Hello, it was good week i will tell you, we were able to do a ton of lessons with members and that is always super great, we went out with maria 2 times and with lucho and fernanda as well and it was a fun week. yesterday was hna hernandez´s birthday and i didn´t do anything for her, i´m a bad companion haha but i had left all my colored paper at the church so i couldn´t make a card and i didn´t have any food in the house either to make a special breakfast so i just told her that another day i will surprise her with something. but yesterday we had fanta floats and lime pie at lunch with nelly and the hermanas so that was fun... today we had lunch with the Galdo family and we are going back later for a ¨surprise¨ haha so we will see and we are going to have ¨tecito¨ with hermana Selfi so that will be fun.
saturday night was the open house, and it was so much craziness, the bishop was freaking out because a general authority was supposed to come as well as some other VIP people and people from the church offices came as well as presidente calderon and his wife and i guess there wasn't much communication between them and the stake and the ward so it was all craziness, but it went well i took photos and the only sad thing is that we asked the tour guides to get references, the tour guides were young single adults and they didn´t really get the references as well as we had, i think they got a little shy and soem of them put really inprecise addresses and we didn´t get as many poeple there in the first place but oh well, it was good.
the bean burgers were ok too haha.
well all of our investigators are having some challenges, but its true they need to learn that being a member is a big commitment and takes a lot of dediction, we had an appointment to teach Braulio with president calderon and President never showed up, a few days later he apologized though he said that he had double booked us by accident so we are going to try to go with him this week, and the lesson with Braulio not going to lie was super hard, i almost cried because we really tried super hard to help him understand, but he wouldn´t accept what we taught, he wants to read all of the triple combination before praying and asking God if it is true. so hopefully we can change his mind or have a miracle happen so he can get baptized in september.
no i dont think we are going to the sand dunes anymore but today we went bowling and well i dont really like bowling but i did bowl one strike woo hoo and it was fun to be with the zone, can´t get the pictures to send, this computer is being dumb.
Mom haha what you said about the talk made me laugh, i would just say that the way the Lord speaks to us is through the scriptures because that is what helped me decide to go on a mission.
welll i love you all, i am so happy every day for the opportunity i have to be here serving the Lord, i really know that this is bringing me and all of you great blessings, and its so amazing to see people learn to accept the gospel. the other day we were with Jorge, our recent convert, he has been reading the BOM in 1 nephi and he saw that it is his story!! because he has a few brothers and sisters that are rebellious and dont listen to him, so he's our nephi, it was really special when he shared that with us.
Have a great week!!! love Hermana Tibbitts
Monday, September 12, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
September 5
Hello family!!!
This week was a little rough... I don't know why, it just was. that's
how the mission is. you have some great weeks and some hard weeks, and
sometimes your feet really hurt, like now, haha, but its ok. None of
our people with baptism dates went to church yesterday, so that makes
them lose their baptism dates, but i have faith that we will be able
to go see them this week and re-commit them.
Ok you asked me about the weather, its basically hot all the time, it
only get cold for like a week at a time when the ¨Sur comes, basically
cold air from argentina, otherwise its hot, and we havne´t have a sur
for a while, the poor hermana pareja from la paz though doesn´t have
any short sleeve shirts so she is dying of heat.
Braulio is doing good, he´s reading the BOM and gospel principles,
the problem is that he wants to study everything. He went to church
yesterday and enjoyed it, he´s pretty funny. The other day we met him
at the church to teach him. We were with Selfi, the crazy lady in the
ward that i´ve told you about, anyways, he says that we have to walk
down the street until we hit something, so we were like, ok.. we
started walking and he walks into a table where a lady is selling
breads, he picks one up and takes a bite out of it and then throws it
back with the other breads, hahaah, it was funny, he is crazy, he said
he had to try it first to make sur eit was ok, haha, but he did buy it
and he bought us bread - tortilla but they´re not like mexican
tortilla-- so we ate it and then had our lesson. Yes, we want to
teach with president because Braulio is a theology student. it´s not a
special rule or anything, we just think president could help.
president wasn´t able to come this past week but hopefully in this
next week.
