May 23

Hello!! 

This week was the baptism of MARTHA!! It went well. We were kind of panicked saturday morning because our witnesses got busy and couldn´t come. But we found some others. Then we realized we didn´t prepare a musical number. So we did that last minute too. We sang a primary song , i´m trying to be like jesus. (Yo trato de ser como Cristo). We told her it would start at 7. She didn´t show up til 7 15 haha, people were telling us we should have gone to get her. Also she was late to sacrament meeting so they did the confirmation after sacrament. Oh well, we are happy she is baptized and she has friends in the church and wants to keep learning more. Everything works out with the Lord´s help. Her granddaughter Ainoha nayseth came, but none of the rest of the family, they don´t support the decision. sad :( i can´t get this computer to upload my pictures. only have one because my camera died when we were taking pictures!!! bummer! 

We had another training on tuesday, it went well, during one part of it president was randomly calling on missionaries to give examples of teaching a certain principle, in this case, law of chastity, using creativity. My mind was totally blank, i had no ideas, then the thought popped into my mind, i better think of something to say because he´s gonna call on me!! So i thought of something and he called on me, luckily i was prepared!! haha. the spirit will warn you when you need to be prepared! lesson learned.

still have not gotten packages. please don´t be afraid to send them though. it will take a while but they will come. others get them so no worries, i will too.

This week we had such a fun lesson with an hermana named Cokie, she is an older lady, she started going to an evangelist church recently but is struggling understanding everything. one of her doubts was about prayer, she didn´t really get how to pray, so we taught her, and read her james 1:5 and she cried! She was so happy because she has so many doubts and doesn´t know how to deal with them. Now she knows she can pray and ASK GOD!! just like joseph smith did. we are teaching the family, pray for them! 

We had the funniest experience. We were talking to a girl in a park, and this man walks up to us, says that his mom needs the gospel, and that he will show us where she lives, and let´s go. haha. he talked to us all in english. so we were like, ok, he took us around the corner, to meet his mom. he is a member in a different ward. he told us to go meet her and make an appointment. ok. so we go in and the mom was there with 2 daughters. they start going nuts! the mom and daughters are saying come in to the living room, no they have to come back later (they were eating lunch), have something to drink, no they have to go! they were all yelling in english and spanish, then thanking us a million times for coming, i don´t think me or my companion said more than 5 words, it was chaotic, haha, hope this makes sense.

We were so happy that one of the less active families, familia Melgar, that we have worked with a lot finally came to church on sunday! And they stayed for all 3 hours! 

I don´t know why we are short of BOM´s. They are sent from the US. Sometimes they just stop coming. That´s how it is for pamphlets and such. We just started getting pamphlets for lesson 1 (restoration). We are running out of lesson 2 pamphlets too (plan of salvation).

mom- glad you like the 3 rules. it has helped me a lot. i got that from my district leader. I have it in my planner and look at it a lot.

Brothers-- study!!! promise it will be worth it. glad to hear that you are all healthy and happy.

thanks for the news on the missionaries. that´s a bummer about israel, but the lord knows why everything happens. 

I love you all!! keep writing. sigan adelante y confien en Dios. until next week. love Hermana Tibbitts