HOLA.
Has it maybe been the longest? Yes it has. I'm sorry I haven´t written for awhile. Can I just say El Salvador computers aren´t really quite top notch. But I´ve got letters from Jen, Nicki (yes that is the best address to use), Heidi (are you really home from your mish and Lara too!! wow that was fast! write me!!!l love u), and my grandparents. THANKS!!! you´re the best
So I don´t even know how to catch you all up. I´m still in this area, I´m going on 6 months here! But I love it; it´s the area I opened up. We´re still in a trio with the missionary we´re training. All is going well. I´m learning a lot, especially patience........
BIRTHDAY
I had a great birthday.....I woke up, my comps sang the worst version of happy birthday I'd ever heard. Bless their little hearts, they let me sponge shower on our patio first. Sofia (the wife of our investigator Jose) made me bean soup for lunch, we knocked the doors and went out for pupusas for dinner, BEST BIRTHDAY EVER.
NURSING
The nursing thing is insane. I´m going a little crazy trying to balance all these balls thrown at me, but the Lord is helping me. Wow these elders are stupid . Ok sorry but they are- sticking their fingers in fans, taking Pepto Bismo for a chest infection, trying to burn off warts by themselves with a kit they bought in the street. Not to mention I had one sent to the ER and had to call president to stay the night in the hospital with him, but they are keeping me on my toes.
INVESTIGATORS
Ok do you all remember Jose? The long hair rebellious man? He invited us over Saturday night for pupusas for my birthday (yes we eat pupusas like every night and they are sooo fatting- let´s not talk about it). He is so different, and I would give anything to see him baptized. Please pray for him for me. His heart still is a little hard.
Ok we have another lady Rosmari. She and her son are friends of Sofia and Jose. We have been teaching them for three weeks and they want to be baptized!! Joy. But we have to have a wedding first. So this week we´re planning a wedding and after we will have their baptism. I don´t know if they will be baptized this week or the next. Only her and her son will be baptized the father has a problem with the word of wisdom. They are a cute family, but so poor. They live on nothing but are already sacrificing for the church everything they can. I love these people.
I´m so good. I have struggled seeing my converts go inactive. It´s been the hardest part of my mission and the greatest pain I can remember. I remember a talk by Elder Holland at the MTC. He said to be a representative of the Savior we must walk his path. The road to salvation always passes through Gethsemane. A token must be paid. Pain must be felt. I pray that all may recognize this and continue to give it every thing to have what is only given after the sacrifice. I know this church is true. The Savior lives and is always next to us. Take up your cross, follow him. Walk in his steps. Look to God and Live,
HOORAW FOR ISRAEL,
Hna Tav
Monday, July 26, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
HOla!!!! Que tal? I hope you all are living up that summer! It´s crazy to think it´s summer because here it´s colder than I´ve ever been because of all the rain we´ve been getting, maybe I¨ll buy myself a blanket today for Pday!! We don´t use blankets on our beds at all, just one flat sheet to protect us from bug bites.
Wow this week was a little crazy....again. always. So I´m getting calls off the roof from these poor elders, always sick. I¨m trying to find time to do some missionary work between telling the elders to just take their Peptobismo. But this week we got such the suprise when I talked to the assistents Tueday night and the said they wanted us to train one of the new missionaries. I was a little blown away because training is a lot of work and I was sure with the nursing stuff I wouldn´t ever be training a little greenie. But yes my first daughter was born into the mission July 6, 2010. 5 ft7 ins tall. 148lds, and she has brown eyes! Haha she is from here in El Salvador but the other mission. And so we are in a trio right now. It´s been even crazier because the shower doesn´t work anymore so we put up our shower curtain outside, we have like a little patio thing, and like a big cement sink outside and so we do the bucket shower thing. It´s been quite the adventure! I think it´s the cleanest shower I¨ve had here.
OK updates.....
my converts
Jose from my last area the boy we found in the street....he´s good it´s in a different ward and so i never seen him but he´s in the same stake and he´s preparing for his mission in a 10 months.
Carlos (alma the younger)...sadly I have not heard from him. he moved to a different area and i´m scared that he is not going to church there. But I pray for him and will let you know what i hear.
