Hola Familia,
Como estan? This week has been really good. I'm getting use to Ventura area and I love it. We have been doing a lot of tracting because we don't have a lot of investigators so we are knocking on the doors. We had a miracle this week! We went to see some potential investigators and we didn't find any of them at home. We were going back to our car and we ran into this man who we really didn't want to talk to but since we talk to everyone, we did. He knew who we were a little bit because he talked to some missionaries in Mexico. We set up a return appointment with him. When we followed up at our appointment, we taught about the restoration. Hermana Walker was committing him to be baptized and before she could finish he said "Yes". Rudolfo is his name and he will be getting baptized on September 21st!!! Can you imagine if we just listened to our carnal man and didn't talk to him?
We met another man who we weren't trying to find. He was wondering why there are so many churches today. We gave him a Book of Mormon. We wanted to come by on Saturday to invite him to church. We ran into his wife who is firm in her own beliefs. She just wanted us to go see our own members of our church and not others. We explained our purpose which is simply to "invite others to come unto Christ." We asked her if she knows her Savior. She really didn't care if she knew her Savior or what we were doing as missionaries. C'est la vie!!
Also we have run into more Jehovah's Witnesses here than ever before. But it's a chance that we have to share the gospel with them.
I definitely need to work on my Spanish. I feel like I should know so much more since I am almost five months out. I still feel like I know the amount that I can out with from the MTC. But I am getting better and eventually I will get it.
I will send pictures. I need a cord thing that will go from my camera to the computer. I will send the chip home soon anyways.
The weather here is cold in the morning and at night but nice during the day. Just a little cold like you need a little jacket or something.
I love my new area. I think Heavenly Father knew I needed to be somewhere else, too. I wasn't happy in Newbury Park after leaving such a great area. It was tough not having any Spanish people to teach, just English. I think I would have lost some of my Spanish if I would have stayed. I had a feeling that I shouldn't have unpacked my bags, but I couldn't just live out of my suitcase for six weeks, so I unpacked.
I'm so glad to be in this new area. I love Ventura! Hermana Walker and I should be going to the temple sometime this week, which we are really excited for!! We could only find a couple people to go with and they both leave around four thirty in the morning. So, it will be an early day but we will be able to do a great amount of temple work. So fun!!!
I will have to snail mail today and let you know what I could use. I could use some Subway gift cards as we're always out and about during lunch, but that's all I can really think of. Some of the restaurants out here I have never heard of like Marie Calendar's and other things.
I haven't really thought of getting my hair cut and colored yet just because I have been so busy. But I will tell you my hair is changing from blonde to brown so crazy. I hope it's not stress! :)
I'll snail mail soon.
Love y'all,
Hermana Fitzpatrick
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