Lovin` the mish in Libertad
First
off.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!! Just because she´s sending this email to
everyone I´m going to let you all know that you should be jealous,
because I have the most wonderful mom in the whole world, don´t even try
to tell me otherwise!
Ok now..
This week has
definitely been interesting. I`m really sorry that I have been slacking
on my emails to everyone. I`ve had a lot going on on this end, but I
promise from now on I`m going to be better! First off I`m not really
sure what I said the last week so I will just start from the beginning
of this week and hope that is enough...
Monday..
P day as usual, we ended up heading back to a part in my old area and I
got a little sad that I couldn`t stay there is La Pascana for a little
bit longer and see my old friends, but hey that`s the mission life I
guess! That night we had a lesson with Nayeli and Cesar, I think I
mentioned them last week.. but if not Nayeli is 12 and Cesar is 9, they
are the kids of a less active member Stefany. They are getting ready to
be baptized this Saturday
and we are so excited!! We gave them their Books of Mormon this week
and I drew a picture of a temple in Nayeli´s and in Cesar´s a CTR or Haz
lo Justo in Spanish shield. They loved them and have been reading a
little bit. They also came to church with their mom on Sunday
which was awesome, I think she`s going to keep going now for good! Also
we are working on finding her husband, but he works a lot so we haven`t
been able to get in touch with him yet. We also had a Noche de Hogar
(Family home evening) with a less active family and the Bishop´s family,
we watched a movie about the Atonement that was really awesome and
every time I watch it I feel the Spirit so strongly. If you get a chance
to watch ¨To this end was I born¨ do it!
Tuesday..
Oh goodness this day was just really interesting.. haha. We went to a
different area to teach an investigator that we haven`t been able to
find for a while and we ended up talking with her sister who is an
investigator of the Elders along with her husband. We were able to
console her and explain a few things that she didn´t feel comfortable
asking the Elders. We then went to a bakery that I´m telling you has the
best bread I`ve ever eaten... They are like rolls with pie crust on
top..mmmmm! After we went to visit some less active members in our ward.
Socorro, is 83 and she fell about 5 months ago so she hasn´t been going
to church. She is literally the happiest little old lady and we laughed
for about an hour with her about lots of things! We then had a lesson
with Jose Alberto who we have been teaching for a while. He is sick and
is always complaining about how he is feeling, but this time we were
able to talk more and feel the spirit a little better.
Wednesday..
I went to INDEPENDENCIA... I had a 24 hour work visit with another
Hermana in Violetas. She is from the U.S. and has one transfer less than
I do.. but the thing is is apparently my Spanish is pretty good,
because I taught the majority of every lesson, but I learned so much
from being over there. It was such a fun experience to be in a different
area for a little while and see how other missionaries work!
Thursday..Back
in my area again we had a lesson with a cute girl Rosario who was
recently baptized but hasn´t been coming to church. She is really loving
and listens to what we say, but she´s had it hard because her and her
cousin Maricielo are the only members in their home. We then had another
lesson with a less active member Dustin who we are working to try and
get him back to church, he has a testimony and everything, he just
doesn´t want to go to church for some personal reasons that we haven´t
quite figured out, we think it´s with some of the members.. We then had a
lesson with another less active member (there are lots here.. very sad)
and we committed him to pray.. like really really pray. Then we had
another Noche de Hogar with a cute family that live pretty high up on
one of the hills and talked about the importance of family prayer,
reading scriptures together, and having family home evening.
Friday..
we found another boy who is 10 years old, Brandon, his mom is a member
(less-active) who committed to being baptized. His brother said the
closing prayer and I almost died of laughter... I know you shouldn´t
laugh during prayers..but it was so funny. He prayed that his mom
wouldn´t be lazy and would want to go to church and that ¨Oh hala that
my brother gets baptized PRONTO¨ So anyway I just had to hold back the
laughter... I´m just about dying right now remembering it.. Then later
we had another lesson with Nayeli and Cesar. This actually was the day
we gave them their Books of Mormon now that I am remembering. Stefany,
their mom, was like, why don´t I have a picture in mine? I think she was
a little jealous.. haha.
Saturday...
We had a lesson with Edgar. He is a new investigator that went to
church on his own the last Sunday. We found him the last week on his
computer with the church website opened up which was pretty cool. This
lesson we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ or faith, repentance,
baptism, and the Holy Ghost. He was really receptive to everything, but
when we invited him for a baptismal date he said he wanted lots more
time to prepare and asked us if there were specific classes to take to
prepare... haha we said those classes would be the lessons with the
missionaries.. or us! We had a lesson with Elibet.. her and her husband
have been inactive for years and recently they are starting to come back
to church, we are really working hard with them so they can get married
and sealed in the temple with their three little girls. We also had
another lesson with Jose Alberto and we talked about marriage as well
with him, he wants to obey this commandment so we will be working to get
them married.
Sunday..
Stefany, Nayeli, and Cesar went to church on their own, we only needed
to call them which was awesome! Edgar didn`t show up to church and I was
a little bit sad, and then we couldn´t visit him that night because my
companion wasn´t feeling very good, so we will work on finding him again
this Saturday
to see what happened with church. Jose Alberto came to church and then
told us after that he pretty much hated it... OH NO!! He explained that
the kids that were talking or running around were very distracting and
that he didn´t feel the Spirit at all.. We explained to him that not
everyone is perfect in the church only the gospel is perfect, but he
didn´t listen much, we´re going to do our best to work out that little
problem asap! That night we also had a little lesson with Nayeli and
Cesar about a few commandments.. We are planning their baptism for 7 this Saturday and they are all excited.
Hope this letter was sufficient for all of you ;)
haha really I apologize for slacking, I will do my best to try and write
more.. But I do hope you know that I love you all and think about you
every day! Gotta run!!
LOVE YOU ALL
Hermana Imbler
