Katelyn Louder: FAM BAM (Week 53)

Dear Family,

Bueno, how are you all doing?! Thank you for the emails and the pictures :) and for all that you do for me. I love you!

This week has been getting interesting.... so first things first. Chidi and Silver are preparing for baptism for the 15... this Saturday! But they are both still waiting for their answers, so we have been praying that Heavenly Father will help them to feel and that he will answer their prayers. We still have a lot to teach them but we are visiting them everyday and trying to teach them. But I know that they are ready!

So a nice miracle/blessing. Sunday came and went again and we were waiting for a couple investigators in the church, Chidi and we knew Silver wasn't going to be here this Sunday but we had invited some other people. So we go by to pass for a recent convert and her little sister is all ready and was like lets go, and she isn't a member, and her sister was still sleeping! And she is 8, so we waiting and then her sister woke up and we all went. Chidi came! And he was able to stay after to see a baptism. And as Sacrament meeting was starting I see two people walking in and was thinking, who is that? An investigator for the hermanas? Wait no. they are from our area! It's Ana a menos activa and Valentino her boyfriend! and they said the were going to come earlier but slept. So it ended up being a really good Sunday and we weren't even planning on having them all there, but God was, he works in mysterious ways.

Yesterday we had a charla with a young man and so we invited a recent convert to go with us, well we went and he wasn't there so we started going to a reference and talking with everyone when we see a man walking in the street and I told Nazzareno (the convert) that we were going to go talk to him and that he was going to get baptized, and he was like are you sure?... and we get a little closer and come to find out it was Chidi! And I was like yes, a 100% sure. And then he was able to share his testimony with him, because when Nazzareno was baptized he didn't want to at first and so it was perfect beause Chidi is still a little unsure, but I know he was able to feel the Spirit.

Well our area is slowing progressing, we are finding lots and lots of people, and many ready for the gospel.

This past week, we have been talking to a lot of members that feel really lonely, they tell us they feel so alone, and that no one cares about them, and it is exactly when we go that they tell us this, one of them was a lunch appointment, the other we felt like we needed to go by and they express this to us, ah and it just breaks my heart, but I feel good at the same time because Heavenly Father trusts us enough to put them into our hands and now we really need to help them, they are all so wonderful.

The oro conference was good, we slept on the bus there at two in the morning and went to the mission home and were able to do lots of practices and all the new missionaries could be with there friends from the CCM and, and then we left for melo again at 6:30.

This week we will be going to Montevideo again! For a two mission conference with Elder Christensen, and then the coming week we have changes so I will be writing on Tuesday.

I love you all so much and are the best! What can I do to help you? Let me know and know that you are all in my prayers.

Love,

Hermana Louder

The four!