hello, i am using a pretty slow computer this week, so this may be short, and i can´t get it to send pictures and i took a bunch this week! sorry... next week!!
Mom and DAD... HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! thanks for getting married!! haha.. have a great trip!!! take lots of pictures and send postcards here haha. that´´s a lot of countries you are going to see. and tell the paul´s that I love them and hope they are doing so good, i would love to get a letter from them too haha but i know they have missionary kids too
HOpe you all feel better soon and can get on track with the time!!
HOpe you can get the house back in order too..
Hna. Portillo is better now with her back. the solution was WORK!! :)
Hna. Patzi was with us for a week, well, i don´t really know why, but Hna. Portillo went to her area and to another area too to teach them and help them improve the work. It was a fun 5 days. Hna Patzi si great, she is my friend,she lived in my house in guaracal for one change, and it was fun week this week, we had a lot of adventures.
for example, once we got locked out of the house, and another day, the wires for the electricity burned- blew up and we didn´t have electricity for a day. fun times, good memories (now looking back haha, pretty terrible when it happened)
The OPEN HOUSE is on september 10. We have to prepare something really good, still thinking. it´s not a worldwide thing but it is something we are doing in all of the mission santa cruz.
Cinthia and Mauricio are doing ok, they didn´t come to church and we don´t know why, they wouldnt answer their phone, but we met cinthia´s 16 year old son Andres, and he is really good, we didn´t think he lived there but i guess he does now, so we are hoping that he can get baptized too with his mom and uncle.
patricia doesn´t want to get baptized anymore and she won´t tell us why, i dont even think she knows why, but we haven´t really seen her, every time we have been by this week the grandma comes to the gate and the grandma is like 90 years old and hates us, she tells us no one is home.
sadly i must tell you that the Orgaz family is having some problems, Irma says she can´t take it anymore and she wants to separate, it´s really sad i hope they can talk and realize that they are not perfect but that they can solve these problems that they have., with the Gospel!!
But... we visitied a less active family that we just barely heard about, the Estrada family, they are super great, the parents are FAbiola and Helder, and they have 2 sons Yihad who is 3 and Helder Junior who is 10, we are going to try to help them have friends in the church so that they want to go, and they said that they want to help serve the lord, i thimk the hardest thing for them is the distance to the church and getting up in the morning and getting ready, such i sthe problem for everyone, and when it´s cold almost no one is at church, or they come really late.
CAMBIOS are this week. Hna. Portillo is going to be transfered so she is pretty sad. Most likely i will stay here with hna. hernandez and just be a duo... should be good! love this ward and my companions, they are super great, and i have learned to love them a lot.
DAD -- i got a letter from your friend Malia Pruitt this week. she served in bolivia in la paz, cochabamba, santa cruz, and potosi, now she teaches primary, her 4 and 5 year olds wrote to me too and sent me cute pictures.
i lOVE YOU ALL.. have a great week! Love hermana Tibbitts
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
August 15th
HELLO!!! another great week in paradise, hermana portillo was still with her hurting back for a few days but we were able to still work and have good results, some of the days she was able to stay at the houses of members or we had members come to our house to stay with her so hna. hernandez and i could go out and work. we are working hard and seeing results and i love that.
yes... everythign in the package was fin eincluding the letters taped on the back. good idea writing JESUS TE AMA. haha.
HNA PATZI is my companion temporarily we are in an interchange for 5 days, hna portillo went to be in another ward and in another zone with hna patzi´s companion because i guess they are having a lot of problems in their area and with their investigators, i dont know but she will be here til friday so that should be interesting, to have hna patzi here with hna hernandez and i.
cinthia and mauricio are our investigators that we have been visiting for at least a month, but just recently they accepted a baptism date!! but we will see. they are both very christian and they have their "communities" but they are seeing a lot of truth in the church and they loved what they saw on sunday, mauricio stayed for 2 hours and cinthia 3 and loooved it. so we are praying super hard for them. cinthia was in an accident a year or so ago and can´t walk, she has a cane, and is always on lots of mediations but she wants to walk so bad and we´re afraid she might say that she neds to be healed before being baptized. so we will see . satan cant win this time!!
gabriela, jorge, patricia... JOrge was supposed to recieve the priesthood this week, but he left after the 1st hour because he hurt his knee playing soccer. his sisters gabriela and patricia came!! so we were happy. patricia is 17 and we have taught her a lot, but she says she wants to wait to get baptized. a little persuasion and hopefully she can be baptized the 27th. gabriela hadn´t expressed interest in the past, but that changed b-c she came to jorge´s baptism. she is the mom of the 2 little kids in the baptism pictures. she is 26 and single. patricia is the one that looks like jorge´s girlfriend in the pictures, but she´s a sister. haha.
