tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73500094003343474782024-02-19T00:15:15.887-08:00There and Back AgainA mission tale by Marie BardsleyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-63233073304677933852014-09-07T18:06:00.001-07:002014-09-07T18:06:44.170-07:00Please send you email addressesHello,<br />
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This is an update from Debbi. Marie's mission president has asked that the missionaries' emails not be posted verbatim onto their blogs. Since I find it highly unlikely that I will rewrite her email each week, I am suggesting that, if you wish you receive her emails, you send me your email address at bardsleyclan6@comcast.net. I will then forward her emails to you for the next two months (!) until she gets home. We are allowed to forward on her emails, just not post them to a public blog.<br />
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Thanks! Here's looking forward to November 11th!<br />
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DebbiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-25045602477542163762014-08-12T19:04:00.001-07:002014-08-12T19:04:50.084-07:00El Monte week 17!!<br />
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Well, thanks for all the birthday wishes and stuff.<br /><br />I will tell you what I did for my birthday. First I woke up at 5:30am<br />and went with yeni's grandma to the hospital to have surgery. Her mom<br />couldn't go and so she called us to see if we could. We had to get<br />special permission. So we went and then sat there for three hours. But<br />the good news is now yeni's mom loooooves us. She even agreed to be<br />taught. And when we go over she gives us all sorts of food and random<br />stuff. It is pretty funny. Then we went straight from there to go do<br />service, we dismantled this old play structure for a member. That was<br />pretty entertaining. It was us and two elders and one of the elders<br />went like.... Into hulk mode. We were trying to like... Take it down<br />nicely and unscrew stuff. And he just took the hammer and started<br />smashing it down. And then he would just like rip chunks off and toss<br />them across the yard. The slide was the best part. It was still bolted<br />on and we couldn't get it off and he just walked over and ripped it<br />off and tossed it over his head. We just kind of stood back after a<br />while. It was funny. And I got fed like 10 times during the day. I<br />wanted to throw up. But it was good.<br /><br />We also had a suuuuper fantabulous lesson with Cecilia this week. Her<br />kids are super cool. I don't know if I mentioned this last time after<br />one lesson the 11 year old boy asked, "so what do we have to do to get<br />baptized?". But what made this last lesson super good was that we<br />brought a member with us who we didn't even know but she is like<br />exactly the same as Cecilia. Her name is Arely, she just got baptized<br />like four months ago. Everything Cecilia would say, Arely had had like<br />the exact same experience and would just testify to how the gospel<br />would help her with that specific problem. It was really cool. The<br />only problem is even though Cecilia and her fam want to get baptized<br />we still haven't been able to get them to church for one reason or<br />another, and if they don't make it this Sunday we will have to drop<br />them. So pray that they make it to church this Sunday.<br /><br />Else wise, yeni is doing so awesome. I am so proud of her. She kind of<br />had a spiritual/emotional crisis this last week, and it was rough and<br />we were super worried and a lot of people were super angry, but in the<br />end she showed that she really has learned from the gospel and ended<br />up apologizing and repenting and making everything better than it was<br />before. Every one was so happy after including her. Which is bom.<br />Before she never would have done that, she just would have stayed<br />angry and the other people would have stayed angry at her. It's so<br />cool to see people change. I am just so excited to see her go on a<br />mission one day because she really wants to. Through Christ, we truly<br />can repent and become better. And change isn't an instantaneous<br />process, but one that takes years and it is so cool to see her start<br />that slow but sure process.<br /><br />Oh yeah, I am learning how to play guitar. I am going to come home<br />with all these crazy talents.<br /><br />Have a good week! Oh I sent some of my winter clothes home today.<br /><br />Love<br />Hermana bardsley<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sent from my iPad</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-64702832115989620312014-08-12T19:01:00.001-07:002014-08-12T19:01:31.655-07:00El Monte week 16!!!<br />
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So, some big news this week. First off, I seem to be lactose<br />intolerant. It seems to be a common trend here in the Arcadia mission<br />for missionaries to become lactose intolerant. I know of like five<br />others who never were before their mission and became so out here.<br />Strange. I had been eating cereal and milk every morning my entire<br />mission but about a month and a half ago I started to get kind of<br />sick every morning. After about four weeks of that unpleasantness I<br />switched to eating oatmeal and the problem went away and for the last<br />two weeks I have been fine. The good news it cheese doesn't seem to be<br />a problem, just milk.<br /><br />Secondly, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO GRANDMA!!!! I have been chowing down on<br />that vodka [pasta] sauce like nobody's business. It is the best.<br /><br />Thirdly, happy birthday to me. Yay.<br /><br />Fourthly, we started teaching a family from yucatan. Their last name<br />is kawich. Which is super Mayan. They all speak Mayan. The mom is<br />super cool. She prayed about the restoration and felt really good.<br />Also she is going to make me panuchos.<br /><br />Fifthly..... And probably most shocking... They sent me my pretrunky<br />papers. Because of the way transfers work out I will be coming home a<br />little earlier than expected. I will be coming home November 11th.<br />They wouldn't let me stay till the next transfer. I tried. When I got<br />the letter I called the office and told them to change it, but the<br />computer program the church uses gives each missionary a range of when<br />they can go home. The December transfer ends December 16th and the<br />latest it will let them send me is December 14th. They said that a few<br />weeks ago a missionary tried to extend their date by two days and the<br />mission president approved it and it went to the first presidency and<br />they said absolutely not. So, it didn't seem like a battle worth<br />fighting. I will go home with all the missionaries I came in with, the<br />difference is they had six weeks in the mtc and I only had two. So I<br />guess it's kind of fair because we had the same time in the field. BUT<br />IT WILL BE GOOD! Because there's a lot of missionary work that needs<br />to happen in Washington. And if I am never home I will never have time<br />to show up at some of these peoples houses every Sunday and drag them<br />to church. Hehehehe i have it all figured out. :)<br /><br />Well this week we went on a lesson with president Villanueva, his wife<br />and their 8 year old daughter. They are super awesome. They have a<br />super strong testimony. He was super poor growing up in Oaxaca and had<br />like nothing, but after they converted his mom always payed their<br />tithing and because of that they were super blessed and now he is like<br />the owner of a bus company on Mexico. But yea they are bom. They ended<br />up coming to Cecilia and her family who have been reading the Book of<br />Mormon as a family. Whoohoo!!<br /><br />Well, have a good week. See ya way too soon.<br /><br />Hermana bardsley<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sent from my iPad</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-27032215614981177042014-08-12T18:58:00.001-07:002014-08-12T18:58:18.760-07:00El Monte week 15!!!<br />
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So our pday was moved to today since we had interviews with president<br />Villanueva yesterday. This week has been pretty swell. President<br />Villanueva is bom. He is coming to a lesson with the roldans tonight.<br /><br />We had a super awesome tour this week. It was with a lady named<br />Cecilia and her two kids. First off. Those kids are bomb. We taught<br />them the plan of salvation earlier in the week and afterwards the kids<br />who are like 8 and 11 took the pamphlet and were talking to each other<br />not to us and were like "we will read this tomorrow in the morning<br />when we get up". We didn't even tell them to read it. So anyways, at<br />the tour we gave the whole thing and then at the end we showed them<br />the bible video of Jesus Christ getting baptized and invited them and<br />they were all like "yea, I think so." And then the closing prayer was<br />the best part. In the closing prayer, she was like "god, hopefully I<br />can be part of this church so that my family can have blessings". It<br />was awesome.<br /><br />Ummm.... Besides that... Everything is SUPER! This gospel really does<br />bring happiness. True happiness. And if someone isn't happy it is<br />because they aren't living the gospel. It's the truth! And I have been<br />thinking about this week how we should always let people see how happy<br />it makes us. And smile and be happy and say hi to people and stuff.<br />And when we do that it makes us even happier!<br /><br />Well... Have a good week!<br /><br />Love,<br />Hermana bardsley<br /><br />Sent from my iPad</div>
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Marie and her first cousin, Aaron Bardsley. They were called to the same mission and didn't know each other. They met in the mission when Elder Bardsley arrived a couple weeks ago.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So this Thursday is my cats birthday. If you could please give her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">some sort of tasty treat that would be much appreciated. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So this week we did service for the Roldans and it was pretty great.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We went over in the morning and cleaned up her yard and mopped inside</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and stuff. We had the elders come too and they gave her a blessing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">She was super happy by the end. And she was like "hey since you guys</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">are here do you want to eat something for lunch?" And we said sure.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">And then she gets out all this stuff that she had made early in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">morning for us, before we came over. We were super glad we had said yes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It was super tasty. And she just was like glowing with happiness to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">give us food it was pretty fun. She said how happy it made her to have</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">us in her house and give us food. It was cute.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We have been trying a lot to try to find ways to serve our</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">investigators. Mostly it's just nice to do something different. Put</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">jeans on, ya know. But it also just makes them see the purpose of this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">whole gospel and feel god's love for them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We have Atziry Banuelos with us right now. She told us that she wants</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to spend the whole day with us today haha. So we are sitting here</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">typing our emails as she is talking to us. It is pretty funny. Makes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it hard to focus though haha. It was her birthday on Saturday. Her and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Yeni have become like besties. They spent her whole birthday together.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We met up with them for dinner and made them give out pass along cards</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to random people at a taco stand. It was awesome. Yeni got someone's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">address. Future missionaries right here. One day we were taking out</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Yeni, and we got a text from Atziry that was like "you don't have to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">take me out too but if you want to I can come I'm ready" hahaha. So</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">now we just take them both out. Don't want one to feel left out.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hna Bateman says she is going to send you some pictures. Your lucky day!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">She is doing awesome by the way. Her Spanish is really improving which</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is really nice, my vocal chords can take a break. But no she doesn't</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">play piano... Even though she's white and from Utah. I don't know what</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">happened....</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, I know more stuff happened but I can't think of anything right</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">now.... Cheers!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-87658438354977548942014-07-15T21:12:00.000-07:002014-07-15T21:12:07.923-07:00El Monte week 13!!!!![Marie's first comment below is in response to us telling her that the Banuelos family had written us, thanking us for our wonderful daughter.]<br />
