October 24, 2011

Hola,

This week has been a pretty good week. This coming Sunday we have a baptism. YEAH!! it´s for a woman named Lucia and honestly I don´t feel like I´ve done a whole lot to contribute to this baptism it was pretty much her. She came to church two weeks ago and said that she had talked with some hermanas a few months early and that she now wanted to be baptised. I´ve always thought that having a baptism would feel a little different and that it would be something that I did. I realized yesterday that isn´t important at all. The thing that is important is that the people are coming unto Christ and really I feel so happy thinking about her and other people doing that. I don´t look at this baptism as a baptism that I got but a baptism that the Lord got and that´s really how it should be. I think this baptism goes along perfectly with Alma 29:9, the scripture that I chose for my mission plaque. 

We also had an experience that was exactly the opposite. Hna. Castellón and Hna. Fabrizio had been working with a mother and a daughter for like all of last change. They got the ward really involved and they were progressing. We´ve taught them once a week during this change and last week we had an amazing lesson with them and their family. We went for our lesson this week and they told us that they had made a decision and that they didn´t want to be baptised or take anymore of our time. Honestly the daughter wants to be baptised and I think that when she´s a little older and can do more things for herself she will be. I also am not giving up hope on the mom. She´s really great and if she can find the strength inside of her to keep the commandments she could be baptised as well.

Well changes are next week. This change has gone by so fast. I´m not sure what next change will bring but I´m pretty sure that I´ll still be here in Lo Cañas. This sector´s great and I still hope to get to know the ward and the people better. If I am here next change I hope to work even harder than I did this change. 

I love you all so much and miss you tons.

-Hna. Howe