May, 12, 2014 - Long time, no talk!

 

It was so good to talk to you all yesterday. Nothing beats seeing you and hearing your voices. I love and miss you all more than you know but I also wouldn't want to be anywhere else at this time in my life. I just love it here in Rialto and I know I am here for a reason.

So glad you got to meet Joseph and his family. People like them are the whole reason I'm here. They are a golden family and we have seen them change so much! Joseph is on fire! He is taking more steps to get baptized and he even asked if we could go teach his friend! His friend lives in Redlands so we can't go there but we sent his address to the missionaries that are serving in that area. Then Joseph asked if he wanted his daughter to convert if he could be the one to baptize her. It is so cool to see how much he is growing and his desire to share that with the other people in his life that he cares about! This is what it's all about.

 

This week was definitely an interesting one. We went tracting on Wednesday. Our appointment with a less-active member fell through so we just decided to go knock on doors around their neighborhood. We got some really nice people! One of them spoke Spanish and was willing to let us come back another time to teach him so hopefully something good will come from that when we go back! Then it was almost time for our next appointment so we decided to knock on one more door. Well... let me tell you. It was interesting to say the least. She came out and ended up talking to us for half an hour. She had spent 32 years of her life preaching for a Christian church and was really proud of her knowledge. At first she thought we were Jehova's Witnesses and she kept telling us why what we believed was wrong. When we could finally get a word in to tell her that we weren't Jehova's Witnesses she asked what we were so we said we were from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She said "you're mormons?!" so we just nodded and she goes "oh my... that's even worse!" then she was even more excited to preach to us. After everything we walked away with a little more knowledge of her church and she said she'd pray for us so that we'd find the truth... it was definitely interesting.

 

This week we have Zone Conference which is pretty much just a training with our mission president and some of our other leaders in the mission. I am excited but I always get a little nervous because we never know when our mission president will call us up to do a role play and demonstrate teaching. I don't like all that attention!

 

We are going to try to take more pictures so I can send them to you. I hope you all have a great week and I love you all!

 

Love,

Hermana Granado