Hello!
First off I want to tell Isaac that I am excited for him especially because he wants to go there (Hong Kong-Mandarin speaking)! When I got my mission call, someone in the ward told me to choose a place that I wanted to go. I wanted to learn another language but I didn´t think that I would. So I thought, I want to go out of the country but probably to a place that speaks English. So I thought about all my options and I decided to go to Australia. And look, here I am in El Salvador. But I am happier here than I would have been in Australia.
I am sending you a photo of Jaime´s baptism. He is in the middle of his parents. Well, life keeps going on. I can´t believe that it is already March. This is the last week of the transfer and like always, every one is talking about all the gossip. I am pretty sure that I will be staying here for my last transfer but like always, you never know. We have had a really good week. We put 2 baptismal dates with our investigators. One is named Karla. She is 15 years old. She lives here in Ciudad Real but all of her aunts and uncles and grandparents live in Santa Ana and all her family on her dad´s side are recent converts from last year. We have been teaching Karla off and on. She has always wanted to get baptized but had never gotten permission. But the other day, we went and her mom said, ¨I have been thinking a lot about Karla´s baptism and if she wants to get baptized, she should get baptized.¨ So she is going to get baptized on Saturday! Really we only need permission from one parent but we need to talk to the dad and everyone is scared of him because he is always mad. We´ll see how things turn out this week. We also set a baptismal date with Roberto.
He is crazy too. Really I think that everyone in Ciudad Real is a bit crazy. But Roberto has such a desire to learn. No one likes to visit him with us because he talks non stop, but I can see that he has a good heart under it all. He is a bit doubtful and really not sure what he wants but he accepted and we are praying that he can have a strong conviction.
This week Elder Falabella from the seventy came to visit us. He is in the area presidency here so he has strong ties to the missionary work here and really helped us understand our purpose. I got my package this week and that was exciting. I had an epiphany. Here in El Salvador it is mango season. Last year I tried mangos and I didn´t really like them but then mom sent me the dried mangos that I love from Costco, and I realized that I like dried mangos, why shouldn´t I like eating mangos? So, it still isn´t mature mango season and sound the mangos are going to be ripe and I will have to try them again.
This week we have met a lot of interesting people but none are quite as interesting as our neighbor that lives in front of us. She is 67 years old and seems very nice and very loving and then she started to tell about 6 months ago, she was living in Apopa (in San Salvador) where all of her family lives and her nephew tried to kill her. Poor thing. She is diabetic and walks with a cane and she recounted a grousome (I don´t remember how to spell that) about how she made breakfast for her nephew one morning and then he went mad and started hitting her in the head with a meat hammer. But luckily for her, she started to pray during the attack and all of a sudden he let go of her and she ran outside where her neighbors helped her. I am so glad that I am not in San Salvador. The part of San Salvador that is in our mission is safe but the other side sounds really scary. But even despite all the things that happen to people here, they still have great faith. A lot of people think that their trials are punishments from God but this lady is so grateful to be alive and is so grateful to be able to keep on trucking in this life. There is another member that have a disease and we were talking with her the other day and she said ¨I don´t know what I did but I must have sinned a lot so that God is punishing me with this disease.¨ But I am so grateful for the knowledge that I have. God is a loving God
and a just God, and we need to learn from our trials. And sometimes bad things happen to good people. That is life.
We are still working with our family that we have. This week the mom didn´t go to church but only the the dad and the kids. And they haven´t accepted a baptism date because the dad honors his catholic baptism as a baby. But we are hoping to have a breakthrough this week. I am really struggling to think of things to tell you this week. It feels like time have flown by but nothing has happened!
Sounds like everyone is doing fine. The work goes on everyday. I love El Salvador and I love being a missionary!
Hermana Bush
First off I want to tell Isaac that I am excited for him especially because he wants to go there (Hong Kong-Mandarin speaking)! When I got my mission call, someone in the ward told me to choose a place that I wanted to go. I wanted to learn another language but I didn´t think that I would. So I thought, I want to go out of the country but probably to a place that speaks English. So I thought about all my options and I decided to go to Australia. And look, here I am in El Salvador. But I am happier here than I would have been in Australia.
I am sending you a photo of Jaime´s baptism. He is in the middle of his parents. Well, life keeps going on. I can´t believe that it is already March. This is the last week of the transfer and like always, every one is talking about all the gossip. I am pretty sure that I will be staying here for my last transfer but like always, you never know. We have had a really good week. We put 2 baptismal dates with our investigators. One is named Karla. She is 15 years old. She lives here in Ciudad Real but all of her aunts and uncles and grandparents live in Santa Ana and all her family on her dad´s side are recent converts from last year. We have been teaching Karla off and on. She has always wanted to get baptized but had never gotten permission. But the other day, we went and her mom said, ¨I have been thinking a lot about Karla´s baptism and if she wants to get baptized, she should get baptized.¨ So she is going to get baptized on Saturday! Really we only need permission from one parent but we need to talk to the dad and everyone is scared of him because he is always mad. We´ll see how things turn out this week. We also set a baptismal date with Roberto.
He is crazy too. Really I think that everyone in Ciudad Real is a bit crazy. But Roberto has such a desire to learn. No one likes to visit him with us because he talks non stop, but I can see that he has a good heart under it all. He is a bit doubtful and really not sure what he wants but he accepted and we are praying that he can have a strong conviction.
This week Elder Falabella from the seventy came to visit us. He is in the area presidency here so he has strong ties to the missionary work here and really helped us understand our purpose. I got my package this week and that was exciting. I had an epiphany. Here in El Salvador it is mango season. Last year I tried mangos and I didn´t really like them but then mom sent me the dried mangos that I love from Costco, and I realized that I like dried mangos, why shouldn´t I like eating mangos? So, it still isn´t mature mango season and sound the mangos are going to be ripe and I will have to try them again.
This week we have met a lot of interesting people but none are quite as interesting as our neighbor that lives in front of us. She is 67 years old and seems very nice and very loving and then she started to tell about 6 months ago, she was living in Apopa (in San Salvador) where all of her family lives and her nephew tried to kill her. Poor thing. She is diabetic and walks with a cane and she recounted a grousome (I don´t remember how to spell that) about how she made breakfast for her nephew one morning and then he went mad and started hitting her in the head with a meat hammer. But luckily for her, she started to pray during the attack and all of a sudden he let go of her and she ran outside where her neighbors helped her. I am so glad that I am not in San Salvador. The part of San Salvador that is in our mission is safe but the other side sounds really scary. But even despite all the things that happen to people here, they still have great faith. A lot of people think that their trials are punishments from God but this lady is so grateful to be alive and is so grateful to be able to keep on trucking in this life. There is another member that have a disease and we were talking with her the other day and she said ¨I don´t know what I did but I must have sinned a lot so that God is punishing me with this disease.¨ But I am so grateful for the knowledge that I have. God is a loving God
and a just God, and we need to learn from our trials. And sometimes bad things happen to good people. That is life.
We are still working with our family that we have. This week the mom didn´t go to church but only the the dad and the kids. And they haven´t accepted a baptism date because the dad honors his catholic baptism as a baby. But we are hoping to have a breakthrough this week. I am really struggling to think of things to tell you this week. It feels like time have flown by but nothing has happened!
Sounds like everyone is doing fine. The work goes on everyday. I love El Salvador and I love being a missionary!
Hermana Bush
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