Hello, it was good week i will tell you, we were able to do a ton of lessons with members and that is always super great, we went out with maria 2 times and with lucho and fernanda as well and it was a fun week. yesterday was hna hernandez´s birthday and i didn´t do anything for her, i´m a bad companion haha but i had left all my colored paper at the church so i couldn´t make a card and i didn´t have any food in the house either to make a special breakfast so i just told her that another day i will surprise her with something. but yesterday we had fanta floats and lime pie at lunch with nelly and the hermanas so that was fun... today we had lunch with the Galdo family and we are going back later for a ¨surprise¨ haha so we will see and we are going to have ¨tecito¨ with hermana Selfi so that will be fun.
saturday night was the open house, and it was so much craziness, the bishop was freaking out because a general authority was supposed to come as well as some other VIP people and people from the church offices came as well as presidente calderon and his wife and i guess there wasn't much communication between them and the stake and the ward so it was all craziness, but it went well i took photos and the only sad thing is that we asked the tour guides to get references, the tour guides were young single adults and they didn´t really get the references as well as we had, i think they got a little shy and soem of them put really inprecise addresses and we didn´t get as many poeple there in the first place but oh well, it was good.
the bean burgers were ok too haha.
well all of our investigators are having some challenges, but its true they need to learn that being a member is a big commitment and takes a lot of dediction, we had an appointment to teach Braulio with president calderon and President never showed up, a few days later he apologized though he said that he had double booked us by accident so we are going to try to go with him this week, and the lesson with Braulio not going to lie was super hard, i almost cried because we really tried super hard to help him understand, but he wouldn´t accept what we taught, he wants to read all of the triple combination before praying and asking God if it is true. so hopefully we can change his mind or have a miracle happen so he can get baptized in september.
no i dont think we are going to the sand dunes anymore but today we went bowling and well i dont really like bowling but i did bowl one strike woo hoo and it was fun to be with the zone, can´t get the pictures to send, this computer is being dumb.
Mom haha what you said about the talk made me laugh, i would just say that the way the Lord speaks to us is through the scriptures because that is what helped me decide to go on a mission.
welll i love you all, i am so happy every day for the opportunity i have to be here serving the Lord, i really know that this is bringing me and all of you great blessings, and its so amazing to see people learn to accept the gospel. the other day we were with Jorge, our recent convert, he has been reading the BOM in 1 nephi and he saw that it is his story!! because he has a few brothers and sisters that are rebellious and dont listen to him, so he's our nephi, it was really special when he shared that with us.
Have a great week!!! love Hermana Tibbitts
Monday, September 12, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
September 5
Hello family!!!
This week was a little rough... I don't know why, it just was. that's
how the mission is. you have some great weeks and some hard weeks, and
sometimes your feet really hurt, like now, haha, but its ok. None of
our people with baptism dates went to church yesterday, so that makes
them lose their baptism dates, but i have faith that we will be able
to go see them this week and re-commit them.
Ok you asked me about the weather, its basically hot all the time, it
only get cold for like a week at a time when the ¨Sur comes, basically
cold air from argentina, otherwise its hot, and we havne´t have a sur
for a while, the poor hermana pareja from la paz though doesn´t have
any short sleeve shirts so she is dying of heat.
Braulio is doing good, he´s reading the BOM and gospel principles,
the problem is that he wants to study everything. He went to church
yesterday and enjoyed it, he´s pretty funny. The other day we met him
at the church to teach him. We were with Selfi, the crazy lady in the
ward that i´ve told you about, anyways, he says that we have to walk
down the street until we hit something, so we were like, ok.. we
started walking and he walks into a table where a lady is selling
breads, he picks one up and takes a bite out of it and then throws it
back with the other breads, hahaah, it was funny, he is crazy, he said
he had to try it first to make sur eit was ok, haha, but he did buy it
and he bought us bread - tortilla but they´re not like mexican
tortilla-- so we ate it and then had our lesson. Yes, we want to
teach with president because Braulio is a theology student. it´s not a
special rule or anything, we just think president could help.
president wasn´t able to come this past week but hopefully in this
next week.
Viviana didn´t go to church yesterday but we did get to teach word of
wisdom, she smokes and drinks a lot of tea and she wants to live the
word of wisdom, so we were happy, we talked to her about life and got
a lot closer to her, i really think she will get baptized.
Hermano Lucho says hello!.. haha.. he´s the guy that always eats lunch
with us on sundays. he went out with us yesterday to teach lessons.
hilarous.
Next week as a zone we might go to the sand dunes! I´m excited, i hope we go!!
This week the the OPEN HOUSE: i´m kind of nervous not going to lie. we
had a meeting yesterday to verify with all the organizations what they
have for their stands and the relief society is nuts, they want to
serve refreshments and wanted to serve hot dogs, we were like, are you
kidding!! its an open house not a barbeque! just serve juice and
cookies. they were thinking hot dogs or soy hamburgers, which they
learned how tomake in an activity.. so we will see.
Well... I love you alll! have a great week in school and work and
whatever else. keep prayhing for me and these people. Love Hermana
Tibbitts
This week was a little rough... I don't know why, it just was. that's
how the mission is. you have some great weeks and some hard weeks, and
sometimes your feet really hurt, like now, haha, but its ok. None of
our people with baptism dates went to church yesterday, so that makes
them lose their baptism dates, but i have faith that we will be able
to go see them this week and re-commit them.
Ok you asked me about the weather, its basically hot all the time, it
only get cold for like a week at a time when the ¨Sur comes, basically
cold air from argentina, otherwise its hot, and we havne´t have a sur
for a while, the poor hermana pareja from la paz though doesn´t have
any short sleeve shirts so she is dying of heat.
