Category: Missionary

The latest on what is happening with our missionaries.

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The Bricenos and Many False Prophets

Yay!!  The Briceno family got baptized! 😀  Richard didn’t show up.  He said he forgot, but we don’t know if maybe he was just discouraged or if he literally forgot…  So he will be baptized this Saturday.  (He is Bro David and Ana Briceno’s fifteen-year-old son).  That was pretty disappointing, especially since I’ve never had problems with people turning back on their baptisms up until these last two changes.  But hopefully it is for the better this way, because now we can repent and bring that family that we said we would bring to the Briceno baptism but we actually… didn’t bring… and they were waiting for us…  It was kind of a nightmare baptism because we weren’t sure they would be able to be baptized until the day before (because they had to have a second baptismal interview in which President had to decide whether or not they could baptize) and well… we as missionaries just don’t have time apart to plan baptisms and we’re expected to keep lessons up all day everyday so…
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tropical storms and stuff

Well, another interesting week as always.  We put baptismal dates with the Briceno family, and we went back to teach the Nino family again, and they look a lot more positive than they did before, but they have some big problems in that their daughter is angry with her father and hasn’t talked to him for a long time so he feels uncomfortable in church.  We also got another sister, Sister Joselin, to finally go to church this week… now we just have to figure out why she doesn’t want to get married when she already has two kids and her companion treats her really well and loves her a lot (he’s an activating member) so I don’t understand why… not?
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LOOOVE YOU

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.

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Reloco

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”

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Catholicism

Well, I started out last week with a cold/cough again, but we had set those really high goals I talked about last week. So, we just worked anyways, and we worked, and we worked. Even after Hna Schwartz twisted her ankle on Saturday. We kept walking around anyways, because we were more or less out of potentials, and we just wanted to find a couple more people. Continue reading “Catholicism”
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Belmopan–week 6!?

Hello dearly beloved seres queridos,

To answer Dad’s questions about my comp, she is from Honduras (like Hna Estrada, but she comes from a part of Honduras that is actually A LOT like the United States) I believe she now has 14 months in the mission (two transfers more than me) so she only has about 3 or 4 transfers left.  I always work with old missionaries.  It’s kind of weird because usually the sisters get to be senior comp after 6 or 8 months or something, but I’ve gotten to work with a lot of sisters who have a lot of experience.  It’s kind of nice because they all already know more than me…  She loves to joke around and bug me.  She wants to be a professional forensic doctor and solve crimes like that.  She has quickly converted to Sweet and Sour Chicken since she’s been with me, and she can almost say it in English now.
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