May 16

Hello!

So good to hear from all of you!! And talk to you!! Thanks for your encouraging emails. They help so much!

I can{t believe i have been a missionary SIX MONTHS!!

Something i have learned in the mission is that there are 3 things you can control in the mission

1. level of obedience

2. level of effort

3. Attitude!!

So if you work on those 3 things you will always have success!!

Also my companion helps me so much. Hna. Larsen is really great. she helps me keep the spirit because sometimes i get really stressed out and that drives it away!!

Sometimes i wonder how i{m not fainting from exhaustion in the streets day to day, but i know my heavenly father is helping me and lifting me up!!

This week i got a little sick,(stomach) so the doctor prescribed me some pills that totally took away my appetite! So i almost did'tt eat for like 2 days. it was weird! All i did was drink soda. I went thru almost 3 liters of 7 up in 2 days. That was all i wanted. I think i had a ramen soup once. We still went out and did work. I{m not taking the pills anymore and slowly my appetite is coming back. Now all i want to eat is cookies. And soda!!

Marta had her interview and is getting baptized on saturday! We are so happy!! She is amazing and she is ready. I love her so much! The elder who interviewed her (E. Schenk) said that she taught him new things in the interview. She has a lot of faith. She hasn't read any more than the introductory parts of the Book of mormon but she knows it is true. She wants to be a member of the church although her children dont{ want her to be baptized.

ARe people saying there that the world is gonna end on the 21 of may?? lots of people ask us about that here.

we are searching far and wide to find people to teach. a lot of our investigators are burning out, like Victor. He isn{t trying to quit smoking and doesn't want to be baptized so we have to leave him. sad but that{s how the mission is. Maybe when his wife comes back we will go back, but for now, no.

But we have found some good people! For example we found Dirse, she is a single mom with 2 kids, she works and studies but she wants to find the truth and wants to learn more, and is always super grateful to learn and have us come. We just need her to pray and come to church!

We met someone that was Gnostic.. have you all heard of that? it's more of a philosophy than a religion.. it was super weird and hard to teach him!!

Something sad is that the mission is short on book of mormons! We are gonna have to make copies of the introduction and 1 nephi to give to people because we haven{t gotten any for a while. Same thing with the pamphlets.

WE had training on tuesday and we also have it tomorrow. We were there from 8-530, it was so long! But i learned so much.

Please pray we can find FAMILIES!!

I love you all. Sigan adelante. Be good!! hasta la proxima. Love Hna Tibbitts