A beautiful week. =)

Dear Family and Friends,

This week, Jose was baptized. I am so happy that he was baptized! He was so happy! His family was so happy too! (Even if it doesnt seem like it in the photos I have. haha.) My companion played the piano and I sang. My companion is a great pianist! Jose was so eager to do everything perfectly. I love his attitude. He really is someone who had a change of heart and who is turning his whole life around. Jose was also confirmed on Sunday.
My companion and I are both so excited to see the work grow in our area. We are seeing so many miracles. I still don´t think I have exactly grasped the idea yet or that it has hit me.. or what is that phrase in English that we use to say that we haven´t actually believed what has happened? this week. But, I remember yesterday that we were walking to church and I was thinking... No one came with us today to church. I was about to feel a little bad as I started to think about what I possibly could be doing wrong. I realized that I had been being exactly obedient, and then I remembered our zone meeting where our zone leaders told us not to be desanimado. They taught us that was the opposite of faith and that being disheartened is not going to help ANYTHING. I started saying out loud ¨I am not going to be upset¨¨Voy a ser feliz,¨ until I was smiling. When we entered the church, a boy met us. We had been teaching his less active mother and he told us that she says Hi, and wants to know when we were going to visit her. We had just stopped visiting her that week because she wasn´t progressing. I remembered explaining that God won´t forget her and that we would be able to find people who are ready to live the gospel. It was really hard to explain this to him, but I knew that we were doing the right thing. At the end of sacrament meeting, we found out that 6 or our investigators came to church. One of them was the mother of Irma, someone who recently came back to church and now is active. At the end of our gospel principles class, Irma came up to us with her mom and said, ¨My mom has a question. She wants to know how she can be baptized.¨ I think my companion and I were in so much shock that we hardly said anything. We got an appointment the to teach her that same night. Now, Irma´s mom is going to be baptized on the first of June. =) God is so good. We arent perfect. We just have to be obedient. I know He loves us, and this is His work, and if we do it His way, we will see miracles.
I love you all.
Keep praying, because God hears you.
And he cares, too.

Love,
Hermana Bendixen

Oh, the picture of the showerhead was an accident. haha. But, this I took a picture of it because it broke, and that is how we fixed it. =)