Macey Gates: Sister Macey Gates // Week Fifty-Eight

Ahh this week was a ride:) It was absolutely amazing!!!!! So for thanksgiving we spent about half of our day helping a less active family made their thanksgiving dinner and then we ate with them. Then we had another dinner and we almost died, I was so sick of food by that point that i never wanted to eat again. But it turns out food is a necessity, weird right? Then we hung out with our zone and played soccer. It was the best thing ever!!!!!!! And the greatest thing that happened this week was that Gloria got baptized!:) So we had this gigantic lesson with her, we asked her how she was feeling about her baptism and she just started crying. She asked us if we had the right to come tell her that everything she has been doing(going to the catholic church) is wrong and that we are right. We said yep! haha nah we explained to her that there is only one true church and that made sense to her. It made sense to her that we don't pray to imagines, and she doesn't like the things that the catholic church has allowed. Then we asked if she knew the BOM to be true and she said no. So we gave her the whole history of the BOM and it turns out Joseph Smith was not Christopher Columbus(thats what she thought) So we got that taken care of. And by the end of that lesson she was doing so good and right on track!! Then it was thanksgiving so we didn't see her and we had an apt. set up for the next day... she called a member telling her she wasn't going to meet with us instead of calling us... in our heads we thought she was just trying to avoid us or something, so we called her and she said she would call us on saturday. Its not good when people say they will call you. So we prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed, i have never prayed so hard in my life. I knew i would have to call her cause she wouldn't call us so i was like role playing to myself in the shower and stuff and finally i decided what i was going to say. We called and told her she had her interview and we wanted to invite her husband to get a priesthood blessing(he has depression) She agreed. So she had her interview and passed! Later that night the elders came over and gave her husband a blessing. He told us it was indescribable. He said that when they put their hands on his head he immediately felt peace. So we talked about it a little and cheered him up. We invited him to church and to Gloria's baptism and he had no idea his wife was getting baptized. My heart dropped. But Gloria was amazing and shared her whole experience with us with him. He told us after he thought we were just coming over to teach her and that was it, but now he knew that we are servants of the lord and we have come to help them come closer to christ. It was amazing to hear Gloria's experience. She told us that she was taught by missionaries a little before but felt weird. Then she called us one morning asking where the church was. She said she's bad at directions and she could either go to her church or with us. She told God that if he wanted her to go with us he would help her find the church and sure enough she found it just fine. She told us she was amazed at the way we taught her. And there was just something different. She thought i was pretty funny too haha idk why but that was fun to hear. We love having fun with our investigators. So any who everything turned out good. Then sunday... she didn't show up at church. We could not sit still. So we called her after and she said her husband was super sick but that she would be at her baptism. That little lady showed up with the biggest smile on her face:) It was the most amazing experience!! I have never felt the spirit so strong at a baptism. So me and my companion are doing awesome. She gets super stressed about everything every day but its such a pleasure to be here for her. I love just listening to her and helping her out. One thing thats been stressing her out is that boys have the priesthood and girls don't, she has this big problem with equality and stuff and we have meetings all the time so i told her basically to get over it cause its never going to change, of course i was nice about it and she agreed. We have so much fun together and its amazing to see how much she really does trust me. We see miracles every day!! It was such a great week!! I love you all!!:)

Hermanita Gates:)