Familia orgaz. we ate with them this week and they ordered all that food, because they are moving out of their house b-c they cant afford the rent, thankfully they are just moving across the street. but they gave us gifts this week. they gave each of us a book of mormon in english. inside they wrote us notes and for me and hna hernandez they wrote in english!! and it was so nice and tender what they wrote, all of us cried including carlos. it was a special moment and i will treasure this copy of the book of mormon forever! I love this family!! even though i wasnt in the area when carlos was bapttized, end of june, they are still so special to me and we have seen so much progress in this family.
Open house... TO THE RESCUE! we are having open houses in all of the mission, to get references. our chapel is going to be the center of all the other chapels in all of santa cruz. presidente calderon is going to come as well as an area 70, and they have invinted the mayor, governonr, lots of importnat people. should be exc iting!! we have to make a stand about missionary work and they are going to present all the organizations and family history, employment, etc. exciting!!!
people becoming inactive.... in the ward! don´t stop going to church!! it will just cause you more problems. i promise you this, there are so many things happening with teh people who are just recently not going to church too much here in paraiso.
umm question for you all, who is running for president in the u.s.?? sometimes people talk about it but i have no idea. is there a woman running?? or members of the church?
sounds like a fun redfish trip!! hiking... miss it! but i hike everyday haha, just though places not as pretty haha.
sorry there are a lot of misspelled words. this keyboard is awful and i dont have time to correct.
sorry i am writing late we had the intercambio and we had to go pretty far to drop off hna . portillo and get hna. patzi. then the elders played soccer 2 hrs.....ugh...love you all. keep being good and doing all the things that you learn in church. love hna Tibbitts
oh i have a little more time. we are tring to have a baptism this saturday. Of karina. she was the lady that was supposed to get baptized my 1st week here in paraiso. but she got sick and didnt come. and then a few people in her family died so that made her really busy. we are going tonight to see what she really wants, and tell her that she cant wait anymore!! they gospel is what she needs now to be happy and to deal witht hese problems. there is so much more happiness that she can have living the gospel. hopefully she will understand and do it.. be baptized!!!
clara didnt come to church, she is afraid to tell her boyfriend about the law of chastity, and now she´s working on the weekends, well everyday, so we need her to decide what she really wants, praying a lot for her, her kids came yesterday to church with the member friends that live next to them.
this week is going to be great and we´re not gonna let satan get past anyone!!
yes... everythign in the package was fin eincluding the letters taped on the back. good idea writing JESUS TE AMA. haha.
HNA PATZI is my companion temporarily we are in an interchange for 5 days, hna portillo went to be in another ward and in another zone with hna patzi´s companion because i guess they are having a lot of problems in their area and with their investigators, i dont know but she will be here til friday so that should be interesting, to have hna patzi here with hna hernandez and i.
cinthia and mauricio are our investigators that we have been visiting for at least a month, but just recently they accepted a baptism date!! but we will see. they are both very christian and they have their "communities" but they are seeing a lot of truth in the church and they loved what they saw on sunday, mauricio stayed for 2 hours and cinthia 3 and loooved it. so we are praying super hard for them. cinthia was in an accident a year or so ago and can´t walk, she has a cane, and is always on lots of mediations but she wants to walk so bad and we´re afraid she might say that she neds to be healed before being baptized. so we will see . satan cant win this time!!
gabriela, jorge, patricia... JOrge was supposed to recieve the priesthood this week, but he left after the 1st hour because he hurt his knee playing soccer. his sisters gabriela and patricia came!! so we were happy. patricia is 17 and we have taught her a lot, but she says she wants to wait to get baptized. a little persuasion and hopefully she can be baptized the 27th. gabriela hadn´t expressed interest in the past, but that changed b-c she came to jorge´s baptism. she is the mom of the 2 little kids in the baptism pictures. she is 26 and single. patricia is the one that looks like jorge´s girlfriend in the pictures, but she´s a sister. haha.