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Ahhhhh man I love the Banuelos fam. They are members, but like the<br />
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jovencitos who got baptized a few weeks ago. They are the best.<br />
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As for this week, this will make you laugh mom. First they asked me<br />
and one of the elders to do a musical number for a meeting we have<br />
this Tuesday. We are practicing for that now. Haha. And then on Sunday<br />
someone came up to me and was like "you are the one in charge of piano<br />
lessons right?" And I was like.... What the?! Who do they think I am!<br />
Just cus I'm white?! Why don't I just play trombone at the next<br />
meeting. Haha. So I'm giving someone a piano lesson tomorrow hahahaha.<br />
Oh how I love Spanish work.<br />
<br />
So we started teaching this really cool lady this week. She had seen<br />
us going to the neighbor and she asked if she could join us when we<br />
come give the neighbor lessons. She has had all these crazy dreams<br />
that led her to want to take the lessons from us. She is super cool.<br />
Her name is Luisa.<br />
<br />
We also had a bom lesson with the Roldans about the power of the Book<br />
of Mormon. There was this moment where we just like got the super<br />
strong impression that Hna [Hermana, or "Sister"] Roldan already has a testimony of the Book<br />
of Mormon so I was just like "but Hna, you already have a testimony of<br />
this book so your husband is more the one that needs to ask". And she<br />
was just like,"how did you know that?" And I was like..... Uhhhh... I<br />
don't know. It just popped into my head. And then she told us how she<br />
had prayed and asked if it was true once and just saw like this bright<br />
light with her eyes closed and had this tremendous peace for the rest<br />
of the day and nothing bad could get her down that day. So that's<br />
awesome. Sorry if this email is really disjointed I can't even hear<br />
myself think in this room.<br />
<br />
Well, I'm going to go because we have to practice. Cheers<br />
<br />
-hermana bardsley<br />
<br />
Sent from my iPad<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-46888504547535168182014-07-13T12:48:00.003-07:002014-07-13T12:48:40.136-07:00El Monte week 12!!!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So to start off with a somewhat unpleasant funny story. Yesterday, we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">had one of the most uncomfortable meal appointments of my mission. So,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">yesterday was fast Sunday. And then a member decided to feed all of us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">missionaries dinner, and it was tinga which is like chicken in this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">chipotle sauce that you put on tostadas with lettuce, queso fresco,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and crema. Which is like superbly delicious. And after biking around</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">all day in 100 degrees and fasting we were pretty hungry, so I ate</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">quite a bit. But we forgot that someone we were teaching right after</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that had also mentioned she wanted to give us a little something when</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we came this week. Well, I have the gift of an extremely fast</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">metabolism, so it is normally not a problem for me to eat two to three</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">back to back dinners. But so anyways we got to this investigators</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">house and first, as I normally do with back to back dinners, I used</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the restroom. Only... The toilet wouldn't flush. Now, normally if this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">happens I just say a quick prayer and everything goes right down. But</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">not this time. And there was no plunger. I tried my best for 5 minutes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">or so to get it unplugged, I even tried using the toilet brush, but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">with no success. So eventually i had to come out and be like....</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Sooooooo...... Do you have a plunger? Well anyways for the next twenty</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">minutes she was trying to unclog the toilet. And I we were just</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sitting there awkwardly haha. She got it eventually. Apparently, this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is a normal occurrence even if you just put toilet paper in the toilet</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and you just have to pour some buckets of water down the toilet while</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it is flushing and it works. So that was that. Finally we start eating</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and after about 15 minutes I get the sensation that I am going to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">throw up. Once again I try to pray it away. "Please Heavenly Father I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">just clogged the toilet, no one has even had to use the bathroom since</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">then, it's going to look really bad if I have to get up and run to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">bathroom now". And as the sensation got worse my answer was this "you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">are either going to throw up on the plate, or you are going to run to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the bathroom and throw up there, which would you rather?" Well, I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">chose the toilet. So I quickly got out of my seat, made a joke very</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">quickly about how I won't put any toilet paper in this time and ran to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the bathroom just in time to throw up my meal. By the time we got to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the lesson part I was ready to jump ship and get out of that house</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">haha.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But ANYWAYS, as for cool stories this week, yeni is probably the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">highlite. Whenever we go over to her house she tells us how all her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">friends and her family have been asking her all these questions like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">why she doesn't drink coffee anymore and she is like "because our body</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is a temple and we can't have the Holy Ghost if it is dirty". And all</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this other stuff. She has been coming to lessons with us and stuff and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">giving these bomb testimonies about how she started to notice the only</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">time she was happy was when either we were at her house or she was at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">church so she was just like, this must be something good. So she's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">doing awesome.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Besides that, there's not too much else to say! Things are good here.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I got the package and the pasta sauce was intact. I have already eaten</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">most of it :) thanks.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-29409830801669733072014-07-13T12:44:00.002-07:002014-07-13T12:45:27.461-07:00El Monte week 11!!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAL!!!!!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It has been World Cup madness over here. Mexico lost yesterday though</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">so things will die down a little bit. Conveniently the game yesterday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was at 9am, yes, our church starts at 9am. The whole week before</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">bishop spent pretty much all his time making it clear that the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sacrament>soccer. Needless to say, about half the congregation left</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">after the first hour, after they had taken the sacrament haha. When</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Latinos become members of the church they are able to give up most of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">their santitos (statues of saints that they pray to) but they never</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">really give up the soccer god. We all have our flaws.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">BUT ANYWAYS!! Guess who came to church?! Hno roldan!! We brought</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">president and sister becerra to a lesson with them this week and it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was BOM. Got him to come. He only stayed for the first hour but still!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">That is huge progress. We are super excited for them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">As for the Banuelos family, those who are actually going to progress</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">are a starting to make themselves clear. It is going to be interesting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to see what happens because they are such a huge family and some of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them are really into it, and some of them are starting to go the other</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">way.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But! We found another suuuuper cool family. They are seventh day</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Adventists. Which I don't know if you've ever looked into seventh day</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Adventists but their beliefs are super similar to ours. The missing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">piece is the authority to act in Christ's name. We taught them and the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">dad was like, "wow, you are right, I can't believe that I have never</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">actually prayed to god to ask if I am in the right religion, that is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the difference between you and us, we have never actually asked god.I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">need to do that." And then at the end the dad prayed and the Holy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Ghost was super strong, and we asked the son, "why do you think the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Holy Ghost is here?" And he was like, "well, it means god is giving</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">his blessing to the message, which means it is true". It was one of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the best lessons of my mission. It was super cool. I don't know their</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">last names, but their first names are genoviva, Mauricio, hector, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Eduardo. Super cool.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I think that's about it from this week. Things are going well</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">here! El Monte rocks. My trainee's Spanish is getting... gradually</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">better. Have a good week!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-82417684191304974712014-06-26T19:56:00.003-07:002014-06-26T19:56:58.175-07:00El Monte week # FANFREAKINTASTIC!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Wow! What a week. Yeni, Eduardo and Dulce all got baptized yesterday.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Eduardo popped up and hollered and spit water everywhere. It was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">pretty great. And the best part was they all gave their testimonies</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">afterwards and talked about how good and clean they all felt and about</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">how glad they were tthat they made this decision. The cleansing power</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of Christs atonement is incredible. It is so cool that he gives us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that opportunity to start completely fresh. Mom, could you send me</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">your conversion story? I was thinking that would be cool to give to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">yeni, because she is also a 13 year old girl who is now the only</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">member in her family. Her family is supportive but still it won't be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">an easy road.