A cookie mix from home...turned out YUMMY!!
Sister Gillespie and "Health Days"
Our church building, soccer/basketball court.Hey everyone how are things going? So this week we had a lot of things that happened. First of all, we had interviews with President and Sister Gillespie. President Gillespie talked about the importance of having unity in the companionship. What we are doing now will help us later on in our lives too...marraige.
On Saturday, we had the baptism of Caterin Quiroga. She was so excited for her baptism. The water was nice and hot too which felt great. I had the opportunity of baptizing her; she wanted the Bishop to confirm. Both the baptism and the confirmation went really well. We did the confirmation on Sunday right before the Sacrament. On Saturday it was raining in the morning but it had stopped by the time the baptism ended. We ate lunch with the mamita, Hermana Loreto and her two sons, Angelo and Claudio. We had completos. They were so good!
On Sunday, we went to Pablo and Maria´s house and had an activity. We made the chocolate chip cookies that my parents sent. They were so good! Sadly, we didnt have nice cold milk to wash them down with.
Oh, on Tuesday, we played soccer again but we started playing basketball after an hour. It was Elder Tensmeyer and I with a little deacon against 4 big dudes. we clowned them. It was so funny to see how uncomfortable they were in that sport. I guess its kinda how i must look to them playing soccer.
This week with our investigators, we had some success. We finally were able to find and teach Ximena. It had been over a month since the last time we taught her. She is doing well but hasnt gone to church yet. We are going to be working with that. We also had a VERY “frank” discussion with the Morales Family. We passed by them and they said that it wasnt for them,...meaning the gospel. Turns out that they hadnt even read nor prayed to see if it was true. They said that they were Catholic and werent going to change. We explained that that wasnt the purpose of reading and praying. All we wanted them to do was to see if the Book of Mormon was true. If they receive a testimony of that then all other things fall in after. We explained a lot about how important the authority is and that plainly not all paths lead to God. They accepted the commitment to read and pray and we are going by them again tomorrow to see how things went.
Other than that, we are just focusing on finding people to teach. We are focusing a lot on getting the members involved in missionary work so that they can give references. That sure makes the work a lot easier and more enjoyable for us as it fills our days with teaching instead of just contacting.
Take care ya´ll and talk to ya next week. Chao Elder nelson
On Saturday, we had the baptism of Caterin Quiroga. She was so excited for her baptism. The water was nice and hot too which felt great. I had the opportunity of baptizing her; she wanted the Bishop to confirm. Both the baptism and the confirmation went really well. We did the confirmation on Sunday right before the Sacrament. On Saturday it was raining in the morning but it had stopped by the time the baptism ended. We ate lunch with the mamita, Hermana Loreto and her two sons, Angelo and Claudio. We had completos. They were so good!
On Sunday, we went to Pablo and Maria´s house and had an activity. We made the chocolate chip cookies that my parents sent. They were so good! Sadly, we didnt have nice cold milk to wash them down with.
Oh, on Tuesday, we played soccer again but we started playing basketball after an hour. It was Elder Tensmeyer and I with a little deacon against 4 big dudes. we clowned them. It was so funny to see how uncomfortable they were in that sport. I guess its kinda how i must look to them playing soccer.
This week with our investigators, we had some success. We finally were able to find and teach Ximena. It had been over a month since the last time we taught her. She is doing well but hasnt gone to church yet. We are going to be working with that. We also had a VERY “frank” discussion with the Morales Family. We passed by them and they said that it wasnt for them,...meaning the gospel. Turns out that they hadnt even read nor prayed to see if it was true. They said that they were Catholic and werent going to change. We explained that that wasnt the purpose of reading and praying. All we wanted them to do was to see if the Book of Mormon was true. If they receive a testimony of that then all other things fall in after. We explained a lot about how important the authority is and that plainly not all paths lead to God. They accepted the commitment to read and pray and we are going by them again tomorrow to see how things went.
Other than that, we are just focusing on finding people to teach. We are focusing a lot on getting the members involved in missionary work so that they can give references. That sure makes the work a lot easier and more enjoyable for us as it fills our days with teaching instead of just contacting.
Take care ya´ll and talk to ya next week. Chao Elder nelson