Familia orgaz. we ate with them this week and they ordered all that food, because they are moving out of their house b-c they cant afford the rent, thankfully they are just moving across the street. but they gave us gifts this week. they gave each of us a book of mormon in english. inside they wrote us notes and for me and hna hernandez they wrote in english!! and it was so nice and tender what they wrote, all of us cried including carlos. it was a special moment and i will treasure this copy of the book of mormon forever! I love this family!! even though i wasnt in the area when carlos was bapttized, end of june, they are still so special to me and we have seen so much progress in this family.
Open house... TO THE RESCUE! we are having open houses in all of the mission, to get references. our chapel is going to be the center of all the other chapels in all of santa cruz. presidente calderon is going to come as well as an area 70, and they have invinted the mayor, governonr, lots of importnat people. should be exc iting!! we have to make a stand about missionary work and they are going to present all the organizations and family history, employment, etc. exciting!!!
people becoming inactive.... in the ward! don´t stop going to church!! it will just cause you more problems. i promise you this, there are so many things happening with teh people who are just recently not going to church too much here in paraiso.
umm question for you all, who is running for president in the u.s.?? sometimes people talk about it but i have no idea. is there a woman running?? or members of the church?
sounds like a fun redfish trip!! hiking... miss it! but i hike everyday haha, just though places not as pretty haha.
sorry there are a lot of misspelled words. this keyboard is awful and i dont have time to correct.
sorry i am writing late we had the intercambio and we had to go pretty far to drop off hna . portillo and get hna. patzi. then the elders played soccer 2 hrs.....ugh...love you all. keep being good and doing all the things that you learn in church. love hna Tibbitts
oh i have a little more time. we are tring to have a baptism this saturday. Of karina. she was the lady that was supposed to get baptized my 1st week here in paraiso. but she got sick and didnt come. and then a few people in her family died so that made her really busy. we are going tonight to see what she really wants, and tell her that she cant wait anymore!! they gospel is what she needs now to be happy and to deal witht hese problems. there is so much more happiness that she can have living the gospel. hopefully she will understand and do it.. be baptized!!!
clara didnt come to church, she is afraid to tell her boyfriend about the law of chastity, and now she´s working on the weekends, well everyday, so we need her to decide what she really wants, praying a lot for her, her kids came yesterday to church with the member friends that live next to them.
this week is going to be great and we´re not gonna let satan get past anyone!!
August 8th
Hello!!
trying something new... putting key words of all the things i want to write about and then will write the paragraph. we´lll see.
I got the package!!! thank you!! I opened it at Irma and carlos´house. Irma liked everythig haha and made me take the picture that i sent. i shared with my companions dont worry. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
baptism- was so great! friday we went to the chapel to turn on the water to fill the font, and there was water in it from 3 weeks ago!!! it was nasty!!! so we went to turn the thing htat lets the water out, but it drains super slow, like in 12 hours, and we couldn´t wait that long, so we got a plunger and tried to use that so it would go out, we locked the doors of the chapel and hna. portillo hiked up her skirt nad got into the water to do it hahah... didn´t work. but then our friend LUCHO arrived with Nelly our pensionista and they helped us take the water out with buckets, it took 2 1/2 hours, not fun!! but we did it, filled the font overnight, and the baptism went well, we had it in the morning and family members of both jorge and wilson came that are not members, so that was great, they were both really happy and wilson´s mom brought a bunch of food to eat after, it was a great day, they were both confirmed on sunday and jorge was interviewed by the bishop to recieve the priesthood next sunday, he is excited, the bishop is gonna put him to work blessing the sacrament each week.
Before the baptisms we had a few problems, we went one day to Jorge and he didn´t want to be baptized, he was afraid of the consequences of messing up after, but we were able to explain to him that he will have the spirit with him so he will be able to confront his problems and help his famly. Also wilson´s dad almst didnt let him get baptized the day before, he said he needed to get baptized in the catholic church-- don´t know why bc his dad is a member but inactive--- but he changed his mind. woooo... we weren´t gonna let satan win with jorge and wilson.
