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| Me and my companion Hermana Medina. |
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| All four of us that live in Hospital. |
The other day, I was looking out the window from our apartment and I saw a
horse carriage thing. It´s a normal thing to see everday in the city roads.
Then I realized, this is kind of weird. I am in a different country.
Sometimes I forget because I am really used to life here now, but there are
many things that are different. It´s going to be weird when I come home. But
hey, later today I am going to Walmart.. (Yeah, apparently there´s a Walmart
here.)
Anyway, this week was excellent because it was the conference and so we
were inviting everyone to the conference. Three people I want to talk
about:
First, Hermano Escudero. Let me give you the background story. His wife
has been a member her whole life, but went less active when she was a teen.
About 10 years ago or less, she came back to the church and now she is so
active. He has a daughter that wanted to be baptized a long time ago, but he
was opposed to the idea and wouldn´t let her. After she turned 21, she no
longer needed his permission and she was baptized. Then she served a mission in
Nicaragua. In fact, we were looking at pictures from her mission and there was
one from the MTC in Guatemala. Guess who was in the picture with her? Chantel
Knudsen. Apparently they were in the MTC together there. It´s really a small
world because now we are teaching her Dad. Anyway, we had a really good lesson
with him the other day. He really wants to know if these things are true. At
the end of our lesson, we asked him to pray, kneel down, and ask God if these
things are true. He is a really tall full grown man who knelt down on his knees
to pray to know if these things are true. He cried! The whole family is
praying that he gets baptized because he is the only one that isn´t a member in
all the family. But he came to the conference and we are pretty sure that he
received his answers. The church is true!
Second, Teresa. She starts her cancer treatments next week, and we are
really afraid that her health is going to go down because she has more problems
than just the cancer. She wants to be baptized so bad, but investigators have
to come 3 times before they can be baptized. The other day we went to her house
with some Brothers from the ward to give her a blessing. The next day, she had
so much strength and she wanted to come to the conference. SHE CAME! She was
in pain the whole time, but she said that it was worth it because she felt so
good after. It was amazing.
Third, Ismael. We met Ismael on Friday. His wife and kids left him and
all he does is drink all day everyday. He has no desires to keep living and he
lives his life day to do with everything that he does. When we showed up (on
accident) he started to cry. We told him about the conference and he wanted to
come. He came Saturday morning, and then he came Sunday morning... and then he
came Sunday afternoon. He said that the conferences gave him the strength to
not drink. Two days of not drinking! It is fantastic!
I wish I could write everything, but it is literally impossible. So much
happens everyday all day and we don´t have much times to write. Sorry!
The church is true and I love being a missionary. That´s all.
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| On our way back from Conference. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is illegal. |
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| All four of us again! |
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