Missionary Monday on Wednesday

January 31, 2010

"Hello Family!!  Well today is a cloudy humid day here in Santa Fe! Every night this week it has rained, but usually by 4 it is completely clear. So it just gets more hot and more humid. Santa Fe sits right next to a giant river and the city is low, so it just hot and humid always! The nights get a little bit cooler though which is definitely nice!  This week was good! I don´t remember what I told you last week about our investigators or anything, but we have some really good people that we are teaching!  The very first day that I was here, one of the ladies in our ward had us come over to meet her sister who lives in Buenos Aires. We go over to meet her and they tell us, okay she is going to be her until the 15 of February, and she is going to get baptized the 12th. ALRIGHT!!  haha. So then the sister starts talking.  She's about 40 and she started telling us about how she felt in the home of her sister and how she can feel something different that she wants, then her brother in law (ex missionary) started teaching her a little bit about the gospel, she started reading the Book of Mormon and said that she felt something go throughout her body that she´s never felt before.. so she is going to get baptized on the 12th by her brother in law. The lady said it best when she told us, "We´ve already given her a date, she knows everything, she wants to get baptized, so all you have to do is open your mouths and give her the lessons." What a blessing! Well i'ts a shame that she won´t be here to strengthen the ward, but nonetheless she will be baptized and confirmed a member of the true church of Christ.  We are also teaching the siblings of some recent converts that are preparing to get baptized this next coming week, they and their dad has come to church everyweek but the parents can´t get baptized because they aren´t married, but we are working on that!!!"


"So this area is alot different than my others, because its just like a neighborhood.  There's no stores or big streets or anything. It's just a bunch of houses! I like it! I'm used to an entire town though! And considering that we live with members, all of our investigators and other members are with in a 5 block radius. haha.  We have member meals here everyday. and they feed us a ton! They always make jokes about me gaining back all the weight.. I chuckle...and then think to myself...oh please no...A sister in the ward washes our clothes every other day. We just drop them off on our way out and she has them ready by night time! I love it!!!!! We had stake conference yesterday and a sister spoke who served at temple square! All of us were talking to her, she just got back! Weird to think that she was serving where we live!!  Well we are working hard and I am loving it here!!! I hope you all have  a good week!!!! I love you!!"