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!!!