Pizza-- we made pizza with carlos and irma on wednesday. it was sooo fun. Hna. Hernandez recieved a bottle of ranch dressing so we made some with that and also carlos had bbq sauce, he is obsessed with it haha so we used that too, it was sooooo yummy. also the other night we ordered SAHARA pizza, american style, we were starving one night so we ordered it, yummy...
service in los angeles.... the los angeles ward that is .... it was fun! their church was super dirty. it is something that we are doing in every zone in the mission, clean the dirtiest chapel. service starts in our own house, is what president says.
intercambios.. i did an intercambio with hna. Zelfi this week, she is a crazy lady in the ward, a super good issionary, the apointments we had weren´t home so she just started introducing me to neighbors, she knows everyone around where she lives, it was pretty fun.
shoes.. i bought shoes on monday, so cute, a little small but i thought they would stretch, i wore them tuesday with new tights that i bought (with fleece inside-- super warm!) and since they were new they stained the inside of the shoes, and my feet were hurting sooo bad all day, we tried to clean them but the stain wouldn´t come out and we tried to take them back but they wouldn´t accept them stained, boooooo so that was pretty disappointed but everything happens for a reason right??? so... they wre 159 BS which is a lot, i wanted to get good shoes, i guess i will keep looking?? maybe i can sell them to someone in the mission... for now i have the 2 pairs of brown shoes and i bought some skirts that all have brown in the fabric so i´m probably fine with just the brown ones for now.
sick companions. we wre in the house 3 days this week... hna portillo had a super bad hurting back and hna hernandez had a bad stomach. I¨m fine!!! but pretty boring being in the house... always better to work and be tired than to sit and be bored.
Clara and her 3 kids... aren´t really progressing right now. we went there the other day and clara had just barely burned herself with oil. Hna. Portillo helped her treat it and hna. hernandez and i finished cooking. so we didn´t get to teach what we wanted to and they went out of town for the weekend so this week we are going to work a lot with them.
Happy 6 de Agosto. Dia de Bolivia! there were lots of parades and fiestas. bought a little flag pin! a good day for a baptism. sunny and warm.
Love you all!!! Hna. Tibbitts
p.s. RAMADAN KAREEM...
trying something new... putting key words of all the things i want to write about and then will write the paragraph. we´lll see.
I got the package!!! thank you!! I opened it at Irma and carlos´house. Irma liked everythig haha and made me take the picture that i sent. i shared with my companions dont worry. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
baptism- was so great! friday we went to the chapel to turn on the water to fill the font, and there was water in it from 3 weeks ago!!! it was nasty!!! so we went to turn the thing htat lets the water out, but it drains super slow, like in 12 hours, and we couldn´t wait that long, so we got a plunger and tried to use that so it would go out, we locked the doors of the chapel and hna. portillo hiked up her skirt nad got into the water to do it hahah... didn´t work. but then our friend LUCHO arrived with Nelly our pensionista and they helped us take the water out with buckets, it took 2 1/2 hours, not fun!! but we did it, filled the font overnight, and the baptism went well, we had it in the morning and family members of both jorge and wilson came that are not members, so that was great, they were both really happy and wilson´s mom brought a bunch of food to eat after, it was a great day, they were both confirmed on sunday and jorge was interviewed by the bishop to recieve the priesthood next sunday, he is excited, the bishop is gonna put him to work blessing the sacrament each week.
Before the baptisms we had a few problems, we went one day to Jorge and he didn´t want to be baptized, he was afraid of the consequences of messing up after, but we were able to explain to him that he will have the spirit with him so he will be able to confront his problems and help his famly. Also wilson´s dad almst didnt let him get baptized the day before, he said he needed to get baptized in the catholic church-- don´t know why bc his dad is a member but inactive--- but he changed his mind. woooo... we weren´t gonna let satan win with jorge and wilson.
