Hello world!!!
Today we had transfers again!! Heck,
6 weeks go by soo fast! But Hermana Martinez and I stay together!!! I was
so excited to hear that Hermana Martinez was staying with me, honestly.
We are both super excited to be able to work together for another transfer.
There is a lot that we have planned for this next cambio [period before
transfers].
Our investigator, Bernardina, has a
fecha [baptismal date] for the 18th and she has 2 asistencias [attendances to
church]; she is super excited for it and really has changed and realized the
need for repentance and the need to be baptized into the church. She all the
time when we are talking about prophets will say, ‘Like Jose Smith was a
prophet that god called as well,’ and is great! She is an older lady of 74 but
loves the church!
And then, guess what? The members are
giving us references!!! And they are going with us to the lessons and sharing
with their friends!!! This is something super new and foreign in Rama 1 [First Branch]; it
like never happens, but it is so exciting because in the past 6 weeks that I
have been here we have seen the excitement for the mission work just go up! This
past Sunday, one of the members brought her friend to the church and the friend
said that she wants to get baptized and how can she do it?!!! We have a lesson
with her on Wednesday and are going to talk about lesson 1 and put a baptizmal
date! Her name is Graciela and she is the friend of Hermana Carla that was
baptized like a year ago!
Then Hermana Gladis Pagganino, the
daughter of the branch president (she is like 30 yrs old), had been talking to
her friend about the church, and this past Wednesday we went to visit the
friend, Eva, with Hermana Gladis. Eva has 4 children and one is 10 and the
other is 8 and can get baptized too! She loves the things that Gladis has shared
with her about the church!
Rama 1 is amazing; the members are
getting much more involved in the obra misional [missionary work] and the animo
[enthusiasm] is going up, it is amazing to see!!
Life in Rama 1 is exciting and every
day is a new adventure. We are meeting lots of really good people!
Hermana Loaiza, one of our sister
missionaries, is having a really rough time with her knee. We did divisions [splits]
with them so that Hermana Vierilves could go out. This week Hermana Loaiza is
going to go to the doctor and we will see what happens, we pray for the best!
This past week there have been so
many miracles from God. A lot of our investigators have moved recently, so we
lost them, but God has blessed us with new ones and really amazing ones! God is
in charge of everything!
Today I bought my first pair of
mission pants, so tomorrow we will start going out in pants!!! The season [of risk
for dengue and Zika] is dying, but there are still people with dengue and zika,
but the zika isn’t as bad here, so that is good! This is going to be soo weird! But it is really cool
to be out on the mission in the part of the world where we can now start
wearing pants!!
Oh funny
story, it was awful!!! This past week when we went to Obligado to do divisions,
there was a movie going... heck, I have never seen a movie so bad in my life; it
was definitely R-Rated and had a heck of a lot of awful things. Hermana
Martinez and I were just trying to write in our journal, study the scriptures
or look out the window, but the sound was loud. We both decided that when we
get home we are both only ever watching Disney movies after this, haha.
All is great here, God is amazing
and this is his true church! Jesus Christ is our Savior; because of him we can
repent and receive all the blessings that God has waiting for us! I love this
work and this gospel and know that it is true.
I encourage you all to study the
Book of Mormon and really ponder what God has to say to YOU!
I love you all!
Hermana Newell
