Ten Times Better

Hey Family!!!

Wow! So this week has been great, crazy, fustrating, but always full of miracles!!

Here in Puerto Rico, everyone is on holiday!! All the kids got out of school around the 15th of December and they don't go back until the13th of January! So it has become a horrible and amazing time to find people! Everyone is with their famiies and at home but because it is the holidays, no one really wants to spend time learning from us. It has, though, been a great time to focus on the investigators that we have!! 

This is Hermana Lourdes that we went and visited in the hospital!

So Reina, our investigator who is almost ready for baptism, expressed how much she really, really wants to go to the temple already to do the work for her mother. Finally, this week she told her husband that she wants to be baptisted, but he said that for her to be sure, he wants her to attend the church of his sisters (pentalcostal) before she is baptisted... So we have had to push back her baptismal date back which is sad but she still wants to be baptisted. It is great to see how strong her testimony has developed  as she is preparing to enter the waters of baptism! I am so excited to help her make the first step back to her Heavenly Father!

Also, our other investigator, who is very close to baptism, is Jaxel. Jaxel is still incredibly nervous for his baptism which is great to know that he knows it is a huge decision. The problem is, that at the same time, it is also scarying him to the point were he doesn't want to do it. So sad!! We are going to visit him tonight to help reassure him that it will be one of the best desicions of his life. I know that his life will be completely different if he takes the time now to accept the Savior in his life. 

This is Jaxel.

This morning, we had Sister Conference for the Caguas Zone. It was great to get to meet all the sisters in my Zone! We talked and learned about how being on a mission now and having companions really prepares you for the life ahead. I absolutely loved it! I am so grateful that the things that I am learning on my mission here will help me prepare for my future which basically is everything a mission does. It shapes you into a person that is ten times better then you could have ever been without the gospel!!

I love you all so much and miss you dearly!

Hermana Harris