August 11, 2014 - Week 32

Well, this week was a pretty good one. I am still getting to know the area and stuff and getting to know the members. Everyone is pretty cool here. Really tranquilo. We didn`t have too much success with numbers and stuff. There were like 2 days that we weren`t feeling too good so we didn`t get a ton done... But, it was a good week. We have an investigator named Ever that my companion has been working with for like a few months and he was like all ready to get baptized and stuff, but he is waiting for like a document to be ready so that he can be baptized. I think that it is just something legal that he is waiting for. But, he was all ready to go and he like gave up smoking and everything for like 2 months. Then.... His document wasn`t ready in time and he got sad about it and just recently started smoking again. Like my first week here. And so we have been trying to find him to figure out what happened and stuff and we just barely found him this week. Like on Wednesday. And really, he told us that he wants to get baptized and change his life and stuff... But we just don`t know what he is going to really do about it. So, that was really sad and hard for my companion, cuz she has like worked SO hard with this guy for such a long time. But, we are going to see what happens and see if he really has this desire to change. So, as for investigators, that is about it. We haven`t found anyone too cool yet... But we are gonna really look for some people that can progress this week.

This week we became pretty close, my companion and I. She is cool and we are just really good friends. She is laughing at me like all the time. Even when I`m not trying to be funny. HAHA so it`s always a good time. It`s just a really fun companionship. This week on Saturday, we had the youth activity thing called Zion to the Rescue. I was like SOOO excited to go cuz I would get to see Hermana Morales... And guess what. SHE DIDN`T COME!!! Her new companion was like really sick, so I understand why she couldn`t come. But, still... Haha it was a bit sad. But, I sent with Hermana Meese the pictures that I printed out of all the people in Itaugua that I wrote on so that Hermana Morales can pass them out to all the families. So that was like all that happened in Zion to the Rescue. It was pretty lame this time, honestly. But also, Hermana Meese gave me a note that the familia Portillo wrote me! It was so cute and just made my day. She also gave me the news that Belèn was getting baptized that day. So, in the night I called Hermana Morales and she told me that Belèn got baptized and that she is so happy and that things are going great. She said that Belèn was a little bit sad cuz I wasn`t there to see it, but that she is so happy. So that made me really happy!

So that is about all for this week. Nothing TOO special. We are going to do a diet called the ``soup diet``. That should be fun. We also have been practicing for choir this whole week with our ward cuz there is going to be some sort of competition of choirs with all of the wards in our stake this coming week?? I don`t really understand what is going on, but it has been fun! Today for P-day we played volleyball with our zone, but then left cuz the elders started to play soccer and none of the hermanas wanted to play. But, it was pretty fun. I am excited to see how this next week goes. Sorry this week is so short! But nothing too interesting happened. 

Also,  something else that is cool is that I logged on to my email and had 19 emails! WOO!

LOVE YOU ALL SOOO MUCH!

Love, Hermana Whittaker