Pizza-- we made pizza with carlos and irma on wednesday. it was sooo fun. Hna. Hernandez recieved a bottle of ranch dressing so we made some with that and also carlos had bbq sauce, he is obsessed with it haha so we used that too, it was sooooo yummy. also the other night we ordered SAHARA pizza, american style, we were starving one night so we ordered it, yummy...
service in los angeles.... the los angeles ward that is .... it was fun! their church was super dirty. it is something that we are doing in every zone in the mission, clean the dirtiest chapel. service starts in our own house, is what president says.
intercambios.. i did an intercambio with hna. Zelfi this week, she is a crazy lady in the ward, a super good issionary, the apointments we had weren´t home so she just started introducing me to neighbors, she knows everyone around where she lives, it was pretty fun.
shoes.. i bought shoes on monday, so cute, a little small but i thought they would stretch, i wore them tuesday with new tights that i bought (with fleece inside-- super warm!) and since they were new they stained the inside of the shoes, and my feet were hurting sooo bad all day, we tried to clean them but the stain wouldn´t come out and we tried to take them back but they wouldn´t accept them stained, boooooo so that was pretty disappointed but everything happens for a reason right??? so... they wre 159 BS which is a lot, i wanted to get good shoes, i guess i will keep looking?? maybe i can sell them to someone in the mission... for now i have the 2 pairs of brown shoes and i bought some skirts that all have brown in the fabric so i´m probably fine with just the brown ones for now.
sick companions. we wre in the house 3 days this week... hna portillo had a super bad hurting back and hna hernandez had a bad stomach. I¨m fine!!! but pretty boring being in the house... always better to work and be tired than to sit and be bored.
Clara and her 3 kids... aren´t really progressing right now. we went there the other day and clara had just barely burned herself with oil. Hna. Portillo helped her treat it and hna. hernandez and i finished cooking. so we didn´t get to teach what we wanted to and they went out of town for the weekend so this week we are going to work a lot with them.
Happy 6 de Agosto. Dia de Bolivia! there were lots of parades and fiestas. bought a little flag pin! a good day for a baptism. sunny and warm.
Love you all!!! Hna. Tibbitts
p.s. RAMADAN KAREEM...
August 1st
helllo... BRRRR... it got cold again. earlier this week it was super hot and now my hands are cold writing you, i forgot my gloves at home. oh well.... another great week!!!
we didn´t get to have any baptisms this past week but saturday we have 2!!!! Jorge is going to be baptized as well as wilson, he´s a kid we found this week, his mom and him always come to church but he hasn´t been baptized and is 10, his parents were reluctant b-c he has 2 inactive siblings and his dad is inactive too, so we are going to work with them, but wilson is a good nino and wants to follow jesus, so we are excited.
we have a great family we are teaching too, clara and her 3 kids santiago, joske, and abigail, 11, 9, and 8 yrs old. they really want to learn and it´s just clara that is having some trouble reading and praying and not being confused by what the world says.
Jorge is progressng great and told us that he is traveling in october, and he won´t be able to go to church then haha, he understands the importance and wants to follow!!
i sent some pictures of th familia orgaz. thye are so great. Andres is 1 1/2 and now knws how to say Hermana and always wants to shake our hand and his parents say he is in love with us and always talking about us. They want to go to the temple in utah in a year and i told him they could stay with us.... ok!!??
i sent pictures of the 2 elders we eat lunch with eveyday, one is elder reyes who was in my group in the mtc and the other is elder guaman from cochabamba. sunday we had to fry the french fries and bananas b-c our pensionista ha dto go to a family lunch, it was fun! also a member always eats with us, Luis aka Lucho, he is hilarious and we convinced him to go out teaching with us last night because we were short on lessons with members, and he did, it was hilarious, he served in chile and said that they would preach with microphons in the markets and crazy evangelist type stuff like that, we needed to do contacts too and he was so excted, he stopped an old man and after introducing us asked him straght out- have you ever thought about the meaning of life?? it was reallly bold and funny....
brr.... need to go home and get another jacket!!! cold!
i´m gonna buy new shoes today!!! alll my black ones are worn out i only have brown ones now hahahah...
love you all... have a great week!! tell gma and grandpa and alll the family that i love them.
we didn´t get to have any baptisms this past week but saturday we have 2!!!! Jorge is going to be baptized as well as wilson, he´s a kid we found this week, his mom and him always come to church but he hasn´t been baptized and is 10, his parents were reluctant b-c he has 2 inactive siblings and his dad is inactive too, so we are going to work with them, but wilson is a good nino and wants to follow jesus, so we are excited.
we have a great family we are teaching too, clara and her 3 kids santiago, joske, and abigail, 11, 9, and 8 yrs old. they really want to learn and it´s just clara that is having some trouble reading and praying and not being confused by what the world says.
