Family, enjoy your time with Charles. I really wish I could be there with you all. Just pretend I am there haha.
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
12th week...
First off thanks Mom and Dad for the package! I loved it so much! Melissa thank you so much for the cards you made me! Mike, Cristen, Luke, and Cailyn thank you so much for the scarf, I love it! And Charles thanks for the package of Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish, you know me too well haha. Also thanks for the I love Taiwan key chain. Thanks to everyone else who sent me letters this week!
So Tuesday was my birthday! It was way fun! Hermana Lish got me some of my favorite treats, made me a poster, and blew up balloons everywhere! On Monday my district surprised me with cake and icecream and sang to me! It was very nice! On my actual birthday I was on exchanges with Sister Jeppson and she is so awesome! We had a fun day together and taught a lot of good lessons. We taught Eduardo (the one who got baptized in August) and he's actually been struggling a lot lately with some things so we really wanted this lesson to be a spiritual experience for him so that he could feel that spirit again. It was the first time I guess that I took over this lesson because Hermana Lish is always with us when we teach him. I decided to talk about the Joseph Smith Experience with him and really apply it to him. I was a little nervous reciting the first vision to him because I actually haven't really recited it in a lesson since being at the MTC. I knew I had to just go for it, so I looked at him directly in the eye and recited it. As I recited it, I could feel the spirit so strongly and when I finished saying the words Eduardo looked at me and smiled and had tears in his eyes. I knew that he could feel it. It was such a great experience and it made me feel good knowing that it was something he really needed. It was a great lesson to have on my birthday! At the end of the night Sister Jeppson, Sister Baker, and Sister Derges treated me for ice cream! It was way fun! The next day my birthday still wasn't over haha. We had an appointment with a less active family that we absolutely love. The Godinez Family, they heard it was my birthday from the Elders and they surprised me by making me a cake. It was way sweet!
The rest of the week was pretty good, we taught a lot of lessons. On Saturday we had a activity for the ward missionaries in our ward which are pretty much all youth. We had them all invite their friends and we had a cookout and played games outside. It was really fun but I got a major sun burn haha. Also on Saturday we went to do service for a less active women we are teaching, Margaret. She is so sweet! I mowed a lawn for the first time in my life, it was pretty fun and I didn't do too bad haha.
This week is the last week of the transfer, time is going by crazy fast! We have to do two more exchanges this week and its in my area so I will be driving and taking over the area. We are going to the temple tomorrow as a district which I am really excited about! Going to the temple just always makes me feel better. Today we are actually doing an activity with all the sisters in our zone! We are going to be carving pumpkins, I am really excited because I have really gotten to know all of the sisters in our zone by going on exchanges with them. They are all so nice!
So this time next week I should know about transfers! We will see what happens. Thanks again for all of the love and support.
Family, enjoy your time with Charles. I really wish I could be there with you all. Just pretend I am there haha.
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
Family, enjoy your time with Charles. I really wish I could be there with you all. Just pretend I am there haha.
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
11th week...
So first off thanks Mom and Dad for the birthday package! Don't worry I haven't opened it yet, I am waiting till tomorrow! Also thanks to everyone else that wrote me letters this week, I really appreciate it!
This week was crazy! We are always busy but we were really busy this week. I went on exchanges Tuesday with Hermana Baker. We have two sets of Spanish sisters in our Spanish ward and she is part of the other set. She is awesome! We clicked right away, we taught a lot together! We got really close after just being together for one day, we are hoping that in the future we will be companions!
Wednesday I went on exchanges again but this time I was in my area and I had to drive and basically take charge of everything. I was super nervous but I was able to do it! The sister that I was with was so nice, she's only been out 3 weeks so we learned together haha. I had to take charge of Jose's baptism interview, I had to go over the questions with him, fill out the form with him. Some elders in my district came to help me with that and they came to do his interview. He did really well and seemed so ready for his baptism. He was able to go to conference with some of the young adults in our Spanish ward and he loved it. I asked him if he had any more questions about anything and he was like yes I have one, How soon can I go to the temple? He's super solid, he can go pretty much right away to do baptisms for the dead. We taught other lessons that day and they were in English which was good cause the companion I had was English speaking haha.
