3 Months

hey family,
how is everyone? can you believe i have been out for three months already? i made it through my first transfer. i was stressing for the last week. i didnt want to leave this area it is incredible. the calls were supposed to come on saturday but they didnt the president wasnt done he had to change things because of the visa waiters haha.so we waited till monday morning (today) im staying in modesto in the spanish branch. i was so excited. we have so much here to do. they are sending 2 more elders to the branch so we will have 6 missionaries here working. that doesnt happen often.
anyway monday night my companion had a feeling to go to a former investigators house. so tuesday we went and talked with faviola and beto. while talking with them outside, we ran in to linda (who had a baptismal date) and her boyfriends gabriel. they had gotten back together and moved into the same apartment. so sadly linda cant get baptized. BUT we talked with gabriel and asked if he wanted to go on a church tour. he said yes only if beto came. he said yes too. we went to the church and walked through doing the normal church tour going into the chapel explaining the sacrament who the bishop is and what not going to the font saying we are baptized to follow christ then we sat down and taught the last half of lesson one. after we commited them both to baptism. gabriel said yes right off. beto was a little slower but he said he would fight the fight. beto's wife wants to get baptized. she asked my companion the other day what she has to do and my companion said to her that she already knew. he had taught her before but they just didnt try to come to church or stop drinking so the dropped them. we are picking them back up and it should go better this time.
later we talked with linda and gabriel and convinced them to get married so that they can be baptized. they have an interview with the branch president to see what will happen with that.
pedro is someone we have taught twice. we went over to teach him again and the member with us told him we could go do a church tour. he said i have time now lets go. so we went. we went through and talked about he apostles of christ and said that they had the power to preach. he said that it is important to him to have the power again to baptize. so when we commited him to baptism he said yes. he was nervous at first. he said he was a sinner and didnt deserve it. we told him we would help him learn what he needs to do to repent and we have baptism to wash ALL our sins away. after that he was excited. as we were leaving we ran into the other elders giving a church tour to someone else. we introduced the investigators and as we walked away pedro asked if he could go with the other elders on the church tour again. this guy is golden. he helped commit the other guy to baptism. so we set 4 baptismal dates in one day. sadly his wife doesnt really understand so it is discouraging him so we are going to try and teach them both or at least talk to her to support him.
we are helping a few families here get into the process of getting married. they are all coming to church and in class we are talking about families and eternal families. it is perfect. one lady said that she is going to get married, alejandra, and her boyfriend Fransisco is just going to have to deal with it. haha. they have 2 kids. i love them alot. we got them into an interview with the branch president as well.
the mom of alejandra loves church she has come with them a couple of times. and we have taught her a few times as well. she is still unsure but we are going to commit her to baptism this week. hopefully it goes well. her name is myra.
brenda is 15. We are trying to help her overcome her struggles and temptations. we talked with her dad about bapitsm he doesnt like the idea but she has been taught everything reads everyday and hasnt missed church. she is just standing at the font waiting. it is driving us crazy. we have an appointment to talk with him this week. we are going to talk it out with him. he says she doesnt deserve to get baptized because she makes to many mistakes. she argues with him to much. ditches school. so he says no. we asked her to be on her best behavior to see if it helps. we talked with him and said if she can prove she wants it will you let her. he seemed to like that.
anyway that is my week. the church is true. miracles do happen. i have seem them. i was sick last week. my face was as white as my shirt and i wanted to die. i prayed to get better if i continued to work hard. 1 hour later i was better. it was incredible. this is real. god lives. he loves us. he wants us to be happy i promise that. i love you guys. be safe.
Love Elder paskett.