March 10, 2014

Hey Familia,

Well this week has been a pretty good one. We are getting pretty excited with some of our investigators who have told us, quite a few times, that they want to get baptized; but we are a little worried that Satan is going to work some evil but we pray for the best.

Please ignore my hairy legs but this is my new set of slippers made out of bull skin that cost less than 10 dollars. I finally found me some slippers! Oh, they also come with a traveling case. 

The first thing that happened this week: we went to go teach a cousin of a member. but it has been a very interesting situation. The first missionaries who went to teach this cousin, well the hermana said that they taught really bad and they didn’t teach together; and that they were in their own world while the other was talking and that they were not even paying attention.  I was a little awe struck by this and felt a little weird about going to teach the cousin. We got there and we started to teach and it was one of the most amazing things ever. She told us about her experience with the Book of Mormon and prayer. She told us that she wants to be baptized and that she wants her husband to be part of the religion as well and she wants her children to learn more about this. So we are hoping to be able to baptize the whole family in this transfer but we are going to have to wait and see. But this story is a testimony to me, of the importance of study with your companion and of really teaching with love and not teaching just to teach. I am pretty stoked to be able to teach her, she has got a really strong testimony.

Then Diana is another one of our investigators. She was a little ‘iffy’ about the baptism this last week, but then this week we went to a conference in the stake center and they talked about virtue and baptism. She felt the spirit and she started to cry. She turned to the sister in the ward and said she wanted to be baptized. We were so stoked. At first we thought she had different motives, but now we are so excited that she is starting to gain a testimony.

The New Zone

Then there is Aranza. She is amazing. She has come to the church for two weeks, but she has   also come to every activity- the ones on Monday, some on Friday, and the youth activities on Saturday. She has been reading her Book of Mormon and she wanted to be baptized the first week we found her. There is a problem. Her mom is not sure if she wants to let her be baptized. Her mom told us the first day that she would let her be baptized, but now we are not sure. We are going to go this week to see what is up and to fill out the papers, but we are not sure how it is going to go.  So if you could keep in your prayers, Aranza and her mom Patricia,  that would be greatly appreciated.

Well those are the people that have shown a lot of progress this week and we are real excited that they are starting to see the light of the gospel. I hope that we can help them take the first step in having an eternal family.

This week me and my companion started over again, the missionary hand book and read the part on language. We are now trying to stop saying words such as freak, fetch, no manchie quati bato and other phrases like that.  Well, we have a bad word jar in our house, and every time we say one of these words it is one peso (in the jar).  Well the first day he had to put in 17 pesos, and I had to put in 10. At the end of the transfer, we are going to buy food or something with it. We are pretty stoked.

I have not yet had my pizza party but I will hopefully have it this next week. We are saving it until we baptize someone, so I am hoping this week.

A new elder that got here the same time as me from the Dominican Republic - Elder Garcia. He is pretty awesome. Peter and Sister Jeffery, I am wearing a cardigan! Every time I wear it, all I can hear is: I am wearing a cardigan, I am wearing a cardigan. Haha, new girl. 

Well I think that is about it, but I just wanted to let you all know that I appreciate the help that you have given me and the examples that you have been in my life.

I love you all and I pray for you.

Oh and a special shout out to Lucy Monsivais and congrats Michael and Erin.

Elder Monsivais