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Also!!!! It is official, Aaron Bardsley comes into California in two</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">weeks. I saw his picture in the office where they put the pictures of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">all the new missionaries coming in next transfer. That was pretty</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">cool. I showed everybody. President Becerra was like, "I saw that...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Good thing I'm leaving, one Bardsley was enough" haha.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So yesterday was like SUPER intense but awesome. So we had the three</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptisms which was crazy in itself. And then we were at home finishing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our studies. And I was feeling this impending need to find new people</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to teach because we hadn't found any solid ones yet that week because</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we had had a ton of meetings and also preparing for the baptisms. And</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I don't know if I ever mentioned, but finding new people to teach is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my favorite part of missionary work. Baptisms are great, but what I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">love most is teaching an awesome first lesson where they pray at the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">end and ask if Joseph smith was a prophet or if Christ's authority</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">really was restored or something like that and helping them recognize</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the Holy Ghost answering their prayer for the first time in their</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">life. So anyways, we hadn't done that at all in the week so I was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">feeling this great inner need. And it was about 4:30, and normally at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that time we would just eat dinner, and then take our car because we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">have a car to use at night since we are in a dangerous area. But I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">just really wanted to take our bikes and go try to see this one person</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we had talked to on the bus. So we did, and she wasn't there. But on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the way back, there was this huge family sitting outside so we got off</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our bikes and talked to them. They invited us to teach them on the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">spot, so we did and it was AWESOME. The dad like really got it. At the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">end he accepted to be baptized, and then when his wife said that she</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">had already been baptized he was the one who cut in and was like "well</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">what they are saying is that Christ's authority was lost from the earth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">after the apostles died and that it has been brought back through a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">prophet, so your old baptism doesn't count". We were just like.....</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">What the....who is this guy... We asked him if he had been taught by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">missionaries before and he said no. I guess he is just extremely</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">intelligent. But yea, because we rode our bikes we ended up getting 8</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">new investigators. And they are awesome, they are the family Banuelos.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well there are some other last names but that is the one that is most</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of the family's. Pretty cool. It was quite the Sunday.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">As for the Roldans... We will see, it was a rough week concerning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them. We had to leave church to go to their house to have a ten minute</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">spiritual intervention amid preparing for the three baptisms. Pray for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">him. That he will have the desire to act.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, this week was crazy, but fantastic. So many miracles. El Monte</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is the promised land for missionary work. I love it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana Bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-46541657880826357022014-06-26T19:53:00.001-07:002014-06-26T19:53:01.083-07:00El Monte week 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, this week was pretty fabulous!! Yeni, Eduardo, and dulce and are</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">getting baptized this Sunday so pray for them! We taught them all</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">about temples on Saturday and we are planning a temple trip with all</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of them to go do baptisms next month, after they get baptized and get</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">their member record number and stuff. We are also starting them on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">family history so that they can bring their own names. That is super</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">exciting. They will love that. The temple is so cool. So cool how</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">there is a way to save the entire human family. Sounds like the truth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to me.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Also, this Sunday was stake conference. We got the roldans to go even</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">though it was like half hour away. I love seeing the little changes in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">people. Hna roldan has been going in just her regular clothes for the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">last two weeks but this week she bought a dress for church. Natalie</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was super excited to show us her moms dress. Stake conference was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">pretty funny though because when we got there, none of the chairs put</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">out were taken but all the soft benches were except the very front</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">row. And well, you never want an investigator to sit in the back</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because then they feel like they are not actually part of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">congregation but just visiting. So we brought her and her four insane</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">children to the very front row. We were prepared and brought a ton of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">coloring stuff and some puzzles and fruit loops. So the kids proceeded</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to lay on the ground occupying pretty much the whole aisle way and the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">space from the first pew to the stand with their coloring stuff.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Everyone who wanted to walk by had to step over them it was quite the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">scene haha. But the kids were actually pretty good! They didn't make</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">too much of a fruit loop mess at all! And stake conference was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">awesome. A lot of husbands and wives spoke like the temple president</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and his wife and president becerra and his wife and I think it really</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">impacted Hna roldan to see that this gospel really does bring that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">happiness to a family and to a partnership. Also we gave them a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptismal date for July 13th. Super exciting!!!!! Families are the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">best. The husband just needs to jump on board and go to church and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">stuff..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, the gospel is true. I know it. And the Book of Mormon is true,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it changes lives. It is the best book ever. It brings us closer to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Jesus Christ than any other book. And families really can be together</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">forever if we perform those sacred ordinances in the temple.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Keep being awesome!!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-35775270546915478182014-06-14T14:35:00.000-07:002014-06-14T14:35:31.448-07:00El Monte week 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">In case you are wondering. I have only been out on my mission 11</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">months still. Or that is what I tell people. My companion got confused</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">once, she was like.... "Wait but didn't you say you came out in June?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">LIES. I WILL NOT LISTEN TO SUCH BLASPHEMY. 11 months.... I have been</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">out 11 months. I also never turned 20 because I went to Neverland. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">am still 19 and always will be. The end.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So this week was ROCKIN!!! Wow. I have typed that word so many times</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">all in caps that when I typed it just now in lower case the ipad</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">automatically changed it to caps. Must mean its been a good 11 months.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We had 7 investigators at church on Sunday. The roldan family came</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">again, only the dad still didn't come.... But! In our lesson with then</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">on Saturday night he said something pretty cool. We asked them at the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">end who they know that could use more of god's love in their life. And</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">he brought up his mother in law. His wife, Sandra, was like "no I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">don't think she'd be interested in changing religions at this point in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">her life". And then he said, "well the Catholics never did anything</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for us. The Catholics don't come and make us breakfast before church</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">or give us a call to wake us up, or visit our family. So what's the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">problem?" I want to say really quickly that I do know some fantastic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Catholics who do a ton of stuff to help. But it's true that this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">church, Christs church, is action oriented. And really, love oriented,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that's what drives the members and the missionaries to action.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Sometimes, the result we want may not happen, like he still didn't</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">make it to church, which we know would help his family more than</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">anything we do, but it's still cool that he recognizes that love, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that even though he isn't acting yet that he wants other people to be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">able to have that love. But pray for him that he can start doing...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well... Something. So that he doesn't stop the whole family's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">progression.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Also, this is a cool story. A couple days ago we got a phone call from</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">some guy named genaro who gave us his address and said he wanted to be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">taught. We thought it was a little weird because we didn't remember</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">meeting any genaro lately so we weren't sure if it was going to be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sketchy. Especially because he called us like several times. Well,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">anyways, we made an appointment, and brought a member and went, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">then he called us right when we got to his house and asked us if we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">could meet him in a parking lot outside a certain laundromat instead.