September 26, 2011
I'm feeling much better this week and I'm so grateful! On monday we got to go exploring and went to this little city called Aguacatan where there's this sacred river that springs up out of the ground which was really cool! I didn't know rivers did that! It just pops right up out of the ground and the story goes that it's sacred because years ago all these people were fighting over it so it dried up. As soon as the people resolved their problems and made peace the water came back! So they named it after a Saint and made it sacred! Pretty legit!
As far as Angelina's baptism goes we have to push it back another week or two because her documents are in a different city and so the wedding stuff is taking a while. But her husband is all good with everything which is awesome! President Bautista promised we'd get an average of 2 a month or more so as long as we get 3 in October we'll still be good! It is a lot harder getting someone ready for baptism than I realized, but I know there are people here who are prepared and we're finding them! We have several prospects for this month so I'm confident we'll meet all our goals! Tomorrow we have interviews with President Bautista which will be good and I'm so excited for conference this weekend! I love reading the old conference talks and I'm ready for new counsel!
Fun story this week! We've been teaching this family, Marisela and David. We invited their next door neighbor Elsa who's a member to help us teach. She's an awesome return missionary and really nice. Well David and Elsa both tend to talk a lot and it ended up being an hour and a half long strange discussion between David and Elsa that we could hardly get two words in. It ended up with Elsa explaining that she got her testimony when she saw the silhoutte of God in her Doctrine and Covenants and yeah it was out of control. I love the members here haha but its dangerous inviting them to teach investigators sometimes...
I got my package on Tuesday which was record time according to my companion... I loved it! It was like Christmas!!! Thanks for all the letters and everything, it really made my week! Anyhow, sorry I'm out of time we're going to go make pupusas at the stake center. I hope everyone is good and I can't wait to hear updates on how things are going. I love you all!
Kailey
10.31.2011
September 19, 2011
This week has been really good in some ways and really crappy in others haha. I think Jeremy (the affectionate name I gave the parasite I acquired in Mozambique) invited his Guatemalan friends over and they´ve been having parties in my insides! From Wednesday to yesterday I've been super ill-- nauseated, stomach aches, puking and all that good stuff, so we cancelled all our meals with members for this week and hopefully that will help me get back to normal! I didn't want to stay inside so we still went out and worked everyday except for yesterday because Hermana Lucha wouldn't let me. I'm so glad we went out the days we did though! We found a lot of new people to teach and I think we're going to have some baptisms soon!
We found two families, the Bautistas, who are inactive members. They are 2 sisters who got baptized 18 years ago when they were kids and then went inactive eventually for different reasons. Now they have their own kids who are 8, 9, 11, and a couple younger ones and they want to hear the lessons again! We're having FHE with them tonight! Well at least with one of them. One sister was visiting and lives in the Rehu mission but Hermanana Lucha's brother is in that mission so we're sending the missionaries to her there!
We found another lady this week named Marisela who's only 20 and has a 5 month old little baby boy named Cristofer who has Down Syndrome and is the cutest baby ever. We taught her and her husband David and they are great! I really think they both might get baptized in the next month.
Yesterday we ran around in the morning trying to get our investigators who were supposed to come to church with us but they were either not home, not ready or didn't answer the phone or whatever so we ended up not having any investigators come to church. I was pretty bummed because that pretty much ruled out all our possibilities for a baptism this month and we had a goal to have one more. I was praying during Sacrament meeting that somehow we would still be able to meet our goals. We've been working really hard to meet all the new goals that President Bautista set with us and he promised us we would be able to have at least 2 baptisms a month if we did everything he asked us to. (this is the lowest baptizing mission in Central America so apparently 2 per month is a high standard) Anyhow during sunday school I looked out the window and Angelina was standing there!! After church she said her husband had told her that morning that he wants to get married in our church! Which means if we get everything together for their wedding this week then she can get baptized before the end of this month! It was a miracle. It's still not set in stone and we have a lot to do this week. We have to figure out when her husband will be in town so we can schedule the wedding and all but I know that it's all going to work out according to our faith :) Alma 37:17 says the Lord will fulfill all his promises so long as we have the faith and obedience to be worthy of it!
We also found out this week that Merlin and Jose, a couple we were teaching for a while, are planning their wedding! I'm so happy about all the missionary stuff going on! I studied the story of the strippling warriors this week and I remember so well when we learned about obeying with exactness as kids. It's so much more important to me now and I'm so grateful that you taught us well. I do not doubt that my mother knew it. I hope everyone is happy and doing well! I love you!!!
Tell Grandma and Grandpa thanks for the email! I loved hearing from them!
This week has been really good in some ways and really crappy in others haha. I think Jeremy (the affectionate name I gave the parasite I acquired in Mozambique) invited his Guatemalan friends over and they´ve been having parties in my insides! From Wednesday to yesterday I've been super ill-- nauseated, stomach aches, puking and all that good stuff, so we cancelled all our meals with members for this week and hopefully that will help me get back to normal! I didn't want to stay inside so we still went out and worked everyday except for yesterday because Hermana Lucha wouldn't let me. I'm so glad we went out the days we did though! We found a lot of new people to teach and I think we're going to have some baptisms soon!
We found two families, the Bautistas, who are inactive members. They are 2 sisters who got baptized 18 years ago when they were kids and then went inactive eventually for different reasons. Now they have their own kids who are 8, 9, 11, and a couple younger ones and they want to hear the lessons again! We're having FHE with them tonight! Well at least with one of them. One sister was visiting and lives in the Rehu mission but Hermanana Lucha's brother is in that mission so we're sending the missionaries to her there!
We found another lady this week named Marisela who's only 20 and has a 5 month old little baby boy named Cristofer who has Down Syndrome and is the cutest baby ever. We taught her and her husband David and they are great! I really think they both might get baptized in the next month.
Yesterday we ran around in the morning trying to get our investigators who were supposed to come to church with us but they were either not home, not ready or didn't answer the phone or whatever so we ended up not having any investigators come to church. I was pretty bummed because that pretty much ruled out all our possibilities for a baptism this month and we had a goal to have one more. I was praying during Sacrament meeting that somehow we would still be able to meet our goals. We've been working really hard to meet all the new goals that President Bautista set with us and he promised us we would be able to have at least 2 baptisms a month if we did everything he asked us to. (this is the lowest baptizing mission in Central America so apparently 2 per month is a high standard) Anyhow during sunday school I looked out the window and Angelina was standing there!! After church she said her husband had told her that morning that he wants to get married in our church! Which means if we get everything together for their wedding this week then she can get baptized before the end of this month! It was a miracle. It's still not set in stone and we have a lot to do this week. We have to figure out when her husband will be in town so we can schedule the wedding and all but I know that it's all going to work out according to our faith :) Alma 37:17 says the Lord will fulfill all his promises so long as we have the faith and obedience to be worthy of it!
We also found out this week that Merlin and Jose, a couple we were teaching for a while, are planning their wedding! I'm so happy about all the missionary stuff going on! I studied the story of the strippling warriors this week and I remember so well when we learned about obeying with exactness as kids. It's so much more important to me now and I'm so grateful that you taught us well. I do not doubt that my mother knew it. I hope everyone is happy and doing well! I love you!!!
Love, kailey
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