Week 2 in the field!

Hola Familia y Amigos!

So not a ton of time today, so I will try to explain investigators quick.

First we have 3 kids, William, Wilfredo, and Wilma.  Their parents just got baptized and we are working to have them baptized in the next couple of weeks.  They are an amazing family, so sweet and ready to follow the gospel.

Anajulia is the girlfriend of the kids uncle.  People dont get married here so that is an issue we always have to address.  She is so cute and always happy.  We had a lesson and she just said I want to be baptized.  So right now we are working on her getting married and finishing the lessons.

View from our back porch

Mabel is amazing.  she has been so prepared to hear the gospel.  She understands the lessons and is reading in the Book of Mormon.  She is so sweet and we are working with her to also get married in the future because she lives with her boyfriend.

We have a couple of other investigators that arent really progressing right now but we will see what happens and I will tell you more later!

We are also working with a less active Karoley.  She is about 20 years old and hasnt been to church in 3 months, but she came yesterday!! Yay!  We are trying to work with less actives and recent converts to keep retention and support for them.

We also stop by a lot of members so that we can ask for references and keep up relationships.  On Sundays we always eat at Rosis house after church.  She is the mom of our ward mission leader. She always makes us a ton of food.  Then on Sundays we usually get another meal at a members house maybe even two.  We eat really well on Sundays I just might explode.  I dont know how I am going to loose weight here on the mission sometimes.  We are treated very well.

So the buses here they just cram us on.  What is usually a 12 passenger van we fit 21 people on. The door on the side is just cut out and wide open, but no one has fallen out yet.  Dont worry we are safe!

Laundry machine

Laundry is interesting here.  they have different machines. We fill up buckets of water and then pour them into the machine with soap.  Then we put our clothes in and it just kind of spins them around.  Then it just sits in the dirty water so pretty gross.  Then we ring them out and put them in this little spinner and it takes the rest of the water out and then we hang them on a clothes line.  Its pretty great!

All is well here in the mission.  The language is hard but it is coming.  Everyone keeps telling me I will learn fast and that for right now my spanish is good.

Thanks for all the love and support!

Love,

Hermana Steed 

Where we live. My desk is in the middle to the right