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We were like..... Okay...... Hmm.... But since we had a member we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">went. Well we got there and he was out there waiting for us but I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">didn't really recognize him at all. But he was like "don't you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">remember me?" And I was like "uhhh yea.... Of course, remind me where</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we met though?" And he gave me the street name and then I remembered.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We are supposed to talk to ten people at least everyday on the street.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">One night at like 9pm right before going home we still hadn't met the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ten. Well there was this sketchy group of people on the side of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">road, on a pretty sketchy street, some of them ere drinking or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">whatnot, but they didn't seem dangerous, there were women with them</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">too, so we talked to them really quickly and gave them cards with our</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">phone number just to meet the ten contacts. That was like 3 weeks ago.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well anyways, this guy, was one of them and turned out to be awesome.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">He started out by telling us straight up all the things he wants to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">change in his life that he thinks we can help him with. And then when</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we were teaching the restoration when we got to apostasy he was like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">"but wait, there needs to be a direct lineage of authority from Jesus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Christ so what happened to bring that back?" Made it really easy to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">transition into the restoration of Christs authority.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, that is all, have a good week. The gospel is true. It changes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">lives and is the true way to feel gods love.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-67896003334199716122014-06-14T14:29:00.003-07:002014-06-14T14:29:57.429-07:00El Monte week 7!!!!!!!!!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So this first week of training was AWESOME. My trainee, hermana</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Bateman is really really a good missionary. When we teach in English i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">would have no idea that she just came into the mission a week ago. She</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">teaches very well. Spanish is another matter. But she's coming along.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It's weird because I've yet to have a companion who doesn't speak</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Spanish, and since I grew up speaking it I don't really know how to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">teach it to her. On a side note, All the Latinos call her Hna batman.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Pretty cool. Batman is my companion.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Sooooooooo the most exciting news this week is this! The family that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we had been teaching, the roldan family.... Came to church! And on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">time too! I don't think I had mentioned how hard we had tried to get</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this family to church in the past. We had done pretty much everything</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in our power. One week we even went to their house, got all their kids</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ready, and made them pancakes for breakfast and they still didn't</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">come. So this was a huuuuge miracle. And it went AWESOME. She got</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">fellowshipped super well. Sometimes investigators kind of go unnoticed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and that's why no one says hi or introduces themselves, but since she</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">has four little kids, who are... Well... Quite energetic... And</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">definitely not used to sitting through sacrament meeting. She</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">DEFINITELY didn't go unnoticed. Which was good, because then</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">afterwards everyone came up and started talking to her telling her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">their stories about the crazy things their kids used to do in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sacrament meeting so not to worry, I don't know if they were planning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to stay all three hours, but one person took her kids to primary whole</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the mom was talking, so then they did. It was perfect. The husband</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">didn't come though which was a bummer. Next week. A family even</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">invited them over for a family home evening tonight as well, hopefully</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">he will go to that.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Kids are awesome, there are so many families we teach that the little</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">kids are the motivating factor for the parents. The little kids read</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the Book of Mormon everyday and are the ones who want to go to church.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">They can feel the difference and the spirit right away, while adults</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">are so stubborn oftentimes. Like with the roldans, the eight year old</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">girl Natalie, was the one who in our last lesson with them committed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">her parents to go to church. She was like "before we say the last</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">prayer I need you guys (to her parents) to promise me that you will go</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to church this Sunday because you said you would for the last two and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">you didn't, so promise me right now". We just sat there like..... Wow.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Who needs missionaries, we all just need Natalie. If all parents knew</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">how much the gospel would bless their family and their kids, I feel</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">like they'd just jump in the waters of baptism right away.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Sad I missed the pbd [Pacific Ballroom Dance] concert, but I'll be there for the next one!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Today I was getting my hair cut and the Mexican version of dancing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">with the stars was on. Needless to say, it was very difficult to not</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">let my eyes wander.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On another note, I've been coming across a lot of prophecies in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">scriptures lately about the hastening of the work. All the stuff about</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">when god sends everybody out right before the end to gather fruit and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">stuff. And there's some stuff in Isaiah that talks about it as well.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Crazy, to think this is it. This is the hastening of the work of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">salvation. The last call before the end. And all of us are those</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">workers in the vineyard in the last push who need to help others find</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">salvation. Some apostle said that the hastening of the work is up</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">there with the restoration of the gospel and other huge events in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">history of the gospel in importance. And we are part of it. Now is the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">time when we do everything we can to help everyone come unto Christ</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and receive the ordinances of salvation!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Ps to answer your question mom we don't have senior or junior</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">companions in our mission, just companions. I've had companions that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I've been out for longer than before, but there's no distinction.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-70258204309767741672014-06-14T14:21:00.000-07:002014-06-14T14:21:03.922-07:00Sooooooooo guess what?!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I am training [a new missionary]!!!! Yep. I get the new missionary tomorrow. I am super</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">excited. I have always wanted to train my whole mission.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">As for this week, it was pretty awesome. We taught a big family last</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">night for the first time of like seven people. It was the grandma,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">grandpa, daughter, her husband, and then their three kids. The spirit</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was super strong. They were all just like captivated the whole lesson.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It really seemed to hit them how much this gospel can bless their</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">family. They are the Salvador family.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But guess what? Yesterday there was a farewell for the missionaries</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">leaving and guess who came and sang? David archuleta. Whhhhhhaaaaat?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But I didn't get to go because I was teaching that family. So jealous.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">A sister who was there just showed me a picture. Not fair. Oh well. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">guess if it's really meant to be I will meet my husband on another</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">occasion.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">And I do think the vitamins are helping. I feel somewhat more energy I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">think. It's hard to say .</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">exactly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I can't really think of anything else to say.... I haven't tAken my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">pday nap yet so my brains not really working. Maybe I will send more</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">stuff later if I think about it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Cheerio</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-35119566063982015172014-06-14T14:18:00.000-07:002014-06-14T14:18:27.000-07:00El Monte Week 5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So, we are teaching like pretty much all youth. Which is pretty cool.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">At first I was worried because it is harder for like a 15 year old</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">girl who gets baptized by herself to really stay active in the church,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">but god has been sending us like these STELLAR youth. I think it is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because we have been taking the young women out with us a lot, so god</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is sending us the people to teach that will benefit the most from</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">One girl, Sandra Torres, is 16 years old and we knocked into her one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">day looking for somebody else. Well, she invited us in, and MAN this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is where we were supposed to be. She told us how for a long time she</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hadn't believed in god, but just recently all these things have</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">happened that are just like super blatantly god trying to get her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">back. Well, she is like devouring the Book of Mormon now and she gives</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">her friends at school our pamphlets and invites them to the lessons.