week 57- Erin Jonas is my hero

May 25, 2010

I completely forgot to tell you guys that I'd be emailing on Tuesday this week! I'm sorry I forgot! We had President interviews yesterday, so they moved our P-day to today. I'll probably be emailing on Tuesday next week too since it'll be memorial day and the library will be closed.
I have some AMAZING news that I need to tell all of you!!!! Get excited!!!! Erin Jonas has a baptism date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) She is scheduled to be baptized on June 26. I am so stinkin excited for her. So this is what happened, our ward is having a 40 day fast for missionary work and I was telling her in our lesson on Sunday how I've been praying and fasting for her mom to sotfen her heart and that some miracle may happen. Then Sister Dewey came in and said that she thinks it'd be a good idea to exercise some faith and set a baptism date at the end of the 40 day fast and we'll all continue to fast and pray for her mom. Erin was totally ok with it! She told us how she is finally ready to just move on and do it. We are really praying hard core for her and praying that she'll be able to be baptized on that day, no matter what happens. Please pray for her too!! She's such a great girl and she deserves to recieve all the blessings the Lord has in store for her. Despite the trials and stumbling blocks she has had to and still has to go through, the Lord is going to seriously pour blessings over her head for going forward and trusting in Him. Yay for Erin!
Now, as for Mario.....we've had a little bit of a crazy thing happen. Last Monday night we met with him and had a great lesson about the plan of salvation and he just soaked it up and loved it! It was great!!! We were scheduled to meet with him on Wednesday, but for some reason he didn't show up. So we called him and left a message, then he called us back at about 10:15 that night explaining why he wasn't able to make it. I guess he's just had a lot of troubles with things going on in his life. He actually told us that he had a court case the next day and might have to go to jail for 6 months. Scary!!!! We've been praying for him a lot this week, but we are afraid that he did have to go to jail. When we call, it goes straight to his voicemail and the elders also stopped by his home to invite him to church and his family said that he wasn't going to be able to make it. Sad huh??? I don't think anything is really sketchy or shady with him. I truly feel like he is sincere in his testimony......he's just having to pay the consequences of things he has done formerly. I hope he is able to join the church later on down the road though!
Some other fun, exciting news......this is more for Krista and Jorge, but we met a lady from Sao Paulo named Giovana the other day and I absolutely fell in love with her!!!! She is soo soo soo cute! hahaha, I talked to her a little bit in Portugese, for as much as I could remember. But she accepted a visit from the missionaries and I can't wait!!! She's married though, so we'll have to pass her on to the elders, but still, she's so stinkin cool. I told her how Jorge is from Brazil and is coming up to the US in about a month and she was excited for him, haha. She said she didn't know any english at all when she first came, but she watched a lot of TV to learn the language, and talked with everyone she could and now she is very fluent. That's the tip she gave for him, funny huh?
It's been a good week! Thanks for all your prayers and support! And mom, thank you for the package!!!!! I got it at just the time I needed it :) And please thank Natalie for the cute candy bowl, I absolutely love it!!!! It's so cute. My companions love it too and we eat the candy out of it all the time. I love you all so stinkin much! Have a wonderful week! And have a fun, happy Memorial Day!
Love, Holly