Martinez family!!!!!!!! Wow they are powerful!!! I love this family. The stake primary pres came to our ward yesterday and was way impressed with their son. Sister Carmen did divisions with us yesterday. Really they´re so great.
Alejandra... she´s really active and has lots of friends in the church. It´s great to see the growth in her, she still has a bit to learn but Im excited to see the changes that are happening.
Investigatores....
Jose... He was not a church this week because he was sick, but we had a good lesson with him this week and we even brought his crazy catholic parents some cookies, I think they like us!
Thats all for this week. thanks for your prayers and support!!! LOVE YOU. HOORAW FOR ISRAEL:...
HNA TAV
Wow this week was a little crazy....again. always. So I´m getting calls off the roof from these poor elders, always sick. I¨m trying to find time to do some missionary work between telling the elders to just take their Peptobismo. But this week we got such the suprise when I talked to the assistents Tueday night and the said they wanted us to train one of the new missionaries. I was a little blown away because training is a lot of work and I was sure with the nursing stuff I wouldn´t ever be training a little greenie. But yes my first daughter was born into the mission July 6, 2010. 5 ft7 ins tall. 148lds, and she has brown eyes! Haha she is from here in El Salvador but the other mission. And so we are in a trio right now. It´s been even crazier because the shower doesn´t work anymore so we put up our shower curtain outside, we have like a little patio thing, and like a big cement sink outside and so we do the bucket shower thing. It´s been quite the adventure! I think it´s the cleanest shower I¨ve had here.
OK updates.....
my converts
Jose from my last area the boy we found in the street....he´s good it´s in a different ward and so i never seen him but he´s in the same stake and he´s preparing for his mission in a 10 months.
Carlos (alma the younger)...sadly I have not heard from him. he moved to a different area and i´m scared that he is not going to church there. But I pray for him and will let you know what i hear.
Martinez family!!!!!!!! Wow they are powerful!!! I love this family. The stake primary pres came to our ward yesterday and was way impressed with their son. Sister Carmen did divisions with us yesterday. Really they´re so great.
Alejandra... she´s really active and has lots of friends in the church. It´s great to see the growth in her, she still has a bit to learn but Im excited to see the changes that are happening.
Investigatores....
Jose... He was not a church this week because he was sick, but we had a good lesson with him this week and we even brought his crazy catholic parents some cookies, I think they like us!
Thats all for this week. thanks for your prayers and support!!! LOVE YOU. HOORAW FOR ISRAEL:...
HNA TAV
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Hola!!!! que tal Ustedes? Me extraña todos bastante, casi tengo un ano acá! Santa vaca que loca.
Sorry I didn´t write last week I ran out of time. I hope you all are living up the
4th. I forgot it was a holiday until last night at dinner (Sunday nights we always eat dinner with a family in the Ward, familia Pena) we walked into their house and all the family members stood up and put their hands over their hearts and played the national anthem. I was confused until I remember it was the 4th of July then to top it off they made me sing it to them while they recorded me. That is a video clip I really hope gets ruined. haha. Then we ate beans and tortillas with a dessert of platinos. Booyah best 4th EVER.
So I have to catch you up on a lot. First off one investigator named Jose... We have been working with him since my first week here. He is married to a member but he is really Catholic. But this dear sister came to me pleading to help with her husband. Can I just tell you about Jose for a minute? They live in the funniest house that we have to cross a creek-river on a narrow passageway, hold on to a little string to brace us while crossing. Then entering the house (not really a house more like scraps of tin glued together) we pass through their raccoons, jump over the squirrels and count them- 5 dogs, chickens, ducks, and try to make it through without stepping on one of the million cats, not to mention passing through the crazy Catholic parents then another narrow passageway to the room- house of Jose. Their house is only one room. Then we find Jose; this short man with really long hair, who sits on the ground not looking at us without his shirt on. (Ok here the men don´t wear shirts. I don´t know why. It is kind of strange I guess, but usually to show respect whenever we enter they put on a shirt) but Jose...no. But his wife has plead with us. And I guess I am stubborn too, and it bothers me he´s listened to the discussions for a year but still won´t change. So I have put all my energy into converting this wild man and without results we´ve labored for 3 months. I told my dad to put his name in the temple at least two times. Ok so this last Sunday in walks a short man holding a baby. I was thinking who is this?? I didn´t recognize him until I saw his cute little wife next to him; it was Jose! And he cut his hair. I can´t remember ever being happier to see someone at church. I was in bliss the whole day! He still is very stubborn. I asked him when he would be baptized and he just smiled at me and shook his head. So I´m guessing two weeks. haha.