So on Saturday was Jose's baptism. It was kind of crazy because we didn't know how many people were going to be there because it was last minute. We really wanted to get a musical number together and we asked a lot of people in the ward but they couldn't do it. So then Friday night we were able to figure something out. We found a flute and flute music from a member in our neighborhood and we asked Hermana Derges if she could play and she said yes! Hermana Derges was in my MTC district so it was super sweet that she was able to play. She played Joseph's Smith's First prayer, it was so good, the spirit was felt super strongly! The whole baptism turned out really well. A good amount of people showed up and Eduardo (he got baptized a little over a month ago) gave a talk on baptism. He did so good, he is such an example to everyone. Jose's mom was there (Carmen), she got baptized when Eduardo did. She seemed so happy for Jose. His sister was also there, Jesenia. She is 16 and we think that she will be the next to be baptized, we hope!
Well I don't have much time! Thanks again for everything! I can't believe my Birthday is tomorrow. I haven't really thought about it much haha.
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
This week was crazy! We are always busy but we were really busy this week. I went on exchanges Tuesday with Hermana Baker. We have two sets of Spanish sisters in our Spanish ward and she is part of the other set. She is awesome! We clicked right away, we taught a lot together! We got really close after just being together for one day, we are hoping that in the future we will be companions!
Wednesday I went on exchanges again but this time I was in my area and I had to drive and basically take charge of everything. I was super nervous but I was able to do it! The sister that I was with was so nice, she's only been out 3 weeks so we learned together haha. I had to take charge of Jose's baptism interview, I had to go over the questions with him, fill out the form with him. Some elders in my district came to help me with that and they came to do his interview. He did really well and seemed so ready for his baptism. He was able to go to conference with some of the young adults in our Spanish ward and he loved it. I asked him if he had any more questions about anything and he was like yes I have one, How soon can I go to the temple? He's super solid, he can go pretty much right away to do baptisms for the dead. We taught other lessons that day and they were in English which was good cause the companion I had was English speaking haha.
So on Saturday was Jose's baptism. It was kind of crazy because we didn't know how many people were going to be there because it was last minute. We really wanted to get a musical number together and we asked a lot of people in the ward but they couldn't do it. So then Friday night we were able to figure something out. We found a flute and flute music from a member in our neighborhood and we asked Hermana Derges if she could play and she said yes! Hermana Derges was in my MTC district so it was super sweet that she was able to play. She played Joseph's Smith's First prayer, it was so good, the spirit was felt super strongly! The whole baptism turned out really well. A good amount of people showed up and Eduardo (he got baptized a little over a month ago) gave a talk on baptism. He did so good, he is such an example to everyone. Jose's mom was there (Carmen), she got baptized when Eduardo did. She seemed so happy for Jose. His sister was also there, Jesenia. She is 16 and we think that she will be the next to be baptized, we hope!
Well I don't have much time! Thanks again for everything! I can't believe my Birthday is tomorrow. I haven't really thought about it much haha.
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
10th week...iPads!!
Well first off thanks Mom, Dad, and Melissa for all of the encouraging letters, they have really helped me! Also thanks everyone who keeps writing me and emailing me, I really appreciate it!
So Tuesday I was on exchanges and I got to drive again!! It was in Spanish Fork again! We had a little adventure because we got locked out of the house so we ended up going to the other sisters house in the area. It just so happened to be the house of Hermana Read and her companion! She was super confused to see me at her house haha. It was great to see her though, it always makes me super happy when I get to see my MTC companion. It was a good day, we taught a lot.
Wednesday I went on another exchange with an English sister in Santaquin. It was good for me to teach a lot of lessons in English so that eventually I can start feeling more comfortable teaching the lessons in Spanish haha.
On Friday we had zone conference. President McCune started zone conference with a little scripture study and he told us that there will be an interruption because he is expecting a phone call from salt lake. We read in 1 Nephi about when he is commanded to build the ship and what tools he had to use. We then talked about what tools we use for missionary work like preach my gospel, scriptures, facebook, etc. And then the phone rang and he was like o well I am just with the missionaries talking about tools we use and then he was like o your have another tool they could use. And then people started walking in with Ipads. President McCune then said an early Christmas present, you all will be getting your Ipads today!! We all cheered! So we got our Ipads set up and basically everything is on there, the gospel library, our whole area book is on there, we can access facebook, and do everything on there to bring forth missionary work! We are the 4th mission in the world to now have Ipads! We also get to keep the Ipad with us throughout our mission and then we will have to turn it in after our mission. It is definitely going to help with hastening the work. It is indeed a very exciting time to be a missionary!
