Hello!! My last mission letter. Boo hoo. It{s so weird to think i am leavinggggggggg..
Well let me tell you about my week first. It was a little bit hard beuase we had to go lots of times to the clinic to get a receipt and take that to the offices. They messed everything up but we got it figured out. Then it got cold and rainy like on Thursday.. its still really cold!! Of course, it has to be cold my last days in Santa Cruz. What the heck. not cool. Anyways, so Gabriel actually doesn{t live in our ward. He lives right over the boundary. which stinks but whatever it doesnt count for us but we prepared him and he has to get baptized with the elders. We went with them the other night to intoduce them. I think the elders were really surpised that he is so excited to get baptized!! He had his interview for his baptism and hopefully his baptism will be this wednesday night, but the elders have to ask permission because he didn{t go to his ward yesterday, he went to our ward only becuase it is in the afternoon, and his ward is in the morning and itw as raining in teh morning. yes, that{s an excuse. He has a great testimony. He explained to the elders lots of things taht we taught him, like about the 4 pillars of the church of jesus christ (prophet, 12 apostles, revelation, priesthood). He is sooo ready for baptism. So excited. So happy. Baptisms are the best.
Andres and Milka are in problems. He is 10 years younger than her and his parents are anti mormons. we visited the mom of milka, and she explained us a lot of things. So we will see. We feel bad for the 2 little girls. They are pretty cute.
We are teaching a great family. Familia PIzarro. Roger, Alina, Diego (15), and they have baby twin girls Isabella and Camila. Roger recently had surgery becuase he has problems with his kidneys and cant work now. The twins are 9 months old and soo cute. they were born premature and so they arereally small. Diego is super curious, he says he was baptized in the church but no one else remembers but him! haha. So we will see. they have tons of questions. We watched part of the movie of our heavenly father{s plan with them on sunday. They liked it. When they were asking all their quetions, Gabriel just laughed al ot, because it was hard to explain much, because they just kept laughing. and gabriel was like, i already know, they just have to listen to the hermanas haha. it was funny.
anyways, booo, i hate saying goodbye, i{m gonna miss this place soooo much it has been my home and i will miss the PEOPLE I{ve been writing letters like crazy to people in my past areas to leave to them and thursday i willl get to do some visits with Hna Harman who is also going home. Boooo.... I read Acts 20 and it made me cry...
I feel like Ammon in Alma 26... 26-the end.
REad it and thats exactly what i feel. Change wilderness to Santa Cruz, and verse 29... i have been cast out, and laughed at, and whistled at, and have gotten sick, and taken to the clinic. something like that. i wanted to write it all out but i dont have time.
So.. I{m gonna talk to Presdient {Calderon. If you find anything out, call or write to the offices ASAP. There is a new secretary that is latino, but the assistants are americans and can read english.
SEE YOU SATURDAY!!! WHOA!!!
I love you all!!!!
Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
Sunday, May 6, 2012
April 23, 2012
Hello!!! This week has been good. We have been working hard, and there are tons of challenges, but we just have to keep going.
This week we had a 4 zone conference. It was really great. Presidente Calderon is so great. He teaches us so much. It wasn{t as long as usual so we were happy. At the end I was asked to share my testimony as well as the elders who are finishing our missions, i was happy to do it. After that people started telling me to rest in peace. haha. i sltil have time here!!! but only one more p day. i only have to wash clothes by hand one more time!!!!
Dude, boone, you won all of those? How many other kids went home crying??? Looks like a fun pinewood derby. good job pulling it off.
Well, the work goes forward here in Braniff.
We{re gonna have a baptism!!! if everything goes well, it will be on MAY 2!! It is for Gabriel, he came to church with his friend, girlfriend?? Gabriela, who is a member. He is super great!! He does all of the commitments and he loves the church and is excited for his baptism. We have seen him grow a testimony already as he exercies faith.
Iris and her family are no longer investigating the church :( we went there the other day and basically she pulled out every excuse on us. So we said ok Ciao. Sad stuff.
Andres and Milka are just ok, they still havent set their marriage date, but Andres wants to get baptized. He was telling us about how he was speaking to spirits or something though, some dark stuff, so we are trying to find the way to explain to him that that{s not ok.
