Wow, what a great week this has been! We have had lots going on in Santa Cruz. I can't believe how fast the time is flying! This week, we found an investigator of gold (we thought). On Tuesday, we started talking with a woman on the way to her house and she invited us in to her house to talk with her. We taught her the restoration and she was amazed by the idea of prophets in our days. Hna Butler and I put a baptismal date for her and we left the house on cloud 9. We were so excited to find such a good investigator. Well, the next morning we were reading our area book and Hna Butler found the name of this woman. She started reading it and the Elders that had taught her a year ago said that turns out she was a member. Well, we hardly could believe it, so we did an investigation of our own. We checked online and turns out she was baptized almost 20 years ago. When we went to her house again on Thursday, we asked her if she had ever been to church and she was like I went a couple times when I was little but my mom was really catholic so she made me stop going and then my companion asked her if she had been baptized and she said no. We were really confused and she told us some story about how her dad left her mom and had another family and had a daughter and named her the same name and they are almost identical and she said maybe she got baptized, but she doesn't talk with her so she doesn't really know. Well, we were even more confused after that story, but we continued our search and started asking members if they had known her and there were tons that know her and that she was the one who got baptized. We don't know why she lied to us or why she's so good at lying, but it was definitely a shocking event this week.
I loved the conference this weekend! It seriously is like Christmas here in the mission. There is so much we can learn from these inspired men. I loved Elder Uchtdorf's talk about how we can gain more light and truth in our lives. It really is such a simple formula but so many people look over it. I love that one of the steps after all that we have studied pondered and prayed about is to act. We truly can't learn much without acting. Our testimonies can grow continually and we should always be searching more truth. Our Father in Heaven hopes that we ask and hopes that His children have desires to know the truth. I know that He loves us individually and is so aware of who we are and what we are going through. He expects so much of us, but that shouldn't make us scared but rather excited to serve our God.
I love all of you and hope that each of you were able to watch conference this weekend and gain new insights and understandings of the gospel. If not, go watch it!
Con mucho amor
Hna Ayre
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