So General Conference was amazing!!! All of the talks were so good! I especially liked President Uchtdorf's talk! His talks are always so good! I also really liked Ulisses Soares of the seventy's talk. He talked about meekness, I feel like that is an attribute that I have been blessed with while I have been on my mission. If I didn't have that gift I know things would be more challenging for me.
I also really liked Elder Holland's talk. HE emphasized that we should never lose hope in our Heavenly Father and that God's love for us is always there no matter whether we deserve it or not.
We have a baptism this Saturday that we are really excited about! His name is Jose, he's 20. He's the son of Carmen who got baptized a month ago. He's so ready and is going to be such an example to others.
Thanks for all the love and support from you all!
Also Happy Birthday to my brother, Mike this week! You are getting so old haha! Have a good one!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
So Tuesday I was on exchanges and I got to drive again!! It was in Spanish Fork again! We had a little adventure because we got locked out of the house so we ended up going to the other sisters house in the area. It just so happened to be the house of Hermana Read and her companion! She was super confused to see me at her house haha. It was great to see her though, it always makes me super happy when I get to see my MTC companion. It was a good day, we taught a lot.
Wednesday I went on another exchange with an English sister in Santaquin. It was good for me to teach a lot of lessons in English so that eventually I can start feeling more comfortable teaching the lessons in Spanish haha.
On Friday we had zone conference. President McCune started zone conference with a little scripture study and he told us that there will be an interruption because he is expecting a phone call from salt lake. We read in 1 Nephi about when he is commanded to build the ship and what tools he had to use. We then talked about what tools we use for missionary work like preach my gospel, scriptures, facebook, etc. And then the phone rang and he was like o well I am just with the missionaries talking about tools we use and then he was like o your have another tool they could use. And then people started walking in with Ipads. President McCune then said an early Christmas present, you all will be getting your Ipads today!! We all cheered! So we got our Ipads set up and basically everything is on there, the gospel library, our whole area book is on there, we can access facebook, and do everything on there to bring forth missionary work! We are the 4th mission in the world to now have Ipads! We also get to keep the Ipad with us throughout our mission and then we will have to turn it in after our mission. It is definitely going to help with hastening the work. It is indeed a very exciting time to be a missionary!
So General Conference was amazing!!! All of the talks were so good! I especially liked President Uchtdorf's talk! His talks are always so good! I also really liked Ulisses Soares of the seventy's talk. He talked about meekness, I feel like that is an attribute that I have been blessed with while I have been on my mission. If I didn't have that gift I know things would be more challenging for me.
I also really liked Elder Holland's talk. HE emphasized that we should never lose hope in our Heavenly Father and that God's love for us is always there no matter whether we deserve it or not.
We have a baptism this Saturday that we are really excited about! His name is Jose, he's 20. He's the son of Carmen who got baptized a month ago. He's so ready and is going to be such an example to others.
Thanks for all the love and support from you all!
Also Happy Birthday to my brother, Mike this week! You are getting so old haha! Have a good one!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
Ninth week
Well first off thanks Mom, Dad, and Melissa for all of the encouraging letters, they have really helped me! Also thanks everyone who keeps writing me and emailing me, I really appreciate it!
So Tuesday I was on exchanges and I got to drive again!! It was in Spanish Fork again! We had a little adventure because we got locked out of the house so we ended up going to the other sisters house in the area. It just so happened to be the house of Hermana Read and her companion! She was super confused to see me at her house haha. It was great to see her though, it always makes me super happy when I get to see my MTC companion. It was a good day, we taught a lot.
Wednesday I went on another exchange with an english sister in Santaquin. It was good for me to teach a lot of lessons in english so that eventually I can start feeling more comfortable teaching the lessons in Spanish haha.