A Guy showed up to church yesterday named Roger. He is married and has 3 kids and he really liked the church. We{re gonna visit him this week. pretty exciting becuase its a famliy!!!
hmm... dont know what else to write.. not a super eventful week. Hna Brinez got a little sick. she has gastritis (not sure what its called in english) and usually she can keep it under control with pills, but she ran out and so we had to go to the dr. because the pains come back. but she is doing ok, She gave a talk in church this week on the hymns. I played the piano. There is still no bishop.
Kelvin and Wilson and Martha didnt go to church even though they said they would. HOpefully we can make progress with them. OUr investigator Adela went. She didnt really understand anything in the sacrament meeting. Probably for the best because the counselor in teh stake presidency spoke and it was pretty harsh. She is intersted though. The problem is that she isn{t married and doesnt want to marry her husband but she relies on him for money. so hopefully she can see the need ot make a change.
have a great week. I Love you all. and see you soon!!! Love Hermana Tibbitts
This week we had a 4 zone conference. It was really great. Presidente Calderon is so great. He teaches us so much. It wasn{t as long as usual so we were happy. At the end I was asked to share my testimony as well as the elders who are finishing our missions, i was happy to do it. After that people started telling me to rest in peace. haha. i sltil have time here!!! but only one more p day. i only have to wash clothes by hand one more time!!!!
Dude, boone, you won all of those? How many other kids went home crying??? Looks like a fun pinewood derby. good job pulling it off.
Well, the work goes forward here in Braniff.
We{re gonna have a baptism!!! if everything goes well, it will be on MAY 2!! It is for Gabriel, he came to church with his friend, girlfriend?? Gabriela, who is a member. He is super great!! He does all of the commitments and he loves the church and is excited for his baptism. We have seen him grow a testimony already as he exercies faith.
Iris and her family are no longer investigating the church :( we went there the other day and basically she pulled out every excuse on us. So we said ok Ciao. Sad stuff.
Andres and Milka are just ok, they still havent set their marriage date, but Andres wants to get baptized. He was telling us about how he was speaking to spirits or something though, some dark stuff, so we are trying to find the way to explain to him that that{s not ok.
A Guy showed up to church yesterday named Roger. He is married and has 3 kids and he really liked the church. We{re gonna visit him this week. pretty exciting becuase its a famliy!!!
hmm... dont know what else to write.. not a super eventful week. Hna Brinez got a little sick. she has gastritis (not sure what its called in english) and usually she can keep it under control with pills, but she ran out and so we had to go to the dr. because the pains come back. but she is doing ok, She gave a talk in church this week on the hymns. I played the piano. There is still no bishop.
Kelvin and Wilson and Martha didnt go to church even though they said they would. HOpefully we can make progress with them. OUr investigator Adela went. She didnt really understand anything in the sacrament meeting. Probably for the best because the counselor in teh stake presidency spoke and it was pretty harsh. She is intersted though. The problem is that she isn{t married and doesnt want to marry her husband but she relies on him for money. so hopefully she can see the need ot make a change.
have a great week. I Love you all. and see you soon!!! Love Hermana Tibbitts
April 16, 2012
Hola family!!!
Good news.. the work is going along here in Braniff. I dont really know why i said it was slow. Things are really never slow here. Just sometimes we leave the house with a full schedule of appointments and then ALL of them fall through. So we walk a lot looking for the plan B or others to teach. but its not really a bad thing just how it goes sometimes, the lord always leads us to the people who really need to hear, and sometimes they are not the same ones that are in our agendas.
Martha... went out of town. Haven{t seen her or belen. Nubi is so-so right now. We are trying to figure out what her real intentions are. In our last lesson, she asked me if i could write her a letter of invitation, something like that. But it{s so she can get a green card and go to the united states. So hopefully she is not just listening to us to have an american friend. She didn{t go to church on Sunday but her brother did. It was kind of weird. Her brother is Kelvin and he went with his friend Wilson who lives next door. They said they were curious so taht{s why they went. we actually met Kelvin way before Nubi and invited to him to church. He said that he went a few weeks back but they went in the gates, and only saw little kids with shirts and ties. they didn{t go into the chapel! haha. they just left. So we were like, uhh. you can go in! Kelvin is weird in a funny way. We taught them the Restoration in Gospel principles and they seemed to be inteseted. Kelvin said he had read some stuff on the internet about the urim and thummin. So hopefully he{s not reading anti stuff. He seems to want to know what we believe.