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">There's another girl named yeni, who came to church on Sunday, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">then she set up her own ride with a member for mutual on Tuesday. We</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">were like... Well... That makes our job easier.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It's amazing how young people in a lot of cases haven't hardened their</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hearts yet. They listen to the spirit. They feel good with us and at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">church and so they actually follow that instead of making up excuses.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Here's a funny story. We are teaching a family, the roldan family. And</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">they are Easter and Christmas Catholics. If you get what I mean. It is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the mom, dad, then 4 little kids 8 and below. We were in a lesson with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them and the spirit just announced to me in my head that we had found</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them because she had been praying for help for her family. So I asked</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and when she said yea, I testified to her that that is why we ran into</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them and god sent us there. So anyways, that was like Tuesday, Sunday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">morning before church we went over to their house to get them all</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ready. Which was quite a task by the way. We even made them pancakes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, the mom decided she was going to be stubborn. She was like "I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">don't feel comfortable going because we are catholic and all my family</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is catholic and I feel like I'm betraying them". And we were like,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">"you asked god for help, and he sent it, so are you going to open the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">door to god knocking or not?" And she was like.... "I know I asked for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">help... " and she got this really embarrassed look on her face and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">then said... "I just wasn't thinking god would send me the Mormons..."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hahaha! Sucks! Except actually it rocks because it can help her family</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">more than anything else.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well! That's all! The gospel is true. Christ lived and died for us!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">And because of him our lives can be filled with peace and joy!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-22928609952724011542014-06-14T14:14:00.001-07:002014-06-14T14:15:12.678-07:00El Monte Week 3<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So!!! MANNY GOT BAPTIZED!!! And Alma!! I didn;t know both of them</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">were getting baptized, but I knew manny was and so we went over to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Chino for Mannys baptism and Alma was getting baptized too. It was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">awesome. I have never been to a baptism quite like it. Manny was like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sobbing extremely loud the whole time, and then like shouting the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">songs. He said, that he just finally made the decision and that after</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">doing that he had no doubt that this is the right decision. They had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">two people baptize him, it was awesome!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I am using this cool bluetooth keyboard thing right now that my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">companion let me borrow. That way I am typing on a keyboard thats not</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">connected by any cords or anything and it is going onto my ipad.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Pretty cool. A lot of missionaries have these now. Oh also, I am</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">emailing today because we had to switch our pday to today.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">WELL, El Monte is ROCKIN!!!! I really love this place. The ward is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">awesome. And there are four sets of missionaries here and they are all</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">super good missionaries so there is a baptism almost every week. It is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Here is one cool story. I don't think I told it in last weeks email</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">though I may have.... On like my first day here we were super</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">determined to talk to EVERYONE. And we were. And so anyways we were on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our way to visit this other person and there was a lady inside a car</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">cleaning it out, but since we were super determined we stuck our heads</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in and started talking to her. Well anyways, she then came out and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">said we could share a message with her. Her name is Leti. There wasn't</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">anywhere to sit, so we just shared the restoration standing out there</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">with her. At the end she told us that that morning she had prayed to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">God and asked for a change, and so she believed everything we had said</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because she knew we were the answer to her prayer. The only annoying</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">thing is we have only been able to see her one time since. She is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">young, like in her 20s, and recently came here from Guatemala.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We have had some other pretty powerful restoration lessons in the past</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">week. Its amazing how you can see the spirit just work in people.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Because no person in their right mind, after having only known these</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">two white girls for twenty minutes, would accept to get baptized into</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">some unknown church, but almost everyone on the first lesson does,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">even if they don't really know what they are agreeing to yet. The</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">restoration is such a cool message, because really the message of it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is that God loves you, today. Whereas, no other church really has that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">message. God sends prophets today, because he still loves you; God</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">restored the authority to become wiped clean of our sins through</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptism because he loves you. It is really quite cool. And while a lot</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of the times doubts or things they hear or laziness gets in the way of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them actually receiving those blessings, almost everyone who has been</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">taught acknowledges that it sounds really really good, they just dont</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">know if it is true. BUT IT IS!!! BECAUSE GOD STILL LOVES US TODAY!!!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">what a cool thing...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Oh, also, maybe if sometime you could send me some good vitamins that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">would be nice. I think I need some because I almost always feel kind</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of sick for most of my mission. Part of that is sleep deprivation but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I think vitamins might help. THanks!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana Bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-46152886079039160662014-04-27T16:19:00.000-07:002014-04-27T16:19:13.441-07:00El Monte week 1!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Okay...... EL MONTE IS ROCKIN!!!!!!!!! There are so many people here</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to talk to. We have this problem where we are late to every single</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">appointment because there are so many people to talk to. But what a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">good problem to have!!!! We are having a ton of fun. And all the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">missionaries here are like fantastic. There are 4 sets of missionaries</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in the ward, and between all of them there is a baptism almost every</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">week. Man. This place is like a Spanish missionaries dream. And my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">companion is awesome. Like, I used to pride myself in how much I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">street contacted, but she gives me a run for my money! It is awesome!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We street contact like 30 people a day. There weren't even 30 people</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">outside in the entire city of chino, so this is like HEAVEN for me. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">love it. Finding people to teach is my favorite part of missionary</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">work.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ALSO I hope you have all had the chance to see the Easter video</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Because of Him. If you haven't, go YouTube it right now. It is only</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">like three minutes long and super powerful. And then post it on your</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">face books. They asked us to ask all the members to post it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Besides that this week was a little rough because we both got really</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sick. And I resprained my ankle playing soccer. Speaking of that. When</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I lost my wallet in October I lost my insurance cards. I think I need</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to go to the doctor for my ankle. It would be awesome if you guys</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">could send me at least a new regence insurance card. We probably got</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the whole city of El Monte sick because we were contacting so much</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">super sick. It was this super bad sore throat mainly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Also, hermana Stohlton texted me the other day to say that next Sunday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">manny is for sure getting baptized. So pray for him!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Tell grandma April and grandpa it was good to hear from them and they</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">can email me anytime they want!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, I think that's all for this week!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Have a good one!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">[and in response to a separate conversation, Marie had this to say about a Book of Mormon prophet, who left a city and then came back in disguise because his life had been threatened]:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;">I love that part when abinadi disguises himself because one of the first things he says to them is... "Voila! It's me! Abinadi! I bet you didn't recognize me under this fake beard, but now you do... And I'm here because you still haven't repented!" It's just a face palm moment... Come on abinadi the whole point of a disguise you just kind of... Did you really do that...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-5104585872333929562014-04-27T16:14:00.001-07:002014-04-27T16:14:32.803-07:00Off to El Monte!!!!<br />
So, I am now in the area of El Monte, and my companion is Hermana Hernandez. She is originally from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, but has lived in Texas for the last 10 years. I just got here a few hours ago, so I don't know too much about the area, but I know they baptize like CRAZY here so I am super excited!!<br />
