GOING HAM IN THE WORK, A PROMISING INVESTIGATOR AND WE RUN INTO OUR NEMESIS...TWICE!
October 18, 2017
This week was another tough week! We did lots of contacting and are slowly but surely growing our teaching pool. It's been tough because we've been without bikes these last couple of weeks and we live a 30 minute walk from our sector and the stake center is about an hour by foot! We have to take taxis or buses but it gets a bit expensive after a while. We're running out of cash but we talked with the missionary marriage(?) (matrimonio misionero) [translation: missionary couple =)] and they're gonna hook us up with a bit more cash 
We've been working with some cool Haitian investigators and one of them is very interested in the Church. However, when we invited him to a baptismal date he said he was already baptized in the Evangelical Church and doesn't feel like he needs to be baptized again. *sigh*
We talked more about authority and he was like "Yeah, like I get it! You guys have the authority to baptize and so does my pastor in Haiti! So, I'm good, sweet!" *SIGH*
My companion happens to carry his line of authority and then he finally understood better but he kinda was uneasy. We left him with a passage from the Book of Mormon and we're going to wait for him to get a spiritual confirmation before pressing it much harder.
That was all right, HOWEVER, we had a BOMB lesson with Silvia! For the second lesson we had with her I was on splits in another sector and it was on the Plan of Salvation. My companion invited her to a baptismal date and she was like "Nah, I wanna wait until I get back from my vacation in the States." (She's actually staying with the family that sent the referral for her.) She's going to be in the States for 2-3 months so that's not really ideal.
That's the set up and then we had another appointment with her and we were going in to teach lesson 3. It so happens that we were on splits again but this time, I was there with a missionary who's in training. The lesson was FANTASTIC! Like straight outta The District! As we werre finishing up our conversation went more or less like this:
"Hey, so our purpose is to help people be prepared for baptism."
"Yeah, great. I plan on going to church in Colorado with my friend!"
"But, we have lots of confidence in you and think you'll be ready for baptism Dec. 9th. How's it sound if we set a goal to prepare you for that date and if you want to be baptized then, you can."
"Yeah, for sure!"
Then she even agreed for us to make her a baptismal calendar that'll show all the stuff [she needs to do] and what day that she's set for baptism! We're pretty much stoked for her and it looks like she's very likely to get baptized!
Not a lot else has been happening but randomly one day, we saw the guy that robbed us of our bikes! The first time was in a well-lit, nice area and we were able to get an idea of where he lived. The second time it was night in the most ghetto part of our sector! We had to pass by him to get home and he totally saw us and we were all like, 
, but we passed by and nothing happened!
Well, that was our week! Things are good and we're just in it going ham.
Love you all. Have a great week!
-Elder Sierra