On Friday we had zone conference. President McCune started zone conference with a little scripture study and he told us that there will be an interruption because he is expecting a phone call from salt lake. We read in 1 Nephi about when he is commanded to build the ship and what tools he had to use. We then talked about what tools we use for missionary work like preach my gospel, scriptures, facebook, etc. And then the phone rang and he was like o well I am just with the missionaries talking about tools we use and then he was like o your have another tool they could use. And then people started walking in with Ipads. President McCune then said an early christmas present, you all will be getting your Ipads today!! We all cheered! So we got our Ipads set up and basically everything is on there, the gospel library, our whole area book is on there, we can access facebook, and do everything on there to bring forth missionary work! We are the 4th mission in the world to now have Ipads! We also get to keep the Ipad with us throughout our mission and then we will have to turn it in after our mission. It is definitly going to help with hastening the work. It is indeed a very exciting time to be a missionary!
So General Conference was amazing!!! All of the talks were so good! I especially liked President Uchtdorf's talk! His talks are always so good! I also really liked Ulisses Soares of the seventy's talk. He talked about meekness, I feel like that is an attribute that I have been blessed with while I have been on my mission. If I didn't have that gift I know things would be more challenging for me.
I also really liked Elder Holland's talk. HE emphasized that we should never lose hope in our Heavenly Father and that God's love for us is always there no matter whether we deserve it or not.
We have a baptism this saturday that we are really excited about! His name is Jose, he's 20. He's the son of Carmen who got baptized a month ago. He's so ready and is going to be such an example to others.
Thanks for all the love and support from you all!
Also Happy Birthday to my brother, Mike this week! You are getting so old haha! Have a good one!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
So Tuesday I was on exchanges and I got to drive again!! It was in Spanish Fork again! We had a little adventure because we got locked out of the house so we ended up going to the other sisters house in the area. It just so happened to be the house of Hermana Read and her companion! She was super confused to see me at her house haha. It was great to see her though, it always makes me super happy when I get to see my MTC companion. It was a good day, we taught a lot.
Wednesday I went on another exchange with an english sister in Santaquin. It was good for me to teach a lot of lessons in english so that eventually I can start feeling more comfortable teaching the lessons in Spanish haha.
So General Conference was amazing!!! All of the talks were so good! I especially liked President Uchtdorf's talk! His talks are always so good! I also really liked Ulisses Soares of the seventy's talk. He talked about meekness, I feel like that is an attribute that I have been blessed with while I have been on my mission. If I didn't have that gift I know things would be more challenging for me.
I also really liked Elder Holland's talk. HE emphasized that we should never lose hope in our Heavenly Father and that God's love for us is always there no matter whether we deserve it or not.
Also Happy Birthday to my brother, Mike this week! You are getting so old haha! Have a good one!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
Eighth week...
First off thanks Mom and Dad for the package!!! I really appreciate it and thanks for all the letters I got this week! Keep them coming, I really appreciate them!
On Tuesday I had the opportunity to drive a little in Spanish Fork, Utah! My companion had a meeting in Provo so I went on exchanges with another sister in Spanish Fork and got special permission to drive! It was nice and it made me realize that I miss driving! Also on Tuesday we had a meeting for all the Spanish missionaries in our mission in Provo. We talked about how to better work with stake leaders/ward leaders to better bring forth Spanish work. There's over 100 Spanish speaking missionaries in our mission, crazy!! What was super great was that I got to see my MTC district, Hermana Read, Hermana Derges, Hermana Sablan, and Elder Hodges!!! It was so good to see all of them and catch up!! I miss them so much!!!
On Wednesday I went on exchanges with a sister in my zone, Hermana Flores. It was a great and positive experience with her. I was able to grow a lot with her. I will be going on a lot of exchanges this transfer because my companion is Sister Training Leader so she has to go on exchanges with all the sisters in our zone!
On Saturday we had the baptism for Alex!! He seemed so happy and he said he felt so clean! He is such a cute kid! We gave him a picture of Jesus and the Children to remind him that Jesus Christ will always be there for us.
On Sunday we went to Alex's ward for his confirmation and we actually gave talks in his ward. I talked about the power of conversion with the Book of Mormon. I planned a 10 minute talk but it had to be like 20 minutes and somehow someway I spoke for 20 minutes, the spirit was definitely guiding me!
This week I will be going on exchanges again with another sister. Also this week we have zone conference and rumor has it that we will be getting our Ipads and Iphones!!! It is exciting! Also this week is general conference which I am super excited for! my companion gets to go to a session, I won't be able to go this time but I will be able to go in April and October next year! It is seriously inspired that we have General Conference every 6 months, we really need it!