We found a great family this week, but they didn{t go to church. They are really special.Iris is the mom and she has 2 kids Clarissa and Luis Alberto. Clarissa is 18 and Luis is 10 and he has muscular dystrophy, he is in a wheelchair. But he is such a happy kid. _Really he is an example. We invited them to baptism and the mom said, yes, that would be great for our family, if we could do it together. The problem is that her husband works like, all the time. We need to meet him and teach him. We are praying that we can and help this famly progress.
we are really happy because we have a couple that is goign to get married so the husband can get baptized! We just dont know when yet. His name is Andres and her name is Milka. Milka is a returned missionary, she went to Colombia about 10 yrs ago so she and my companion talk a lot about colombia. She has been inactive but recently is starting to go to church again. They already have 2 daughters and they want to have an eternal family. And Andres has a testimony of the church already, hereally likes it. YAY! we are happy.
Hey... my AMEX card is expired. Can you get me a new one to have when i get there?
Yes.. I am going to leave lots ofthings like clothes. Basically all of myclothes are worn out anyways. But I have lots of things i need to keep too. But i dont think i will fill my suitcases. So no worries. I will take money out with my wells fargo card. Probably next monday.
thats great that Debra is getting better!!! Will keep praying. I feel like i have prayed a lot int his week for ltos of reasons. And i really felt that the Lord hears and answers our prayers, always.
I gave a talk about tithing on sunday. it was kind of weird that they asked me to speak on that. But i think i did ok. I also had to play the piano. The bishop{s wife used to play but they jsut moved so there is no one else!! next week Hna. Briñez will speak. hehe.
Congrats on baseball!!! That sounds way fun.
have a great week everyone. read your scriptues. i love you
Hermana Tibbitts
Ok, i have more time.
What else what else... Thursday was Dia del Niño!! We gave candy to lots of kids. Basically theyjust ahve parties in the schools and give them lots of candy. OH, and you have to tell the kids felicidades. haha.it was funny.
I think we have interviews this week... eeek..... hope it goes well.
Sorry, I took zero photos this week. Got nothing to send.
ok now gotta go. love Hermana Tibbitts
Good news.. the work is going along here in Braniff. I dont really know why i said it was slow. Things are really never slow here. Just sometimes we leave the house with a full schedule of appointments and then ALL of them fall through. So we walk a lot looking for the plan B or others to teach. but its not really a bad thing just how it goes sometimes, the lord always leads us to the people who really need to hear, and sometimes they are not the same ones that are in our agendas.
Martha... went out of town. Haven{t seen her or belen. Nubi is so-so right now. We are trying to figure out what her real intentions are. In our last lesson, she asked me if i could write her a letter of invitation, something like that. But it{s so she can get a green card and go to the united states. So hopefully she is not just listening to us to have an american friend. She didn{t go to church on Sunday but her brother did. It was kind of weird. Her brother is Kelvin and he went with his friend Wilson who lives next door. They said they were curious so taht{s why they went. we actually met Kelvin way before Nubi and invited to him to church. He said that he went a few weeks back but they went in the gates, and only saw little kids with shirts and ties. they didn{t go into the chapel! haha. they just left. So we were like, uhh. you can go in! Kelvin is weird in a funny way. We taught them the Restoration in Gospel principles and they seemed to be inteseted. Kelvin said he had read some stuff on the internet about the urim and thummin. So hopefully he{s not reading anti stuff. He seems to want to know what we believe.
We found a great family this week, but they didn{t go to church. They are really special.Iris is the mom and she has 2 kids Clarissa and Luis Alberto. Clarissa is 18 and Luis is 10 and he has muscular dystrophy, he is in a wheelchair. But he is such a happy kid. _Really he is an example. We invited them to baptism and the mom said, yes, that would be great for our family, if we could do it together. The problem is that her husband works like, all the time. We need to meet him and teach him. We are praying that we can and help this famly progress.
we are really happy because we have a couple that is goign to get married so the husband can get baptized! We just dont know when yet. His name is Andres and her name is Milka. Milka is a returned missionary, she went to Colombia about 10 yrs ago so she and my companion talk a lot about colombia. She has been inactive but recently is starting to go to church again. They already have 2 daughters and they want to have an eternal family. And Andres has a testimony of the church already, hereally likes it. YAY! we are happy.
