Hello family!
I dont have a whole lot to say. Just that i am most likely going to ARUBA again! president came to our ward yesterday and i asked him what he is doing and he said he wants me to be a District leader in ARUBA. SO i may be going there. There is still a week and now president said that three missionaries wont be coming from the MTC becuase of visa problems. So things may change.
But yeah sorry i don't have a whole lot more to say. after christmas we visited more people and ate a whole ton more as well! Now the fridge is full of Candy and Overfilled with Food.
THANKS FOR ALL THAT WAS SENT TO ME THIS CHRISTMAS! I love the Ties books sax playin dogs candy toothbrush and All!
December 21, 2009
So this week hmmmm
This week was good, We had a few days where we went and talked and just out of the blue got 4 or 5 lessons. The Arce Family seemed very excited to come to the ward activity for christmas. Then... the same sisters from before kicked them out of the kitchen, they got offended by that and left without saying a word to us. As they left another member asked what was wrong and he told them that he got kicked out so he didn't want to be there anymore. we didn't know this till sunday afternoon after we noticed that He didn't come to church.
These sisters also the same day offended a member whos son went in to go ask for a hamburger and they said no he had already eaten and they left as well, and they didn't come to church either. There are a few sisters that really just dont have patience nor treat situations with much tact. We are going to speak with the bishop about it but so far nothing has changed. It is the same as it was when we got here.
But other than that we are trying hard to get our goals. This week we had interviews with president martineau and it was great! just being able to talk to him about the work. I wonder if NEPHI had PPI's with his dad... i imagine so. That would be kind of neat to listen in on one of those. This week we also found a way cool cuban guy and he told us so much about cuba that i didn't know! I had no idea how bad it was! It is pretty much Communist. I will tell you more when i call you. Woohoo! i get to call you. Well i will call in the evening for me on christmas eve. At about 9 oclock here. which is about 5 ocklock there. or maybe even a little later. THATS CHRISTMAS EVE. Christmas day Probably in the evening as well. Like 7 here which would be 3 there. i think. We dont have daylight savings time here so i am way confused. But yeah i believe it is four hours in the winter and 3 in the summer but i am not sure.
Also i apologize i didn't send much. i will probably send some puerto rican candy again for Dia De Los Reyes Magos (puerto Rico's Second Christmas) which is the 6th of January. Day of the wise men...
This week as well i made good friends with some security dogs. They are there to protect all these things and they make a lot of noise but they love me! I walked by and petted and they loved me. All but two licked me and wagged their tails. Two just kept barking but never bit me.
We walked a lot and this week we are going to be walking a lot more. We're out of miles. =) so yeah we will be having fun. Contacting more which is good.
President talked to me this morning about the islands. i think im going back now. WOohoo! Letters every three weeks again! Yeah!
Well Talk to you soon!
This week was good, We had a few days where we went and talked and just out of the blue got 4 or 5 lessons. The Arce Family seemed very excited to come to the ward activity for christmas. Then... the same sisters from before kicked them out of the kitchen, they got offended by that and left without saying a word to us. As they left another member asked what was wrong and he told them that he got kicked out so he didn't want to be there anymore. we didn't know this till sunday afternoon after we noticed that He didn't come to church.
These sisters also the same day offended a member whos son went in to go ask for a hamburger and they said no he had already eaten and they left as well, and they didn't come to church either. There are a few sisters that really just dont have patience nor treat situations with much tact. We are going to speak with the bishop about it but so far nothing has changed. It is the same as it was when we got here.
But other than that we are trying hard to get our goals. This week we had interviews with president martineau and it was great! just being able to talk to him about the work. I wonder if NEPHI had PPI's with his dad... i imagine so. That would be kind of neat to listen in on one of those. This week we also found a way cool cuban guy and he told us so much about cuba that i didn't know! I had no idea how bad it was! It is pretty much Communist. I will tell you more when i call you. Woohoo! i get to call you. Well i will call in the evening for me on christmas eve. At about 9 oclock here. which is about 5 ocklock there. or maybe even a little later. THATS CHRISTMAS EVE. Christmas day Probably in the evening as well. Like 7 here which would be 3 there. i think. We dont have daylight savings time here so i am way confused. But yeah i believe it is four hours in the winter and 3 in the summer but i am not sure.