Thanks again for all of the love and support!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
On Tuesday I had the opportunity to drive a little in Spanish Fork, Utah! My companion had a meeting in Provo so I went on exchanges with another sister in Spanish Fork and got special permission to drive! It was nice and it made me realize that I miss driving! Also on Tuesday we had a meeting for all the Spanish missionaries in our mission in Provo. We talked about how to better work with stake leaders/ward leaders to better bring forth Spanish work. There's over 100 Spanish speaking missionaries in our mission, crazy!! What was super great was that I got to see my MTC district, Hermana Read, Hermana Derges, Hermana Sablan, and Elder Hodges!!! It was so good to see all of them and catch up!! I miss them so much!!!
On Wednesday I went on exchanges with a sister in my zone, Hermana Flores. It was a great and positive experience with her. I was able to grow a lot with her. I will be going on a lot of exchanges this transfer because my companion is Sister Training Leader so she has to go on exchanges with all the sisters in our zone!
On Saturday we had the baptism for Alex!! He seemed so happy and he said he felt so clean! He is such a cute kid! We gave him a picture of Jesus and the Children to remind him that Jesus Christ will always be there for us.
On Sunday we went to Alex's ward for his confirmation and we actually gave talks in his ward. I talked about the power of conversion with the Book of Mormon. I planned a 10 minute talk but it had to be like 20 minutes and somehow someway I spoke for 20 minutes, the spirit was definitely guiding me!
This week I will be going on exchanges again with another sister. Also this week we have zone conference and rumor has it that we will be getting our Ipads and Iphones!!! It is exciting! Also this week is general conference which I am super excited for! my companion gets to go to a session, I won't be able to go this time but I will be able to go in April and October next year! It is seriously inspired that we have General Conference every 6 months, we really need it!
Thanks again for all of the love and support!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
Seventh week of mission...Staying in Payson.
Well it is official, I am staying in Payson! I honestly thought I was going to leave but deep down in my heart I felt like I was supposed to stay! I am happy that I am staying because we have a lot of potential people that could be really good.
This week wasn't as busy as some of our other weeks. We have a baptism this Saturday for Alex. He's 10 and he's so much fun to teach, he's such a smart kid. We met him a lot this week to make sure he knew everything for his baptism interview. Our district leader, Elder Harpole interviewed him for his baptism interview, he passed! And when Alex came out of his interview, he got a little emotional, it was so sweet! He realized what an important step he is making by being baptized. We went over the program for him and he picked the Star Spangled Banner and Nephi's Courage for the songs for his baptism haha.
Also this past Sunday Eduardo brought his nephew, Victor to church! It was way cute and Victor seemed to like church very much! Hopefully that will soften his Mom's heart so we can start teaching her!
We also have been teaching a lot of less active families and trying to make it a family effort for all of them to go back to church!
Tomorrow we are having a training meeting for all Spanish missionaries in the mission which means I will get to see Hermana Read, Hermana Derges, Hermana Sablan, and Elder Hodges (my MTC district)!! I am so excited to see all of them!! They will forever be my family!!
Sorry this email is a little short but I don't have much time today!! Thanks again for all of the love and support!! I love you all!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
This week wasn't as busy as some of our other weeks. We have a baptism this Saturday for Alex. He's 10 and he's so much fun to teach, he's such a smart kid. We met him a lot this week to make sure he knew everything for his baptism interview. Our district leader, Elder Harpole interviewed him for his baptism interview, he passed! And when Alex came out of his interview, he got a little emotional, it was so sweet! He realized what an important step he is making by being baptized. We went over the program for him and he picked the Star Spangled Banner and Nephi's Courage for the songs for his baptism haha.
Also this past Sunday Eduardo brought his nephew, Victor to church! It was way cute and Victor seemed to like church very much! Hopefully that will soften his Mom's heart so we can start teaching her!
We also have been teaching a lot of less active families and trying to make it a family effort for all of them to go back to church!
Tomorrow we are having a training meeting for all Spanish missionaries in the mission which means I will get to see Hermana Read, Hermana Derges, Hermana Sablan, and Elder Hodges (my MTC district)!! I am so excited to see all of them!! They will forever be my family!!