Hey... my AMEX card is expired. Can you get me a new one to have when i get there?
Yes.. I am going to leave lots ofthings like clothes. Basically all of myclothes are worn out anyways. But I have lots of things i need to keep too. But i dont think i will fill my suitcases. So no worries. I will take money out with my wells fargo card. Probably next monday.
thats great that Debra is getting better!!! Will keep praying. I feel like i have prayed a lot int his week for ltos of reasons. And i really felt that the Lord hears and answers our prayers, always.
I gave a talk about tithing on sunday. it was kind of weird that they asked me to speak on that. But i think i did ok. I also had to play the piano. The bishop{s wife used to play but they jsut moved so there is no one else!! next week Hna. Briñez will speak. hehe.
Congrats on baseball!!! That sounds way fun.
have a great week everyone. read your scriptues. i love you
Hermana Tibbitts
Ok, i have more time.
What else what else... Thursday was Dia del Niño!! We gave candy to lots of kids. Basically theyjust ahve parties in the schools and give them lots of candy. OH, and you have to tell the kids felicidades. haha.it was funny.
I think we have interviews this week... eeek..... hope it goes well.
Sorry, I took zero photos this week. Got nothing to send.
ok now gotta go. love Hermana Tibbitts
April 9, 2012
Hello!!!
OK, first gotta get down to business, I dont know if the elders in the office like to scare us, but they tell usthat totravel out of bolivia, there are special laws because bolivia has a special president, and you can only take 1 suitcase with 20 kilos. I dont trust those elders sometimes. haha. Can you figure out if that{s true? Theysay it{s 85 dollars for the next bag. I{m taking 2 suitcases no matter what, since they are new, but would like to know if i need to payto have the money on hand.
Also, i dont think i can give you the email to the mission office. But everything is worked out now, right?? I can give you the phone number. 3337072.. 1030-430 monday thru friday bolivia time.
Hey, i{m not sick anymore.
I am praying for Debra and all the others. Hope they can recover quickly. Send my love!!
Well, this week was a really good week, it started out with a big surprise, they called us monday night to tell us that Hna. Pretel had cambios! We were like, what!? But what happened was that a sister who recently arrived decided to go home and not finish her mission. So Hna. Pretel had to go and be the companion of Hna. Saire in BELEN!!So I was realy excited because Belen is amazing. So now we{re just the 2 of us, Hna. Briñez and I. Can i just say, my companion rocks, She is great, i love her a lot and we are great friends and work well togtehrer.
The work is slow here sometimes. We are looking and looking for the chosen people.
We have found some good ones but the hard thing is taht we can{t force them to do anything. they have to decide.
Our ward is really small and our bishop just moved away, so we are going to be without a bishop for a while until they call another one. They said the last time that happened they were without a bishop it was 6 months.
We were able to have 2 investigators in church on sunday which was great, Martha and her 9 yr old daughter Ana Belen, and their son Dillon who is 4 and is super crazsy, but Ana Belen loved the church and martha liked it too, they aretraveling this week so hopefully we can find them when they get back.
Lizbeth we have totally given up on and Griselda is working double shifts so we haven{t had time to see her except once and she worked on sunday.
we found a girl named Nubi, weird name, but she is really intersted so hopefully we can help her gain a testimony of the gospel
in other news, we are churrasco one day,,, yummmm...... i learned how to make a dessert with passion fruit from my companion.. yum!!.... and we finally made the otehr cake that ee chien sent me, the carrot cake, super yum.
LOVE YOU ALL!!! !
see ya soon.!
sorry if this letter isnt very good butdont knwo what else to say
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Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
OK, first gotta get down to business, I dont know if the elders in the office like to scare us, but they tell usthat totravel out of bolivia, there are special laws because bolivia has a special president, and you can only take 1 suitcase with 20 kilos. I dont trust those elders sometimes. haha. Can you figure out if that{s true? Theysay it{s 85 dollars for the next bag. I{m taking 2 suitcases no matter what, since they are new, but would like to know if i need to payto have the money on hand.
Also, i dont think i can give you the email to the mission office. But everything is worked out now, right?? I can give you the phone number. 3337072.. 1030-430 monday thru friday bolivia time.
Hey, i{m not sick anymore.
I am praying for Debra and all the others. Hope they can recover quickly. Send my love!!