Also i apologize i didn't send much. i will probably send some puerto rican candy again for Dia De Los Reyes Magos (puerto Rico's Second Christmas) which is the 6th of January. Day of the wise men...
This week as well i made good friends with some security dogs. They are there to protect all these things and they make a lot of noise but they love me! I walked by and petted and they loved me. All but two licked me and wagged their tails. Two just kept barking but never bit me.
We walked a lot and this week we are going to be walking a lot more. We're out of miles. =) so yeah we will be having fun. Contacting more which is good.
President talked to me this morning about the islands. i think im going back now. WOohoo! Letters every three weeks again! Yeah!
Well Talk to you soon!
December 14, 2009
This week was great! We didnt get our contacts but we were able to get our hours of finding time. It is definitely a challenge to get them goals. Any extra time we have i feel like we are talking to people. But the funny things is the more and more we talk to people the less people let us into their homes. We are not getting new investigators and spending a whole lot of time dedicated to just talking to people. BUT this week we did have a great experience with the arce family. We went and talked to them about baptism. Asking them if they were ready to make a decision and be baptized. He told us the same thing that he had talked to his pastor and just wanted to stay where he was and continue visiting us. So we asked him a few questions to see what it was that was really stopping him. and we also had a member with us. The member just kind of took over. A little stronger and more brave than we were being. Just said do you want to follow Jesus Christ or not. He asked him. if Jesus Christ was right here and told you to get baptized would you do it. He said of course. Then he asked and do you feel that Joseph Smith was a prophet? he again replied of course. and then he continued to ask if he thought Thomas monson was a prophet. He replied yes. Then he said if Thomas s monson or Joseph smith were here and told you to be baptized would you do it? he replied yes. Then he said well these two young men have been called by thomas monson himself to come here to you to tell you to get baptized. Will you do it? he replied with much hesitation i have already thought about it and just dont know. So we talked a little more and left him with doctrine and covenants 22 to read. He read it and then in church he shared a story in Elders Quorum. We were teaching the young men and didnt hear it but members told us that he said that night after reading what the missionaries had left with him he prayed and then had a dream. he was in a car and asked the chouffer to take him to the True Church of Jesus Christ the chouffer took him directly to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints. He stood up and shared this in church and the members assured him with their testimonies that it was the true church. I am very excited to work with them this week. Super!
We also have several appointments this week with some other members which will be great! a few families that we are trying to make into M&M´s (member Missionaries) (a new goal that president has given us 2 M&M´s a week). Tonight we have one and wednesday we have another with another family and the Senior couple the Vickery´s from boise They are a great couple. We are excited. This week i decided to pass around a lunch appointment sign up in relief society so we can try to make more people M&M´s but only one couple signed up and they feed us each week anyway. it made me kind of sad. =( we will do it again next week and hopefully it will improve.
Thats pretty neat that tommy said that. i never would have imagined i would have been an example. I just worked hard and did what i was taught. It makes me kind of wish i would have done a little better though to deserve the compliment.
I get to talk to my family NEXT WEEK! woohoo! well this week we are having our ward christmas party. I am going to be Santa Clause =) this will be fun! WoohoO!
well yeah! we will talk to you later. I will write you next week and call you on christmas eve to schedule the time on christmas day.
We also have several appointments this week with some other members which will be great! a few families that we are trying to make into M&M´s (member Missionaries) (a new goal that president has given us 2 M&M´s a week). Tonight we have one and wednesday we have another with another family and the Senior couple the Vickery´s from boise They are a great couple. We are excited. This week i decided to pass around a lunch appointment sign up in relief society so we can try to make more people M&M´s but only one couple signed up and they feed us each week anyway. it made me kind of sad. =( we will do it again next week and hopefully it will improve.
