WEEK 30!!! Trip to the Los Angeles Temple, AWESOME New Families to Teach, and Thank You Fairview 1st Ward Primary!!!

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Our Trip to the Los Angeles Temple

Meagan Martineau	3:17 PM (5 hours ago)
to me, Lynn

First off: Mom, why did you send a pictures of a mug about being a grandma????????? Was that just because, or do you have some news to tell me!?!??!!?!??!??!?!!!

And yes, our week was very full, like always!!!!! And no, it didn't work out with Jessie... We went by for our appointment, knocked, they were obviously home, and didn't answer the door. Then we called them and said we were outside and his mom Adriana told us that Jessie's dad doesn't want him to be baptized just yet. She eventually opened the door and let us talk in person. We can still teach him and they are still going to come to church (but they didn't yesterday which was annoying because we even got them a ride set up and they weren't home) but his dad doesn't think he's ready. Personally I just think his dad isn't ready. His dad won't meet with us, whenever he sees us he acts really nervous and runs away, he won't come to church. or anything. He is a member but when they moved here he started drinking and smoking again so I think he feels guilty. So no baptism this weekend, but sometime!!!

We have been blessed a lot this week with finding families to teach. So a friend of Hna White's sent her a talk that was given to the Los Vegas West mission and IT.IS.INCREDIBLE. It goes over EVERY aspect of the work and how to be better with EVERYTHING. He is VERY bold and it is VERY spiritual. We have been reading it together every  chance we get in the car and right after nightly planning for a few minutes. It's really long but it has changed EVERYTHING. How we teach, how we study, how we think. It has really helped me put into perspective my purpose as a missionary. I have learned that there is SO MUCH I need to improve!!! So we have been changing a lot this week and the Lord has been blessing us IMMENSELY!!!!!! We found a few families, together that we got to teach this week. There are 2 really promising ones. One of the families is a family of 10!!!! A husband and wife with 8 kids!!! They are a joined family so the parents are young and the kids ages are 12,11, 10, 10, 9, 8, 5, and one month!!!! We taught all of them together twice!! They all read in the Book of Mormon, even the kids!!! They didn't make it to church though because it was Father's Day, but next week!!! The other is a family of 5. The dad Manny is SUPER curious and is like analyzing the Book of Mormon. It is good that he is reading, but we're just trying to get him to focus on testimony and the spirit rather than facts about when and where things happened, which is what he is really focused on now. He has a LOT of questions, which is good though. His wife Martha is very accepting though :) So I can't remember if I wrote about this or not, but on April 20 or 30, something like that when we had our very first exchange with Hnas Williamson and Perry and we prayed to find a family of 5, 2 kids baptismal age and one almost there, like 6-7 years old, 2 boys, one girl, that the dad would doubt and have questions, while the mom would be really accepting?? Well I have still had them in my mind and occasionally would pray to still find them. And we found them!!! That is the exact description of Manny's family!!!!! And we went to his house at 3, and when we initially prayed we felt that we would find them around 4pm!!!! It was such a miracle!!!!

So this week has been really good!! There have been ups and downs, but that's life right!! And last week on Tuesday we got to go to the LA temple!!! It was so pretty!!!! It's BIG too!!!! There are a LOT of different rooms you get to go into and all have really pretty paintings everywhere!! It is gorgeous!!! The spirit was very strong and I received some answers to prayers I was having so that was great!!! I LOVE the temple and for the opportunity we have as members of Christ's TRUE church to go and serve there!!!! It was wonderful!!!!! I really do love to see the temple, and I have gone inside and covenanted with my Father, and I couldn't be happier!!! ;) (get the reference)

I love you all so much!!! Thank you for everything!!!! <3

Hermana Martineau <3



P.S. I took some nametag pics at the temple but they're blurry because my camera is bad with words...