Well, this week was a really good week, it started out with a big surprise, they called us monday night to tell us that Hna. Pretel had cambios! We were like, what!? But what happened was that a sister who recently arrived decided to go home and not finish her mission. So Hna. Pretel had to go and be the companion of Hna. Saire in BELEN!!So I was realy excited because Belen is amazing. So now we{re just the 2 of us, Hna. Briñez and I. Can i just say, my companion rocks, She is great, i love her a lot and we are great friends and work well togtehrer.
The work is slow here sometimes. We are looking and looking for the chosen people.
We have found some good ones but the hard thing is taht we can{t force them to do anything. they have to decide.
Our ward is really small and our bishop just moved away, so we are going to be without a bishop for a while until they call another one. They said the last time that happened they were without a bishop it was 6 months.
We were able to have 2 investigators in church on sunday which was great, Martha and her 9 yr old daughter Ana Belen, and their son Dillon who is 4 and is super crazsy, but Ana Belen loved the church and martha liked it too, they aretraveling this week so hopefully we can find them when they get back.
Lizbeth we have totally given up on and Griselda is working double shifts so we haven{t had time to see her except once and she worked on sunday.
we found a girl named Nubi, weird name, but she is really intersted so hopefully we can help her gain a testimony of the gospel
in other news, we are churrasco one day,,, yummmm...... i learned how to make a dessert with passion fruit from my companion.. yum!!.... and we finally made the otehr cake that ee chien sent me, the carrot cake, super yum.
LOVE YOU ALL!!! !
see ya soon.!
sorry if this letter isnt very good butdont knwo what else to say
--
Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
April 2, 2012
Hello my family!!!
Surprises huh... transfers and having my hija. But I am happy, like I said.
Hna Calderon said they have to send me to the US first and that its against church policy to send me to the UAE. Something like that. I didnt understand exactly the reason why. but anyways, i forwarded your email to them. Hopefully they can figure it out and i{ll call again in this week. Do you think you can send me the information of the stake president? His name and phone number and where he lives. they need to talk to him. and if the phone rings, answer it! haha. i tol dhtem about the time difference, but i dont think they understood very well. sorry!
This week wasn{t that great because i was a little sick again. Boo!! LIke I lost all my energy and couldnt do anything but sleep. it wasn{t too fun. we went to the clinic for tests and to see my dr. from before. but i am back on my feet now, i stil have to go back to the dr. to get my blood tests back, but i am fine and ready to play volleyball today!!! yay..
GENERAL CONFERENCE!! was wonderful. I loved the talks by Elder Ballard and Elder christofferson. and all of them. i just kind of sat there in awe. I can{t wait to get the ensign and study them. We were able to bring one investigator to the sunday morning session. Her name is griselda, she is 50 and has 10 kids! but only 5 live with her. She is great, she wants to learn slowly and she liked the conference. Hopefuly we can help her progress.
we haven{t seen lizbeth.. she keeps escaping us...
we have an investigator named Jorge who is great too, but he seems a little timid now and he didn{t go to conference. Hopefully we can hlep him.
thanks for the money. i have a lot of souveneirs already. i have a map of santa cruz too to show you. i don{t think you actually found my areas, because la canada is on the east side of sta cruz. Belen is on the north side. anyways, just wait and i will show you.
yes, the pensionista is great, she made my favorite food sinc e it was hna ballena{s birthday the other day , PIQUE LO MACHO, i will make it for you guys when i get home its way good. Yes, the family has 3 kids, twins (a boy and a girl), and one other boy. Joset, Joselin, and Richard are their name.s
anyways, i am looking at last week{s letter.... you are so great... i{m glad you are having such great experiences and i wish i could have heard those talks!
what are you gonna do for spring break??
sorry this letter is kind of lame. not much to talk about this time. being sick is the worst. but i wont be sick anymore in my mission. i can{t, no no, have to work til the end.
I lov eyou all.
have a wonderful week!!!
--
Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
Surprises huh... transfers and having my hija. But I am happy, like I said.
Hna Calderon said they have to send me to the US first and that its against church policy to send me to the UAE. Something like that. I didnt understand exactly the reason why. but anyways, i forwarded your email to them. Hopefully they can figure it out and i{ll call again in this week. Do you think you can send me the information of the stake president? His name and phone number and where he lives. they need to talk to him. and if the phone rings, answer it! haha. i tol dhtem about the time difference, but i dont think they understood very well. sorry!
