Category: Rebekah’s Mission

What Rebekah is doing on her mission.

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Disappointing Week

Dear Family,

It was a little disappointing of a week because 5 baptismal dates fell through because Sister Orellano said she couldn’t come to church because her pastora from the other church she goes to is angry with her for going to our church and she has that “commitment” to go to the other church and she doesn’t seem to understand the Restoration after all… and Brother Orellano was drunk… and if the parents go, the kids go too.  We also lost another one because Brother Alejandro got called in to work… and so now of course the Zone Leaders are asking us to baptize him Sunday, but we’ll see.
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The Really Big Beach

Questions First
Do people usually stay in Belize until they go home, or is it possible you will get sent back to El Salvador?  Yes, I will go back to El Salvador at least to have the last hoopla dinner before we go home.  I actually found out today that there aren’t transfers in March, so I think I’m going home at the end of February after all…  I should probably ask President, but I don’t wanna sound like I’m baggy…  There is a slight chance I might go back to train in El Salvador, but it’s very likely I will finish my mission in Belize because of the paperwork that goes into getting people here they usually plan to keep us here a while.
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It was Interesting

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”

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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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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”