HELLO!!! another great week in paradise, hermana portillo was still with her hurting back for a few days but we were able to still work and have good results, some of the days she was able to stay at the houses of members or we had members come to our house to stay with her so hna. hernandez and i could go out and work. we are working hard and seeing results and i love that.
yes... everythign in the package was fin eincluding the letters taped on the back. good idea writing JESUS TE AMA. haha.
HNA PATZI is my companion temporarily we are in an interchange for 5 days, hna portillo went to be in another ward and in another zone with hna patzi´s companion because i guess they are having a lot of problems in their area and with their investigators, i dont know but she will be here til friday so that should be interesting, to have hna patzi here with hna hernandez and i.
cinthia and mauricio are our investigators that we have been visiting for at least a month, but just recently they accepted a baptism date!! but we will see. they are both very christian and they have their "communities" but they are seeing a lot of truth in the church and they loved what they saw on sunday, mauricio stayed for 2 hours and cinthia 3 and loooved it. so we are praying super hard for them. cinthia was in an accident a year or so ago and can´t walk, she has a cane, and is always on lots of mediations but she wants to walk so bad and we´re afraid she might say that she neds to be healed before being baptized. so we will see . satan cant win this time!!
gabriela, jorge, patricia... JOrge was supposed to recieve the priesthood this week, but he left after the 1st hour because he hurt his knee playing soccer. his sisters gabriela and patricia came!! so we were happy. patricia is 17 and we have taught her a lot, but she says she wants to wait to get baptized. a little persuasion and hopefully she can be baptized the 27th. gabriela hadn´t expressed interest in the past, but that changed b-c she came to jorge´s baptism. she is the mom of the 2 little kids in the baptism pictures. she is 26 and single. patricia is the one that looks like jorge´s girlfriend in the pictures, but she´s a sister. haha.
Familia orgaz. we ate with them this week and they ordered all that food, because they are moving out of their house b-c they cant afford the rent, thankfully they are just moving across the street. but they gave us gifts this week. they gave each of us a book of mormon in english. inside they wrote us notes and for me and hna hernandez they wrote in english!! and it was so nice and tender what they wrote, all of us cried including carlos. it was a special moment and i will treasure this copy of the book of mormon forever! I love this family!! even though i wasnt in the area when carlos was bapttized, end of june, they are still so special to me and we have seen so much progress in this family.
Open house... TO THE RESCUE! we are having open houses in all of the mission, to get references. our chapel is going to be the center of all the other chapels in all of santa cruz. presidente calderon is going to come as well as an area 70, and they have invinted the mayor, governonr, lots of importnat people. should be exc iting!! we have to make a stand about missionary work and they are going to present all the organizations and family history, employment, etc. exciting!!!
people becoming inactive.... in the ward! don´t stop going to church!! it will just cause you more problems. i promise you this, there are so many things happening with teh people who are just recently not going to church too much here in paraiso.
umm question for you all, who is running for president in the u.s.?? sometimes people talk about it but i have no idea. is there a woman running?? or members of the church?
sounds like a fun redfish trip!! hiking... miss it! but i hike everyday haha, just though places not as pretty haha.
sorry there are a lot of misspelled words. this keyboard is awful and i dont have time to correct.
sorry i am writing late we had the intercambio and we had to go pretty far to drop off hna . portillo and get hna. patzi. then the elders played soccer 2 hrs.....ugh...love you all. keep being good and doing all the things that you learn in church. love hna Tibbitts
oh i have a little more time. we are tring to have a baptism this saturday. Of karina. she was the lady that was supposed to get baptized my 1st week here in paraiso. but she got sick and didnt come. and then a few people in her family died so that made her really busy. we are going tonight to see what she really wants, and tell her that she cant wait anymore!! they gospel is what she needs now to be happy and to deal witht hese problems. there is so much more happiness that she can have living the gospel. hopefully she will understand and do it.. be baptized!!!
clara didnt come to church, she is afraid to tell her boyfriend about the law of chastity, and now she´s working on the weekends, well everyday, so we need her to decide what she really wants, praying a lot for her, her kids came yesterday to church with the member friends that live next to them.
this week is going to be great and we´re not gonna let satan get past anyone!!
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