Week Fifty-nine:  Happy Birthday #2 [September 10, 2018]

Hi Everyone! 

We've gotten to know more of the people we're working with this week. Here's the rundown. 

Monday evening we were able to meet with Katryna and Jorge. Katryna has been meeting with the missionaries for a while and Jorge is a member. They have two kids. Junior (4) and Gabriel (2). She's had difficulty coming to church in the past, partially because of anxiety with being around a lot of people. Jorge came up with the idea of sitting in the foyer and she was more open to that. Sunday she came with the kids, and intended to stay only for sacrament. After the meeting we went on a church tour. The primary president came and talked to the boys and Junior went to primary. The primary president then showed Katryna the nursery and Gabriel just started playing with the toys. She was pretty surprised since he has some separation anxiety. She was then able to attend Sunday school and relief society. She said that she would come to church again and the kids were also looking forward to coming back. 

Someone else we are working with is Albert. He has a baptismal date and is progressing really well. We re-taught him the plan of salvation and he had lots of good questions. We are going to see if we can start meeting with him more than once a week to help him progress more. 

I had my second birthday in the field on Friday. I was able to celebrate with the Bergmanns (my favorite member family I've met out here) on Wednesday! It was fun being able to see them again and I hope to be able to see them a few more times out here. On my actual birthday we celebrated as a district by getting Little Caesars. 

Aside from that this week has mainly been meeting with people and getting to know the area. 

Sorry this is shorter than usual. Have an awesome week! 

Until next time, 

Elder Jason Riches