January 2, 2012

Hello my dear family!!

happy new years! didn´t hardly sleep because o fthe fireworks they were setting off next door. Sounded like our roof was going to explode!Same thing on christmas eve.
Transfers--- I¨m staying in Belen with hna. Hernandez. By the end of this transfer we will have 6 months as companions (split up)- woo hoo! So probably next transfer i will go to a new area.
Well it sounds like your norway trip was way fun!! Too bad about what happened with tracee´s filghts though. That´s a pain. Coldplay sounds fun, but i guess it could have been better huh. That´s pretty lame there was no encore.

Trying to send more pictures but it´s not cooperating too well……… sorry… thes emight just be to see when i get home. The emails for photos 3 and 4 didn´t work.

So what happened with me? Well, transfers. Hna harman went back to her are with her new companion. We got a new district leader and we are not happy about it. Oh well just have to keep working. Today we are going to make pizza and cake! Yummmm.
We are glad harold´s baptism worked out too. And yes, something crazy almost always has to happen.
I ran into Florencia´s boyfriend (Florencia joined the church while i was in Guaracal) the other day- he drove us in his taxi home! They are doing ok, she still has to get her divorce from her 1st husband. She just moved to a town about an hour away. A Divorce here is 4000 bolivianos, a marriage, only 400. Weird huh!
What else… we had dinner on new years eve with the banzer family. Churrasco, yum yum yum. I ate so much. Then when we got home the Chambi family was makign lasagne for us. Oops. It wasn´t going to be ready until like 10:30 though so luckily we were able to get out o fit.

We are seraching for new people to teach, as always, and it was really hard this week, with so many drunks in the street and such, so many parties going on. But we just have to keep working! WE ahve a few people we are working with. Total miracle on Sunday, we didn´t really expect any investigators to comt to church, being new years day, but we had 2! Rosalia was one (the 13 year old whose family we are teaching), and Melva—2 of her kids are members but she refuses to be baptized. She´s an interesting person. She´s a single mom and works a lot. But this month she is taking a 3 week vacation so we are going to take advantage and go more often to teach her and do service. She knows it is true she is just scared, we think.

well, love you all! have a great week. I love the gospel. make some good new years resolutions! I have some good ones. This week i learned so much in my personal scripture study. it was great. I read my patriarchal blessing and saw tons ofthings i never saw before. And the BOM is amazing. So that´s my invitation to you all. Personal scripture study, always! it´s the best thing you can do for yourself.

love hermana tibbitts