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Hallo,

What a great week! I went on my third exchange and did WORK! I worked
with a sister who has a lot of time in the mission and we set 4
baptismal dates together and we found a mariachi band! It was quite a
successful day.

two of the baptismal dates we set were with Berenice and Linver who
have been receiving the lessons for a real long time. They want to
wait until august to get married so that all of their family will be
there from Mexico. But Ive had the strongest impressions to ask them
to be baptized next week on the 15th so we planned out this really
great lesson on sacrifice and how it will be a sacrifice for them to
get married without their family, but the blessings will be so much
greater. By waiting to get married, Satan will work even harder and
make their life miserable. We explained the blessings of fulfilling
the commandments and then invited them to take a step of faith to be
baptized on the 15th... and they said yes! so we set up a baptismal
interview on the following thursday.


Yeah that sounds like a great and dandy story and everything but
thursday rolled around and they didnt show up for the interview. So we
decided to go over to their house and they told us that they just felt
way pressured and that they were going to get married and baptized
august 3. :(( I was really sad but I know that I did everything I
could to help them progress sooner. People have their free agency and
we can't base our own happiness on what other people choose.

Here's a quote to ponder:
"The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the
help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that
only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't
put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because
the process will change us. " President Henry B. Eyring

I love you! have a great week!:)
Hermana Brown