This week has been pretty good again; we have seen a lot of awesome things.
But the biggest chunk of news happened yesterday. Earlier this week we'd had
dinner with Leticia, and for the dinner lesson we discussed the Law of Chastity.
It turns out that she does live with her boyfriend, Francisco, and she's been
praying and wondering what she should do about it. After a really intense and
spiritual lesson, we essentially proposed for him, and she said
yes!!!!! The problem is that July is a really busy month for their family;
they've got a bunches of birthdays and other crazy nonsense going on, so she
told us she'd be planning on getting married in August, and she'll have to wait
to be baptized then. I felt disappointed about that because we want to see her
baptized, but we realized it's just better that she's accepting the Gospel well.
So, after I said something like "Yeah, it'd be tough if you had the anniversary
at the same time as Gaspar's birthday and all." We wound up leaving. But
yesterday we came back, and Leticia was super excited to talk to us. First off;
she told us Francisco's super happy and thankful to us; apparently he's been
trying to marry her from day 1! He loves the church too, from what Leticia told
him, and he also wants to learn and be baptized in the near future. Then,
Leticia told us, "You gave me an idea! We're gonna get married on the 22 of
July, which is Gaspar's birthday! For a Honeymoon we can take the kids out to a
nice restaurant or something; it'd be perfect!!!" We were both like . LETICIA'S
GETTING MARRIED!!!! and then BAPTIZED!!! YEE-HAW! We're super excited; and so
is the branch. I've never initiated a wedding before as a missionary; so
this'll be a fun new experiance.
I've gotta go again; but I love you all, and I appreciate your support of
the Elders out there. Crazy that they're already doing the Facebook thing! I wonder
when that'll get out here... It's almost too weird to think about...
Love,
Elder Matthew David Clough