Two weeks ago, on Sunday, we had our personal study at 8, until 9. I waited for my companion to come so we could do our companionship study, but then I remembered we had church, so I went and told her that, and she laughed because she knew we had church and she was putting on her makeup. And then, I picked up the phone and saw the clock-It was 9:15. But something felt wrong, so I stared at it, trying to figure it out, and then it came to me--church started at 9! It was 9:15! We were already late! So we ran out the door, got to church at about 9:30. Missed the sacrament, but we stayed for the American ward and got it there (that was really weird..the English hymnbooks are big and the ward was huge!) We told the other Hermana missionaries in our ward about it and they got a good laugh out of it, too. So this last Sunday, we get a text from them saying, "Hey, we'd love to see you at church!" We got there on time this week. It was great.
We have this AMAZING investigator named Fernando that we've been teaching. When I first met him, several weeks ago, he didn't seem that interested, but we talked to him and he said he'd be interested to learn more. Then transfers came and so did Hna. Christensen and man, what a change! We taught him how to read the Book of Mormon and when we give him reading assignments, he reads and asks us questions in the next lesson. Last night, he had read the introduction, and the testimonies of the 8 and 3 witnesses and of Joseph Smith before and so he asked us, "If Joseph Smith was the prophet, and the church was restored as it had been anciently, who were his 12 apostles?" And we were like, "uhhhhhhhhh....good question!" We borrowed his computer and found them on lds.org. It was a good learning experience for us! Fernando also told us that he wants us to come over 3 times a week (which is every missionary's dream for an investigator), he's going to come to church, and when I told him I read the Book of Mormon in two weeks, he said, "If you can do it, I'm going to do it, too." And we were like, "OK! You go, Glen Coco!" His drive is that he's going to be baptized. We're going to set a date with him, soon. He has to get married, first, but we love weddings, so it's fine!
Last Saturday, we had two General Authorities come and visit us. Elder Perkins and Elder Hallstrom of the 70s came and talked to us about how to become better missionaries and real intent and all that good stuff. It was kind of funny because President Riggs had asked us to come with a question in mind and while I was sitting there, before the meeting, I still didn't have my question, so I just wrote down something that had kind of been on my mind, and then I ended up writing down about 6 questions. What was cool was that by the end of the conference, all of those questions had an answer to them. :)
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