Welp this week flew by, I don't have much time to write, so this will be a quick little email, also they changed our p'day to be on Christmas day and new years day, so I prob. wont be emailing next week... but I do plan on printing off my emails, so hey don't think that gives you an excuse not to write!! SO Daniel was baptized on Saturday, it was very special, we didn't have much support from the members, but hey at least he was baptized and he was confirmed on Sunday, and has already received the priesthood, can we talk about how amazing this ward is? I'm so blessed to be here!! We saw I'm after he was given the priesthood, he had a glow about him, and he was truly humbled, I could tell he really understands the importance of these things!! I'm so happy I get to be a part o this part of his life! We are teaching several people, they have baptism goals, pray that they make it, we are teaching a kid who has a really rough life, but luckily a family from the church has taken him in and are helping him a lot, we are planing on his baptism for next sat the
26th, the day after Christmas, and his 14th birthday! Everything looks great for that date, as long as we can get permission from his sister... pray that she will give her permission!!!
Well I gotta run, but I would like to end with our fun little experience yesterday. well we had transfers this week, and everyone thought my comp would be transferred... so there is a family here that we eat with all the time that whenever a missionary gets moved they throw eggs and flour on them, well since we all thought mora would be leaving they planned on doing it to her on Monday our last lunch with them. We both went to lunch wearing old clothes, me just in case they decided to get smart. Well the whole lunch they were teasing her by bringing out the eggs and flour and stuff like that, the mom was like don't worry Hermana they wont do anything today. I thought it was really funny. Well after lunch the oldest son came over and had water in his hand and Hermana Mora tried to hide behind me, I went running and stood by the daughter of the family, at that point my comp was cornered by 2 of the sons and the mom, well they got her poor girl with eggs and water and flour, it was funny, as soon as they covered her with that she ran over to the mom and daughter and hugged them to get them all dirty, because well she cant hug the sons, and then we took pictures, well we put the cameras on self timer and posed for the picture, as soon as the picture took I felt cold water on my head and saw flour flying everywhere... yeah they got me too... just without the eggs!!! It was way funny,
but they waited a little to long so it doesn't really show up in the picture!! Well we tried getting them back by flinging rice (from the lunch) at them, but the oldest son had to go to work so we forgave him for yesterday, but we are coming up with ways to get them back... any ideas would be more than welcome :). So after lunch we had to walk home covered in flour and water and egg everyone was looking and laughing at us... it was really really funny... until we had to get it out of our hair... I thought it would never come out... luckily it did... yeah quite the day!
But it was all done in vain because well we didn't have any changes, but its better this way, we will have fun getting our revenge together!
Welp I gotta run I cant wait to talk to you all next Friday!!
love ya
hermana Gosnell
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!
Ok don't get your hopes up, it isn't snowing here... we did have some torrential rains on Sunday, and I lost my umbrella, so I showed up at church looking like a drowned rat... but that is not why it looks like Christmas... WE HAD ANOTHER BAPTISM!!! This one was really quite the miracle, let me tell you how it went:
So there is a young girl her name is Cecilia, her older sister got baptized about a year ago, but now doesn't really come to church... the hermanas used to teach Cecilia (she is 15) and they tried to get her baptized a couple of months ago and she said no when I'm ready I'll let you know. So they stopped visiting her, then all of a sudden a few weeks before I got here she started coming to church, ALL ON HER OWN! Imagine that, a 15 year old girl waking up early on a Sunday morning to go to church, her sister who is much older and is a member doesn't even do that! We still didn't go visit her because every time we tried to talk to her at church she blew us off, so we decided to give her her space. She continued coming, the young women's program planned for her like she was already a member because she goes to all the activities and everything! Well we didn't have a baptism planned for this weekend and one morning my companion tells me I think we need to go see Cecilia and see if she wants to be baptized this Saturday! I was really surprised and didn't really have that much faith (yeah sometimes its hard for me) but I said alright lets go see her. We got there last Wednesday night and we didn't have much time
because we had another appt. with Daniel at the other end of our area, I told my comp we needed to be in and out because it was raining and I didn't want Daniel to have been waiting for us outside in the rain. We got to our appt. with Cecilia and were waiting for some members, but they never got there so we went on in and started talking to Cecilia, she was friendly but said several times she wasn't ready to be baptized, that maybe next year would be her time. I asked her if we could go over the interview questions for baptism to see if she was ready, she said yes and right as we started the members showed up, which turned out to be a big help because these members are good friends of Cecilia. We went over all the questions and she answered perfectly, and when we finished we all just looked at her and one of the members said and you think you aren't ready, are you crazy? We all laughed and she said she just didn't feel ready, we talked to her a little more and told her we thought she was ready and we would like her to be baptized this Saturday, at
first she said no but then said I will think about it, call me tomorrow night and I'll let you know. We said ok and then left running for our next appt (which ended up not showing!!)