Braulio is doing good, he´s reading the BOM and gospel principles,
the problem is that he wants to study everything. He went to church
yesterday and enjoyed it, he´s pretty funny. The other day we met him
at the church to teach him. We were with Selfi, the crazy lady in the
ward that i´ve told you about, anyways, he says that we have to walk
down the street until we hit something, so we were like, ok.. we
started walking and he walks into a table where a lady is selling
breads, he picks one up and takes a bite out of it and then throws it
back with the other breads, hahaah, it was funny, he is crazy, he said
he had to try it first to make sur eit was ok, haha, but he did buy it
and he bought us bread - tortilla but they´re not like mexican
tortilla-- so we ate it and then had our lesson. Yes, we want to
teach with president because Braulio is a theology student. it´s not a
special rule or anything, we just think president could help.
president wasn´t able to come this past week but hopefully in this
next week.
Viviana didn´t go to church yesterday but we did get to teach word of
wisdom, she smokes and drinks a lot of tea and she wants to live the
word of wisdom, so we were happy, we talked to her about life and got
a lot closer to her, i really think she will get baptized.
Hermano Lucho says hello!.. haha.. he´s the guy that always eats lunch
with us on sundays. he went out with us yesterday to teach lessons.
hilarous.
Next week as a zone we might go to the sand dunes! I´m excited, i hope we go!!
This week the the OPEN HOUSE: i´m kind of nervous not going to lie. we
had a meeting yesterday to verify with all the organizations what they
have for their stands and the relief society is nuts, they want to
serve refreshments and wanted to serve hot dogs, we were like, are you
kidding!! its an open house not a barbeque! just serve juice and
cookies. they were thinking hot dogs or soy hamburgers, which they
learned how tomake in an activity.. so we will see.
Well... I love you alll! have a great week in school and work and
whatever else. keep prayhing for me and these people. Love Hermana
Tibbitts
August 29
Hello...!! Cambios happened.... Hna. Portillo went to La Cañada, my 1st area, with the sister that she trained. that was pretty funny but she was really sad to leave paraiso and the TRIO PERFECTO. So Hna. Hernandez and I are still here in paraiso, and we are doing super great, we have a bajillion investigators i can hardly keep track, we had 7 investigators in church yesterday so we were happy.
There are sisters in Charcas, so instead of elders at lunch we ahve hermanas, Hermana Huaynate (my 1st companion in the mission) is here with Hna Pareja who is a greenie and is actually assigned to serve in Venezuela but is waiting for her visa, she is from La Paz and is suffering a lot with the heat.
Well we have a bunch of new investigators, one of the is Hugo, he is 23 and has 2 kids, is separated, and a year ago he crashed his car and had surgery on his head, he has a bunch of scars, also one of his eyes he can't see out of now, so he always wears sunglasses now and a baseball cap, but he is a good guy and wants to learn more, he has a baptism date for 17 september.
Also we have a couple Viviana and Gary they are in their 30's and engaged, they don't live together but Gary is almost always at Vivíana´s house, they went to church yesterday and liked it a lot, Viviana is going to to go to the distribution center with Zelfi the crazy hermana that always accompanies us, Viviana wants to buy a hymnbook, bible, book of mormon, etc. they are both really interested and are keeping their commitments and viviana has a baptism date for 17 september as well, we are going to work with the elders for gary because he lives in the zone to see if we can have his baptism too.
also this week we were able to visit a sweet old man named Braulio, he is probably 65 years old, lives alone, i dont know if he works but he studies theology and so he knows a lot about the Bible, we are planning to teach him with the mission president. He came to church yesterday dressed in all white, ready to be baptized haha but we are going to invite him to baptism today.
I love you all!! Have a wonderful week. Know that i am happy that i am on the mission, i love what i am doing and am seeing miracles every day, and iknow that partly it is because therea re so many people praying for me and for these people, so thank you and keep praying!! Love Hermana Tibbitts
There are sisters in Charcas, so instead of elders at lunch we ahve hermanas, Hermana Huaynate (my 1st companion in the mission) is here with Hna Pareja who is a greenie and is actually assigned to serve in Venezuela but is waiting for her visa, she is from La Paz and is suffering a lot with the heat.
Well we have a bunch of new investigators, one of the is Hugo, he is 23 and has 2 kids, is separated, and a year ago he crashed his car and had surgery on his head, he has a bunch of scars, also one of his eyes he can't see out of now, so he always wears sunglasses now and a baseball cap, but he is a good guy and wants to learn more, he has a baptism date for 17 september.
Also we have a couple Viviana and Gary they are in their 30's and engaged, they don't live together but Gary is almost always at Vivíana´s house, they went to church yesterday and liked it a lot, Viviana is going to to go to the distribution center with Zelfi the crazy hermana that always accompanies us, Viviana wants to buy a hymnbook, bible, book of mormon, etc. they are both really interested and are keeping their commitments and viviana has a baptism date for 17 september as well, we are going to work with the elders for gary because he lives in the zone to see if we can have his baptism too.
also this week we were able to visit a sweet old man named Braulio, he is probably 65 years old, lives alone, i dont know if he works but he studies theology and so he knows a lot about the Bible, we are planning to teach him with the mission president. He came to church yesterday dressed in all white, ready to be baptized haha but we are going to invite him to baptism today.
I love you all!! Have a wonderful week. Know that i am happy that i am on the mission, i love what i am doing and am seeing miracles every day, and iknow that partly it is because therea re so many people praying for me and for these people, so thank you and keep praying!! Love Hermana Tibbitts
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