Letter #12

Hello, thanks for your letters! They are very detailed but I love reading them. 
The mission is great! I am loving it more and more and getting more comfortable with the language and stuff. We had a training meeting this week with Pres. Calderon and Hna. Calderon and it was great. Mostly what we do are practices. For example we did a practice of how to begin teaching the doctrine of Christ (2 Nephi 31), and using analogies. It was great, the Lord helped me out! We lost all 6 people that we had with baptismal dates, but that´s ok, the lord blessed us with more people. We have Carla, who is 19. We had appointments with her but we called her house and her mom told us she had to go to Cochabamba for an emergency and wouldn't get back until Monday. We called on Sunday after church just in case to see if she was there and her mom lied to us!!! She never went to Cochabamba. She was waiting for us when we had the appointment. Anyways, we are excited to get to teacher her now that we know she is not in Cochabamba. 
 

Also we taught Fabiola this week. She accepted a baptism date but she is nervous because her family is judging her for it. So hopefully she will go through with it.

 

We also have Evelin that we are taching. She is 18. We taught her the restoration in the first lesson and she was smiling so big! She was so excited to hear about it! She was like, yeah, i'm gonnna pray about this for sure! She is really excited about the gospel.

 

We had a couple of cool experiences this week. One was when we were talking to an old man named Wilfredo. He was wanting to Bible bash, we were just like, ok, whatever, but then he mentioned the Book of Mormon. We asked him if he had read it, he said no, then we gave him one and he totally changed! He got really excited. He was flipping through it and looking at it and was like "Wow, i have never held Book of Mormon, I'll read it and get back to you." That was pretty cool.

 

Also we had a cool experience with a man named Julio. He drives a micro all day long so he doesn't have much human interaction or many friends, and he has family problems. He wasn't very attentive in the lesson and we asked him to give the closing prayer and he didn't want to. But we got him to repeat the words that Hna. Castro said, like a little kid, and he cried! It was very special, the spirit was strong. 

 

So things are good!  

 

Love, Hermana Tibbitts