The Best Week of My Life

February 20, 2012

So...basically this week has been the best week of my entire life. I know I won't have time to write down everything so I might just have to write you the other half in a letter. Basically...I just love it all! MISSIONARY WORK IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD! Even Sister Zamora said that this has been the best week of her mission. (P.S. Dad, she goes home in two weeks.) I know I know, I keep killing off my companions! But seriously, we have had such an amazing transfer and I will be sad to see her leave because we really just work so well together. Anywho...the good stuff:

So yes, L____ and the kids got baptized yesterday. It was beautiful. L____ started crying during the opening song, I Know That My Redeemer Lives. It was beautiful. I looked around and everyone else was crying too. Except for me and Sister Zamora of course because our tear ducts don't work. :) But yes. AND I____, our less active dad was there and he BAWLED. HE said it just brought back a lot of memories. (More about him later) During the baptism, I went back behind the doors to the font to help the family from that side and it was priceless to see their expressions and smiles as they hugged each other after. L____ was so great and cried and felt so cool. The first thing little G____ said was "That was so cool!" It was great! Baptisms are so special but there is something so special about a family getting baptized and making those changes together. O man. It was so beautiful and I can't even tell you the half of it. But yes, I will send you pictures.

Another cool story of the week is that we found another family...OF NINE! I know right? Amazing! They were actually a referral from V____ (got baptized yesterday). They live just the street over from the A____s. Anywho, it was amazing and 6 of them have accepted BDs for March 18th! Two are under the age of 8 and the other one wasn't home. We got three of them to church yesterday and made a plan to go help them before church next week to get ready because that is why they didn't all come yesterday. We are visiting with them tonight so we will solidify them and then it will be awesome!

After we set those 6 BDs, we were SUPER stoked so we drove to our next appt. and then said a prayer in the car of gratitude because it has been a miracle. As we are finishing our prayer, we get a call from Ma___. She is part of the huge Z____ clan. (Mo___ is a part of it too. Ma___ is Mo___s' neice). She married into the family, and comes to church but isn't baptized. Missionaries have been visiting her for years. Anywho, she just says, I don't know the protocol sisters, but I want to get baptized on March 2nd....HAHAHA! I could not contain myself. I just started laughing and I think I might have scared her because I was just super happy and anywho, MA___ IS GETTING BAPTIZED! This week has seriously been the week of miracles!!!

Our less active dinner on Friday was great! The ribs were yummy and M____ made homemade cheesecake!!! YES! The Lord blesses us with tender mercies every day. :) Anyways, their friends that came are super talkative and have more ADD than Dad. But it was really cool to answer all his questions and teach him a little bit. So then yesterday at church, we were sitting in Gospel Principles for the second hour and then I____ opens the door and motions for us to come out so we come out of the room and guess who was outside? C____! We were shocked! haha. C____ was driving some where and happened to go by the church and saw I____'s motorcycle and decided to stop on by. We said hi and chatted then I____ took him on a tour of the church. The Lord seriously has His hand in the work. I can't even tell you how many times this week Sister Zamora and I just looked at each other and laughed because we couldn't believe what was happening. We met or exceeded every single one of our goals this week. Some by a total long shot. We know that it was not us, it was the Lord that was doing all the work because there is no way we could have perfectly planned this all.

This week we have worked on being more consecrated in the work. We have been digging deep to find all the things that we can do to improve and as we get more and more consecrated, the Lord blesses us more and more! We got rid of dinner breaks this week and BAM! Crazy numbers! In setting our goals for this coming week, we were inspired to set CRAZY goals! Goals that we for sure couldn't reach by ourselves. We know that as we give of our whole selves, the Lord can use us in ways that crazy numbers happen. I mean we saw that this past week. It really happens! O man.

Well, I am super jealous of the cruise but whatever. I know you will send me an awesome present. :) And yes Dad, Sister Zamora has served in Laredo and Corpus. She has pretty much served in all the areas. And yay for reading the Book of Mormon. I actually just finished this morning and can testify of its truth. I love it so much so READ IT!!

Love you all!

Kate