Week 22-A White Weekend

Hellooo everyone.
Holy cow this past week/weekend was the most stressful thing ever! I dont even want to write about the details because ill get stressed again hahaha but just know that everything worked out!!
The wedding turned out great. It was pushed back a little bit because there were two baptisms of two 8 year olds right before, and they had a dinner too. But the church was all decorated, we put on wedding music for siany to walk down the aisle, and we had a member speak about marriage before the lawyer, because we knew he doesnt talk much. And there was a lot of people there to support them so that was awesome!! Siany looked gorgeous and it was so special to see them make this step together :) Without going into detail, the baptism was changed to sunday morning. So after the wedding everyone ate all the food, and we cleaned up and went home! The next morning before church, at 8:30 am, they got baptized :) They looked so happy. After they recieved the holy ghost, their faces were just glowing. It was awesome. And guess what, Fabian recieved the priesthood that same day!! Like what! Gustavo did too, finally, and im ecstatic that gustavo got that too. Fabian and siany might go to the temple with the district on november 8th, so that would be amazing. We gave fabian and siany a big laminated picture of the temple in costa rica with the date of October 26th 2015 - the day that they can get sealed as a family for eternity. We know theyll make it, and we will still be here and will be able to go with them! :) 

So remember Paola, the one we felt to go talk to in her house? She told us a little more about what happened that day. Just before, she had been talking to her mom, crying. She had said that she wasnt going to believe in God anymore because she didnt understand why bad things were happening to her. She had asked got to show her a sign, and thats when we showed up. So amazing! :) God could have answere her prayer in any way he wanted. But he LET us be an answer to our prayer. He let us feel the prompting and go and talk to her.
Today we helped paint our investigator runias hair salon! Runia has come to church a lot and everything, but has no desire to make a commitment to be baptized. We are working slowly but surely with her to help her make covenantsso that was good haha
This week we are going to work super hard to find the people that have been prepared by the lord. We know that there are people waiting to accept the gospel and we need to find them.

Well thanks for everything, until next week!!

Hermana Geis :)

Hermana Gonzales, Siany, and Hermana Geis-- at Siany and Fabian's wedding!!

Fabian, Siany, their son, and the hermanas

The whole family.

Fabian and Siany's baptism day!

Week 21

Hello everyone!

So this week was pretty good! :) I feel like a lot has happened! I´ll start by giving an update on Fabian and Siany.

So we werent able to see either of them all week because Siany was in San Jose and Fabian had work all week, so we were only able to communicate with them through text a little bit. It was funny, we left Fabian a pamphlet for the word of wisdom for him to read, and then we texted him asking what he thought about it and he explained completely what the word of wisdom is in his text haha and then we asked if he would follow it and he said, ¨Claro que si hermanas! Queremos estar en el camino de Dios.¨ So awesome :)
So they came to church on Sunday and brought Siany´s brother with them! He´s about 18, and is really interested in everything. We have high hopes for him too. So they really enjoyed church, and seriously they are special because the members just love them. They really reach out to them, which doesnt usually happen. Later on Sunday we went over to teach them a couple more things, like certain commandments, to prepare them for their baptismal interviews. Our district leader Elder Stewart came over and after the interviews he told me - ¨I have never seen anyone so prepared! And ive never seen anyone so excited to pay tithing!¨ Hahaha they are such a miracle, and continue to be a miracle. They accept everything so wholeheartedly and just want to do EVERYTHING they can to follow Christ and change their lives. They were asking us about what they shouldnt do and what they should do etc etc. Theyre so ready.
So they are both going to be baptized on saturday, after the wedding! We are so excited. Theyre borrowing a dress and suit from members, the members are going to help us with food, and we´re going to somehow buy decorations to decorate the church and what not. I feel kinda stressed, ok really stressed, to make sure everything comes together but I know everything will work out great :) We already have the baptism planned, like who is going to talk and everything so thats good. This week is definitely going to be focused on that but we really have to focus on our other investigators too! There´s just not enough time in the day haha.  

So guess what, we had another miracle this past week. We were walking around a neighborhood that we are always in one night and we passed by this one house we always pass by. I glanced in and saw a girl sitting in there watching tv, and we walked a little further and then stopped. ¨Should we go and talk to her?¨ ¨Nah...¨ ¨Ok lets go!!¨ Haha so we went  back and started talking to her. Her name is Paola, shes probably mid 20s and has a 4 year old son. We asked if we could come back the next day and she was all for it, so we were excited about that. So when we went over for the appointment, the lesson went great. She accepted a baptismal date for the 15th of November :) And heres the amazing part: She said that she saw us walk past her door, and then stop and hesitate to come back or not. She said that she had been crying all day feeling stressed and overwhelmed, and then we showed up. She said that her mom told her that we must have been sent by God to her for a reason. So we are very excited about her :)

Something really weird happened...one of our investigators, Keilyn, said she wanted to show us a video. We were like, well it depends what it is haha we probably cant watch it! And then all of the sudden I hear myself singing. IT WAS SO WEIRD. She had randomly come accross me on youtube. What are the odds of that. And it was weird...I thought to myself, who is that?! Haha.

It was freezing in san jose yesterday. I actually bought myself a hot chocolate. Pictures next week :) haha

Well i love you all! A lot! Have a great week and always put the Lord and your family FIRST!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Geis