2/3/2014 Lopez Family

Dear Family,

    Sometimes I feel like I part of members' families.  We had a miraculous lesson with the Lopez family.  We had to come across the situation when Sister Lopez (non-member mom) would be willing to participate and even be the focus of the lesson.  God gave it to us.  We talked about the temple, and baptism. She wants very badly to participate in the temple experience, but there are some tough things we have to help her overcome, but she is being prepared.  Like last week she randomly decided to stop drinking coffee.  The spirit was incredibly strong in the lesson and the rest of the family there was such a great support.  She accepted to say the closing prayer and asked God to give her strength to be baptized.  Oh how I hope and pray we can help her overcome her fears! 

   We had exchanges with the Sister training leaders from Corpus, one of them was "born" in my area, so naturally she was super excited. She bears her testimony so much and they talk to EVERYONE even if it is just handing out a card.  We had some miracles on exchanges.  The first place we went we talked to man who has lost his faith and is struggling with his marriage, and we taught and bore testimony to him, we will see if he chooses to act on the hope we have shared with him.  Then Sister Judd and Sanders found Wile, who is in his 50s but has had a lot of strokes. He wants to know his purpose in life. He accepted to be baptized on March 2nd and came to church this week! 

  I have good news for Aida!  She was very worried about getting married to Stephen because she feels like it is out of her control, like her decision to follow God suddenly became dependent on someone else's decisions, but the spirit worked his magic, and she decided Wednesday night to make the house really nice and ask him to marry her.  And she did!  And he said yes!  He still wants to ask her in a special way, the only problem is that he doesn't feel the urgency.  We will keep working with them, and have plans to teach Stephen the gospel too.  

    One more thing: Sister Judd and I camped out in the living room this week and invented s'mores with wheat flour and fried reeces.  It was a blast!  

Love,

hermana Campbell