Sorry this email is a little short but I don't have much time today!! Thanks again for all of the love and support!! I love you all!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
Sixth week in the field...
Well I am sitting here writing this email to you all and we are waiting to get a phone call to find out if we are going to be transferred. My companion Hermana Lish will most likely stay but I will most likely be leaving, we will see! I will go to my new area on Wednesday if I do get transferred. What is great about a mission is that wherever area you are assigned to, that is where the Lord wants you to be at that specific time!
We moved into our new place, the elders in our district helped us move in! The people we live are so nice! They spoil us! It is a nice place, lots of space but it doesn't compare to the mansion we used to live in haha. What is nice is we are more close to people we are teaching so it saves us a lot on miles. I didn't unpack everything because I don't know if I will be transferred or not!
This week we taught a lot. We got 4 people on date for baptism!!! There is this 10 year old boy named Alex that we are teaching, he is set to get baptized on Sept 28th!!! His family is a little less active so we are working on getting his family back!! They have been going to church regularly for the past few months which is good! Alex is such a cute kid, he's so smart for a 10 year old. We teach him in English because he knows it better than Spanish. We taught him the word of wisdom this week and we asked ok so alex why do you think the word of wisdom is such an important commandment that we should live and he said so we can be skinny. We bursted out laughing, he's so much fun to teach haha
This week we also have been meeting with Eduardo (the one who recently just got baptized) to read chapters in the Book of Mormon with him. He lives with his sister and her 3 kids. Eduardo's nephew, Victor who is 7 decided to come in join us and read with us, we gave him a cartoon version of the Book of Mormon and he loved it! Eduardo then taught him how to pray, it was so sweet! And we met with them again and Victor told me I have been reading the Book of Mormon, it is the best book I have ever read and I have been praying with my Uncle Eduardo and I want to pray many times a day. I feel so good when I pray. It was so sweet! So we are kind of teaching his nephew now, we are hoping that Eduardo's sister will want us to start teaching her but we will see! Eduardo is doing so good, the Bishop gave him a calling to be ward missionary! He's already been going out to teach with us and helped a lot! He's amazing!
Carmen Lopez (she also just was recently baptized), her son wants to be baptized now! He's been going to church with her every Sunday! He's 20 and he is so ready, basically Saturday and Sunday we taught him pretty much everything he needs to know and he's going to be baptized Sept 27th!!! He's so ready! We're hoping maybe he would want Eduardo to baptize him, we'll see!
On Saturday a ward invited us to help with a youth activity. They were doing like a mini MTC mission experience for the youth and they asked us to come in to be teachers at the MTC and explain preach my gospel and teach them how to teach the first lesson. It was really fun and the youth really liked it! They fed us breakfast and lunch which was nice and we watched the 5000 day project with the 2 brothers. I always heard about it but I had never seen it so I was so excited that I would finally be able to see it! It was so good, it made me cry! It made me think of you Mike and Charles, you both are the best brothers ever!! Also on Saturday our Spanish ward had a big party. It was Mexico's independence day and other countries independence days. Our ward has 17 countries represented but most of them are from Mexico! They had so much food there, it was crazy but it was sooooooo good!!! They also had different dances and skits that they did haha. Latino people seriously know how to party haha!!! They had the primary kids dance to gangham style, it made me think of my Nephew, Luke who always wanted to dance gangham style haha.
We have also been teaching a less active family, The Godinez family. I love this family so much!! The dad is from Mexico and speaks Spanish but his wife and 2 kids don't so we teach them in english. We are getting their daughter who is 9 ready to be baptized! We have seen this family grow so much, they have been reading and praying together everyday as a family and they have been struggling with the Word of Wisdom especially the Mom. But she has been trying really hard to give up on drinking coffee and she's getting there. Before she refused to give it up but now she is trying which is a big step! Also we have been working on the Dad to be ready to baptize his daughter, Sammy. He has been afraid to commit and just feels like he's not ready to be fully back into the church. We talked to him and we gave him a date October 12th, that's when he would baptize his daughter Sammy! He committed to it so we are super excited for him and his family! Also yesterday the whole family went to church!! They have come such a long way! We are going to meet with them tonight, they are such an amazing and fun family to teach!
