Jessica

Hey everyone!
Well, I found my companion on tuesday! My last companion on the mission... Weird. Well, his name is Elder Krewson. He is a gringo from Maryland. I asked him if his family was converted a long time ago by another Elder Westover that was serving in the east states mission, but unfortunately, their family only moved there a few years ago.
He is really cool and very humble. He speaks well, but struggles sometimes, just like all of us. I really don't know how I can tell him everything he needs to know about the mission. I thought that if I got a new missionary, I would just unload all kinds of missionary wisdom on him. I didn't do it, though. At least not yet. For some reason, I usually just stand back, watch with an encouraging glance, and let him figure it out on his own. I realized that that was the only way he was going to truly learn. I am willing to catch him if he falters, but the only way to be a great missionary is to know how to overcome those experiences by going through them yourself. Christ could have just known how to help us using his god capacitated revelation, but he knew that the only way to truly understand was to go through it himself.
Everyone in Gabriela is doing well. Juan José Arias, who was baptized on the 24 of april, passed the sacrament on sunday. The Family Quivira and us are planning a temple trip. Luciano and Shirly are doing well, as always. Matias and Nicolas have been more of a struggle, trying to get them to church while balancing an angry divorced mom who could snatch them away at any moment if she decided to press charges. The best news of this week is Jessica.
Jessica is a reference that we got from another ward. Apparently they had already been to church, and they loved it. We came to her house on Tuesday, not really knowing what to expect. We got to the house, and immediately the blonde hair woman who answered the door told us to come in. And there we were. Jessica and her three boys. Right now she is living with her friend, who is a member of another ward. We start to talk, and we found out that she studied in a catholic school, training to be a nun. She decided that it wasn't for her after a few years, but continued in the Catholic church. She baptized her children, went to misa, and was getting her oldest ready to do his first communion. That's when she realized: nothing filled her. Nothing about what she was doing made her feel like she was in the right church. So she began her search. She studied with the evangelicos, the testigos de jehová, adventistas, etc, each with varying results. None of wich filled that gap. Then one night she had a dream, dreams wich she never remembers. In her dream, she was with a man in a roman looking tunic. They were in a brightly lit room with white walls and neatly placed furniture. It felt nice. She said a little bit farther down a hall she saw a pool of some kind. Then the man took her hand and led her to a great door. He told her that she couldnt go in until she had cleansed herself. He began to leave, but Jessica grabs his robe and tells him not to go. He tells her not to worry, that he will come back. She asked him his name so she would know when he has come back. He said simply: "Helaman," and left.
I pulled out my book of mormon and read Helaman 5:9: O remember, remember, my (daughter), the words which (I, Helaman) spake unto (you); yea, remember that there is no other way nor means whereby man can be saved, only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, who shall come; yea, remember that he cometh to redeem the world. I added the words in parentheses.
The spirit could not have been stronger in that room. She whispered quietly: "This is it."
I am so glad to be a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. I am so glad to be preaching his gospel, and spreading the good news that our families can be together forever. I am grateful for the plan that he left us. For the love he gave us. For the son he so loved. It is in his name that I declare these things, as his representative. I am so happy to be a missionary :)
Con Amor,
Elder Westover
.....sprint to the finish