Hi family!
(Email 6-2-14)
Another
week is done. I can't believe how fast time goes. It's June already, and I will
be hitting my year mark this week, (June 5th). Crazy to think I have
been out here for that long already. It's just flown right by. Think about all
that has happened this year! What a wonderful year it has been :)
This
week was a bit of ups and downs, but so much learning experiences, and much
more ups than downs! There was really only one down, but it will all be
alright. Jime and Lupita decided to postpone their baptism. They still want to
do it, just need more time and want to finish this commitment they have to be
godparents in the Catholic Church. So hopefully soon! We were working hard to
prepare them for this Saturday. They have been taught everything, had the
program all ready to go, even had their interview done. Jime has really been
having a hard time committing to baptism though, and he just didn't feel ready
for it. At first, I wanted it to happen so badly this week, I was praying and
trying to push it. But then it dawned on me, that I needed to listen to what Jime
was saying to me. That I wanted him to have the desire and the firmness in his
decision so that he could keep those covenants for his whole life. It's always
important to remember that God has a plan, that lots of times it’s not YOUR plan,
but His plan is always better. So when we officially decided to postpone the
baptism, I felt really peaceful and really hopeful about it.
I also realized that I need to improve my teaching abilities,
and am learning how I can improve. I am grateful for this experience because I
really am learning a lot from it. I know it will work out. They are still
excited about it, still came to church yesterday and everything. Hopefully this
will help the members step up the game a little bit and work harder for this
family. We have seen it already with some of them!
We had
exchanges on Thursday with Hermana Coy and we went to her area. It was really
great. We went to her district meeting and learned a lot there (got 2 district
meetings this week haha! good thing they are always super great). She is a
great teacher too, and we learned some great techniques from her. I want to
really help all the investigators have a firm foundation in their testimony of
the Restoration before I move on to other gospel doctrines/principles. Because
if they have a firm testimony that this is the true church on the earth, then
they can accept everything else so much easier. I also want to listen, observe,
and discern more - really teach according to people's needs.
On
Saturday we spent a couple hours contacting in the 107* sun. Haha it was fun
though. People offer us water so we get to talk more to them. We really need to
find some new investigators that are prepared and going to progress, so we
decided we were going to talk to literally every single person that we saw
until dinner time. They all live so close, and all speak Spanish, so it was
great. We found a family that just moved from Mexico and are just about to move
into the trailer park and had never talked with missionaries before. We found
someone who took a semester of seminary in high school, a bunch of other
people. So hopefully there is potential with some of those people! We had a
mission wide fast yesterday for finding opportunities and finding successes, so
hopefully we see some great things this month!
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| Working in the Sun. So much sun! |
We did
lots of service this week too, I think I washed more dishes this week than I
have in a very long time. I love it though. There were a few hermanas in our
ward that got in a bad car accident this week, so we wanted to help them, and
dishes is the least that we could do.
That's
pretty much it for this week. I feel like this is kind of short, so sorry about
that! Next week we have a temple excursion, so President Jenkins will be there
and we will have a little meeting in the chapel before so I am really excited
for that. And we will have ZTM (zone testimony meeting).
I am
trying to think if there is any other random things I can tell you about my
life, but I can't really think of any. Haha ok well, about the respados
(Mexican snowcones), I said earlier in the day that I wanted to try one, and
then we had them later that day. Tender mercy, haha maybe?
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| We were going to have a noche de hogar, but instead they made us respados, Mexican snow cones. (So much better than American ones.) Hopefully we can do the NdH next week! |
Mom this will make you happy, there are canals all
throughout the city, and we run along them every morning, and there are always
bunnies out there by them! Haha so I always get excited for that. We keep
finding cockroaches in our apartment. Only 3 so far, and Hna Hurd always kills
them for me. But my bathroom got infested with ants, but we had some raid, so
they all died. Thank goodness for raid. Ummm... well I think that's it. A
little bit of variety?
It's
so reassuring to know that we have the truth in our lives, and that we always
know how to receive the guidance that we need. That's something we have been
trying to focus on with the people that we teach - how to recognize the Holy
Ghost and receive answers to prayers. I know that we can find answers to every
single thing that we need. It all matters to Him. Maybe we can't find it out
exactly when we want to, but God loves us and He has the best in mind for us.
Never doubt that! I am trying to learn to trust in Him and rely on Him more and
more.
I love
you all so much! Hope you have a great week!
Con
amor,
Hermana
Haynes
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| Got super close to running out of gas, haha, but we made it! |
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| Hna. hurds new friend noviembre |
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