Viviana didn´t go to church yesterday but we did get to teach word of
wisdom, she smokes and drinks a lot of tea and she wants to live the
word of wisdom, so we were happy, we talked to her about life and got
a lot closer to her, i really think she will get baptized.
Hermano Lucho says hello!.. haha.. he´s the guy that always eats lunch
with us on sundays. he went out with us yesterday to teach lessons.
hilarous.
Next week as a zone we might go to the sand dunes! I´m excited, i hope we go!!
This week the the OPEN HOUSE: i´m kind of nervous not going to lie. we
had a meeting yesterday to verify with all the organizations what they
have for their stands and the relief society is nuts, they want to
serve refreshments and wanted to serve hot dogs, we were like, are you
kidding!! its an open house not a barbeque! just serve juice and
cookies. they were thinking hot dogs or soy hamburgers, which they
learned how tomake in an activity.. so we will see.
Well... I love you alll! have a great week in school and work and
whatever else. keep prayhing for me and these people. Love Hermana
Tibbitts
This week was a little rough... I don't know why, it just was. that's
how the mission is. you have some great weeks and some hard weeks, and
sometimes your feet really hurt, like now, haha, but its ok. None of
our people with baptism dates went to church yesterday, so that makes
them lose their baptism dates, but i have faith that we will be able
to go see them this week and re-commit them.
Ok you asked me about the weather, its basically hot all the time, it
only get cold for like a week at a time when the ¨Sur comes, basically
cold air from argentina, otherwise its hot, and we havne´t have a sur
for a while, the poor hermana pareja from la paz though doesn´t have
any short sleeve shirts so she is dying of heat.
Braulio is doing good, he´s reading the BOM and gospel principles,
the problem is that he wants to study everything. He went to church
yesterday and enjoyed it, he´s pretty funny. The other day we met him
at the church to teach him. We were with Selfi, the crazy lady in the
ward that i´ve told you about, anyways, he says that we have to walk
down the street until we hit something, so we were like, ok.. we
started walking and he walks into a table where a lady is selling
breads, he picks one up and takes a bite out of it and then throws it
back with the other breads, hahaah, it was funny, he is crazy, he said
he had to try it first to make sur eit was ok, haha, but he did buy it
and he bought us bread - tortilla but they´re not like mexican
tortilla-- so we ate it and then had our lesson. Yes, we want to
teach with president because Braulio is a theology student. it´s not a
special rule or anything, we just think president could help.
president wasn´t able to come this past week but hopefully in this
next week.
Viviana didn´t go to church yesterday but we did get to teach word of
wisdom, she smokes and drinks a lot of tea and she wants to live the
word of wisdom, so we were happy, we talked to her about life and got
a lot closer to her, i really think she will get baptized.
Hermano Lucho says hello!.. haha.. he´s the guy that always eats lunch
with us on sundays. he went out with us yesterday to teach lessons.
hilarous.
Next week as a zone we might go to the sand dunes! I´m excited, i hope we go!!
This week the the OPEN HOUSE: i´m kind of nervous not going to lie. we
had a meeting yesterday to verify with all the organizations what they
have for their stands and the relief society is nuts, they want to
serve refreshments and wanted to serve hot dogs, we were like, are you
kidding!! its an open house not a barbeque! just serve juice and
cookies. they were thinking hot dogs or soy hamburgers, which they
learned how tomake in an activity.. so we will see.
Well... I love you alll! have a great week in school and work and
whatever else. keep prayhing for me and these people. Love Hermana
Tibbitts
August 29
Hello...!! Cambios happened.... Hna. Portillo went to La Cañada, my 1st area, with the sister that she trained. that was pretty funny but she was really sad to leave paraiso and the TRIO PERFECTO. So Hna. Hernandez and I are still here in paraiso, and we are doing super great, we have a bajillion investigators i can hardly keep track, we had 7 investigators in church yesterday so we were happy.
There are sisters in Charcas, so instead of elders at lunch we ahve hermanas, Hermana Huaynate (my 1st companion in the mission) is here with Hna Pareja who is a greenie and is actually assigned to serve in Venezuela but is waiting for her visa, she is from La Paz and is suffering a lot with the heat.
