Hola Family!
Its been fun hearing about mandys milagros Its been fun
seeing some of my own here in Gautemala. I love seeing the gosspel
change people and see them be so happy to learn more we are working with
this one mom and little girl that we meet on the first day we were here
its soo cool seeing her change and talk about how great she feels she
is always talking about the little mircals in her life they may be
little but little by little. This lady and her family live a good 20
mins in bus from the church there are alot of members in this one area
we are trying to get the bishop to help us get a bus becuase sometime
these members have to walk because the buses are full or cant pay for
them. We have been working alot with the recent converts this week we
almost know all of them there is alot of little kids that were baptised
but their families are not we are trying to work with them to reacitvate
families the cool part was there were two families that did not accept
visits the last missionaries but they accepted us so we hope to help
them!
Some days are better then others with my spanish but I
realised that Im loosing my english also the other day we were teaching
and they asked me to give a pray in engish and I couldnt I started in
english but mixed in spanish! Me and my comp are also reading every
other day in engish and some days we both dont know how to say some
words its funny! At the moment i dont mind loosing english i need
spanish!
I know that its sooo important to have a tesitmony
of the bom and to be truely converted this is alot of problems with
people who have been baptised and stop coming to church. There is one
family that is all Recent converts but they have amazing testimonies
about the the bom and the gossple and they are all about sharing it with
others and thats what we got to do share with everyone! I love you all
hope you all have a good week!
con amor
Hna Boully!
Hna Mandy
Hola familia!
Wow this week flew and next week is going to fly by
too because we get to have another mission reunion with another seventy
on friday! I can't believe this change is almost over! Where does the
time go? So we had a special fast this week to help us find people who
are prepared for our message and we promised Heavenly Father that we
would get at least 70 contacts if he would help us find them. We hear a
lot of "I worship in my own way in my own house" from people here
because there are soo many churches so it's difficult to help people
believe that ours is the true one but this week we contacted a woman and
she said that but still let us come back because she was curious and
now we both think she has been prepared to recieve this gospel because
she was talking to us and already believes pretty much everything we
believe in and likes what we taught her! I'm so excited to keep teaching
her!! So seeing as Hna. Mandi Hobbs ratted on me and let the cat out of
the bag that I fall a lot I might as well report that I did indeed
fall....again. It's not my fault though I swear!! We were walking down
the sidewalk and I kind of stumbled a little bit and there was a lot of
people in front of us so when my companion started laughing they turned
around and she said "My companion almost fell" in Spanish and then right
after that we had to hurry across the street and I totally biffed it.
There wasn't light and the streets here are really uneven so I totally
did a penguin dive kind of a fall and my companion nearly peed her pants
laughing so hard but there were a bunch of cars coming so she was
trying to help me but couldn't because she was laughing so hard so I
jumped up and we ran to the curb and that's when I looked down and was
like "Where are my shoes?" They had flown off my feet when I fell and
all we could do was watch as cars drove by and my shoes were still in
the street. It was great! I have become a master at falling without
getting hurt though so there's that. Here there's a phrase they use when
you fall it's "Compre terrena" which means to buy land but it's
basically like "eating dirt" so all the members here joke that I'm the
duena (landlord) of Talca because I've bought so much land. Surprisingly
though that's not the most interesting thing that happened this week.
There's a rule in our mission that we're not allowed to pet the dogs
because they either have fleas or they bite and the Hermana from
Guatemala that I live with didn't obey this rule and got bit in the butt
by a dog hard enough that it broke skin and she had to go to the
hospital and get a rabies shot and now has this huge bruise on her bum
it's pretty funny (only because she laughs about it too) :P We had
another baptism this week (the other sisters not us) and once again it
was cool to watch her get baptised but I really can't wait til someone
I've taught takes that step. The other day we saw the cutest thing,
there were three little boys playing with a soccer ball that had a hole
in it so every two minutes or so they had to stop and blow it up but
they were still having a blast. Then another funny thing is that here
they like to sweep their dirt. The people here don't like it when the
dirt in front of their houses is unruly or messy so they'll sweep
patterns into it I love it and think it's so dang funny!! So there's a
type of spider here that has venom strong enough to kill a grown man
called Rincon which means corner because it likes to hide in the corner
and we have spray that we use to help kill it but the one crappy thing
is that there's another spider that is the only thing that eats the
Rincon so we're not supposed to kill it but let it be. I CAN'T SEE A
HUGE SPIDER IN MY HOUSE AND MAKE THE CONSCIOUS CHOICE TO LEAVE IT BE!!!
It's unnatural. So that's my busy crazy hectic week, feel free to
comment if you like. The time passes so slowly but our days are so busy I
can't believe it's P-day again and next week is going to feel the same.
Love you all soo much! The church is true the book is blue and Moroni
is always on the ball!!
HErmana Mandy Boully
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