Hello!

 

Before I say anything else, CAMBIOS HAPPENED!!! On Thursday. So now I am in a new area with a new companion. I am with Hermana Larsen in the area Guaracal, Zona Cañoto. I am senior companion and my companion is from Fillmore, UT. How crazy is that? But Hna. Larsen is awesome. She is such a sweetheart. She went to Weber State before the mission studying art and she moved around a bit before living in Utah. I'm sending a picture of her. She arrived in December so we are both new sisters. She didn't know any spanish before the mission. So things have changed a bit for me!! But it is a good change I think, we are both going to learn so much and really understand spanish and how things work in the mission so I'm excited!!

 

Also sending some pictures from the activity today. All the sisters in Zona Cañoto and Zona Paraiso went. And the Americanas haha. We played volleyball and the elders played soccer in the parque urbano.

 

If you want to look at a map of Santa Cruz, I am in the south part between the 3rd and 4th Anillos. Barrio Guaracal and La Morita, we share the ward with 2 other sisters, Hna. Harman and Hna. Patzi. Before I was in the east part by the 4th Anillo and av. 3 pasos al frente.

 

Carnaval was soo boring! 3 days in the house without leaving. It was boring but I read a lot of the Bom and we did get some water balloons thrown at us when we were with the other hermanas who live on the second floor, haha, from the kids next door.

 

Since we just got here 2 days ago we don't really know any of the investigators yet, so we've been doing a LOT of tracting. Every day we come home exhausted, but really Hna. Larsen and I have high hopes for this area. We feel good and we really want to do a lot of good. There is one Hermana, Florencia, who is an investigator, she lives with a member and her 2 daughters were baptized a year ago. She wants to get baptized and she has a STRONG testimony the only thing that has to happen is that she has to divorce her 1st husband and get married to the man she is living with. So hopefully we can do that soon. We are also teaching 2 people that live in the relief society president's house. (Her daughter is primary pres too- awesome family!! ) One is a new investigator and the other had a baptismal date but then went out of town. They didn't come to church yesterday but we have high hopes for both of them, they have good questions and really want to learn.

 

Soooo...the mission is hard. But i am happy. It's full of surprises every day. But I have had the lord trust in me a lot and that makes me happy. I have grown in so many ways and I've been blessed with the language and being able to relate to the the people. I can't believe I'm almost at 4 months! Where has the time gone??

 

The weather is still crazy here. Rain, sun, rain, sun, rain, sun.

 

I love you family! Hope you are doing good. 

 

love,

Hermana Tibbitts