Well we have a bunch of new investigators, one of the is Hugo, he is 23 and has 2 kids, is separated, and a year ago he crashed his car and had surgery on his head, he has a bunch of scars, also one of his eyes he can't see out of now, so he always wears sunglasses now and a baseball cap, but he is a good guy and wants to learn more, he has a baptism date for 17 september.
Also we have a couple Viviana and Gary they are in their 30's and engaged, they don't live together but Gary is almost always at Vivíana´s house, they went to church yesterday and liked it a lot, Viviana is going to to go to the distribution center with Zelfi the crazy hermana that always accompanies us, Viviana wants to buy a hymnbook, bible, book of mormon, etc. they are both really interested and are keeping their commitments and viviana has a baptism date for 17 september as well, we are going to work with the elders for gary because he lives in the zone to see if we can have his baptism too.
also this week we were able to visit a sweet old man named Braulio, he is probably 65 years old, lives alone, i dont know if he works but he studies theology and so he knows a lot about the Bible, we are planning to teach him with the mission president. He came to church yesterday dressed in all white, ready to be baptized haha but we are going to invite him to baptism today.
I love you all!! Have a wonderful week. Know that i am happy that i am on the mission, i love what i am doing and am seeing miracles every day, and iknow that partly it is because therea re so many people praying for me and for these people, so thank you and keep praying!! Love Hermana Tibbitts
There are sisters in Charcas, so instead of elders at lunch we ahve hermanas, Hermana Huaynate (my 1st companion in the mission) is here with Hna Pareja who is a greenie and is actually assigned to serve in Venezuela but is waiting for her visa, she is from La Paz and is suffering a lot with the heat.
Well we have a bunch of new investigators, one of the is Hugo, he is 23 and has 2 kids, is separated, and a year ago he crashed his car and had surgery on his head, he has a bunch of scars, also one of his eyes he can't see out of now, so he always wears sunglasses now and a baseball cap, but he is a good guy and wants to learn more, he has a baptism date for 17 september.
Also we have a couple Viviana and Gary they are in their 30's and engaged, they don't live together but Gary is almost always at Vivíana´s house, they went to church yesterday and liked it a lot, Viviana is going to to go to the distribution center with Zelfi the crazy hermana that always accompanies us, Viviana wants to buy a hymnbook, bible, book of mormon, etc. they are both really interested and are keeping their commitments and viviana has a baptism date for 17 september as well, we are going to work with the elders for gary because he lives in the zone to see if we can have his baptism too.
also this week we were able to visit a sweet old man named Braulio, he is probably 65 years old, lives alone, i dont know if he works but he studies theology and so he knows a lot about the Bible, we are planning to teach him with the mission president. He came to church yesterday dressed in all white, ready to be baptized haha but we are going to invite him to baptism today.
I love you all!! Have a wonderful week. Know that i am happy that i am on the mission, i love what i am doing and am seeing miracles every day, and iknow that partly it is because therea re so many people praying for me and for these people, so thank you and keep praying!! Love Hermana Tibbitts
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
August 22
hello, i am using a pretty slow computer this week, so this may be short, and i can´t get it to send pictures and i took a bunch this week! sorry... next week!!
Mom and DAD... HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! thanks for getting married!! haha.. have a great trip!!! take lots of pictures and send postcards here haha. that´´s a lot of countries you are going to see. and tell the paul´s that I love them and hope they are doing so good, i would love to get a letter from them too haha but i know they have missionary kids too
HOpe you all feel better soon and can get on track with the time!!
HOpe you can get the house back in order too..
Hna. Portillo is better now with her back. the solution was WORK!! :)
Hna. Patzi was with us for a week, well, i don´t really know why, but Hna. Portillo went to her area and to another area too to teach them and help them improve the work. It was a fun 5 days. Hna Patzi si great, she is my friend,she lived in my house in guaracal for one change, and it was fun week this week, we had a lot of adventures.
for example, once we got locked out of the house, and another day, the wires for the electricity burned- blew up and we didn´t have electricity for a day. fun times, good memories (now looking back haha, pretty terrible when it happened)
The OPEN HOUSE is on september 10. We have to prepare something really good, still thinking. it´s not a worldwide thing but it is something we are doing in all of the mission santa cruz.
