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This girl left on her
mission last week! Their family is really fun!
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| This little girl has just got TONS of energy! |
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| When it rains IT POURS!!! |
So first thing; I
just gotta tell you all what happened yesterday. NEVER in my mission has this
happened. So we went to church yesterday and we had two investigators there and
it was really great. Well, during the passing of the sacrament Hidalgo (the old
guy that came to church the last Sunday) walks right into the room and says
with his deep Mexican voice: “Buenas Diaz Hermanos!" Then this less active,
Pascal, that was sitting with us says back "buenas dias"! It was just
one of those face palm moments. Then after sacrament I talked to him. Earlier
this week we went to go look for him, but he wasn’t there and we heard people fighting
(he doesn’t get along with his family) so he tells me that he forgot and that
he felt real bad. So we went to the next class and he was talking with Hermana
Hoggan a little. During the class they were talking about baptism and he asked
her if he could get baptized and she said “YES”! So then priesthood came and we
told him to stay for the next class and we would meet him after. So our last
class gets over and we race to go find him and then he left...and we were
bummed. So later that night we were walking to a cita and we stopped by to see
if he was home. Well, he answered the door and we asked him why he left and he
tells us. “Well, I was waiting to get baptized but then ya never came back to
baptize me and so I just left.” I was just trying not to laugh. So we explained
a little more to him about it all and he now has a date to get baptized the end
of this month, but we will see what happens. He’s just this cute little 82 year
old man that loves God! So tomorrow we are going to explain a little bit more
to him.
Also we both spoke in
church yesterday about the atonement. The bishop called us and told us the night
before we were going to speak; don’t worry, that’s pretty normal. It went
really good. In my whole mission so far I have spoken a solid 12 times. That’s
actually a lot compared to others. So I was still kinda nervous to talk, but I
prayed for good guidance and I felt really calm during my talk and it went well
although I didn’t use what I wrote down at all. After the meeting this guy came
up to me and told me “Congratulations!” (In broken English) I just looked at
him a little confused and said “thank you?” He said “you spoke fast!” I was
just waiting for the insult to follow, but then he said that I spoke very well
and that the talk was good of Hermana Hoggan and me. Sometimes I get into my
head that I still don’t know Spanish and so I get a little harder on myself
than I really should be, but it’s going good.
It’s just been such a
great week and I am just loving it so much with Hermana Hoggan! We have so much
fun together and we work really well together. This week I learned lots and I
became even more thankful for Christ and his atonement! We have the talks from
conference that we listen to every morning when we are getting ready and it
really brings the spirit into our house and gets us ready for our studies and
for our day. I want to invite you all to do that for this week and see how your
days get better. Just in the mornings pull up one of the talks from this
conference onto your fancy phones and listen to them and act on what they are
saying for the day. It will help you have the spirit present! I love you all so
much and hope you have a good FAMILY HOME EVENING tonight!
Les Quiero
mucho!
Hermana Velasquez
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