Hola Familia,
I absolutely loved my box mom! Thanks so much and I did get my contacts. Hermana Hernandez got her box as well. I did get the card and money from grandpa. Thank you so much!! My new companion is Hermana Young. She is from Utah. She is straight out from the MTC. Oxnard is great. Our investigators are great and we are working really hard with them. I don't need anything right now. I'm ok for dinero right now, thanks. It would be great if you sent Hermana Hernandez an email every week.
This week went by so fast. It's crazy how time is flying I feel like I wake up and then the next moment I'm going to bed but I love it. On Monday, we had a lesson with one of our investigators named Julian. He is a 10 year old boy and we taught him more about the prophet Jose Smith and why we have the Book of Mormon. We committed him to be bapitized as well and he said "Yes". His baptismal date is for June 14th. He is so excited and a little shy when we come over, but he eventually breaks out of his shell.
We said goodbye to the people that Hermana Hernandez wanted to say goodbye to and then we went home for the night.
On Tuesday, we had transfer meeting and it was so great. I was filled with spiritual enlightenment at the trainers meeting and at transfer meeting. We arrived back at our apartment and we went straight to planning lessons. We had a couple of appointments and some of them fell through but we did the things we needed to to prepare for the week during that time.
We had a lesson with Hermana Claudia. We talked about talents and how she is very creative and how God gives us talents to help us grow.
We visited Hermana Rojelia who isn't doing too good health wise or spiritual wise. She hasn't been coming to church for about a month or so now and we talked to her about the importance of coming and having the faith to be able to stay for all three hours and not just leave after sacrament.
We had correlation that night and Hermana Young met Bishop, our Ward Mission Leader and the ward missionaries. We went home and unpacked a little bit more and did language study.
We hit the ground hard on Wednesday. We had an appointment with a new investigator which was a refferal from the elders and they gave us the address. We tried the address but the lady that answered the door said that our investigator didn't live there. We called her and she said she does, but we had another appointment to get to, so we set up an appointment for two in the afternoon. We had lunch with a member and then we went to our appointment. Their names are Veronica and Hector. They are so nice and around our age. They are expecting their first baby together. We had a get-to- know you lesson and talked about the Word of Wisdom because they are having problems with keeping it. We set up other lessons this week but they couldn't make them so we are going to try to catch them this week.
On Thursday, we had District Meeting. It was so good. I always feel enlightened and empowered after them. We went to go see a potential who was home but didn't answer the door. Then we went to go see Jose and Angelina who are back from Las Vegas. She didn't get time to go to the church to see if her records are there but we talked about the gospel and how they need to make baptismal a goal or they are never going to get there. So they said "Yes" to June 21st for their date. But it mostly seems like Hermano just wants to watch movies instead of have us teach.
We taught Filemon and Mari Carmen too. We taught the Gospel and they loved it. We extended a baptismal invite to Mari Carmen and she said she needs more preperation. Filemon didn't say anything so we are going to try again with him again this week. We also ran into a lady who we taught the Restoration to and she said all churches are true. We'll try back and explain the Great Apostisia again.
Friday, we had weekly planning. It was great. We had all of our appointments fall through on Friday, but we tracted and talked to people.
On Saturday, we had a lesson with Julian and we taught the Plan of Salvation. He understood, and we committed him to pray about it. We tracted alot as well because our appointments fell through again. But we did find one of our investigators and we set up a return appointment because she was sick. On Sunday, we had Filemon and Julian come to church it was so exciting. Filemon liked it alot. It was kind of dishearting though because our ward mission leader made me feel that I wasn't good enough because I explained where the church was and everything but our ward mission leader just said that the problem with having non-native missionaries. I just felt frustrated because I have worked hard to where I am at in my Spanish, but I eventually let it go and went back to work.
We tracted and found a couple of people who are semi-interested. In all, it was a great week.
I studied alot for my investigators this week on their own lessons. I also studied a little bit more in the Book of Mormon. I was asked to give a talk on Sunday on the importance of forgiveness. It went well and I understand alot more of the importance of forgiving other and not judging their faults because we all have them.
Hermana Young is doing great. She is going out there and talking to people. She isn't a huge fan of knocking on doors but with time, it will happen. She is doing great and wants so hard to become the missionary the Lord wants her to be in one transfer. She is awesome and willing to do things that we ask her.
Te quiero mucho,
Hermana Fitzpatrick
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