Jorge is progressng great and told us that he is traveling in october, and he won´t be able to go to church then haha, he understands the importance and wants to follow!!
i sent some pictures of th familia orgaz. thye are so great. Andres is 1 1/2 and now knws how to say Hermana and always wants to shake our hand and his parents say he is in love with us and always talking about us. They want to go to the temple in utah in a year and i told him they could stay with us.... ok!!??
i sent pictures of the 2 elders we eat lunch with eveyday, one is elder reyes who was in my group in the mtc and the other is elder guaman from cochabamba. sunday we had to fry the french fries and bananas b-c our pensionista ha dto go to a family lunch, it was fun! also a member always eats with us, Luis aka Lucho, he is hilarious and we convinced him to go out teaching with us last night because we were short on lessons with members, and he did, it was hilarious, he served in chile and said that they would preach with microphons in the markets and crazy evangelist type stuff like that, we needed to do contacts too and he was so excted, he stopped an old man and after introducing us asked him straght out- have you ever thought about the meaning of life?? it was reallly bold and funny....
brr.... need to go home and get another jacket!!! cold!
i´m gonna buy new shoes today!!! alll my black ones are worn out i only have brown ones now hahahah...
love you all... have a great week!! tell gma and grandpa and alll the family that i love them.
July 25
Dear Family, how are you doing, glad to hear that you are all doing so well, we had an incredible week!!!!!!
I love the work that i am doing with my 2 companions, we have a lot of fun and work hard and are finding a lot of good people. We have a TRIO PERFECTO we say. =) We were able to meet almost all of our goals this week. We are doing everything possible to have a baptism this coming weekend but Karina (who was going to get baptized last weekend) is going thru a lot of family problems, we have 2 other people that could get baptized so we have spent a lot of time on our knees asking Heavenly Father to help us have them be baptized. We were able to do so much this week, apart from the regular missionary stuff we do, we were able to see part of the stake dance festival of the young men and women and we did an activity, a game night that went super well, the members came and helped and it was a success. I am trying to send photos but its not really working.
THANK YOU for sending me that package cant wait to get it, hope it didn`t cost an arm and a leg to send.
We gave talks in sacrament meeting too and JORGE was the only investigator that we were able to get to church, but i don´t even care because he is golden and has a desire to be baptized, oh and he brought his little 3 yr old nephew with him Narcisso, he is sooo cute, and knows how to fold his arms to pray and was good until the 3rd hour he got a little crabby but we got an hermana member to help us with him so jorge could go to priesthood. Patricia didn´t come, i dont know how interested she is anymore, we shall see. we have spent a lot of time with the familia Orgaz as well, Carlos and Irma, carlos is a recent convert, they are working now to go to the temple and they had a party this weekend, they gave us the wristbands they gave to all the people that came haha.
So this week i discovered that in our area there is a park that has an old airplane parked in the middile of it, they call it the pirate airplane because it was pirated and people used it for drug trafficing. hmm.. Starting to learn my way around the area, and the market Los Pozos is the hardest, it is so full of people and craziness, but we have some investigators and members that live there that we visit. Also we see there tons of mennonites, it´s really weird, but they don`t speak spanish or live in the city so we can´t talk to them.
I wish i could tell you about all the incredible members and people that we teach. for example the members nelly the pensionista, hna. Zelfy, hna. Ma, hna. Sharifa, investigators Elena, Mauricio, jorge, karina, marcia, jose alfonso, there are so many but i dont have time, i will tell you when i get home about all the wonderful people and experiences that i am having here. oh also Maria fernanda and the other maria, members haha.
I feel very blessed and happy to be in the mission after a week like this. why can't I have 2 years!!!