Cinthia and Mauricio are doing ok, they didn´t come to church and we don´t know why, they wouldnt answer their phone, but we met cinthia´s 16 year old son Andres, and he is really good, we didn´t think he lived there but i guess he does now, so we are hoping that he can get baptized too with his mom and uncle.
patricia doesn´t want to get baptized anymore and she won´t tell us why, i dont even think she knows why, but we haven´t really seen her, every time we have been by this week the grandma comes to the gate and the grandma is like 90 years old and hates us, she tells us no one is home.
sadly i must tell you that the Orgaz family is having some problems, Irma says she can´t take it anymore and she wants to separate, it´s really sad i hope they can talk and realize that they are not perfect but that they can solve these problems that they have., with the Gospel!!
But... we visitied a less active family that we just barely heard about, the Estrada family, they are super great, the parents are FAbiola and Helder, and they have 2 sons Yihad who is 3 and Helder Junior who is 10, we are going to try to help them have friends in the church so that they want to go, and they said that they want to help serve the lord, i thimk the hardest thing for them is the distance to the church and getting up in the morning and getting ready, such i sthe problem for everyone, and when it´s cold almost no one is at church, or they come really late.
CAMBIOS are this week. Hna. Portillo is going to be transfered so she is pretty sad. Most likely i will stay here with hna. hernandez and just be a duo... should be good! love this ward and my companions, they are super great, and i have learned to love them a lot.
DAD -- i got a letter from your friend Malia Pruitt this week. she served in bolivia in la paz, cochabamba, santa cruz, and potosi, now she teaches primary, her 4 and 5 year olds wrote to me too and sent me cute pictures.
i lOVE YOU ALL.. have a great week! Love hermana Tibbitts
Mom and DAD... HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! thanks for getting married!! haha.. have a great trip!!! take lots of pictures and send postcards here haha. that´´s a lot of countries you are going to see. and tell the paul´s that I love them and hope they are doing so good, i would love to get a letter from them too haha but i know they have missionary kids too
HOpe you all feel better soon and can get on track with the time!!
HOpe you can get the house back in order too..
Hna. Portillo is better now with her back. the solution was WORK!! :)
Hna. Patzi was with us for a week, well, i don´t really know why, but Hna. Portillo went to her area and to another area too to teach them and help them improve the work. It was a fun 5 days. Hna Patzi si great, she is my friend,she lived in my house in guaracal for one change, and it was fun week this week, we had a lot of adventures.
for example, once we got locked out of the house, and another day, the wires for the electricity burned- blew up and we didn´t have electricity for a day. fun times, good memories (now looking back haha, pretty terrible when it happened)
The OPEN HOUSE is on september 10. We have to prepare something really good, still thinking. it´s not a worldwide thing but it is something we are doing in all of the mission santa cruz.
Cinthia and Mauricio are doing ok, they didn´t come to church and we don´t know why, they wouldnt answer their phone, but we met cinthia´s 16 year old son Andres, and he is really good, we didn´t think he lived there but i guess he does now, so we are hoping that he can get baptized too with his mom and uncle.
patricia doesn´t want to get baptized anymore and she won´t tell us why, i dont even think she knows why, but we haven´t really seen her, every time we have been by this week the grandma comes to the gate and the grandma is like 90 years old and hates us, she tells us no one is home.
sadly i must tell you that the Orgaz family is having some problems, Irma says she can´t take it anymore and she wants to separate, it´s really sad i hope they can talk and realize that they are not perfect but that they can solve these problems that they have., with the Gospel!!
But... we visitied a less active family that we just barely heard about, the Estrada family, they are super great, the parents are FAbiola and Helder, and they have 2 sons Yihad who is 3 and Helder Junior who is 10, we are going to try to help them have friends in the church so that they want to go, and they said that they want to help serve the lord, i thimk the hardest thing for them is the distance to the church and getting up in the morning and getting ready, such i sthe problem for everyone, and when it´s cold almost no one is at church, or they come really late.