This week wasn{t that great because i was a little sick again. Boo!! LIke I lost all my energy and couldnt do anything but sleep. it wasn{t too fun. we went to the clinic for tests and to see my dr. from before. but i am back on my feet now, i stil have to go back to the dr. to get my blood tests back, but i am fine and ready to play volleyball today!!! yay..
GENERAL CONFERENCE!! was wonderful. I loved the talks by Elder Ballard and Elder christofferson. and all of them. i just kind of sat there in awe. I can{t wait to get the ensign and study them. We were able to bring one investigator to the sunday morning session. Her name is griselda, she is 50 and has 10 kids! but only 5 live with her. She is great, she wants to learn slowly and she liked the conference. Hopefuly we can help her progress.
we haven{t seen lizbeth.. she keeps escaping us...
we have an investigator named Jorge who is great too, but he seems a little timid now and he didn{t go to conference. Hopefully we can hlep him.
thanks for the money. i have a lot of souveneirs already. i have a map of santa cruz too to show you. i don{t think you actually found my areas, because la canada is on the east side of sta cruz. Belen is on the north side. anyways, just wait and i will show you.
yes, the pensionista is great, she made my favorite food sinc e it was hna ballena{s birthday the other day , PIQUE LO MACHO, i will make it for you guys when i get home its way good. Yes, the family has 3 kids, twins (a boy and a girl), and one other boy. Joset, Joselin, and Richard are their name.s
anyways, i am looking at last week{s letter.... you are so great... i{m glad you are having such great experiences and i wish i could have heard those talks!
what are you gonna do for spring break??
sorry this letter is kind of lame. not much to talk about this time. being sick is the worst. but i wont be sick anymore in my mission. i can{t, no no, have to work til the end.
I lov eyou all.
have a wonderful week!!!
--
Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
March 26, 2012
Hello family! I got TRANSFERRED!!! My new area is called Braniff. It´s a tiny area and it´s close to my 2nd area of Guaracal.
Also, I became a Mommy again!!! My hija is named Hna. Pretel she is from Trujillo Peru and she is great and I am still training Hna. Briñez, we are in a trio!!
Hna. Cornejo stayed in La Cañada, that was a surprise, and she is training an american. I WAS SO SAD TO LEAVE LA CAÑADA!! It was a huge surprise to be training again and to move areas. But I am happy!! This new area is nice so far and we are finding a lot of new poeple. We are opening the area, well, there were hermanas but both of them were transfered so we are basically starting from ZERO. But we have faith that we can have baptisms in this month of April.
SEVEN new sisters arrived in the transfers. So almost all of the sisters are training. So that´s why i get to train two. It´s pretty fun. We are getting along well so far. We live with 2 other sisters Hna. Ballena and Hna. Morris. Hna. BAllena is from Puno Peru and Hna MOrris from Cedar city utah i think? Hna Ballena is training Hna Morris. their area is called San pedro. We live right next to the church/stake center. So that´s pretty nice. We also live a block away from a mercado, so that´s nice. WE might go look around this afternoon and see what there is. Hipermaxi is close too to buy groceries. Our pensionista is the wife of the bishop of San Pedro. she is great and she is 8 months pregnant so that is exciting!!
OUr first day was super great! We found a few new investigators and one that the sisters left, her name is Lizbeth and she was supposed to be baptized but the day before her baptism the hermanas found out she was dating someone and so had to cancel (she is married to someone else but separated from him). She is really good but she didnt go to church yesterday we dont know why, we think her mother is putting bad thoughts in her head, so we will see with her. I have faith she can be baptized. The bishop and his wife drove us aroudn the area and showed us where the members live. so that was nice.
we found a less active girl who is 18 and she has a boyfriend, we taught him adn he is really interested in the church and we taught that he can know which church is true. He said he would pray and he wants to read the book of mormon. it´s an investigator with lots of challenges but the Lord can do it!!
The other day we went to a house of members and met this couple visiting from Ireland, well she is from Ireland and he is from here, we talked to them for a while in ENGLISH and it was so strange. They are both returned missionaries and they have a crazy story of how they met and everything. I had to translate for her in Relief Society that was interesting, luckily she had a cell phone with the conference talks on it and so we could look at that. She is going to cook for us this week. She said irish food or indian food. should be interesting.
