Saludos!

What a week! On Friday we had our sister meeting with all of the sisters from Navarrete and Dajabon. The theme was sunflowers and we based it off of the general conference talk by Quentin L. Cook, "The Lord is my Light."We had the sisters prepare capacitaciones on the attributes of Christ, and we talked about how the sunflowers follow the light, and how we as disciples of Christ must follow them. We made the cute handouts and flowers, and it was really nice.

We did quite a few intercambios this week, but my favorite one was with Hermana Seenaraine. We had a fun time talking about Bonao and being silly together. She's a cute sister. We also did intercambios with the sisters from Mao and Esperanza.

Sunday was marvelous! On Saturday, I fastsed for the Aquino family. I was sure that they were going to go to church and that we could put a baptismal date with them. We spent all day visiting our less actives and investigators, inviting them to church, and at the end of the day we visited the Aquino's to remind them, and they told us that they weren't able to come. That stung. I felt a little let down. My companion told me that sometimes the Lord's will isn't the same as ours, and I half joking told her that it should be. haha I still had a little hope that something would happen and they would be there at church the next day, but they didn't come. However, just about everyone else did! Ramona, the lady we contacted, walked with us to church and afterward told us that she really liked it and that she wants to keep going. Tonight we have a Noche de Hogar planned with her family and another family in the ward. Hopefully we can gain the confidence of her children so we can work together with them as a family. She has a brother she takes care of with Down Syndrome and he is so funny. I just love watching him and trying to talk to him. We also had two daugthers of a less active who went to church and said that next week they want to fast and pay fast offerings. We're going to work hard with them. Another investigator, Olga, told us that she was going to go to church, and so we asked her neighbor to walk with her to the church building, but she was sick, so she sent her grandchildren. We've been working hard with a few less actives as well, and many went to church on Sunday. It was so wonderful. We're really starting to hvae success here. So even though the Aquino family didn't go to church, it was still a great day. That evening we had a lesson with them, and we brought the Reyes family, and had a wonderful lesson with the father and the daughter, who has been attending seminary (the mother hides from us now because she's not interested). But the lesson was great and at the end I asked them if they would accept a date to be baptized. They both got nervous and laughed when I asked, but then the father got serious and said "Let's put the date, Hermana." They said they would be at church for sure this Sunday, and that they would read the Book of Mormon this week. They're so great! It looks like the Lord knows better than I. 

Hermana Jorden