Adventures of the Holladay family…
Well, we just had what we as missionaries like to call a big… “machete.” Ouch. My first District Leader said one time that the old mission President, Pte Lopez, when he macheted he macheted with a dull blade, so you FELT it when he macheted you, but when Pte Cordon machetes you, you don’t know what’s happening until a moment later you see your head’s on the floor. Continue reading “It was Interesting”
I’m not sure what to say about my first couple of days in Liahona 1st I haven’t been able to spend as much time out working as I would like. Between the VC and weekly planning I really haven’t gotten to do much. I have been working on my street contacting skills, because Sis Noble isn’t quite confident enough in her Spanish yet to be very bold with talking to everyone, and like I said before EVERYONE is Hispanic in this area. Continue reading “It cooled down just to heat up again”
So, this week I will hit the one year mark. Crazy, isn’t it? Yeah, my personal grooming standards, that weren’t very high to begin with, have lowered even further while being on a mission. My hair hasn’t been cut in over 4 transfers, but I’m going to try to get it done today… we’ll see. It also means it’s been a year since I… did lots of things.
Today I am really cranky, because someone made a comment on my Spanish and it hurt my feelings. So, this is probably going to be short. There were some miracles this week. My favorite one is that Luis bore his testimony in Sacrament meeting yesterday. He’s getting baptized this Saturday and I’m pretty stoked. I haven’t had very many baptisms on my mission, but I feel like the people I have been able to help teach have really great testimonies, and it’s a huge blessing. I worry about Ana I still don’t really know what happened to her. Last I heard she was in Venezuela, but I don’t even know why she ended up being deported. 🙁 I wish I had more time to figure it out.
Things have been slowing down–and that is BAD. We need to keep up. Sister Duarte was telling me about how in her ward one time there were 40 baptisms in one month. Because there were ward missionaries helping with the teaching and the entire ward was involved. Wow. 40. Sister Duarte said on the day of all the baptisms, one of the sisters fainted when the 25th person was baptized. Yeah. I would faint too. I would probably faint several times before the baptisms too. But it just goes to show miracles are possible, and really… every member is a missionary. If everyone would get involved the second coming would probably come a lot, a lot faster… Continue reading “Reloco”