Monday, May 9, 2011

Progress in Gabriela!

Hey Everybody!
It was pretty cool to see my family yesterday! It made me miss home a little bit, but that's not going to stop me from keep going strong till the very end!
This week has been pretty good. The family Quivira is our strongest so far. Victoria is going to seminary at six in the morning regularly. It was hard to motivate her to go, mainly because I felt very hypocritical telling her to go. Her brother, the little earthquake with legs, is also doing really well. I can tell its going to be hard for them when we leave.
The family Arias is also doing very well. Juan José and Juan Pablo, the two that got baptized on the 24th, are really liking priesthood, and the parents feel that its a very good environment for their kids to grow up in, because mostly they just stay inside after school and play video games and have no real interactions with anyone. But now they are very outgoing and getting along great with the other deacons!
The family León was the big surprise.The family León is a young couple with a 3 year old daughter. They were always kind of wishy washy about setting a time to have a lesson. They were always busy, or they had something more important to do. We were on the verge of dropping them, but we went by one night, just to give them one more chance. They wanted to set up a noche de hogar (family night) with us some night, but it wasn't very set. We stopped by anyway to humor ourselves, and we found that they were sitting and waiting for us!
It was a great family night, and we talked a lot about questions that they had. At the end, we had susana, the mom, say the prayer. It was one of the best prayers I have ever heard on the mission. She said how she wanted to have god alieve her of her troubles, and to help fix all of the mistakes that shes made. Then she started crying, and the spirit swooped in and overtook the room. Needless to say, they went to church the next day and loved it. She had a lot of questions about eternal marriage and it seemed like she really liked the idea. The whole class was really great.
And that's Gabriela, right now. We are doing great. Sprint to the finish!
Con Amor,
Elder Westover

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