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Everything is well, but when you send me another package could you send me another one of those of Dad's water bottles and some more herbal tea? I lost the water bottle and I am out of tea... My favorite kinds are Wild Berry zinger, and any of those good fruity ones. But I like the ones that aren't sweetened with stevia better. Just the regular guys. Thanks!<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-22199804642666175942014-04-08T17:38:00.002-07:002014-04-08T17:38:48.147-07:00The beginning of the end<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, this will be my last week in chino! Unless president becerra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">receives some last minute revelation to leave me here, but my district</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and zone leaders have already told me I am leaving. I love chino but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">WHHOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO! After six months here I am pretty excited for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a change. Exploration is calling!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">As for this week, we found a pretty awesome family to teach. The</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">little girl, Jennifer, talked to us on the street like 2 months ago</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and she had said that when she used to go to her uncle's house in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Mexico he had one of our books (Book of Mormon) and that she had loved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to read it, so we gave her a Book of Mormon. She is like 10. Well, we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">didn't really think too much of it until a couple weeks ago we ran</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">into her again, and she told us that her and her mom read it together.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We were like.... "Wwwwhhhaaaaatttt?" So, we started trying to find a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">time to teach her and her mom, but her mom works in the evenings and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">she is in school during the day so it was really hard. A couple days</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">later she got out her Book of Mormon to show us and she has her name</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">written all over the sides of the pages to claim it as her Book of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Mormon. What a precious ten year old, and spiritually sensitive. Very</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">abnormal for a ten year old to be that into reading the scriptures.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">One night we stopped by though and her older sister Monse was home</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">(who is in her late 20s ish and is a young mom herself) and so we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">taught Monse, Jenny, and Monse's husband plus like ten of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">neighborhood kids who all love us and swarmed in. Well it was kind of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a chaotic lesson with little babies screaming and kids running in and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">out of the apartment, but Monse committed to pray about what we had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">taught and ask if it is true. So the next day we came back, and asked</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">her if she had done it and she was like "yea, and I felt so much</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">peace, I slept so well that night, and I just felt peaceful my whole</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">day at work today so I believe it is all true". It was pretty cool.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">This family is super special. It's amazing how by those small and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">simple things great things can come to pass. That little ten year old</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">girl who is so sensitive to the spirit is probably going to be the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">means to get this whole family to the gospel and a lot of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">neighborhood too. Because every time we are there we are swarmed with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">neighborhood children and oftentimes have to teach a quick lesson to a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hoard of Jenny's friends outside.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">And yes, my mission president was called as an area authority. What a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">spiritual giant. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he is the prophet one</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">day.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Many powerful testimonies were given this last weekend, and I would</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">just like to add mine to them. I know that Christ came to this earth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and payed for all our sins. I know that the only way to true happiness</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is through ordinances such as baptism and the sacrament that allow for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">us to be washed clean through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Without these ordinances none of us can live in the presence of god or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our families forever. And I know that the authority to act in the name</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of Jesus Christ to perform those cleansing miracles is only found in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">one place, and that is in His church, built upon the foundation He</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">established, the rock of revelation through prophets, apostles, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the ability each of us have to receive personal witnesses and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">revelations from god. It is the only way back to him. If we do not</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">share it, we do not love the people around us enough to want to un-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">trap them from the personal state of apostasy in which they are in.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">The state trapped from sin and lacking the true cleansing power of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">atonement that is made manifest through ordinances performed by His</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">authority. There is no other way back. So let's share the gospel. Let</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">us take Elder Ballard's challenge from conference and invite someone to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">listen to the missionaries at least 4 times a year so they too can</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">receive the ordinances of salvation. "Shall we not go on in so great a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">cause?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-91269131786729081422014-04-08T17:32:00.001-07:002014-04-08T17:32:53.085-07:00Chinoooooooooooooooooooooo<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I put one o for each week I've been in chino. So I think I am going to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">go to physical therapy for my ankle. It is better mostly, but it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">doesn't seem to be healing beyond a point. There are still these</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">moments about every day where I accidentally jump or point my toe and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it is just like a sharp pain and then I can't walk on it for a few</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">minutes. Which wouldn't be so bad, except that I'm a dancer.... So I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">can't have this injury not heal, I need to be able to point my foot.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It would be most unfortunate if it didn't heal.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">As for this week, we may be having a surprise baptism this Sunday of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">manny, we are not really sure yet... Pray for him. He is trying to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">overcome some things, which if he can overcome he will get baptism but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">he needs all the prayers he can get. He is a super awesome guy. I wish</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">you guys could meet him. He is hilarious. He is a bit of a larger guy,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and he was telling us the other day that we better have the crane</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ready for his baptism.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We also have this really awesome investigator named alma, she worked</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">from 2am to 10am yesterday but still showed up for the last hour of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">church. That's devotion. I would not do that. Which is funny because I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was the one who told her she needed to come even just for the last</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hour even if she is passed out during it. I definitely would have gone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">home to bed, but thank goodness my investigators are stronger people</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">than me haha! Yea, maybe sometimes I'm a hypocrite, but hey, it's for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">their own good! I'm sure she got lots of blessings. The thing is with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">these Latinos they are ALWAYS working, most of them at least 12 hours</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a day 7 days a week. So if you let them think that god will understand</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">if they miss church once because they haven't slept in 2 days then you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">will never see them again.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But yeaaaaaaa that's about it. Oh did I ever mention that it's kind of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">funny that the trader joes chocolate you send me is made in Monrovia?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">And Monrovia is inside my mission? So it's funny because they make it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">here where I am, and then ship it to you, and then you buy it and ship</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it back to me. Yea... So funny....</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-53938051871420711652014-03-27T19:36:00.000-07:002014-03-27T19:36:56.617-07:00Chino week 21!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Whew. Well this week has been crazy. I am exhausted. Today was our</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">temple day which means we had to get up super early to go to the first</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">session. That's also why my pday [preparation day] is today instead of yesterday. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> We got to go to the Redlands</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">temple since we are all the way out in chino which was super</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">beautiful. I think that may be my favorite temple I've been to. It is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">small, but gorgeous.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So other news for this week, Saturday night at like 10pm I got a phone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">call from missionaries in Pasadena saying that my old investigator</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">macaira, from montebello, was going to get baptized the next day and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that the only people who she had requested to be at her baptism were</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">me and hermana Duran. She actually wanted hermana Duran to baptize her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">but unfortunately they had to tell macaira that hermana Duran couldn't</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">do that haha. So i had to find a way to the other side of the mission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to be there. Somehow we found a way there. A very kind member gave us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a ride an hour away. The baptism was very nice. Her whole family was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">there and macaira looked super happy. It is nice to know that even</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">though she didn't get baptized while we were teaching her, that us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">teaching her did make a difference.