We have been so busy that I am behind on posting for a couple of weeks so I am trying to catch up :)
Jan 23-27 Letter
This week was great. On Saturday we had two baptisms. The first was Giovanni. I have been working with him since I got to this area 5 months ago, and finally on Saturday he was baptized. He was sooo happy and I was surprised because his mom even came to the baptism. He doesn't have very good circumstances in his home. His mom works all the time and always seemed very uninterested and his step dad is not nice to him. Giovanni has wanted to be baptized since the first time we talked to him and his mom finally gave him permission. She was very happy at the baptism, I know the spirit touched her while she was there. After the baptism Giovanni, his mom and his little brother were playing basketball together when we walked by. It was the cutest thing ever!
The other baptism was for Roberta. She is great, and her mom also is working toward baptism so I am excited for that.
We received transfers on Saturday night though. So I will be leaving this area, but not to far. I will be in an area that borders this one called Nuevo Amanacer. I will be comps with Hermana Birch. She is also a sister training leader so it will be nice to be comps with her and not have to make phone calls to each other to get our work done. I am super excited about this new area. I have already done intercombios in this area and I love it!
My first week in Nuevo Amanacer was awesome. Things are going well. We have alot of people to teach here. We have a goal to find and baptize three families this month. We found one family already, well the other sisters did before I got here. The story of how they found them is very cool. They were looking for an old investigator in an apartment building but he wasn't there, so they decided to contact the entire building. Nobody wanted to let them in until they got to the fourth floor last door (just like in Elder Uchtdorfs talk) and they found the S. family. They are a wonderful young couple. They have a baptismal date for the 25th and we are working on their papers to get them married before then. They are so ready and already have such big testimonies of this gospel.
We have also found a few other families who have potential. Things are going good. I am so happy to be in the service of my heavenly father!
Have a wonderful week everyone.
Love Hermana Shepherd
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