Another week has just flown by! It really has been a great week. But it started off terrible. A week ago there was a huge bus accident here in El Salvador. For those who don´t know, the buses here are crazy and they pack as many people on the buses as they can especially monday mornings. So last Monday, There was an accident involving 2 big buses and a big trailer or something. But people have been pretty worried. As of today, I think that 15 people died and 180 (or something) injured. All I know is that it was a terrible accident. And one of the buses is one that we always take to go to San Salvador.
Then this same day, we had a zone activity in our new church building and while we were there, an elder sat on the counter top in the kitchen, and the countertop fell off from the wall. So, now it is being help up by chairs and there was nothing we could do but tell the bishop. So that is what made Monday a bad day. But that has passed and the bishop didn´t get mad at us. He is very nice:)
On tuesday we had interviews with President! While he was teaching us he made something official. I have known about this but it wasn´t ever official. In June, they are going to change the boundaries of the mission. Right now, we have one stake in San Salvador and the Department of La Libertad (where Santa Tecla is) which has 2 zones. As of June, these are going to be moved to the East mission and this mission is going to get a new name: El Salvador Santa Ana/Belice Mission and will only consist of the following departments in El Salvador: Santa Ana, Sonsonate, and Ahuachapán. So two of my areas are going to be part of the other mission: Palmeras and Miramonte. It is very strange that they are changing the boundaries because that is going to leave our mission even smaller. President Lopez finishes his mission in June also so the new mission president will be the one making all the changes. The new mission President is named Cordon and is also from Guatemala and is friends with President Lopez. What are the odds?
We were blessed to finally have the baptism of Jaime! After pushing back his baptism date 2 weeks, he finally did it. It was really exciting. Normally on baptisms days we are really stressed out but this time we weren´t (but that was a sign of stress to come!). In the morning we went to the chapel to fill up the font. We waited there and it took a little longer than normal. But finally filled up. When we turned of the water, we heard that water was leaking so we thought, that´s why it took longer to fill up because it wasn´t plugged. It has a stopper where you just have to step on the stopper to plug and unplug it. So we poked the stopper with a broom and the sound went away. So we happily went to buy lunch and refreshment for the baptism. We returned at 1 (and the baptism was at 2) and the font had completely drained! I looked at the stopper and there was the problem. There is a plastic that makes the suction but had been maneuvered so the it was always pointed up instead of down to make the suction and stop the water. So I fixed it and we hurriedly turned the water on again. But then, the water went out. That is a thing of the country. Sometimes there is no water in the tap or when there is no water in the tank you can´t get water in the church building. So we called the zone leaders and they started filling up the font in Chalchuapa and we were running around with our heads cut off. And we called the Elders quorum president who was going to perform the baptism and he ran to the church and was looking at the water system. The water tank of the church was almost fill but there was no pressure to get the water to the church. So we called the bishop and he told him what to do. He pushed a button that said ¨reset¨ and that put pressure in the water system and we started filling up the font and it filled in 25 minutes. And that is what happened before Jaime´s baptism. We had to sit down to relax for 5 minutes and be grateful that the problem was solved and that members came to support Jaime and his baptism was great. We got to meet Jaime´s parents who are recent converts from December and January and are really great people. The mom wanted to stay to see the confirmation but his dad was worried because his bishop said that he was going to receive the Aaronic Priesthood that same day and he had to go to church to get the priesthood. We told him to call the bishop and push it back to next week and the mom was really supportive of this. And so they did and they got to see the confirmation of their son. It was fun to see the family growing in the church and see how happy Jaime´s parents were because they said that they had been praying for him every day before that he would meet the missionaries and accept the gospel. And their prayers were answered.
Yesterday we had 6 investigators in sacrament meeting and that made us really happy. We had a family go to church! We love the Familia Barillas Nerio and they have been progressing and it is so beautiful to see. There are 4 members of the family: Elmer, Roxana (the parents), Pablo (8 years), and Diego (5 years). We found them contacting but last week they told us that Pablo´s best friend at school is Franco, the son of our ward mission leader. So finally the family went to church and after church Pablo and Diego were jumping up and down saying ¨I want to come next week!¨ And Bishop was happy that we had a family there and he gave them a nice welcome into the ward. Tonight we are going to have a Family Home Evening with them and we
are excited to see what they say about church!