Miss you all and love you all. I feel very blessed to be here even though its hard but i am going to treasure every moment here int he mission, in paradise, love you Hermana Tibbitts
I love the work that i am doing with my 2 companions, we have a lot of fun and work hard and are finding a lot of good people. We have a TRIO PERFECTO we say. =) We were able to meet almost all of our goals this week. We are doing everything possible to have a baptism this coming weekend but Karina (who was going to get baptized last weekend) is going thru a lot of family problems, we have 2 other people that could get baptized so we have spent a lot of time on our knees asking Heavenly Father to help us have them be baptized. We were able to do so much this week, apart from the regular missionary stuff we do, we were able to see part of the stake dance festival of the young men and women and we did an activity, a game night that went super well, the members came and helped and it was a success. I am trying to send photos but its not really working.
THANK YOU for sending me that package cant wait to get it, hope it didn`t cost an arm and a leg to send.
We gave talks in sacrament meeting too and JORGE was the only investigator that we were able to get to church, but i don´t even care because he is golden and has a desire to be baptized, oh and he brought his little 3 yr old nephew with him Narcisso, he is sooo cute, and knows how to fold his arms to pray and was good until the 3rd hour he got a little crabby but we got an hermana member to help us with him so jorge could go to priesthood. Patricia didn´t come, i dont know how interested she is anymore, we shall see. we have spent a lot of time with the familia Orgaz as well, Carlos and Irma, carlos is a recent convert, they are working now to go to the temple and they had a party this weekend, they gave us the wristbands they gave to all the people that came haha.
So this week i discovered that in our area there is a park that has an old airplane parked in the middile of it, they call it the pirate airplane because it was pirated and people used it for drug trafficing. hmm.. Starting to learn my way around the area, and the market Los Pozos is the hardest, it is so full of people and craziness, but we have some investigators and members that live there that we visit. Also we see there tons of mennonites, it´s really weird, but they don`t speak spanish or live in the city so we can´t talk to them.
I wish i could tell you about all the incredible members and people that we teach. for example the members nelly the pensionista, hna. Zelfy, hna. Ma, hna. Sharifa, investigators Elena, Mauricio, jorge, karina, marcia, jose alfonso, there are so many but i dont have time, i will tell you when i get home about all the wonderful people and experiences that i am having here. oh also Maria fernanda and the other maria, members haha.
I feel very blessed and happy to be in the mission after a week like this. why can't I have 2 years!!!
Miss you all and love you all. I feel very blessed to be here even though its hard but i am going to treasure every moment here int he mission, in paradise, love you Hermana Tibbitts
July 18
Hello! Yes, I had cambios, now my area is PARAISO (English-- Paradise) and I am in a TRIO now with hna. Portillo and Hna. Hernandez. Hna. Portillo is from Sucre Bolivia and has 15 months in the mission and Hna. Hernandez is from Burley, ID (Her dad is mexican) she has about the same time as me in the misison.
Our area is pretty small but larger than I am used to! haha, now that i am finally in an area where there are not 2 companionships. We have part of EL CENTRO, the plaza principal is by the border of one of my areas, and our area extends to the 2nd ring of the city, sort of on the north east side of Santa cruz. I really like our area so far. Hna. Portillo has been in the ward for a while so she knows all of the members so we have met some of them, they are all really supportive and help us. We live close to the city cemetery, we walk down the side street sometimes and there are a bunch of flower shops selling flowers you can put on the graves. The graves are all above ground. There is also a market in our area, lots of parks, restaurants, and lots of avenues. It´s a richer area but there are still lots of peoplle that want to learn.
Our chapel is the stake center so it is really big. We eat everyday in a restaurant that is run by hna. Nelly, she is a member and returned missionary, there are always choices and we get to put the food on our plates, which is great b-c the other pensionistas i have had load tons of food on youir plate. Elders in the area next to us also eat lunch there, and one of them is ELDER REYES from my district in the MTC; he was in guayamerin for 6 months so i hadn´t seen him since i arrived to santa cruz. Also there is a member family that has a washing machine that they let us use on mondays..
Hna. Larsen was transfered back to her 1st area.. that was kind of weird surprise, now there is just the one companionship in guaracal. They will take care of Martha, but I will miss her!! We were going to have a baptism on Saturday, but the hermana got sick and so she didn´t show up. We had everything ready, and we had been filling the font with buckets for 2 hours because it wasn´t going to be filled in time. So it was pretty disappointing, hopefully we can have the baptism this week on Saturday. The hermana´s name is Karina, she married with 3 kids, she is the only one in her family that has listened to the missionaries.
