Week 30

April 1, 2013

Well family this has been quite a big week. Last Monday, after we had emailed Hna Redondo and I received a call from President Hall. We freaked out because we knew that meant one of us would be training!! I made her answer the phone but quickly after answering she passed it right back to me. I am training for the next two transfers! I am extremely humbled by this opportunity. It is a lot of responsibility. The poor girl has a very imperfect trainer but luckily Hna Redondo is still here too!

So our new companion's name is Hna Barnes. She is from Nashville, Tennessee and she is 19 years old. I am learning so much more from her than she is ever going to learn from me! She is so awesome! She only had 6 weeks in the MTC to learn Spanish but she has no shame in making mistakes and just trying! I love her a lot! We are so excited for this transfer with it being the 3 of us together!

Well this weekend we had 1 baptism. Crazzzzyyyyy things happened with Yancy that just broke all of our hearts! She up and moved with her boyfriend and we have lost all contact with her. That has been really sad for us. She has so much faith and was doing so well! All we can do now is hope and pray that she is able to find the missionaries where ever she is now. However Hno Paez did get baptized. He has been investigating the church for a whole year so it was quite a big day for him and his family! We are so happy for him! He was baptized Saturday and was confirmed yesterday! He is such a sweet man. When he first met with the missionaries a year ago he was basically atheist and has really come a long way with his faith!

For Easter yesterday we had the opportunity to have dinner with one of the sisters that works in the office here. Easter isn't a big deal to Latino members in fact most of the thought that we don't celebrate it so we didn't have any plans for Easter and when this sister in the office heard that she was heart broken haha and just had to have us over. It was a lot of fun. She is super sweet and even have an Easter egg hunt set up for us haha (Hna Redondo's first). It was great to eat normal food too! I am so grateful for the Easter season we are all so incredibly blessed by the Atonement way more than we can even understand!

All is well and we are working hard at becoming at least a little better everyday which is not at all easy. I love you all so much!! 

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