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Then at the baptism hermana Duran told me that our recent convert from</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">montebello, gabi, is about to pass away and that she had been telling</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the missionaries over there now that she just wants to see me and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hermana Duran before she passes away. Which is super sad. So now today</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">after I finish emailing we got special permission from the mission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">president to make the long journey from chino to east Los Angeles to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">go see gabi. The good news is, the plan of salvation is real. And this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">lady who has been suffering from cancer for a while now, will be able</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to live again with a perfect body, free from all those pains.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Oh! And aurora finally got confirmed! It was really funny because</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">after she got the Holy Ghost it was like she had an instant confidence</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">boost. In Sunday school she was like yelling out comments without</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">raising her hand and arguing with people, and me and hermana Stohlton</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">were just like "oh my... Who did we baptize.." She's not normally like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that she was just on this like super confidence boost it was funny</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">haha.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Aside from that, everything's good. The church is true. Christ payed,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">died, and was resurrected so that every single one of us could live</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">again and become perfectly clean in order to live in the presence of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">The Lord.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-17564248222932726992014-03-17T16:38:00.000-07:002014-03-17T16:38:09.255-07:00Chino week a million!No way to wake you up like an earthquake! I keep trying to find ways<br />to wake myself up better and it looks like god answered my prayers! I<br />could dramatize the story and make it sound like I almost died but....<br />To be honest though I don't even think it would have woken me up had I<br />not already been awake. Our first alarm had just gone off at 6:25 and<br />then about a minute later our beds shook for about 5 seconds and I<br />said to hermana Stohlton, "did your bed shake too?" To which she<br />replied, "yes" and I said, "huh, I think that was an earthquake" and<br />then I went back to sleep for the three remaining minutes till my<br />alarm went off again.<br /><br />And to answer your question mom, yes, me and hermana Stohlton have<br />been together forever. There is a reason though. The reason is that<br />this church teaches us how to be together forever. Just kidding. The<br />reason is we are the first missionaries who have baptized or even<br />really found new people to teach in this area of chino for the last<br />year and a half. Which I mean it's nice that president thinks we are<br />doing a good job and all, but yea, we have been in the same spot<br />together for a really long time haha. But we work well together so<br />it's all good!<br /><br />But this week was pretty good! I don't know if you remember manny, who<br />we taught like two months ago and then dropped. But anyways we had the<br />feeling like we should go by, and so we did, and he was just like MIND<br />BLOWN that we came by on that day because he had just like almost died<br />and and had just got back from the hospital and stuff. This guy is<br />hilarious. I don't even know how to describe him. We have definitely<br />missed teaching him. One time when we invited him to be baptized<br />before when we were teaching him he told us "I don't know if I feel<br />like getting wet right now, but maybe i'll catch you all at the next<br />dip" haha. So anyways now he is reading the Book of Mormon and really<br />studying it and doing these things he never did the first time we<br />taught him. So hopefully we really will catch him at the next dip<br />haha.<br /><br />But yea, aurora is still not confirmed, but she wants to be. And on<br />her thing when she went to the hospital she told us that she put that<br />she is a Mormon! She is back home now, but still not doing so well.<br />Pray pray pray. She doesn't even really remember her baptism because<br />she was so sick. Poor thing.<br /><br />It's seriously like as we become better missionaries and are given<br />more tools to succeed the devil is unleashed more and more. The things<br />that happen to stop people from being members of this church are<br />ridiculous. It's a good thing we are on the winning team, but MY<br />GOODNESS the hastening of the work is happening on both the good side<br />and the bad side. We just have to always make sure we are doing those<br />small and simple things, reading the scriptures, praying, going to<br />church and the temple, and we will be victorious, and you know me, I<br />like to win.<br /><br />Love,<br />Hermana BardsleyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-10434889047397665602014-03-16T19:36:00.000-07:002014-03-16T19:36:32.562-07:00Chino week.... 19. Wow.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So yea...... I hit my 9 month mark on Wednesday! That is pretty cray</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">cray! Whew. I'm over the hill. And I've spent pretty much all that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">time right here in chino.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So this week we had some pretty exciting/terrifying things happened.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">The most exciting of which I am about to recount. Hermana Stohlton and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I were walking along the sidewalk on a fresh Sunday evening. There was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a slight breeze blowing that was ruffling the fronds of the palm</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">trees. We were busy chatting about our past lives as normal people</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">when suddenly a large hawk swooped down and landed on the street lamp as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we were approaching. It stared at us with its penetrating eyes,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">considering whether or not we were a threat. It looked around,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">scouring the surroundings in search of a small rodent. It was in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">attack stance with its neck outstretched and it's wings held tight to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">its body, ready to dive. Well, little did we know, it had a different</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sort of attack in mind. We had kept walking but still had our eyes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">fixed on the hawk as we admired its power. Just as we approached the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">street light the hawk did something unexpected. First, it lifted its</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">tail. Then, as if in slow motion, something began to fall from the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sky. We stood there, staring towards the heavens in disbelief, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">then finally our brains clicked into gear. Just in the knick of time</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we jumped out of the way as a ginormous blob of bird poop splattered</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the cement exactly where we had stood just moments before. Some people</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">say birds have no rectal control. But I disagree. Having lived through</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a very close encounter, I know that they not only have rectal control,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">but are expert mathematicians. Able to take into account all</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">variables. The speed of our walk and the speed that it's turd would</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">fall at in order to create a perfect weapon of attack. We are lucky we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">made it out alive.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, that is my way of saying that nothing terribly exciting happened</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this week. We dropped a lot of people. Aurora didn't get the Holy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Ghost because she got so sick she has been in the hospital like this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">whole last week. So pray for her so she can make it to church this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">next week and get it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Oh and more transfers came and went and I am still in chino with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hermana Stohlton. Yep! Things are good. The gospel is true.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana Bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-37072371308151118592014-03-16T19:32:00.002-07:002014-03-16T19:32:48.978-07:00Chino week 16 from Hna Stohltons perspective<br />
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Well, here it is. Sorry again I am too lazy to personally write anything out to you guys today. I will write grandma a get well soon card though.<br /><br /></div>
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<span>Hola familia,</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>First things first. Aurora did make it to the waters of baptism!</span><br /><span>However it was quite the crazy ride trying to get her there. So to</span><br /><span>begin,last week it rained all week. So every day we were riding our</span><br /><span>bikes in the rain. We waited for her at the Starbucks every day to</span><br /><span>ensure that she did not buy any coffee. Then we would walk over to her</span><br /><span>work to read with her before she started work.</span><br /><span>Of course last week she was sick, fighting withdrawls, and barely got</span><br /><span>any sleep because work was super busy. She told us that we were</span><br /><span>killing her! Some of the withdrawals are so bad that all she could</span><br /><span>smell and taste in her mouth for a couple of days straight was</span><br /><span>cigarette smoke flavor.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Then the devil wasn't only working on her, but every other possible</span><br /><span>source that could help her make it to her baptism. First of all</span><br /><span>Hermana Bardsley fell off her bike and twisted her ankle kind of</span><br /><span>badly. But if this is to be a gymnastics meet, she would have still</span><br /><span>competed on it she said. She did not appreciate my wise Dr. Council I</span><br /><span>was giving her. Then later that day we were driving and a car decided</span><br /><span>it wasn't going to stop, after pulling out of the driveway and almost</span><br /><span>plowed us, but thanks to my agile driving skills and reaction time I</span><br /><span>was able to dodge it. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Then on Saturday night we try to make the programs for her baptism,</span><br /><span>but of course the printer was out of ink. And at last-second she</span><br /><span>decided she wanted to invite the whole entire ward to her baptism and</span><br /><span>not have it be a private one anymore. So it was kind of important that</span><br /><span>we had programs.</span><br /><span>But thankfully are made it to church for sacrament meeting but have to</span><br /><span>go home after because she was coughing really badly. And we had</span><br /><span>arranged a ride for her, but of course a couple of hours later the</span><br /><span>person called back saying they had the stomach flu so wasn't able to</span><br /><span>take her anymore. But thankfully we found someone else.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>So for the baptism, for some reason we decided it would be a great</span><br /><span>idea for us to sing a musical number.</span><br /><span>So we had picked the hymn, How Great Thou Art to sing to her. But</span><br /><span>Sunday morning as we were practicing it we decided it was better just</span><br /><span>to change the hymn to Abide With Me tis Eventide, since it was easier</span><br /><span>and we had practiced that hymn many times before and even performed it</span><br /><span>for a few of our investigators. And we felt much more confident about</span><br /><span>that hymn.</span><br /><span>So, fast forward a few hours. Right before we go to the church to fill</span><br /><span>up the baptismal font, we were able to make programs at a members</span><br /><span>house. They turned out really nice. And then we made it to the church</span><br /><span>in one piece. We put the elders in charge of filling up the font,</span><br /><span>while we went and looked for a tv and made copies of the program for</span><br /><span>everyone. We originally had planned to hook our iPads up to the TV and</span><br /><span>show a few videos but of course there had to be technical problems. So</span><br /><span>we went with our backup plan by showing finding faith in Christ.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Then Aurora finally arrived so we showed her to the bathroom and she</span><br /><span>was able to get changed and be ready. She was so nervous though that</span><br /><span>she was sweating. She said she felt her heart was about to jump out.