June 13

Hello!! Thanks for the emails. This was a good week!

Yes it was a shock that we are staying together. We had to make a lot of goals to keep working well together. But it is exciting too! We are trying to find more ways to serve each other and love each other. something that i like is ¨no hay una companera perfecta, séalo usted¨-- there is not a perfect companion, so be one yourself. ahh i can´t translate it very well.. haha.

something good is that We get more time with Martha, our golden convert! She is doing so well. Every week for R.S. Activity they are making sheets to give to an orphanage, and Martha is teaching all the hermanas how to sew... she used to sew clothing as a job. She went to the distribution center and bought a Bible, BOM and hymnbook... it´s weird because here you have to bring your hymnbook, there aren´t just ones you can use in the benches. We are teaching her daughter Paula when we can find her. She usually gets home from work at about 8:30 at night and we have to get home at 9 so it is a little difficult. But she is interested so we are trying to help her learn. Martha gave her testimony in the baptism that the other hnas had this week. Basically she just said that the gospel has made her feel a lot more peace and tranquility in her life and that she is happy she has it. :)

We finally got the Liahona of the conference talks this week.. it was like christmas!! We were super excited. In english too! So we were happy. We take turns reading it haha. We also got for the strength of youth pamphlets. They are really helpful! !

On monday after i wrote you we went to a market with winter clothes and i bought a bunch of winter clothes!! So i won´t freeze! It was cheap and new stuff, so i was happy, also I bought a fuzzy warm blanket, the mission puts blankets in each apartment but they are itchy so i bought another one, it was a happy day!! My birthday was really good! We kind of kept it low key but we did get pizza at night, yum yum. On Saturday the other hermanas had a baptism and hna. Julie, my pensionista in my last area came with her husband Edgar!! She brought me a little cake and a gift and notes from Hna. Castro and the other hermanas that are there. I was happy! They wrapped up a can of american coca cola... haha. To remember them since we drank coca cola almost every day. Took pictures but can´t get them to upload... next week!

Also i bought gummy bears in honor of my birthday, and green apple soda :)

Something i remember from the MTC from a talk i listened to by Elder Holland is that the best gift you can recieve at this age is the gift of the mission!! So just keeping that in mind made me happy. I am really doing the best thing possible for me at this moment. even thought it is so hard sometimes i am happy.

We are still teaching Aida and Alejandra. We are starting to get kind of attached to them, they are like great friends we have. They always are so happy when we come visit. They came to church again on sunday and we taught the plan of salvation. We also invited them to baptism but they didn´t accept... we probably should have done better to address their problems, but they want to keep learning so at least we will have more chances. Alejandra is still stuck on the father... it stresses out Aida too as her mom.. they feel like they can´t forgive him right now so we taught about the atonement and how we have to forgive.. i understand what they are feling though, it´s not easy especially since he brought so much pain into thier lives.

Well things are going good here in the mission. Every day is a challenge but just have to keep perspective. I am glad to hear you are making goals. Hna. Larsen and I had a talk about that this week. We have so many goals it is almost overwhelming. there are so many things we want to work on. But we know the Lord will help us! Trying to work on patience, faith, charity, the list goes on. See chapter 6 of preach my gospel. i have a long way to go. but i take comfort in ether 12:27.

I love you all. Keep being good and working on your goals. that is how we can be happy!! trust in Heavenly Father and he will help you. He wants you to be happy! The gospel is true and changes lives, and i am so happy i have a family that has the gospel, i love to remember the covenants that keep us together and that keep us safe from satan! Love you all. have a great week. Hna. Tibbitts