1/21/2014

Hey family,

Hopefully this letter doesn't randomly erase on me like it did last week!

What a wonderful week!  Aida is doing great!  She is incredible!  She is so full of faith.  Last week we got to teach her about the gospel of Christ, Sabbath day, and the law of Chastity.  So we get there last wednesday, and I ask her if she read the pamphet of the Gospel of Christ and she said, "Yes! It talks about the steps we have to take in order to have eternal life." Then she proceeded to explain faith, repentance, baptism, holy ghost, and enduring to the end to us.  We were stunned with wonder.  Wow!  The very next sentence I said in the lesson was, "We'll be having a baptismal service on February 9th. Will you prepare to be baptized on this day?"  "Bueno! Voy a prepararme!" was her response. That's like how all of our lessons are with her.  It was difficult to teach her the law of Chastity not because she doesn't want to follow it, but because she didn't grow up with the background of why it is important to get married before you have sexual realtionships.  She's been living with her boyfriend for 2 years and so she is excited to talk to him about getting married.  In her prayer she asked God if he would help them get married very very soon!  Leti has been in Monterrey, so we haven't seen her since, but we will soon!  Pray for Aida! 

We've been working so much with our less active members and part member families.  there is One particular less active family we have become super close friends with, but they have been stubborn about not coming to church.  I promised God that before leaving their house I would testify that they need to worry about what God thinks more than man.  It is incredibly hard to be bold like this, but I knew that that is what God expected of me, so I did.  While I spoke I felt nothing, I didn't feel the spirit back up my words.  This was very confusing to me.  I had done what I knew Heavenly Father was prompting me to do, but I hadn't felt the spirit as I did it. I think it was because I was fearful, that I didn't want to offend them.  But this sunday my jaw dropped and my eyes just about popped out of my sockets as I saw their whole family walk into the sacrament meeting.  I started to cry.  I felt so happy, and relieved.  They happily shook my hand and gave me a hug after the meeting.  That was a huge miracle for me this week.  Another miracle was feeling prompted to visit a family whose records randomly appeared in our area recently.  We'd just met them, and wanted to be careful with this relationship seeing as how they are a part-member/less active family.  My companion didn't feel the same prompting I did.  This was hard for me, because I tend to trust in her more than myself, but I tried my best to follow the spirit and persist that we needed to see them.  They ended up letting us in and we got to know and become friends with them.  It helped me to trust in my own guidance from the spirit. 

Love,

Hermana Campbell