Things really started picking up the last few days for us. Thursday and Friday were filled with appointments with members, less actives, and investigators. We also did some service this week which was nice and we got a ton of referrals from other missionaries.
We were only able to meet with Deborah briefly this week on Saturday, but it was a really good experience. We kept making plans with her and Sandarryo to meet with them and then something would come up and they couldn't meet with us. It was kind of frustrating, but it is okay and this week will be better. Sandarryo wasn't there when we went to talk to Deborah. We bought her a framed picture of Christ holding a little African American girl's hand and it is a really pretty picture and frame. Deborah loved it! She was so excited and kept saying how beautiful is was. We met one of her sons who lives in San Antonio. He was visiting for the weekend and had brought his electric piano keyboard. Sister Garlick had just been saying the day before how she wishes she could play the piano for Deborah and Sandarryo, so they set the keyboard up and Sister Garlick played and sang a couple of songs for them. The Spirit was so strong and the songs were beautiful. Everyone gathered around the piano and listened. We had talked to Deborah earlier about coming to church this Sunday, so we asked her again on Saturday if she would come to church. She said that she would and Sandarryo and her 4 little grandchildren who are always there when we come, would all come, too. She was really excited and we were really excited. Tammy Sue was going to pick her up Sunday morning. But, early Sunday morning, we got a call from Deborah and she couldn't come because she was the only one who had stayed the night at her apartment that night, so nobody was home. It was quite depressing, but we are staying positive and we will get them to church next week.
We had a day where we got 4 referrals from missionaries in one day and it was awesome! We haven't met with any of them yet, but hopefully will be able to this week. We texted one of the guys, named Jonathan and we ended up calling him and talking for 20 minutes. He is excited to meet with us and we are excited to meet with him, so that will happen this week. Also we visited a referral that we got a couple of weeks ago. Her name is Paula and she is 23 years old and is originally from Argentina. She is really sweet and wants to come closer to God. We taught her the Restoration and invited her to read the Book of Mormon. It went really well. Also, we are taught to invite investigators to be baptized on the first lesson, so we invited her to be baptized. She said no, but that is normal and totally okay. She wants to learn more about the church first and find out for herself if it is true, and that is exactly what we want her to do. So we are excited that we got a new investigator and hopefully we will get more this week as well.
There is a couple in our ward who have been inactive for a very, very long time who have just recently started coming back to church. Our ward mission leader asked them if we could come practice teach them our lessons, since both Sis. Garlick and I are pretty new, but really we just want to reteach them everything. They agreed and we met with them this week. It went really well and they had lots of questions that we answered. They loved it and we loved it. They really don't know anything about the church or the gospel so we have to teach them everything, but we are excited. We are going to start going to there house for FHE each Monday night to teach them and because they want to start doing FHE, but don't know how so we are going to help them get started. It should be really good and they are awesome.
I don't know how many of you watched the missionary broadcast last night, but if you didn't you should because it was really good and is something that everybody should hear. It talked a lot about working more with the members and how the members are the best way to do missionary work. That is something that I have really learned since I have been in Houston. Without the members help, we can not do much. My favorite part of the broadcast was how they talked about being motivated by love and how we should do things out of love and not because a handbook told us to.
So things are starting to pick up and everything is going really well. Hopefully this week will be really good.
Love,
Sister Sylvester
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