Buenos Dias mi familia! :)
otro semana ya paso....no lo creo. pero todo esta bien aqui! :)
hows my good ol family doin? glad to hear you have both the puppies in hand and not down in some strangers garage this time ;) baxter learned a lesson maybe? but glad to hear that your all home safe and sound and little nana's in the HOWSE! bet that will be fun! :) hows she enjoying the heat? I mean let me tell you...there has never been a time more in my life that I want to just jump in the pool than the time that I can't.... funny how that works isn't it?
As for the update the week:
Hermana Reyes and I have been working really hard at trying to find new investigators. we were blessed with 6 new investigators.
Good news is that we have an awesome investigator. Her name is Ligia We were looking through our Area Book and found her. She was being taught by Elder missionaries 2 years ago and when the sister missionaries came into the area something happened that they lost contact with her. So we decided we would stop by and see if she was home. and you know what? she was! She let us in and we talked for a bit--turns out she had a Book of Mormon and told us she would find it and we set up another appt to come back and see her. So we went back and you know what she told us? well she told us 2 things. one that she found the Book of Mormon and had started reading it. and 2 that she found out yesterday that her sister in mexico is mormon! she got baptized a year ago. (perfect timing right?!) her sister was an alcoholic and now she said her sister is a completely different person for the better and she loves that. Then she brought up cause her sister doesnt drink anymore..."So I heard you dont even drink coffee...why is that?" "Well Ligia its a commandment from God that we don't. He has told us that it's bad for our bodies. So thats why we don't drink it." "Oh. ok. Ill stop drinking it then. I have noticed that it makes me all shaky inside. I won't drink it anymore. what are the other things God has told us not to do?" did I mention that Ligia can't see out of one eye. It's a silicon eye. So does she use that as an excuse to not read? no. not at all. She told us that she was feeling sad last week and so she picked up the BoM and started reading it and she felt this peace and knowlege that she could do what she needed to.
Then we also have Lupita on date to be baptized for the 27th of August.....she still needs to get the actua de nacimiento de su esposo so they can go get their marriage license but we are taking steps of faith that this will happen. Lupita is more than ready to enter the waters of baptism. She is already pariticpating in the Relief Society lessons and like loves reading the BoM. She is an amazing person. I'm praying and praying that I can see Lupita get baptized this month!
So on monday it was pouring rain and all the appts we had lined up for the day allllllllllll fell through. Life of a missionary right? So we tried finding some less actives and doing some other work when our dinner appt cancelled on us. so we had no where to eat and Hna Padilla found out and told us we could come over to her place for FHE. So...coming up with the lesson.....I was sitting at my desk earlier that morning looking at my pictures of my family...and when we were trying to come up with an idea for the lesson I thought back to those pictures on my wall---my indian family FHE---boom. that was it. that was our lesson. So we went to their house and we dressed up like anti-nefi-lehites...and told the story of the stripling warriors and how they stood up for their Dads so they didn't have to break the promise they made with God and how their Moms taught them if they had faith and prayed that God would save them and he did.....and then we took the popsicles sticks and talked about how as individuals we are easy to break but as a family we are strong....so thanks mom and dad for your awesome FHE lesson all those years back. its still stuck with me! and hopefully it will stick with the padilla kids for years to come. it was really fun.
Today for Preperation day we are heading to go fishing and try our hand at catching catfish. So dad if you have any good recipes I could really use them! we want to do some catfish fryin! :) :)
But sure hope you have a great week! :) Love you all! Read your Scriptures cause they're the word of God and they're true! :)
paz y amor,
Hermana Maughan
otro semana ya paso....no lo creo. pero todo esta bien aqui! :)
hows my good ol family doin? glad to hear you have both the puppies in hand and not down in some strangers garage this time ;) baxter learned a lesson maybe? but glad to hear that your all home safe and sound and little nana's in the HOWSE! bet that will be fun! :) hows she enjoying the heat? I mean let me tell you...there has never been a time more in my life that I want to just jump in the pool than the time that I can't.... funny how that works isn't it?
As for the update the week:
Hermana Reyes and I have been working really hard at trying to find new investigators. we were blessed with 6 new investigators.
Good news is that we have an awesome investigator. Her name is Ligia We were looking through our Area Book and found her. She was being taught by Elder missionaries 2 years ago and when the sister missionaries came into the area something happened that they lost contact with her. So we decided we would stop by and see if she was home. and you know what? she was! She let us in and we talked for a bit--turns out she had a Book of Mormon and told us she would find it and we set up another appt to come back and see her. So we went back and you know what she told us? well she told us 2 things. one that she found the Book of Mormon and had started reading it. and 2 that she found out yesterday that her sister in mexico is mormon! she got baptized a year ago. (perfect timing right?!) her sister was an alcoholic and now she said her sister is a completely different person for the better and she loves that. Then she brought up cause her sister doesnt drink anymore..."So I heard you dont even drink coffee...why is that?" "Well Ligia its a commandment from God that we don't. He has told us that it's bad for our bodies. So thats why we don't drink it." "Oh. ok. Ill stop drinking it then. I have noticed that it makes me all shaky inside. I won't drink it anymore. what are the other things God has told us not to do?" did I mention that Ligia can't see out of one eye. It's a silicon eye. So does she use that as an excuse to not read? no. not at all. She told us that she was feeling sad last week and so she picked up the BoM and started reading it and she felt this peace and knowlege that she could do what she needed to.
Then we also have Lupita on date to be baptized for the 27th of August.....she still needs to get the actua de nacimiento de su esposo so they can go get their marriage license but we are taking steps of faith that this will happen. Lupita is more than ready to enter the waters of baptism. She is already pariticpating in the Relief Society lessons and like loves reading the BoM. She is an amazing person. I'm praying and praying that I can see Lupita get baptized this month!
So on monday it was pouring rain and all the appts we had lined up for the day allllllllllll fell through. Life of a missionary right? So we tried finding some less actives and doing some other work when our dinner appt cancelled on us. so we had no where to eat and Hna Padilla found out and told us we could come over to her place for FHE. So...coming up with the lesson.....I was sitting at my desk earlier that morning looking at my pictures of my family...and when we were trying to come up with an idea for the lesson I thought back to those pictures on my wall---my indian family FHE---boom. that was it. that was our lesson. So we went to their house and we dressed up like anti-nefi-lehites...and told the story of the stripling warriors and how they stood up for their Dads so they didn't have to break the promise they made with God and how their Moms taught them if they had faith and prayed that God would save them and he did.....and then we took the popsicles sticks and talked about how as individuals we are easy to break but as a family we are strong....so thanks mom and dad for your awesome FHE lesson all those years back. its still stuck with me! and hopefully it will stick with the padilla kids for years to come. it was really fun.
Today for Preperation day we are heading to go fishing and try our hand at catching catfish. So dad if you have any good recipes I could really use them! we want to do some catfish fryin! :) :)
But sure hope you have a great week! :) Love you all! Read your Scriptures cause they're the word of God and they're true! :)
paz y amor,
Hermana Maughan
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