Well this past week has been pretty crazy because sister fonua who has been here the longest of all of us has only been here 2 weeks longer than us so we are basically white washing, so we have been going to all the less actives and formers to see who even still lives here, it is super crazy! However we also have 1 investigator Leo and his girlfriend is a less active member but coming back to church and they have a 2 yr old daughter (Mary Ann) anyway so last week we committed them to something strange, we comitted them to be married on August 13th, being as that is a necessary step towards baptism for Leo. So little did we know that we would be semi wedding planners on our missions but it's great because the ward is willing to help. Oh I also I realized that the Spirit is super appointment because one night this week we were planning for the next day and we wrote down a members name and then the next day we were wondering why we wrote that name down and then we couldn't find the street of Where Linda lived, and the very next day we went to the Relief Society president and she said that Linda the mysterious member we wrote down had been wanting a blessing, which we couldn't give but could find someone, but it was in that moment that I realized just how real the Spirit is, it was amazing! English work is much different than Spanish work but I like it. Since it was Pioneer day yesterday we had a stake celebration on Saturday, we were excited for it! It was fun because we got to meet some of the members and attempt to play soccer in skirts, that did not last long! Well also I had an opportunity to go visit some members in our ward and it was really fun because they just reminded me so much of grandma and grandpa Love and some of their kids were there and we discussed a lot about mission work because the Nelsons (in our ward) served a few missions and their daughter did also, so it was a good time! Well I am really looking forward to this next week and hopefully we can make a little more progress in the work here in Chino, in the San Antonio Ward. Also I had a great experience we had a dinner appointment with a lady from Mexico so I used that chance to use my spanish and she told me she thought I was from Central America, I guess I'm getting the language better than I thought. Well anyway I guess that is all for now I love you all and hope everyone is doing well!
Love, Sister Love
Monday, July 25, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Transfers Happened!!
Well Transfers is the big thing for this week we got our calls on Saturday night and transferred this morning, I am still in a little bit of shock of what my call is. I actually am still in Chino but I moved apartments because I am in Chino but I am actually in an ENGLISH ward and in a TRIO! Wow! I didn't think I'd ever be sent to go to English work because I was only called English but they said it would only be for this transfer and then I will go back to Spanish work. I'm living with a member of the Spanish ward, (my last ward) and hopefully I'll get to talk to them a little, to keep my Spanish up and the President is letting me continue to have my hour of language study so that is very lucky for me, I hope not to lose the little I have learned thus far!
I really enjoyed my last area a lot and I loved the Ward. Jose who just got baptized got confirmed yesterday and already got a calling of ward missionary. He will do really great in that calling, he wants to serve a mission so bad although he cannot! Our district went to Jose's this past week and we had papusa's (salvadorian food) me and my last companion helped his mom make them it was super fun! Oh and because latinos are awesome we just had a ward fathers day party last week, don't worry I know fathers day was like a month ago and it had to be postponed, apparently they believe in postponing parties instead of canceling them but I was okay with that. Other than that this week was sort of a blur.
Well also my trainer flies home tomorrow which is weird, and my old companion is training this transfer and so is Sister Thompson from my MTC trio and then me and sister Cruz both got sent English this transfer but now a little bit about my companions I don't know much yet, but Sister Eggleston is originally from here but most recently from Provo Utah, and Sister Fonua is a Polynesian from AUSTRALIA! She is awesome especially her accent is super cool as well, It will be an interesting 6 weeks, but it will be good I am sure!
Well I love you all lots! I am praying for you all!
Love, Sister Love
I really enjoyed my last area a lot and I loved the Ward. Jose who just got baptized got confirmed yesterday and already got a calling of ward missionary. He will do really great in that calling, he wants to serve a mission so bad although he cannot! Our district went to Jose's this past week and we had papusa's (salvadorian food) me and my last companion helped his mom make them it was super fun! Oh and because latinos are awesome we just had a ward fathers day party last week, don't worry I know fathers day was like a month ago and it had to be postponed, apparently they believe in postponing parties instead of canceling them but I was okay with that. Other than that this week was sort of a blur.