CAMBIOS are this week. Hna. Portillo is going to be transfered so she is pretty sad. Most likely i will stay here with hna. hernandez and just be a duo... should be good! love this ward and my companions, they are super great, and i have learned to love them a lot.
DAD -- i got a letter from your friend Malia Pruitt this week. she served in bolivia in la paz, cochabamba, santa cruz, and potosi, now she teaches primary, her 4 and 5 year olds wrote to me too and sent me cute pictures.
i lOVE YOU ALL.. have a great week! Love hermana Tibbitts
August 15th
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!!
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!!
August 8th
Hello!!
trying something new... putting key words of all the things i want to write about and then will write the paragraph. we´lll see.
I got the package!!! thank you!! I opened it at Irma and carlos´house. Irma liked everythig haha and made me take the picture that i sent. i shared with my companions dont worry. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
baptism- was so great! friday we went to the chapel to turn on the water to fill the font, and there was water in it from 3 weeks ago!!! it was nasty!!! so we went to turn the thing htat lets the water out, but it drains super slow, like in 12 hours, and we couldn´t wait that long, so we got a plunger and tried to use that so it would go out, we locked the doors of the chapel and hna. portillo hiked up her skirt nad got into the water to do it hahah... didn´t work. but then our friend LUCHO arrived with Nelly our pensionista and they helped us take the water out with buckets, it took 2 1/2 hours, not fun!! but we did it, filled the font overnight, and the baptism went well, we had it in the morning and family members of both jorge and wilson came that are not members, so that was great, they were both really happy and wilson´s mom brought a bunch of food to eat after, it was a great day, they were both confirmed on sunday and jorge was interviewed by the bishop to recieve the priesthood next sunday, he is excited, the bishop is gonna put him to work blessing the sacrament each week.
Before the baptisms we had a few problems, we went one day to Jorge and he didn´t want to be baptized, he was afraid of the consequences of messing up after, but we were able to explain to him that he will have the spirit with him so he will be able to confront his problems and help his famly. Also wilson´s dad almst didnt let him get baptized the day before, he said he needed to get baptized in the catholic church-- don´t know why bc his dad is a member but inactive--- but he changed his mind. woooo... we weren´t gonna let satan win with jorge and wilson.
Pizza-- we made pizza with carlos and irma on wednesday. it was sooo fun. Hna. Hernandez recieved a bottle of ranch dressing so we made some with that and also carlos had bbq sauce, he is obsessed with it haha so we used that too, it was sooooo yummy. also the other night we ordered SAHARA pizza, american style, we were starving one night so we ordered it, yummy...
service in los angeles.... the los angeles ward that is .... it was fun! their church was super dirty. it is something that we are doing in every zone in the mission, clean the dirtiest chapel. service starts in our own house, is what president says.
intercambios.. i did an intercambio with hna. Zelfi this week, she is a crazy lady in the ward, a super good issionary, the apointments we had weren´t home so she just started introducing me to neighbors, she knows everyone around where she lives, it was pretty fun.
shoes.. i bought shoes on monday, so cute, a little small but i thought they would stretch, i wore them tuesday with new tights that i bought (with fleece inside-- super warm!) and since they were new they stained the inside of the shoes, and my feet were hurting sooo bad all day, we tried to clean them but the stain wouldn´t come out and we tried to take them back but they wouldn´t accept them stained, boooooo so that was pretty disappointed but everything happens for a reason right??? so... they wre 159 BS which is a lot, i wanted to get good shoes, i guess i will keep looking?? maybe i can sell them to someone in the mission... for now i have the 2 pairs of brown shoes and i bought some skirts that all have brown in the fabric so i´m probably fine with just the brown ones for now.
sick companions. we wre in the house 3 days this week... hna portillo had a super bad hurting back and hna hernandez had a bad stomach. I¨m fine!!! but pretty boring being in the house... always better to work and be tired than to sit and be bored.