Travel plans--- I don´t know. The only thing I know is that I will arrive May 4 or 5. The secretaries don´t like to tell us the travel plans for some reason. Hna. Randall said that her family knew her travel plans but she never knew them. Anyways, so does someone from the stake have to travel from Dubai or somewhere to release me? Also, i need to know if i can travel with my name tag on. Can you figure that out for me? I¨ll try my best to figure some things out but can´t make you any promises. Sorry. thats just how it is in this misssion. lots of mysteries sometimes.
have a great week. thanks for the pictures! liked them a lot. talk to you next week. Love you all. pray for us!
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Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
Misión Bolivia Santa Cruz
p.s. I´m so jealous you saw the hunger games movie!! i wanna see it!!!
Also, I became a Mommy again!!! My hija is named Hna. Pretel she is from Trujillo Peru and she is great and I am still training Hna. Briñez, we are in a trio!!
Hna. Cornejo stayed in La Cañada, that was a surprise, and she is training an american. I WAS SO SAD TO LEAVE LA CAÑADA!! It was a huge surprise to be training again and to move areas. But I am happy!! This new area is nice so far and we are finding a lot of new poeple. We are opening the area, well, there were hermanas but both of them were transfered so we are basically starting from ZERO. But we have faith that we can have baptisms in this month of April.
SEVEN new sisters arrived in the transfers. So almost all of the sisters are training. So that´s why i get to train two. It´s pretty fun. We are getting along well so far. We live with 2 other sisters Hna. Ballena and Hna. Morris. Hna. BAllena is from Puno Peru and Hna MOrris from Cedar city utah i think? Hna Ballena is training Hna Morris. their area is called San pedro. We live right next to the church/stake center. So that´s pretty nice. We also live a block away from a mercado, so that´s nice. WE might go look around this afternoon and see what there is. Hipermaxi is close too to buy groceries. Our pensionista is the wife of the bishop of San Pedro. she is great and she is 8 months pregnant so that is exciting!!
OUr first day was super great! We found a few new investigators and one that the sisters left, her name is Lizbeth and she was supposed to be baptized but the day before her baptism the hermanas found out she was dating someone and so had to cancel (she is married to someone else but separated from him). She is really good but she didnt go to church yesterday we dont know why, we think her mother is putting bad thoughts in her head, so we will see with her. I have faith she can be baptized. The bishop and his wife drove us aroudn the area and showed us where the members live. so that was nice.
we found a less active girl who is 18 and she has a boyfriend, we taught him adn he is really interested in the church and we taught that he can know which church is true. He said he would pray and he wants to read the book of mormon. it´s an investigator with lots of challenges but the Lord can do it!!
The other day we went to a house of members and met this couple visiting from Ireland, well she is from Ireland and he is from here, we talked to them for a while in ENGLISH and it was so strange. They are both returned missionaries and they have a crazy story of how they met and everything. I had to translate for her in Relief Society that was interesting, luckily she had a cell phone with the conference talks on it and so we could look at that. She is going to cook for us this week. She said irish food or indian food. should be interesting.
Travel plans--- I don´t know. The only thing I know is that I will arrive May 4 or 5. The secretaries don´t like to tell us the travel plans for some reason. Hna. Randall said that her family knew her travel plans but she never knew them. Anyways, so does someone from the stake have to travel from Dubai or somewhere to release me? Also, i need to know if i can travel with my name tag on. Can you figure that out for me? I¨ll try my best to figure some things out but can´t make you any promises. Sorry. thats just how it is in this misssion. lots of mysteries sometimes.
have a great week. thanks for the pictures! liked them a lot. talk to you next week. Love you all. pray for us!
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Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
Misión Bolivia Santa Cruz
p.s. I´m so jealous you saw the hunger games movie!! i wanna see it!!!
