Handsome, but she spelled it wrong.
I accidentally left my little paper with stuff to write in the apartment so hopefully I remember stuff without it.
This
week was rather uneventful for the most part, but I have a couple cool
announcements. They both involve the word BAPTIZE! Yeah we have two
baptisms planned for the next two weeks. This week is a lady named
Maribel. She's a reference from a couple sister missionaries we received
about two weeks ago. She had been attending their ward, but she actually
lives within our boundaries so they passed her on over to us. She's
about as golden as you could get. The first time we met with her we
asked her what she had learned about the church so far (she had attended
twice up until this point. To be baptized you have to attend thrice).
She told us something along the lines of, "Well it's a true church
that's very beautiful and I only have to attend one more time to be
baptized!" She's awesome. We've taught her all the lessons and she
didn't have a single problem with any of the commandments or anything.
Most of the commandments, like the word of wisdom, she was already
living so it wasn't that big of a leap. She had her baptism interview
yesterday and passed so we're full steam ahead for Saturday!
The
other one is a lady named Cecilia. I believe last week I told you the
story of the promise I gave her and how she told my companion that she
was ready. WELL, this Tuesday we had divisions with our district leader
so I was with him in a different sector for a day, and while I was gone
they placed a date for her and she accepted! She is preparing to be
baptized on the 28th of February.
We haven't
really seen a whole lot of other progress this week with our other
investigators. We are, however, seeing some progress with a few of our
less active members so there will be more to come on that.
I
went on exchanges with our district leader, Elder Graham this week.
He's from Canada. He's cool and we get along fine. Not a lot really
happened other than I got to speak English all day which was fun.
As
far as the language goes, it's going good. I've still got a lot to learn
but I'm not uncomfortable with it anymore. A little while back a lady
in our ward told me that my accent sounds very educated, which was cool
cause I used to be worried about sounding like a third grader when I
talk. People tell me that I speak very well and that my accent is very
small. I'll probably always have a little bit of an accent but I'm okay
with that. They think it's cool. I've realized what a blessing it has
been to be in places where no one speaks English because it's helped me
learn so much faster and so much better. I was thinking yesterday what
it would be like to go a whole day without speaking Spanish and it
seemed like a weird idea to me. I have been very blessed here.
Well
I don't really remember if anything else happened this week that's
worth mentioning. Carnaval started this week so that should be an
adventure. I'll tell you all about it next week. Love you all! Peace and
blessings! Remember that God knows best, and even while we're suffering
he's blessing us.
Loves,
Elder Tate
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