph Smith as he was talking with the angel Moroni. We asked her what she thought that meant and she said that she figures that means that everything we are telling her is true! We shared more and she told us and her husband at the end of the lesson that there is no way what we are saying is a lie. They both have baptismal dates for the 16th of October and are really excited to get baptized! Gissel went to church yesterday and stayed all three hours but Mauricio had to go out of town. They are both really smart and are going to help the branch a ton if they get baptized!

Another investigator named Cristina came to church with her two children and her and her son have baptismal dates for the 16th of October too. Cristina is pregnant and she also said that she goes to a church but she wants to get baptized and she cant in her church because she is not married by that church. It all started out with Cristina by knocking on her door a few months ago and she didnt seem too interested at first but we just asked if we could share for 10 minutes, she let us in, and then was really interested the next time we came back!

Another investigator named Gustavo came and has a baptismal date. He wants to get baptized but he needs to move out of his girlfriend´s house before he does. Once we find a room for him to live in, he will be baptized!

We had other investigators go to church including a husband of a recent convert, a friend of a member, and the, ummm, ¨very feminine man¨ of Coihueco. He has gone two times now so we are actually thinking a little bit about teaching him. His parents died and they were members so if he were to change some things, especially with the law of chastity, he would be getting baptized too!

I gave a talk in sacrament meeting about the importance of a living prophet and about the organization of the church from a Prophet down to the 12 Apostles and the Seventy. It was all about getting everyone excited for General Conference!

We had to focus a few weeks on reactivating and now we are seeing the fruits of it all. That means that we are getting less actives back to church and the Lord is blessing us with amazing investigators. We talked with the Relief Society President of the branch last night and she thanked us for helping the less actives so much. She said that all of the less actives that come, come because we (the missionaries) visit them. She apoligized that she hasnt been doing her visits but she thanked us a lot and we appreciated that.

I love yall! Chao-ito!

Elder Gregory