Clara and her 3 kids... aren´t really progressing right now. we went there the other day and clara had just barely burned herself with oil. Hna. Portillo helped her treat it and hna. hernandez and i finished cooking. so we didn´t get to teach what we wanted to and they went out of town for the weekend so this week we are going to work a lot with them.
Happy 6 de Agosto. Dia de Bolivia! there were lots of parades and fiestas. bought a little flag pin! a good day for a baptism. sunny and warm.
Love you all!!! Hna. Tibbitts
p.s. RAMADAN KAREEM...
trying something new... putting key words of all the things i want to write about and then will write the paragraph. we´lll see.
I got the package!!! thank you!! I opened it at Irma and carlos´house. Irma liked everythig haha and made me take the picture that i sent. i shared with my companions dont worry. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
baptism- was so great! friday we went to the chapel to turn on the water to fill the font, and there was water in it from 3 weeks ago!!! it was nasty!!! so we went to turn the thing htat lets the water out, but it drains super slow, like in 12 hours, and we couldn´t wait that long, so we got a plunger and tried to use that so it would go out, we locked the doors of the chapel and hna. portillo hiked up her skirt nad got into the water to do it hahah... didn´t work. but then our friend LUCHO arrived with Nelly our pensionista and they helped us take the water out with buckets, it took 2 1/2 hours, not fun!! but we did it, filled the font overnight, and the baptism went well, we had it in the morning and family members of both jorge and wilson came that are not members, so that was great, they were both really happy and wilson´s mom brought a bunch of food to eat after, it was a great day, they were both confirmed on sunday and jorge was interviewed by the bishop to recieve the priesthood next sunday, he is excited, the bishop is gonna put him to work blessing the sacrament each week.
Before the baptisms we had a few problems, we went one day to Jorge and he didn´t want to be baptized, he was afraid of the consequences of messing up after, but we were able to explain to him that he will have the spirit with him so he will be able to confront his problems and help his famly. Also wilson´s dad almst didnt let him get baptized the day before, he said he needed to get baptized in the catholic church-- don´t know why bc his dad is a member but inactive--- but he changed his mind. woooo... we weren´t gonna let satan win with jorge and wilson.
Pizza-- we made pizza with carlos and irma on wednesday. it was sooo fun. Hna. Hernandez recieved a bottle of ranch dressing so we made some with that and also carlos had bbq sauce, he is obsessed with it haha so we used that too, it was sooooo yummy. also the other night we ordered SAHARA pizza, american style, we were starving one night so we ordered it, yummy...
service in los angeles.... the los angeles ward that is .... it was fun! their church was super dirty. it is something that we are doing in every zone in the mission, clean the dirtiest chapel. service starts in our own house, is what president says.
intercambios.. i did an intercambio with hna. Zelfi this week, she is a crazy lady in the ward, a super good issionary, the apointments we had weren´t home so she just started introducing me to neighbors, she knows everyone around where she lives, it was pretty fun.
shoes.. i bought shoes on monday, so cute, a little small but i thought they would stretch, i wore them tuesday with new tights that i bought (with fleece inside-- super warm!) and since they were new they stained the inside of the shoes, and my feet were hurting sooo bad all day, we tried to clean them but the stain wouldn´t come out and we tried to take them back but they wouldn´t accept them stained, boooooo so that was pretty disappointed but everything happens for a reason right??? so... they wre 159 BS which is a lot, i wanted to get good shoes, i guess i will keep looking?? maybe i can sell them to someone in the mission... for now i have the 2 pairs of brown shoes and i bought some skirts that all have brown in the fabric so i´m probably fine with just the brown ones for now.
sick companions. we wre in the house 3 days this week... hna portillo had a super bad hurting back and hna hernandez had a bad stomach. I¨m fine!!! but pretty boring being in the house... always better to work and be tired than to sit and be bored.
Clara and her 3 kids... aren´t really progressing right now. we went there the other day and clara had just barely burned herself with oil. Hna. Portillo helped her treat it and hna. hernandez and i finished cooking. so we didn´t get to teach what we wanted to and they went out of town for the weekend so this week we are going to work a lot with them.