</span><br /><span>Then we took pictures and waited a few more minutes for the baptismal</span><br /><span>service to begin. It finally started and as Vanessa Morrison was</span><br /><span>giving her talk, Aurora started crying. The spirit was very strong. It</span><br /><span>was a very precious sight to see. Then I dreaded the moment that the</span><br /><span>talk finished, because that meant it was time for us to sing. And we</span><br /><span>had planned to sing it a cappella so that way we could have different</span><br /><span>parts. I sang soprano and hna. Bardsley sang alto. Hna. Bardsley</span><br /><span>picked out the starting notes on the piano and we started to sing. But</span><br /><span>for some reason it sounded like we were really off from each other,</span><br /><span>although I don't think we really were, we were just nervous to sing.</span><br /><span>So we stopped after the first line and decided to start over because</span><br /><span>it sounded wrong. hermana Bardsley picked out the notes again. And we</span><br /><span>tried to sing it again but my voice kept cutting out, then at that</span><br /><span>point I had lost it completely and went into my nervous laughter. And</span><br /><span>I was just laughing hysterically and trying to whisper to hermana</span><br /><span>Bardsley that I couldn't do this anymore. She gave me a confused look</span><br /><span>and asked what I wanted to do then. And meanwhile this is happening</span><br /><span>the ward is watching us. I knew Eric could play the piano so I was</span><br /><span>trying to suggest that he play for us. And we asked him to play for</span><br /><span>us. But for of course we forgot to bring hymn books, and so we were</span><br /><span>stuck using our iPads. And it just so happened that my iPad was having</span><br /><span>technical difficulties and half the screen went blank and I couldn't</span><br /><span>see the words. So we had to share hermana Bardsley's iPad which had</span><br /><span>logged out at that point. So we had to pause the song again and log it</span><br /><span>it back on. To my relief we barely managed to make it through the song</span><br /><span>finally.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>After our musical number, it was time for Aurora to be baptized. She</span><br /><span>made it into the water just fine, apparently the water was cold</span><br /><span>because it took her forever to get in. And she kept making noises as</span><br /><span>if the water was cold. Her boss Eric was the one who baptized her.</span><br /><span>Thankfully it only took one try! Then to everyone's shock, she must of</span><br /><span>been so happy, because she turned and faced everyone and gave an</span><br /><span>impromtu testimony that lasted about 20 seconds long. Then the rest</span><br /><span>from there is history.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>All I can say is Hna. Bardsley and I no longer have to desire to show</span><br /><span>off our musical talents anymore. And thanks to everyone, and the</span><br /><span>spirit that Aurora was baptized! The other good news of the week is</span><br /><span>that Juan Gonzalez made it to church! And he loved it! I know that</span><br /><span>this is the true church and I love you all!</span><br /><span>Love, Hermana Stohlton</span><br /></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-24918964822398300412014-02-24T21:16:00.001-08:002014-02-24T21:16:38.186-08:00Oh my goodness!!!!![The beginning of Marie's email this week is out of context if you don't know that her cousin, Aaron Bardsley, just received his mission call to her mission and will be a spanish-speaking missionary like her. Marie and Aaron have only met when they were quite young, and do not know each other now. That is why she says she is sure she will get to meet him. So, for 6 months the mission will have an Hermana Bardsley and an Elder Bardsley!]<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Okay, first of all! That is sooooooooooo cool about Aaron! Tell him</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">congratulations from me and that he is coming to the coolest mission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ever! Since he is a Spanish speaking missionary I will almost</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">certainly get to meet him! Tell him that he is coming to the mission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that has no cars, has iPads, and the coolest mission president ever! Well</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">he will only get to be with president becerra for a month, but it will</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">be the president he comes in with. And president becerra is the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">coooolest guy ever! I want to be him when I grow up! Hey if you guys</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">could get me his email I'd love to email him!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Man that is so exciting. He is definitely going to hear some very</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">strange things about me when people find out he is my cousin. You</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">could say I have a reputation for extremely obnoxious jokes that is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">mission wide. He is probably not going to want to be my cousin haha.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Now at meetings if there is a spare moment president makes me get up</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and tell a joke. At zone conference this last week I told the whale</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">joke. Pretty sure the whole mission hates me by now haha!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">As for this week, it was pretty intense. The week or so before someone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">gets baptized is always insane. With Aurora it started about two weeks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">before she was to get baptized. I'm not going to go into a ton of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">detail, sufficeth to say, priesthood blessings are amazing. After her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">blessing she was like "si se puede" and decided that she thinks she</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">can make it and now she is on track to get baptized this Sunday again.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But she needs a lot of prayers. The devil is like clawing from every</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">angle. On top of everything else that has happened she is sick with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the flu and couldn't even come to church because she had a fever. It</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">has been crazy and we have just had to be constantly on our guard.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, I don't know what else to say. Pretty much the rest of our time</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">has been solely devoted to uploading our entire area books into our</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">iPads. Which is extraordinarily time consuming. But the church is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">true. Baptism is that first covenant we make with god and the one that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">allows him to pour out a ton of blessings upon us and to be free of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our past lives. It is super cool that we get to renew that every week</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">as we take the sacrament.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Con amor,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hermana bardsley</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350009400334347478.post-7566685302740063342014-02-20T13:56:00.000-08:002014-02-20T13:56:06.903-08:00iPads. Enough said.Not to make you all jealous, but I am sitting here in the church<br />talking into my iPad as it types what I'm saying to it. That's right,<br />we got iPads. It is kind of awkward though, because my companion is<br />also sitting across the room talking into Siri doing her emails. This<br />is crazy though, what missionary work is becoming. It is something<br />else. I never imagined when I left for my mission that I would be<br />using more technology on my mission than I was before I left. I am<br />still not sure how I feel about it. Here in the Arcadia mission we<br />have been one of the pilot missions for losing all their cars, the new<br />teaching method, Facebook, and iPads. I doubt that there is any other<br />mission in the world that is a pilot group group for so many things at<br />one time. The general authorities really trust President Becerra and<br />us. The hastening of the work is a crazy thing. This really is the<br />last big bang before the end and god is pulling out all his weapons,<br />but of course, so is satan.<br /><br />This week was really awesome though! Aurora is on page hundred and 80<br />of the Book of Mormon; she just never stops reading it. It is amazing<br />to see the spirit work through her as she reads so much of the Book of<br />Mormon. And at our last lesson with her we thought we should teach<br />tithing because that is something a lot of people have a problem with,<br />especially a lot of these really poor people who do not make even<br />enough money to live on. So we taught tithing, and she was like "oh<br />that makes perfect sense! The first thing I do when I get my paycheck<br />is to set apart a little bit of money that I send my dad in Mexico. He<br />always tells me not to but I know that because I do that I always have<br />at least beans and tortillas to eat! And so I figure tithing is the<br />same if I always set apart that little bit of money I will always have<br />at least something to eat." People amaze me so much. It is crazy that<br />having never been religious she understands that concept so well. It<br />is obviously the spirit teaching her. But then at the end of the<br />lesson we decided to show her the Bible video of Jesus Christ getting<br />baptized. As she watched we could tell that it was impacting her a<br />lot. Then at the end she said she had felt something she had never<br />felt before, so we told her that will be her in the water in two weeks<br />getting dunked, well that wasn't our exact words, but you get the<br />point, and she got really excited. I think that will be what will help<br />her to give up the last few things she needs to in order to get<br />baptized. Those Bible videos are so cool. Oh, and we showed it on our<br />iPads, of course.<br /><br />Also! I don't know if you remember me talking about the family we were<br />teaching before, the Zunigas. Well we had dropped them about two<br />months ago, but deep down in my heart I always knew one day that they<br />would accept the gospel, they just needed a little time. Well, me and<br />
Hermana Stohlton had been talking about going back there, but we<br />weren't sure when would be the right time. We tried a couple times a<br />couple weeks ago and they weren't home, so we figured it must not be<br />the right time yet. But one day when we were biking by where they live<br />I just kind of said a prayer to myself and said to god that the day<br />that we happen to run into them outside, since we bike past their house<br />
almost every day, I would know that it was the right time to go<br />back and teach them. So as we are biking past and we had biked a<br />little farther. About five minutes away both me and Hermana Stohlton<br />got the feeling like we should go visit a potential investigator who<br />lives a couple streets back. So we turned around and went back to the<br />street. Then when we were on the street there are a ton of people<br />outside, so we decided to get off our bikes and walk. Right after we<br />did that, we ran into the Zuniga family walking home from school. So<br />we set up a return appointment with them, and ever since then they<br />have been awesome. They are keeping all of their commitments. They are<br />reading from the Book of Mormon. And it looks like now they are ready<br />to progress! We are super excited because we were super sad when we<br />had to drop that family but it felt like the right thing to do at the<br />time. Some people need a slight separation from the missionaries to<br />realize the difference in their lives. We were finally able to teach<br />them the plan of salvation, which is my favorite lesson to teach to<br />families. It is amazing how much this plan really just makes sense. I<br />don't know why other people haven't come up with it. I guess that's<br />why we need prophets, but it seems like if people were just smart they<br />could come up with it. But it was so cool to see that understanding<br />enter their eyes. It is so new to people who have been Catholic or<br />really anything else their whole life.<br /><br />And mom and dad, congratulations on your wedding anniversary. Although<br />both of your emails were slightly on the sappy side this week, and we<br />all know how I feel about sap. But it's okay I will forgive you. And<br />do you really think I am going to remember your advice about picking<br />an eternal companion? Come on, I am doing everything in my power to<br />forget everything about anything to do with finding eternal companion<br />right now. Boys have cooties. I am going to marry an iPad. Just<br />kidding, the truth is I don't really like them that much. It has been<br />quite an adjustment for me and my companion using these iPads. We were<br />probably the least excited missionaries in the mission to get iPads.<br /><br />Well, have a grand old day. Share the gospel because it is true. With much love,<br />Hermana bardsleyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616380007226630483noreply@blogger.com0