Hello! Yes, I had cambios, now my area is PARAISO (English-- Paradise) and I am in a TRIO now with hna. Portillo and Hna. Hernandez. Hna. Portillo is from Sucre Bolivia and has 15 months in the mission and Hna. Hernandez is from Burley, ID (Her dad is mexican) she has about the same time as me in the misison.
Our area is pretty small but larger than I am used to! haha, now that i am finally in an area where there are not 2 companionships. We have part of EL CENTRO, the plaza principal is by the border of one of my areas, and our area extends to the 2nd ring of the city, sort of on the north east side of Santa cruz. I really like our area so far. Hna. Portillo has been in the ward for a while so she knows all of the members so we have met some of them, they are all really supportive and help us. We live close to the city cemetery, we walk down the side street sometimes and there are a bunch of flower shops selling flowers you can put on the graves. The graves are all above ground. There is also a market in our area, lots of parks, restaurants, and lots of avenues. It´s a richer area but there are still lots of peoplle that want to learn.
Our chapel is the stake center so it is really big. We eat everyday in a restaurant that is run by hna. Nelly, she is a member and returned missionary, there are always choices and we get to put the food on our plates, which is great b-c the other pensionistas i have had load tons of food on youir plate. Elders in the area next to us also eat lunch there, and one of them is ELDER REYES from my district in the MTC; he was in guayamerin for 6 months so i hadn´t seen him since i arrived to santa cruz. Also there is a member family that has a washing machine that they let us use on mondays..
Hna. Larsen was transfered back to her 1st area.. that was kind of weird surprise, now there is just the one companionship in guaracal. They will take care of Martha, but I will miss her!! We were going to have a baptism on Saturday, but the hermana got sick and so she didn´t show up. We had everything ready, and we had been filling the font with buckets for 2 hours because it wasn´t going to be filled in time. So it was pretty disappointing, hopefully we can have the baptism this week on Saturday. The hermana´s name is Karina, she married with 3 kids, she is the only one in her family that has listened to the missionaries.
We have 2 other investigators with a baptism date, Jorge and his sister Patricia, Jorge came to church yesterday and really liked it, Patricia was out of town but we hope that she went to church where she was, she said that she would. Jorge is 22 and Patricia is probably like 16.. they are great though! We have a lot of `people though that we have goals to invite them to baptism.
FYI I am good health wise now.
Another family that we have visited is the familia URGAZ , Carlos got baptized last month, his wife Irma is a member and they have a 1 yr old son Andres, they invited us over on sunday for lunch because they were having a little party of sorts, it was fun, we had fish soup, picante de pollo(chicken) chuño (dried potato) cooked in yellow sauce, and rice, it was pretty good but i got soo full, also lots of coca cola. Carlos works at a restaurant and also turns his house into a restaurant at night, he loves everything to do with food, he asked for a couple of recipes- can you please send me recipes for Muffins- doesnt matter what kind just something simple- and chocolate chip cookies, thank yo u!!
Sounds like fun summer stuff you have been doing!!
Love you all! thanks for the support. we´re going to work hard this week, please pray for me and my companions and the people here , we are looking for teh people that are prepared for the gospel. Love Hna. Tibbitts
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