We have 2 other investigators with a baptism date, Jorge and his sister Patricia, Jorge came to church yesterday and really liked it, Patricia was out of town but we hope that she went to church where she was, she said that she would. Jorge is 22 and Patricia is probably like 16.. they are great though! We have a lot of `people though that we have goals to invite them to baptism.
FYI I am good health wise now.
Another family that we have visited is the familia URGAZ , Carlos got baptized last month, his wife Irma is a member and they have a 1 yr old son Andres, they invited us over on sunday for lunch because they were having a little party of sorts, it was fun, we had fish soup, picante de pollo(chicken) chuño (dried potato) cooked in yellow sauce, and rice, it was pretty good but i got soo full, also lots of coca cola. Carlos works at a restaurant and also turns his house into a restaurant at night, he loves everything to do with food, he asked for a couple of recipes- can you please send me recipes for Muffins- doesnt matter what kind just something simple- and chocolate chip cookies, thank yo u!!
Sounds like fun summer stuff you have been doing!!
Love you all! thanks for the support. we´re going to work hard this week, please pray for me and my companions and the people here , we are looking for teh people that are prepared for the gospel. Love Hna. Tibbitts
Our area is pretty small but larger than I am used to! haha, now that i am finally in an area where there are not 2 companionships. We have part of EL CENTRO, the plaza principal is by the border of one of my areas, and our area extends to the 2nd ring of the city, sort of on the north east side of Santa cruz. I really like our area so far. Hna. Portillo has been in the ward for a while so she knows all of the members so we have met some of them, they are all really supportive and help us. We live close to the city cemetery, we walk down the side street sometimes and there are a bunch of flower shops selling flowers you can put on the graves. The graves are all above ground. There is also a market in our area, lots of parks, restaurants, and lots of avenues. It´s a richer area but there are still lots of peoplle that want to learn.
Our chapel is the stake center so it is really big. We eat everyday in a restaurant that is run by hna. Nelly, she is a member and returned missionary, there are always choices and we get to put the food on our plates, which is great b-c the other pensionistas i have had load tons of food on youir plate. Elders in the area next to us also eat lunch there, and one of them is ELDER REYES from my district in the MTC; he was in guayamerin for 6 months so i hadn´t seen him since i arrived to santa cruz. Also there is a member family that has a washing machine that they let us use on mondays..
Hna. Larsen was transfered back to her 1st area.. that was kind of weird surprise, now there is just the one companionship in guaracal. They will take care of Martha, but I will miss her!! We were going to have a baptism on Saturday, but the hermana got sick and so she didn´t show up. We had everything ready, and we had been filling the font with buckets for 2 hours because it wasn´t going to be filled in time. So it was pretty disappointing, hopefully we can have the baptism this week on Saturday. The hermana´s name is Karina, she married with 3 kids, she is the only one in her family that has listened to the missionaries.
We have 2 other investigators with a baptism date, Jorge and his sister Patricia, Jorge came to church yesterday and really liked it, Patricia was out of town but we hope that she went to church where she was, she said that she would. Jorge is 22 and Patricia is probably like 16.. they are great though! We have a lot of `people though that we have goals to invite them to baptism.
FYI I am good health wise now.
Another family that we have visited is the familia URGAZ , Carlos got baptized last month, his wife Irma is a member and they have a 1 yr old son Andres, they invited us over on sunday for lunch because they were having a little party of sorts, it was fun, we had fish soup, picante de pollo(chicken) chuño (dried potato) cooked in yellow sauce, and rice, it was pretty good but i got soo full, also lots of coca cola. Carlos works at a restaurant and also turns his house into a restaurant at night, he loves everything to do with food, he asked for a couple of recipes- can you please send me recipes for Muffins- doesnt matter what kind just something simple- and chocolate chip cookies, thank yo u!!
Sounds like fun summer stuff you have been doing!!
Love you all! thanks for the support. we´re going to work hard this week, please pray for me and my companions and the people here , we are looking for teh people that are prepared for the gospel. Love Hna. Tibbitts
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