Hola!! que mas.
Everything here is
going just dandy! its actually really cold outside today...(yeah-weird.)
4 more days until my yearbook. boy do i feel old.
Yes the youth did have
efy! its summer here, and they start school again in a week or two. they
all went to casa blanca, near valparaiso..sort of. they all loved it and
are stoked for missionary work.
its funny!
Lots of miracles
happened this week. again.!
To start. this week,
we were trying to visit some future investigators in chalinga-outside of
salamanca. we were with two young women from our branch. we knocked
the door of a lady who said we could return the other day, and she was opening
the gate, when a boy whom we had passed a minute or two back came back and
returned. He said,"excuse, are you people like religious?
preach the word of God and all? somebody was talking to me before
about this stuff-and gave me a pamphlet...and i have lots of questinos about
lots fo things. i think...i think its all true." upside number
one-we have a new investigator! we visited him this week and he even went
to church! upside number two-he totally bore a testimony in front of
another new investigator! freaking awesome.
His name is Cristobal.
we taught him the first part of the plan of salvation-because he has all
the qustions, why am i here, where i am going, etc...hes super receptive!
he listens super well and in the end we invited him to be baptized. he said
yes, and he went to church on sunday!!! i got to teach the class about our
celestial family and i think he still has a billion questions, but he said he
is praying and reading so that is good!
speaking of church
attendance...another good number in the church yesterday! some of our
less actives have recieved callings which is helping a lot, starting to wear
suits to church, and even one of the investigators has a calling!
i saw a dude in the
plaza with a wolfshirt. i thought he was pretty cool, but then he told
me,"good afternoon!" lol. cool dude.
i asked our branch
president if i could be gospel principles teacher because we dont officially
have one. he said probably if all is well with the manuels. i like it so
i can practice teaching more. LOVE TEACHING!!
The elders
investigator-Carlita, got baptized on saturday! they asked me to sing a song
for the baptism, so i sang i know that my redeemer lives, the first two verses
in spanish, second two in english. hermana calderon i could see got
really choked up. it was so cute to see little carlita get baptized-she has 11 years
and all her siblings are baptized, but her parents aren't members.
we are still working
in el tambo-the coutnry part of our area-we have lots of area in the country.
we were working there this week and went to go wait for the bus to take
us back to salamanca. we waited half an hour and it never came. we got
the feeling it wasnt going to come, but knew it had to be for some reason or
another. we started to walk back to salamanca, but who stops to pick us up?
one of our new investigators! and her family. yay!
the mission life is
good. has its ups and its downs. but i love it! i love seeing the
progress of things-even if we dont have a ton of baptisms here in salamanca, we
have seen some great changes and many miracles.
right now, we are
hoping for the baptism of cristobal march 9 this month!!! right before
transfers...
love you all!
-hermana emily
hanks
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