Hi everyone!
Today we went to a famous statue of Christ in Honduras, called Picachu.
There was a huge park and we just played kickball, and explored and took
pictures. It has been a fun day!
Now I'm going to talk about the family Salinas.
So
last Friday, we were with Rosa and Alison, just chatting about the
day, and then Hermana Concoha shared some scripture. We were in a hurry
because we had an appointment with Jose. I felt impressed to ask Alison
if she wanted to get baptized... she said yes! So we put a date for the
12th of october. "sister snelson?" she told me later. "I really want to
get baptized... but I want to do it with my sisters" "Alison, I know
that you really want to, and we´re going to invite your sisters too.
We´ll all pray that they want to get baptized too."
hermana Rosa walked in later, and said, "she wants to be a
missionary you know." "what??" "Yeah, she told me the other day she
wants to buy more skirts and dress more like you guys." "That´s so
great!" "oh, and she watches less TV" "really?" "Yeah, I walked in the
other day and she was sitting on the couch with her backpack and I asked
her why the TV was off and she said it was because she was reading the
book of mormon."
Did I mention she´s 9??!
Well,
Alison, Rosa, and Rolando all came to Jose´s baptism and that just made Alison ten times more stoked for her own. When we went over on Sunday,
we talked to Katerine and Katia about how Alison wanted to be baptized
with her sisters. We challenged Katerine and Katia who both said they
didn´t feel ready.
So to show them that they were totally ready, we
went over the questions with them on Monday, which they were all able to answer! At the end, all 3 of the girls were positive and excited
about being baptized.
Thursday- Katia told us she didn´t want
to get baptized, but Katerine was still all for it, so we just kept
praying and praying she might change her mind.
Friday- I found this for 50 cents... .happy aloha Friday!
Saturday- We went over to their house before the baptism, to help them get ready.
Katerine pulled Hermana C. aside and told her that she didn´t want
to get baptized, she just didn´t feel ready.
I was worried how Alison was going to take it, but
she was more positive than ever that this was exactly what she wanted.
We got to the church and she went to have her interview and we went with
Hermano M. (1st counselor in the bishopric, an amazing convert,
and has really helped a lot with the family) to talk with the family. He
talked about how we have to make our descisions for ourselves and about how we can´t let others
infulence our own choices. Hermano R. took the floor after and was
talking about how grateful he was that we showed up in their lives. He
started crying as he said that he really doesn´t want his children to
live a life like his, and knows that being a member in this church can
make the difference.
It was amazing! There have been so many moments on my
mission where the spirit can be felt so strong, but the people being taught are still learning to recognize it. The most we can do is plant
the seed.
Next goal: getting Rosa and Rolando married, and baptizing the rest of the girls.
This week was great, full of random fun adventures!
Three weeks ago we went shopping in The Kennedy- this district of
like, 20 thrift stores, scouting out all the ones that were 2 dollars or
less. We were walking along when someone yells, "everything 10 limpiras!"
(50 cents) so of course we took off running. That was where I found my
favorite floral dress, and another skirt, along with this skirt. We were just about to leave the store, and the sisters
said it looked a little big but I was wanting a grey skirt, and
50 cents?!
Later, when we get home I look and see that it is BCBG brand. It was a little big on me, but luckily one of my less active members we visit
once a week is a seamstress (suuuper common profession) and I asked if
she could take it in, and maybe cut it just past my knee.
this is what I got!
"I made it shorter in the front, and longer in the back... that´s how they do it in the states, right?"
"I made it shorter in the front, and longer in the back... that´s how they do it in the states, right?"
Another fun story: 3 of the elders in my ward (there´s 6 missionaries in my ward in total!) also celebrate their birthday this month (elder P´s is today, I´m next) and soooo one of Elder P´s converts brought us lunch to the church to eat before English classes and she even brought pineapple cake. ;)
so delicious & nice!
Love you guys :) The church is so true, go out and share it!
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