Ok so also this week, Friday, I got a call from Hna Farnsworth, my old comp (she is also the mission nurse. She said President and his wife wanted to talk to us. So she and I waited at the church completely confused at what was going on. Then President and his wife pulled up in their car and told us to get in. We were both really confused but just went along with it. They then drove us to the nicest restaurant I have seen in El Salvador, like $15 a plate. They thanked us for all we were doing as the nurses. They also informed us they want to change things. Hna. Farnsworth has been the mission nurse a long time and they decided to send her oriental (far away from the capital and mission office). They said I would get the cell phone and would work alone in the mission office handling all the nursing duties. I think the lunch was their way of softening the new calling for me. So I just pray somehow I will find time to teach the gospel.
The work is so good. The field is whiter than it´s ever been. Hoorah for Israel and short hair and raccoons and injecting the elders (we have done some injections!). All my corazone,
Hna Tav
Sorry I didn´t write last week I ran out of time. I hope you all are living up the
4th. I forgot it was a holiday until last night at dinner (Sunday nights we always eat dinner with a family in the Ward, familia Pena) we walked into their house and all the family members stood up and put their hands over their hearts and played the national anthem. I was confused until I remember it was the 4th of July then to top it off they made me sing it to them while they recorded me. That is a video clip I really hope gets ruined. haha. Then we ate beans and tortillas with a dessert of platinos. Booyah best 4th EVER.
So I have to catch you up on a lot. First off one investigator named Jose... We have been working with him since my first week here. He is married to a member but he is really Catholic. But this dear sister came to me pleading to help with her husband. Can I just tell you about Jose for a minute? They live in the funniest house that we have to cross a creek-river on a narrow passageway, hold on to a little string to brace us while crossing. Then entering the house (not really a house more like scraps of tin glued together) we pass through their raccoons, jump over the squirrels and count them- 5 dogs, chickens, ducks, and try to make it through without stepping on one of the million cats, not to mention passing through the crazy Catholic parents then another narrow passageway to the room- house of Jose. Their house is only one room. Then we find Jose; this short man with really long hair, who sits on the ground not looking at us without his shirt on. (Ok here the men don´t wear shirts. I don´t know why. It is kind of strange I guess, but usually to show respect whenever we enter they put on a shirt) but Jose...no. But his wife has plead with us. And I guess I am stubborn too, and it bothers me he´s listened to the discussions for a year but still won´t change. So I have put all my energy into converting this wild man and without results we´ve labored for 3 months. I told my dad to put his name in the temple at least two times. Ok so this last Sunday in walks a short man holding a baby. I was thinking who is this?? I didn´t recognize him until I saw his cute little wife next to him; it was Jose! And he cut his hair. I can´t remember ever being happier to see someone at church. I was in bliss the whole day! He still is very stubborn. I asked him when he would be baptized and he just smiled at me and shook his head. So I´m guessing two weeks. haha.
Ok so also this week, Friday, I got a call from Hna Farnsworth, my old comp (she is also the mission nurse. She said President and his wife wanted to talk to us. So she and I waited at the church completely confused at what was going on. Then President and his wife pulled up in their car and told us to get in. We were both really confused but just went along with it. They then drove us to the nicest restaurant I have seen in El Salvador, like $15 a plate. They thanked us for all we were doing as the nurses. They also informed us they want to change things. Hna. Farnsworth has been the mission nurse a long time and they decided to send her oriental (far away from the capital and mission office). They said I would get the cell phone and would work alone in the mission office handling all the nursing duties. I think the lunch was their way of softening the new calling for me. So I just pray somehow I will find time to teach the gospel.
The work is so good. The field is whiter than it´s ever been. Hoorah for Israel and short hair and raccoons and injecting the elders (we have done some injections!). All my corazone,
Hna Tav
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