So Thursday we had been fasting and one of the things we were fasting for was Cecilia, Thursday night my comp called Cecilia and I was getting ready for bed when I hear my companion squeal with delight, I went running to see what happened and she got off the phone with Cecilia and shouted she's getting baptized she's getting baptized!! Cecilia decided that now was her time and said yes Saturday at 6 will be my baptism!!! Wow I couldn't believe it! We went into turbo mode calling everyone we could think of to start organizing the baptism, no one could believe it! Wow so then Saturday we went to the church for the baptism and there were a ton of young men and women and their leaders, but there was only one priesthood holder!! We were starting to freak out, and we were calling our mission leader and bishop, and well finally at 6:45 they showed up so we could start the baptism, we wouldn't have had that problem if only we were elders... haha but well the baptism started super late, but it was amazing! Celcilia felt the spirit so strong and even cried a little at the end! I think this was one of the biggest miracles of my mission!!
Well not to put a downer on this letter, but Daniel our investigator of gold wont be
getting baptized this weekend, he did'nt come to church on Sunday and is telling us he is too old to join the church because he has nothing to offer the church, we have tried talking to him about it but he refused to set an appt with us!! Finally we called him last night and said he missed talking to us and set an appointment for Thursday! Please pray for him, he is amazing but it seems like satan is working really hard on him!!
Welp this is all I have time for... this was a great week!! I hope all is well and I love yall!!
Love
hermana Gosnell
So there is a young girl her name is Cecilia, her older sister got baptized about a year ago, but now doesn't really come to church... the hermanas used to teach Cecilia (she is 15) and they tried to get her baptized a couple of months ago and she said no when I'm ready I'll let you know. So they stopped visiting her, then all of a sudden a few weeks before I got here she started coming to church, ALL ON HER OWN! Imagine that, a 15 year old girl waking up early on a Sunday morning to go to church, her sister who is much older and is a member doesn't even do that! We still didn't go visit her because every time we tried to talk to her at church she blew us off, so we decided to give her her space. She continued coming, the young women's program planned for her like she was already a member because she goes to all the activities and everything! Well we didn't have a baptism planned for this weekend and one morning my companion tells me I think we need to go see Cecilia and see if she wants to be baptized this Saturday! I was really surprised and didn't really have that much faith (yeah sometimes its hard for me) but I said alright lets go see her. We got there last Wednesday night and we didn't have much time
because we had another appt. with Daniel at the other end of our area, I told my comp we needed to be in and out because it was raining and I didn't want Daniel to have been waiting for us outside in the rain. We got to our appt. with Cecilia and were waiting for some members, but they never got there so we went on in and started talking to Cecilia, she was friendly but said several times she wasn't ready to be baptized, that maybe next year would be her time. I asked her if we could go over the interview questions for baptism to see if she was ready, she said yes and right as we started the members showed up, which turned out to be a big help because these members are good friends of Cecilia. We went over all the questions and she answered perfectly, and when we finished we all just looked at her and one of the members said and you think you aren't ready, are you crazy? We all laughed and she said she just didn't feel ready, we talked to her a little more and told her we thought she was ready and we would like her to be baptized this Saturday, at
first she said no but then said I will think about it, call me tomorrow night and I'll let you know. We said ok and then left running for our next appt (which ended up not showing!!)
So Thursday we had been fasting and one of the things we were fasting for was Cecilia, Thursday night my comp called Cecilia and I was getting ready for bed when I hear my companion squeal with delight, I went running to see what happened and she got off the phone with Cecilia and shouted she's getting baptized she's getting baptized!! Cecilia decided that now was her time and said yes Saturday at 6 will be my baptism!!! Wow I couldn't believe it! We went into turbo mode calling everyone we could think of to start organizing the baptism, no one could believe it! Wow so then Saturday we went to the church for the baptism and there were a ton of young men and women and their leaders, but there was only one priesthood holder!! We were starting to freak out, and we were calling our mission leader and bishop, and well finally at 6:45 they showed up so we could start the baptism, we wouldn't have had that problem if only we were elders... haha but well the baptism started super late, but it was amazing! Celcilia felt the spirit so strong and even cried a little at the end! I think this was one of the biggest miracles of my mission!!
Well not to put a downer on this letter, but Daniel our investigator of gold wont be
getting baptized this weekend, he did'nt come to church on Sunday and is telling us he is too old to join the church because he has nothing to offer the church, we have tried talking to him about it but he refused to set an appt with us!! Finally we called him last night and said he missed talking to us and set an appointment for Thursday! Please pray for him, he is amazing but it seems like satan is working really hard on him!!
Welp this is all I have time for... this was a great week!! I hope all is well and I love yall!!
Love
hermana Gosnell
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