18 November 2013

Dear family,

If I understand correctly, I am always in the Central time zone. But we do not observe day light savings. (Panama, I believe, does.) So when you were in day light savings, I lined up with Utah, but now I am just an hour behind you.

Also, you should know, for logistical reasons, we won't have p-day next Monday. So don't expect an email from me that day. I believe we will have p-day later in the week. We just don't know when. 

So this week, our big event was that we had a wedding. I am so happy to see this family now as a complete family unit. We still have a little more work to do to get the wife ready for baptism and even more to help the husband, but it's been such a blessing to see how happy this family has been in these few days just from starting their family the way God wants them to. It was quite an adventure. Up until an hour before we had to leave, we weren't sure if we were going to have transportation to get to the wedding, but the Hermano was able to get his van working. Thus we went--the couple, their small kids, two witnesses, and the missionaries, who served as moral support and photographers. I was really happy for the family, but I will be even happier when they go to the temple someday. Going and signing papers in a government office just can't compare with getting married inside the House of God. 

Other than that, we keep teaching as usual. I think our area will be divided next transfer, so we really need to work on finding lots of investigators in these next few weeks. As always, it isn't too hard to find someone who will listen to us once or twice, but it's much harder to find those who will come to church and start to keep commitments. We did have one really neat experience contacting recently. As we were going house to house, we met a lady named Ondina. My comp asked if we could sing a hymn, and we sang I Am a Child of God (I think). While we were singing, she started crying. When we asked, she said that she felt something. We told her that was the Spirit testifying of the truth our message. We went back once more and taught a lesson though her gate. She is friendly, but I think she is afraid to really listen to us because she already knows on some level that our message is true, but she is comfortable where she is right now. Little by little, hopefully we can gain her confidence and build her faith.  

Love,

Hermana Davis