Happy 6 de Agosto. Dia de Bolivia! there were lots of parades and fiestas. bought a little flag pin! a good day for a baptism. sunny and warm.
Love you all!!! Hna. Tibbitts
p.s. RAMADAN KAREEM...
August 1st
helllo... BRRRR... it got cold again. earlier this week it was super hot and now my hands are cold writing you, i forgot my gloves at home. oh well.... another great week!!!
we didn´t get to have any baptisms this past week but saturday we have 2!!!! Jorge is going to be baptized as well as wilson, he´s a kid we found this week, his mom and him always come to church but he hasn´t been baptized and is 10, his parents were reluctant b-c he has 2 inactive siblings and his dad is inactive too, so we are going to work with them, but wilson is a good nino and wants to follow jesus, so we are excited.
we have a great family we are teaching too, clara and her 3 kids santiago, joske, and abigail, 11, 9, and 8 yrs old. they really want to learn and it´s just clara that is having some trouble reading and praying and not being confused by what the world says.
Jorge is progressng great and told us that he is traveling in october, and he won´t be able to go to church then haha, he understands the importance and wants to follow!!
i sent some pictures of th familia orgaz. thye are so great. Andres is 1 1/2 and now knws how to say Hermana and always wants to shake our hand and his parents say he is in love with us and always talking about us. They want to go to the temple in utah in a year and i told him they could stay with us.... ok!!??
i sent pictures of the 2 elders we eat lunch with eveyday, one is elder reyes who was in my group in the mtc and the other is elder guaman from cochabamba. sunday we had to fry the french fries and bananas b-c our pensionista ha dto go to a family lunch, it was fun! also a member always eats with us, Luis aka Lucho, he is hilarious and we convinced him to go out teaching with us last night because we were short on lessons with members, and he did, it was hilarious, he served in chile and said that they would preach with microphons in the markets and crazy evangelist type stuff like that, we needed to do contacts too and he was so excted, he stopped an old man and after introducing us asked him straght out- have you ever thought about the meaning of life?? it was reallly bold and funny....
brr.... need to go home and get another jacket!!! cold!
i´m gonna buy new shoes today!!! alll my black ones are worn out i only have brown ones now hahahah...
love you all... have a great week!! tell gma and grandpa and alll the family that i love them.
we didn´t get to have any baptisms this past week but saturday we have 2!!!! Jorge is going to be baptized as well as wilson, he´s a kid we found this week, his mom and him always come to church but he hasn´t been baptized and is 10, his parents were reluctant b-c he has 2 inactive siblings and his dad is inactive too, so we are going to work with them, but wilson is a good nino and wants to follow jesus, so we are excited.
we have a great family we are teaching too, clara and her 3 kids santiago, joske, and abigail, 11, 9, and 8 yrs old. they really want to learn and it´s just clara that is having some trouble reading and praying and not being confused by what the world says.
Jorge is progressng great and told us that he is traveling in october, and he won´t be able to go to church then haha, he understands the importance and wants to follow!!
i sent some pictures of th familia orgaz. thye are so great. Andres is 1 1/2 and now knws how to say Hermana and always wants to shake our hand and his parents say he is in love with us and always talking about us. They want to go to the temple in utah in a year and i told him they could stay with us.... ok!!??
i sent pictures of the 2 elders we eat lunch with eveyday, one is elder reyes who was in my group in the mtc and the other is elder guaman from cochabamba. sunday we had to fry the french fries and bananas b-c our pensionista ha dto go to a family lunch, it was fun! also a member always eats with us, Luis aka Lucho, he is hilarious and we convinced him to go out teaching with us last night because we were short on lessons with members, and he did, it was hilarious, he served in chile and said that they would preach with microphons in the markets and crazy evangelist type stuff like that, we needed to do contacts too and he was so excted, he stopped an old man and after introducing us asked him straght out- have you ever thought about the meaning of life?? it was reallly bold and funny....
brr.... need to go home and get another jacket!!! cold!
i´m gonna buy new shoes today!!! alll my black ones are worn out i only have brown ones now hahahah...
love you all... have a great week!! tell gma and grandpa and alll the family that i love them.
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