Hola!

Well another week has passed in Maricopa. This week we have had quite a few lessons drop so we spent more time than usual trying to contact people; but we still had some good lessons. Danielle is all ready to be baptized this week, but her little girl has trouble staying in nursery so its hard for her to stay at church for more than sacrament meeting. There have been some complications with a few of our investigators getting ready for baptism, but they all still seem like they want to and are willing to keep working, so that is awesome. I don't know if I would be able to or want to keep going through some of the things they are going through, but that is the power of the Spirit. When people know what they are doing is right, they are willing to fight for it any way they have to. One good lesson we had this week was with Linda, who has some friends she works with that have been introducing her to the church. She has done a lot of searching over the years to find the church thats right for her and she loves the friendliness of the church and how it is so family oriented. She has already done a lot of reading and she feels like the church and baptism are right for her;  she is willing to work towards a date. We are also teaching three siblings, ages 14, 12 and 9 whose dad is a member but has been inactive for most of his life. Its amazing seeing how quickly they have moved from not knowing how to pray to saying some of  the most sincere prayers I have ever heard. I think its a lesson we can all learn from: how simple and sincere prayers are what our Heavenly Father most wants to hear, and often do us the most good.

Well I hope everything is going good back home. Take care and God bless,

Elder Hiatt

 

p.s. I went on exchanges with one of my zone leaders and heard more Spanish than I have in about 19 years. It kind of made me wish I was in an area where I could learn Spanish for real. But I guess I'll stick with what I have.