Well I am about out of time, still no word on whether I will be transferred or not! Also rumor has it that we are getting Ipads really soon meaning this week! So that means I will be emailing you all using my Ipad which is exciting!! Anyways thanks again for all the love and support, I love you all!!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
We moved into our new place, the elders in our district helped us move in! The people we live are so nice! They spoil us! It is a nice place, lots of space but it doesn't compare to the mansion we used to live in haha. What is nice is we are more close to people we are teaching so it saves us a lot on miles. I didn't unpack everything because I don't know if I will be transferred or not!
This week we taught a lot. We got 4 people on date for baptism!!! There is this 10 year old boy named Alex that we are teaching, he is set to get baptized on Sept 28th!!! His family is a little less active so we are working on getting his family back!! They have been going to church regularly for the past few months which is good! Alex is such a cute kid, he's so smart for a 10 year old. We teach him in English because he knows it better than Spanish. We taught him the word of wisdom this week and we asked ok so alex why do you think the word of wisdom is such an important commandment that we should live and he said so we can be skinny. We bursted out laughing, he's so much fun to teach haha
This week we also have been meeting with Eduardo (the one who recently just got baptized) to read chapters in the Book of Mormon with him. He lives with his sister and her 3 kids. Eduardo's nephew, Victor who is 7 decided to come in join us and read with us, we gave him a cartoon version of the Book of Mormon and he loved it! Eduardo then taught him how to pray, it was so sweet! And we met with them again and Victor told me I have been reading the Book of Mormon, it is the best book I have ever read and I have been praying with my Uncle Eduardo and I want to pray many times a day. I feel so good when I pray. It was so sweet! So we are kind of teaching his nephew now, we are hoping that Eduardo's sister will want us to start teaching her but we will see! Eduardo is doing so good, the Bishop gave him a calling to be ward missionary! He's already been going out to teach with us and helped a lot! He's amazing!
Carmen Lopez (she also just was recently baptized), her son wants to be baptized now! He's been going to church with her every Sunday! He's 20 and he is so ready, basically Saturday and Sunday we taught him pretty much everything he needs to know and he's going to be baptized Sept 27th!!! He's so ready! We're hoping maybe he would want Eduardo to baptize him, we'll see!
On Saturday a ward invited us to help with a youth activity. They were doing like a mini MTC mission experience for the youth and they asked us to come in to be teachers at the MTC and explain preach my gospel and teach them how to teach the first lesson. It was really fun and the youth really liked it! They fed us breakfast and lunch which was nice and we watched the 5000 day project with the 2 brothers. I always heard about it but I had never seen it so I was so excited that I would finally be able to see it! It was so good, it made me cry! It made me think of you Mike and Charles, you both are the best brothers ever!! Also on Saturday our Spanish ward had a big party. It was Mexico's independence day and other countries independence days. Our ward has 17 countries represented but most of them are from Mexico! They had so much food there, it was crazy but it was sooooooo good!!! They also had different dances and skits that they did haha. Latino people seriously know how to party haha!!! They had the primary kids dance to gangham style, it made me think of my Nephew, Luke who always wanted to dance gangham style haha.
We have also been teaching a less active family, The Godinez family. I love this family so much!! The dad is from Mexico and speaks Spanish but his wife and 2 kids don't so we teach them in english. We are getting their daughter who is 9 ready to be baptized! We have seen this family grow so much, they have been reading and praying together everyday as a family and they have been struggling with the Word of Wisdom especially the Mom. But she has been trying really hard to give up on drinking coffee and she's getting there. Before she refused to give it up but now she is trying which is a big step! Also we have been working on the Dad to be ready to baptize his daughter, Sammy. He has been afraid to commit and just feels like he's not ready to be fully back into the church. We talked to him and we gave him a date October 12th, that's when he would baptize his daughter Sammy! He committed to it so we are super excited for him and his family! Also yesterday the whole family went to church!! They have come such a long way! We are going to meet with them tonight, they are such an amazing and fun family to teach!
Well I am about out of time, still no word on whether I will be transferred or not! Also rumor has it that we are getting Ipads really soon meaning this week! So that means I will be emailing you all using my Ipad which is exciting!! Anyways thanks again for all the love and support, I love you all!!
Love,
Hermana Veronica Garces
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