The Lord is hastening his work!

Hi family!

 hope everyone is doing well! We had a great week here :)

 We had Zone meeting and some changes have been made regarding our standard of excellence. President Felix is really emphasizing the importance of working with members. We will be focusing on having more member presents a week and we won't be recording our declarations.. ( a declaration is when we pass out a card and share a restored truth).. they're basically failed lessons haha. He would rather have us spend time building member trust and working with them, instead of spending time tracting/ street contacting. We're working with bro. Barlow and figuring out new ways we can help the members become excited and involved with the work!

 We had a lesson with Heather in the Peterson's home this week.. The spirit was so powerful.. especially when the member's bore testimony to her. We taught her and Madeline the Plan of Salvation.. and it just completely clicked for her. She told us that it made so much more sense than what she was taught growing up. She told us that if God is really all loving.. then this would be his plan. So cool! She is so prepared.. she's very special and everything seems to be "familiar" to her. She's been praying and keeping her commitments and has already felt a difference in her life. She is praying about baptism for February 14th.. keep them in

 We finally caught Enrique!!!  He didn't show up to church yesterday...but we have an appointment this week. The bishop is going to go by and we are really focusing on strengthening him through the members. The Gomez family is not quite progressing at this point.. Sister Gomez told us she wants time. We are still going by weekly and teaching the lessons. They are such a wonderful family and we'll continue to work with them and pray that she will feel ready to accept the gospel!

 We had a cool experience this week with Eduardo's family! We've been trying to figure out how we can share the gospel with his whole family. He lives with his wife, 2 sons, daughter-in-law and 2 grandchildren. This past week we went over to teach Eduardo the Plan of Salvation.. One of his son's, Edrik was in the room. He started listening and pretty soon he was asking several questions about missionary work, Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon. We gave him a copy and invited his family to church. His children go to Sunday school on Sunday's at 11:00 a.m, right when we have church, But he told us that he would be willing to come with his family! We explained how primary works and he seemed to be really interested. We're excited to continue to work with him. Eduardo will be going to the Philippines for a month... he leaves this week, but we will continue the lessons with Edrik!

 The Lord is hastening his work.. I know that we absolutely must strive to align our will with his. He wants nothing more for us to come unto him and to help others come unto him as well.

 I love my savior, I love you all! Thanks for the prayers!! Have a good week :)

 Sister James

Jan 12, 2015