It has been a good week and we are really excited. Right now we have a lot of positive investigators and so we are really excited about the month of March to be able to see what kind of miracles we will see!
I love you
Hermana Bush
Then this same day, we had a zone activity in our new church building and while we were there, an elder sat on the counter top in the kitchen, and the countertop fell off from the wall. So, now it is being help up by chairs and there was nothing we could do but tell the bishop. So that is what made Monday a bad day. But that has passed and the bishop didn´t get mad at us. He is very nice:)
On tuesday we had interviews with President! While he was teaching us he made something official. I have known about this but it wasn´t ever official. In June, they are going to change the boundaries of the mission. Right now, we have one stake in San Salvador and the Department of La Libertad (where Santa Tecla is) which has 2 zones. As of June, these are going to be moved to the East mission and this mission is going to get a new name: El Salvador Santa Ana/Belice Mission and will only consist of the following departments in El Salvador: Santa Ana, Sonsonate, and Ahuachapán. So two of my areas are going to be part of the other mission: Palmeras and Miramonte. It is very strange that they are changing the boundaries because that is going to leave our mission even smaller. President Lopez finishes his mission in June also so the new mission president will be the one making all the changes. The new mission President is named Cordon and is also from Guatemala and is friends with President Lopez. What are the odds?
We were blessed to finally have the baptism of Jaime! After pushing back his baptism date 2 weeks, he finally did it. It was really exciting. Normally on baptisms days we are really stressed out but this time we weren´t (but that was a sign of stress to come!). In the morning we went to the chapel to fill up the font. We waited there and it took a little longer than normal. But finally filled up. When we turned of the water, we heard that water was leaking so we thought, that´s why it took longer to fill up because it wasn´t plugged. It has a stopper where you just have to step on the stopper to plug and unplug it. So we poked the stopper with a broom and the sound went away. So we happily went to buy lunch and refreshment for the baptism. We returned at 1 (and the baptism was at 2) and the font had completely drained! I looked at the stopper and there was the problem. There is a plastic that makes the suction but had been maneuvered so the it was always pointed up instead of down to make the suction and stop the water. So I fixed it and we hurriedly turned the water on again. But then, the water went out. That is a thing of the country. Sometimes there is no water in the tap or when there is no water in the tank you can´t get water in the church building. So we called the zone leaders and they started filling up the font in Chalchuapa and we were running around with our heads cut off. And we called the Elders quorum president who was going to perform the baptism and he ran to the church and was looking at the water system. The water tank of the church was almost fill but there was no pressure to get the water to the church. So we called the bishop and he told him what to do. He pushed a button that said ¨reset¨ and that put pressure in the water system and we started filling up the font and it filled in 25 minutes. And that is what happened before Jaime´s baptism. We had to sit down to relax for 5 minutes and be grateful that the problem was solved and that members came to support Jaime and his baptism was great. We got to meet Jaime´s parents who are recent converts from December and January and are really great people. The mom wanted to stay to see the confirmation but his dad was worried because his bishop said that he was going to receive the Aaronic Priesthood that same day and he had to go to church to get the priesthood. We told him to call the bishop and push it back to next week and the mom was really supportive of this. And so they did and they got to see the confirmation of their son. It was fun to see the family growing in the church and see how happy Jaime´s parents were because they said that they had been praying for him every day before that he would meet the missionaries and accept the gospel. And their prayers were answered.
Yesterday we had 6 investigators in sacrament meeting and that made us really happy. We had a family go to church! We love the Familia Barillas Nerio and they have been progressing and it is so beautiful to see. There are 4 members of the family: Elmer, Roxana (the parents), Pablo (8 years), and Diego (5 years). We found them contacting but last week they told us that Pablo´s best friend at school is Franco, the son of our ward mission leader. So finally the family went to church and after church Pablo and Diego were jumping up and down saying ¨I want to come next week!¨ And Bishop was happy that we had a family there and he gave them a nice welcome into the ward. Tonight we are going to have a Family Home Evening with them and we
are excited to see what they say about church!
It has been a good week and we are really excited. Right now we have a lot of positive investigators and so we are really excited about the month of March to be able to see what kind of miracles we will see!
I love you
Hermana Bush
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