"Where are two good girls like you going?" "Oh, we're going to the park to find someone to teach." Feb 23 2014

Como estan? This week was wonderful!!

So this week we scored because we found the biggest group of Cubans! There was an awesome lady last week, Nadia. We thought she was white, so we started contacting her in English. She looked confused, but let us in and served us up some dinner. We discovered that she was Cuban, so she spoke Spanish, so we starting introducing our message. Well, we went back and found this huge group of Cubans hanging out and got to know all of her friends! They invited us to join their volleyball team! Haha, they are SUPER nice people. So we started teaching one of her friends, Yuliet, and she is so awesome. During the second lesson, we taught her about the Book of Mormon. When Hermana Webb pulled out a copy to show her, she said, "Hey, I already have one of those!" Ummm...what?! So I guess she met some missionaries a few years ago. But she was really busy with her little baby, so they didn't teach her much. But she has kept that Book of Mormon in her box of important things for all these years. She's never read it, but pulled it out and there were already some bookmarks in there with questions she was supposed to find answers to. It was so cool how the Lord had prepared this lady to let missionaries in to teach her at a time in her life when she's ready to learn. She had kept that book even though she had no idea it's importance. Gives me hope that even though some people aren't ready to hear right now, leaving behind simply a copy of the Book of Mormon could lead them to open their doors in the future!

We also have another new person we're teaching named Victor. So we went over to visit a less-active member of the church. And instead of finding him, we found his cuinada's boyfriend. He tells us that Cesar's busy, but that instead, we could teach him about our church. Andale!! He just totally poured out his whole soul to us about being lost in his life and all the regrets about his past and his desire to change his life around. We testified that is it NEVER too late to change and that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, he can be freed from this huge load that he's carrying. The Spirit was strong in that lesson. At the end, we told him that he could start this path back to God by saying a prayer. He told us that he didn't feel worthy and that it had been over 20 year since he had offered a prayer. We kneeled down and Victor offered the most beautiful, sincere prayer I've ever heard. I almost cried, watching this man talk to a Heavenly Father who hadn't heard from His son in 20 years. It was a beautiful moment.

A couple days later, we went to go see Kinari, and her mom told us that she went to the park with her nephews because it was such a nice day. So we start walking over to the park, and this man on the other side of the parking lot calls out to us; "Hola! Como estan?" Really confused that he knows that these two white girls speak Spanish, we go over and talk to him. We ask him where he's from, and he says (in English), "Oh, you don't wanna know where I'm from." Ummm, okay. So this cholo keeps talking to us about how it's good that we know God and we share His word, but he's "a badd man, and you probably shouldn't be talking to me." Umm, okay. So then he asks us, de repente, where two good girls like us are going. You guys remember how blonde I am. I say, "Vamos al parque para encontrar alguien para ensenar." I say it super happily, because the sun is shining, and it's a super pretty day, and we're about to teach someone in the park. He kind of looks at me like, "Umm, okay, silly guerra," and says, "Good girls go to heaven." It was so funny.

So, that was this week. It was great. (:

Love you guys!

Hermana Miller