This week was super busy! Every day was nonstop and was such an amazing blessing. So here's an update and some of the highlights.
Unfortunately we had to move Mike's baptismal date to the 22nd of November, but that's okay because Mike's a beast. We're so excited for him to take this huge step in his life.
We meet with Mike consistently and we have a daily call with him to help him stay accountable🙌🏼 We have some great news... Mike had his baptismal interview this past week and he PASSED! Mike's extremely excited for his baptism and asked some missionaries in our district to sing a song. He's more excited than a 6 year old for his birthday! We love Mike and he's been a huge example to me as he's demonstrated his desire for the gospel in his life. Everyone keep him in your prayers for this upcoming week please!
2 or so weeks ago we started teaching a lady who was taught the missionary lessons in the past. Her name is Robin Harris. She's a sweet older lady that we've been in contact since I've been in this area. The last 2 months we've been building a really strong relationship with her. Her husband is a member of the church but has dementia. She's on her own as of now but she's great!
Robin loves the church and loves the missionaries! She used to go to church a lot in the past (we even call her Sister Harris and she's 100% fine with it). She was never baptized.
We're excited to continue working with her to help her prepare for baptism. We were able to bring her the sacrament yesterday. She was very grateful for that and the Spirit was there. Another person you guys can pray for: Sister Robin Harris!
I want to share another experience that happened to me this week. The Sister Training Leaders in our district have this Filipino in their area who doesn't really speak English that well but he speaks Tagalog! So the Sisters referred him to me.
His name is Alex and he's been in America for awhile now. He's actually from the same city my Mom's from which was a pretty cool connection. Alex is great and has a desire to learn, but unfortunately my Tagalog is a little rusty since serving here in LA.
The first lesson I had with him I was by myself and it was a little hard to speak but it turned out ok. I know that there is another Tagalog speaking missionary in my mission who was in the missionary training center the same time as me. With permission from my mission president I asked Elder Roberts (the other Tagalog speaking missionary) to join me on our Zoom calls with Alex.
We had a lesson on Saturday with him and it went great! We were able to share the whole first lesson about the The Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him! I loved being able to speak and teach in Tagalog! It gave me a lot of motivation to work harder on my language skills.
I love my mission and the great experiences I'm having out here! Thank you all for your prayers. I know it was your prayers that were helping us through this week to help us stay busy. I love you all and miss you. I hope everyone has a great week!
-Elder Espiritu
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