Thats pretty neat that tommy said that. i never would have imagined i would have been an example. I just worked hard and did what i was taught. It makes me kind of wish i would have done a little better though to deserve the compliment.
I get to talk to my family NEXT WEEK! woohoo! well this week we are having our ward christmas party. I am going to be Santa Clause =) this will be fun! WoohoO!
well yeah! we will talk to you later. I will write you next week and call you on christmas eve to schedule the time on christmas day.
December 7, 2009
Well this week was good. Although i felt like we were trying to catch up the whole week even to the very end. Which wasn´t bad becuase at the end we had far over our goal of 140 contacts (we got 164). Adding up everything there felt pretty good. WOW We did a whole lot more than i thought we did. This week i would really like to get them normally through our every day activities instead of cita falls through and we just talk to everyone and their dogs. which wasn´t bad but we still could have met with other people throughout the week. This week we had many things set up great we were expecting about 9 people to come to church. a whole family all of a sudden fell sick on sunday morning and another slept in and another´s kids were sick. But a family we weren´t expecting did come. My companion´s family had sent a hymn book to give to them because the last name is the same Arce. and it had it printed on the hymn book. so he gave it to them when they arrived and you should have seen how proudly he carried that hymn book. he asked me. Now when i try to take this out they aren´t going to stop me right? =) made me smile. He left singing the hymn Loor Al Profeta (Praise to the Man) with his children.
I Also loved going to the christmas devotional. I Love Handel´s Messiah and especially when its followed by such a strong speaker. I Loved them all!
This week we also worked a lot with our normal investigators and had some really good lessons with them. We did senor heuvo with Solimari. which is to show baptism by water and baptism by fire. Taking an egg marking him all up. Baptizing him (taking off his shell) and then baptizing him by fire...putting a match in a bottle and putting the egg on top PLOP and its in the bottle (Kingdom of God)
It went great they loved it and the son that has never listened to us before asked when we were coming back.
On sunday we went finding for 3:30 hrs. not a single person let us in. and two or three set up appointments. =) woohoO!
This morning our dueña asked me to fix her computer. Some sister missionary that was there before us supposedly showed her how to use her computer and ever since then it hasn´t worked. So i got on and simply fixed it. She was going to go pay to get it fixed and said they wanted just $50 to look at it. in less than 30 minutes i had it running nice and smooth.
Getting closer and closer to christmas. People get colder and colder this time of year. But i´m glad i can help bring them the warmth of the Gospel. today on our way here a man was on the side of the road we went and got him a dollar of gas and put it in his car and he went away offering us lunch. =) Nice guy.
i lOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH!
tHANKS for the package.. Camera! I did get grandmas card! wrote her a letter the other day. Love you All!
I Also loved going to the christmas devotional. I Love Handel´s Messiah and especially when its followed by such a strong speaker. I Loved them all!
This week we also worked a lot with our normal investigators and had some really good lessons with them. We did senor heuvo with Solimari. which is to show baptism by water and baptism by fire. Taking an egg marking him all up. Baptizing him (taking off his shell) and then baptizing him by fire...putting a match in a bottle and putting the egg on top PLOP and its in the bottle (Kingdom of God)
It went great they loved it and the son that has never listened to us before asked when we were coming back.
On sunday we went finding for 3:30 hrs. not a single person let us in. and two or three set up appointments. =) woohoO!
This morning our dueña asked me to fix her computer. Some sister missionary that was there before us supposedly showed her how to use her computer and ever since then it hasn´t worked. So i got on and simply fixed it. She was going to go pay to get it fixed and said they wanted just $50 to look at it. in less than 30 minutes i had it running nice and smooth.
Getting closer and closer to christmas. People get colder and colder this time of year. But i´m glad i can help bring them the warmth of the Gospel. today on our way here a man was on the side of the road we went and got him a dollar of gas and put it in his car and he went away offering us lunch. =) Nice guy.
i lOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH!
tHANKS for the package.. Camera! I did get grandmas card! wrote her a letter the other day. Love you All!
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