Forever Strong in the Work: I've Never Been So Tired After Church!!‏

Well, it was a really good week!! Sister McArthur and I had 20 lessons this week. Which is a whole lot, but it's pretty good...Well it's really good in our area and in the rest of the district too! So that was good! And we saw a huge miracle this week!! We had 8 investigators at church!! And it was just in one ward! It was a record! The Bishop came up to us and told us that they had never had so many investigators at church! We had the Espinoza family, where the dad is not a member but he came to church. Then we had the Ramos family there. The mom in the Espinoza family and the dad in the Ramos family are siblings (The Ramos Family is Izzy's family). They all came to church including their dad. So there's five right there! And then we had Kimberly and her kids. Six. And then Noemi. Seven. And Davian makes 8. Talk about crazy!! Ya, I really have never been so tired after church!!

Kimberly and Davian did their normal thing. Davian always comes to church with his grandma so he knows what to do, and Kimberly had been to church before multiple times in San Jose, so she knew what to do. With Noemi, we had Hermana Vogel take her to church and she showed her around. So then we were left with the Espinoza family and Ramos family!! I forget what I write in these e-mails...so sorry if I repeat myself.

K, so with the Espinoza's they are all members except for the dad. The mom and one of the daughters are recent converts. The Ramos family, is 4 kids, and the dad (Izzy is in this family). She's the one that asked US when she could get baptized.

By the way, sacrament was AMAZING! We had a missionary from the ward come back and he literally talked about all the worries and concerns each one of our investigators had! Anyways, so after sacrament we went with the families to the Gospel Principles class. Turns out there was no teacher. So...we became the teachers! We talked about sacrifice and it was such a beautiful lesson. Hermana Espinoza shared how much of an amazing she feeling she had when she saw that her family filled up a whole bench. When Hna Espinoza was talking, I looked over at Javier (the dad from the Ramos family) and he was teary eyed. He was almost crying. I asked him what kind of sacrifices he has had to make and he couldn't really speak. He was really touched and felt the spirit. It was such a great lesson!

Then we went to Relief Society and we came back into contact with Noemi. Noemi is roommates with another one of our investigators named Chelsea. She asked us to teach her English, so we've been going over for that. We taught her once, then the second time she had forgotten and wasn't able to do the lesson. We had an appointment for Saturday as well, but she called us earlier that day and told us she had to cancel. We were about to hang up, but we asked her if there was anything we could do for her and she said that she wanted to go to church but didn't have a ride. Needless to say, we found her a ride and got her to church. During RS she was just blooming!! She asked questions! She asked opinions! We were talking about how kids don't have to get baptized until they turn 8 because their innocent and she was like, "Ya...that makes sense. I never understood why they would have to baptize them before!" Sis. McArthur and I were just so shocked of how involved she was!! It was AMAZING! That night, Hna Volgel told us that Noemi said she really liked church and wants to keep going!! We're soo excited to work with her!! She's golden!!

I know that Heavenly Father has blessed us! I know this church is true! There is no way that would have happened without prayers! I love you all! Gotta run! I'm out of time! Love you!! Thank you for your support and your prayers It really makes all the difference!

Love,

Hermana Ramos-Escobar