Things are good here. Today is sunny, but the past three days it´s been non-stop rainy and cold! It gets soooo freezing here in the night!! Our houses aren´t heated and the humidity makes it impossible to be warm. One of the members gave me some long sleeve turtle-neck sweaters, which are huge and not cute, but I don´t care because it gets so cold. This is just the beginning too. Ha! Ha! Oh well, I just need to buy some warmer clothes.
So this week was really good, but also sad and kind of hard...
Good news first! We had a baptism on Saturday for Hellen! Woot. It was really cool to see her get baptized!
She seemed really happy and the spirit was really strong at the service.
Another good thing that happened was that we placed two more baptismal dates!
This lady named May and her daughter, Carla. I was the one to ask them to get
baptized too, so that was cool :) Now
for the bad news... We lost two investigators.. Remember the lady I told you
about while we were skype-ing, how her daughter prayed and was like "oh
señor, te gracias señor, oh señor, señor, señor, señor!" Well anyway,
their names are Elia and Onetta. So we were teaching Onetta (the daughter) the
restoration and it was going really well. the spirit was really strong and she was
understanding everything... but then Elia came home. She´s kind of crazy... and she started going
off about how the bible talks about false prophets and blah blah and then
Onetta said she didn´t want to be more confused with religion and agreed with
her mom. They haven´t been reading the Book of Mormon. It kind of turned into an argument a little. Not really, but the mom is just nuts. We were super nice and humble and explained
that we weren´t trying to change their religion, just teach them and invite
them to come unto Christ, but they refused. She asked us not to come back anymore... Bleh....
and then after that on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we could not place any
appointments and no one was home when we´d go to their houses... it was
frustrating....but oh well.. Hopefully, we have more luck this week... Also on
the bad news side, the glue on my retainer fell off... So I have a loose wire
again and my tooth is already starting to turn... I might need braces again
when I get home...
Oh, while we were eating
lunch one day this week this lady just pulled down her shirt and started
nursing her baby!! I think I may have made a face, but no one else was even phased
by it... Ha! Ha! Welcome to Latin America.
Also, I´ve forgotten to
tell you about the earthquakes! We´ve had three so far! They are really small
and everything just shakes for a bit and then they´re over. There was supposed
to be a huge one last Sunday at 10 pm, but it never came. I guess earthquake predictions like that are
really common. They predict them and they never come. Well that´s it for this
week! Hopefully this week is better... I love you all and I miss you a lot
sometimes!!
Love, Hermana Hermansen
P.S. Tell Bailey HAPPY BIRTHDAY for me tomorrow!! I sent her a
card, but it will take about two weeks for it to get there.
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