Hello!!! Happy mother's day again!! It was so great to talk to all of you!! I loved hearing your voices and hearing about what you are doing and be able to explain a little more about the mission and how things are going! We were just told that for christmas we can talk with our families for 60 minutes! woo hoo!! i can´t wait. I love you all and thanks for being supportive and wonderful. I have the best family!! Sorry if you didn´t understand my explanations of things like the bananas etc. But the ones that she cooks taste bad when they´re not cooked.. maybe that will help you understand more :)
This week was a little difficult to start out. The mission has changed me in so many ways. But it got better! We found some great people to teach this week!
First of all, Marta is getting baptized on the 21st!! She is happy about it, she wants to folllow this path, and she has changed a lot already, with the gospel in her life, we have really noticed that she is a lot happier. Unfortunately her family doesn´t really want to listen to us.We have taught all of them one time or another, but not more than once or twice. She is separated but her husband is always at her house, sitting in the dark at the front of their house, drunk, and it really bothers her. It´s kinda creepy actually haha. Her house is really humble. It doesn´t have 4 real walls. We saw a huge rat there one day. it was nasty! Her 2 daughters (including mom of Ainoha Nayseth) don´t live the law of chastity, they are living with a man but not married. she asked us if it was ok that she could get baptized since that was the case. we told her of course, since you are living the law of chastity!! She is so wonderful. She is very humble and docile, that´s a word in english right??
We also are working a little bit in a barrio that is actually really nice, but small and a little farther away. it is called aeronautico becasue it´s by the air force-army or something base. One day when we were there knocking doors we met a man named Jorge who is a member from a different ward and stake, recent convert of 2 yrs, he is older and divorced and his children live in our area, they are all adults, all single except for one (4 kids). We were able to teach with him there and he bore powerful testimony and really testified to his kids that he wants them to know about the gospel and accept it so they can have a forever family. it was great.
Also in aeronautico we met Guido and Eva, and taught them, they are catholic, their kids are all grown up and live around the world, they have traveled a lot, he was in the military but is retired now, they had a lot of questions but are willing to learn, they want to know more about the bible etc. We found out that she is the president of their neighborhood home owner´s association, something i didn´t even know existed in places like here, but they have one since it´s a NICE NEIGHBORHOOD, there are mansions here for bolivia, super nice. a lot of houses have the speaker things outside the door, and i´ve seen a few with cameras there too. They are going to invite us to their neighborhood activities so we can meet people. They know tons of people!!! I hope they progress, they are so nice!! Guido answered the door when we rang their doorbell, he told us in the visit that he wasn´t having a great day, but he saw us and thought that God sent him 2 angels!! :)
we had zone meeting on thursday with president calderon. He talked to us a lot about the importance of FAMILY. For example, if you are teaching a child or teenager, and they don´t have the support of their parents, it´s beter not to baptize them. they need to family support or otherwise they will easily go inactive after a while. The gospel is for FAMILIES. we are not just looking for people to be baptized, but for them to also be able to go to the temple and make those covenants there. (Preach my gospel chapter 1- the gospel blesses families-- i glued a picture of a temple next to it to remind me)
Tomorrow and the tuesday after that we have training from 8-4 with 4 zones and president Calderon! Should be great to learn a lot, but it takes a lot of time away from our work. pray that we do good in the practices!!
Well running out of time. I´m so glad i´m here doing the Lord´s work. it is so important and it´s so rewarding to be able to help people learna bout the restored gospel. Please pray for my success. I know this gospel is true. The book of mormon is true. I finished it last week and started again!! :) one of hte mission goals is to read the BOM every 4 months. it´s fast but not too fast!! Study your scriptures and pray! God answers!! I love you all! Keep choosing the right! I¨ll try to take pictures to send next week. love Hna. Tibbitts
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