March 19, 2012
Hello family.
well i{m trying to do a bunch of things on the computer right now so this may be short. i wanted to respond to last weeks letter that you sent but i forgot it and dont have time.
this week we had the baptis of mercedes and victoria!! we decided that we should just do it, we had to go almost every night to teach them and prepare them but at the end they were ready a nd it was a nice baptism alhtough difficult to pull off because of course we couldnt find anyone to help us be witnesses or baptize, we finally got them but then realized that the font had been emptied out halfway right when we were ready to do the ordinance. So we had to turn the water back on and also fill with buckets. luckily the people that came and victoria and mercedes were understanding and waited. Also we had an 18 year old baptize, spencer, and it was his 2nd baptism (1st was Daniela) and he had to baptized Mercedes 3 times because once her hair came out and once her dress came out. Then he had to baptize Victoria 4 times because her foot came out every time, and she{s a little bit bigger. So spencer is a stud and he has lots of pracitce now for his mission (december he will do his papers).
Tanner!! happy bithday!!! i can{t believeyou are 18!! Proud of you too!
As far as summer goes--- sounds ok everything you are saying. I dont know what to do about housing so you can just wait, i{ll decide later. I should be home around May 4 or 5 and i will arrive to abu dhabi. going to the states in mid june sounds good also Sounds good about the classes too, in fall. Summer i dont think so. I dont know what else. but i do want to work and earn some money..
thanks for the photos!!! sounds fun the cub scout thing, but lots of work, way to go dad.} and thanks for your letters. theyalways make me feel good.
this week was interesting, lots of worrying about getting mercedes and victoria ready, and we have a few new families and poeple that we are teaching. We have one family that is great, familia Manjares (Victoria and manfred) Victoria is an amazing person but she is not married and they have problems in their relationship, hopefully she can get married, she feels good in the church and we think she will make the decision.
We also found this guy named Gustavo, he lives with some people that we have visited like twice, he is a rocker with a ponytail but has a burning interest in the BOM, we told him to come to chruch and we would give it ot him, and he came! So we were able tot each him about it and he is looking for the truth, the members helped us A LOT in the lesson, and he wants to read it in a week. So we will see what happens. The Lord works in such mysterious wayssometimes.
We are preparing for april. This week are transfers. I think i will stay here with hna brinez and that hna cornejo willl go to another area. But you never know.
thanks for all your prayers. love you all. take care.
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Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
well i{m trying to do a bunch of things on the computer right now so this may be short. i wanted to respond to last weeks letter that you sent but i forgot it and dont have time.
this week we had the baptis of mercedes and victoria!! we decided that we should just do it, we had to go almost every night to teach them and prepare them but at the end they were ready a nd it was a nice baptism alhtough difficult to pull off because of course we couldnt find anyone to help us be witnesses or baptize, we finally got them but then realized that the font had been emptied out halfway right when we were ready to do the ordinance. So we had to turn the water back on and also fill with buckets. luckily the people that came and victoria and mercedes were understanding and waited. Also we had an 18 year old baptize, spencer, and it was his 2nd baptism (1st was Daniela) and he had to baptized Mercedes 3 times because once her hair came out and once her dress came out. Then he had to baptize Victoria 4 times because her foot came out every time, and she{s a little bit bigger. So spencer is a stud and he has lots of pracitce now for his mission (december he will do his papers).
Tanner!! happy bithday!!! i can{t believeyou are 18!! Proud of you too!
As far as summer goes--- sounds ok everything you are saying. I dont know what to do about housing so you can just wait, i{ll decide later. I should be home around May 4 or 5 and i will arrive to abu dhabi. going to the states in mid june sounds good also Sounds good about the classes too, in fall. Summer i dont think so. I dont know what else. but i do want to work and earn some money..
thanks for the photos!!! sounds fun the cub scout thing, but lots of work, way to go dad.} and thanks for your letters. theyalways make me feel good.
this week was interesting, lots of worrying about getting mercedes and victoria ready, and we have a few new families and poeple that we are teaching. We have one family that is great, familia Manjares (Victoria and manfred) Victoria is an amazing person but she is not married and they have problems in their relationship, hopefully she can get married, she feels good in the church and we think she will make the decision.
We also found this guy named Gustavo, he lives with some people that we have visited like twice, he is a rocker with a ponytail but has a burning interest in the BOM, we told him to come to chruch and we would give it ot him, and he came! So we were able tot each him about it and he is looking for the truth, the members helped us A LOT in the lesson, and he wants to read it in a week. So we will see what happens. The Lord works in such mysterious wayssometimes.
We are preparing for april. This week are transfers. I think i will stay here with hna brinez and that hna cornejo willl go to another area. But you never know.
thanks for all your prayers. love you all. take care.
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Love,
Hermana Tibbitts
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