Dora accepted her date for baptism
and so she is being baptized this Saturday with her kids Ronny and Mary Lisa. I
am so EXCITED! The ward has been so amazing with them and has totally accepted
them. Ronny and Mary Lisa have so many friends and it is the best thing in the
world. I love this family so much!
We also had a really good lesson
with Cristian. We had to move his goal for baptism because he never comes to
church. But he feels like he needs a whole year to research the church. But I
just pray that he will receive his answer and know he doesn’t need a whole year
because the gospel is a thing that you will always learn for the rest of your
life. The problem with Cristian as well is his family. Especially the brother
he always slams the door in our face and tells us to leave. Cristian has family
members that are LDS and his parents are also taking the lessons from us as
well but they are ridiculously hard to get lessons with. It’s hard not to get
annoyed.
We also invited this cute chica that
works in a tortillaria to be baptized on the 30 of August. She said she has to
prayer about it but she is really positive. Her name is Sonia and is 15 years
old. She also works with two other chicas they taught me how to make tortillas
and it’s the hardest thing in the world. They make it look so easy but it’s
flipping hard. I love these girls so much we have become such good friends with
them! One of the really hard things here in Guatemala is keeping the Sabbath
day holy. It’s next to impossible not to work on Sunday. So we always try to
find a space of time Sonia can come to church on Sundays. But yesterday I
wasn’t able to go to church. I was puking and had diarrhea the whole bloody
day. Guatemala hates my body. Also my
boots aren’t good because they are for the snow and they get soaked to death
and take days to dry out. So that is why I needed boots for rain. I don’t know
why you sent two pairs though. And I pray they are for the rain. It has been
raining here for a while though. But when it rains it POURS! Anyways but
today I feel a waaaaay better. So pray for my health and that I won’t have more
problems in the future.
Anyways Hna Tomasa one of our investigators
thinks our church is the same and doesn’t want to get baptized. And she had a
huge barrier with us. But this week we presented service just a ton of service
and she loves us now. So hopefully this will help her be more receptive to the
church. Her son and daughter had their birthdays this week. And we bought him a
cake. It was one of the best nights of my life. It was way better than my bday
will ever be. They are so poor and to see all of their smiles on their faces
was the best thing in this world. Words cannot explain. I love this gospel it
is the best thing ever. And I love my mission it’s so hard but it’s so
great!!
Also this week the wards in the
stake had a huge soccer tournament. They are so amazing at soccer it was so
cool to be there for a minute. We brought some investigators to the activity
and we got a new investigator that night too. It was so fun! I love this place.
We also ran into keivin the person I contacted but he wasn’t in our area. He
knows this church is true he is just scared to get baptized because his whole
family is catholic. But we had a mini lesson to not listen to his fears.
Sorry my email is all over the place
like usual. But I love you all so much! I will send other emails with pictures.
Thanks for your emails. Sorry that I can’t reply to everyone but you have no
idea how good it is to hear from everyone. Love you!
Hna Anderson
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