Well also my trainer flies home tomorrow which is weird, and my old companion is training this transfer and so is Sister Thompson from my MTC trio and then me and sister Cruz both got sent English this transfer but now a little bit about my companions I don't know much yet, but Sister Eggleston is originally from here but most recently from Provo Utah, and Sister Fonua is a Polynesian from AUSTRALIA! She is awesome especially her accent is super cool as well, It will be an interesting 6 weeks, but it will be good I am sure!
Well I love you all lots! I am praying for you all!
Love, Sister Love
Monday, July 11, 2011
Last Week of Transfers!!
Well from the title you can see this is the last week of my second transfer! Time sure does go by pretty fast! But so next time I email I may be in a new area probably in a trio with my MTC companions but I will know for sure when we get transfer calls at the end of this week. But anyway this week was pretty crazy! My companion wasn't feeling so great this week, and was sure that she would be going home at the end of this transfer or maybe even at the end of last week because she is soo sick! But on Thursday we met our new mission president and his wife! President and sister Becerra! They are way awesome! President Pike was super awesome and really prepared this mission to go forward and take off! President Becerra has a great enthusiasm for missionary work and really is getting our mission excited to continue in the work! He talked a lot about faith and basically says nothing happens unless we have faith and are willing to exercise our faith to find new investigators. Anyway I was super exciting!
Now going back to my companion after we had our meeting with President Becerra, she went into the interview planning on getting a date of whn she would return home, but because our president is awesome! She came out knowing she was going to stay! I was super excited for her! Because she is so close to being finished with her mission and she is a really hard worker! So she is going to stay and finish her mission so I'm super happy for her! Especially since she is such a great missionary and has a very good personality.
Then we ended up the week with a baptism yesterday! it was such a super nice experience and really spiritual, because Jose the one who got baptized is soo awesome! He went from a crazy life, to when the missionaries in english work found him he was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and by the time a week later they passed him off to us, to 3 a day to completely quitting 2 weeks after we met him, and then also the first time he came to church in sneakers and the next time in dress shoes to just this past week he bought a suit and he said the only time he had ever worn a tie before is when he got married and now he bought ties and a suit instead of paying his tickets so he could get his license back. Missionary work is soo awesome all day yesterday he was talking about how he was soo happy and he is already working on helping his family receive the gospel and come to church. None of his family came to the baptism but I feel he is setting a great example for his family!
I love being a part of this work and being able to help others have happiness in their lives! Well I hope all is going well for everyone back at home! I love you all!
Love, Hermana Love
Now going back to my companion after we had our meeting with President Becerra, she went into the interview planning on getting a date of whn she would return home, but because our president is awesome! She came out knowing she was going to stay! I was super excited for her! Because she is so close to being finished with her mission and she is a really hard worker! So she is going to stay and finish her mission so I'm super happy for her! Especially since she is such a great missionary and has a very good personality.
Then we ended up the week with a baptism yesterday! it was such a super nice experience and really spiritual, because Jose the one who got baptized is soo awesome! He went from a crazy life, to when the missionaries in english work found him he was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and by the time a week later they passed him off to us, to 3 a day to completely quitting 2 weeks after we met him, and then also the first time he came to church in sneakers and the next time in dress shoes to just this past week he bought a suit and he said the only time he had ever worn a tie before is when he got married and now he bought ties and a suit instead of paying his tickets so he could get his license back. Missionary work is soo awesome all day yesterday he was talking about how he was soo happy and he is already working on helping his family receive the gospel and come to church. None of his family came to the baptism but I feel he is setting a great example for his family!
I love being a part of this work and being able to help others have happiness in their lives! Well I hope all is going well for everyone back at home! I love you all!
Love, Hermana Love
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