El Hospital

August 31st

HHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! MIS AMIGOS!!!!

Ah, Well I dont know how to describe this week, it was really hard XP We had an investigator with A baptism date for the 29th but he ended up going to the Hospital the day of his Baptism because he had heart problems (Sometimes I really just want to punch Satan in the face XP) So, he didn't have his baptism =( But he is doing okay, and accepted a blessing from the Bishop (I was so excited when he got a blessing, it was an awesome experience for him =D) And he is preparing for his baptism again, whooooooow!!!!!!!!

Love you all!!! HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK!!!!!

Con mucho Amor, 

Hermana Orison

That Awkward moment when you are in the middle of a lesson and your whole book of Mormon falls apart infront of your investigator, haha Yeah I think I use it a little to much XP

El Momento incomodo cuando estas en medio de una leccion y su Libro de Mormon se desmorno enfrente de su investigador, jaja creo que lo uso mucho XP

Awkward day =P

July 20th

HOOOOOOOOLA!!! MIS AMIGOS!!!!!!! Wow I cant believe it is P-day already! Time goes by so fast here =O

This week has been a little weird, first I will talk about the most funny/awkward day I have had in my entire mission:

1. We were eating lunch with family, and it was dead silence at the table. I tried asking questions to get them to talk and the family would just say "yes" or "no" or "grunt" and we sat there in silence the whole lunch XP and when we left my companion said "That has been our most awkward moment for today"

2.We went to visit a family of members (Part of our mission is to take care of the members too) and we went to teach them a lesson and me and my companion were not sure what to teach because we had not planned on visiting them. We settled in and started asking a few questions to figure out what we needed to teach, it went like this:

us:"How are your prayers going? Do you pray as a family?"

family:"yep, we pray every morning and night together."

us:"Oh wow! Felicidades! Are you reading the scriptures too?"

Family: "Yep! We read a chapter of the book of Mormon every morning together and a chapter individually in the night"

us:"Seriously? Wow! well, how are you family home evenings?"

Family: "We have them every Monday at 6:00"

us:"wow...well..." We could not think of anything to teach them! They were perfect and we were in a awkward silence for about 1 minute and I finally just yelled "Ah! You guys are perfect! We don't need to teach you anything!" they laughed and started being humble telling they had stuff to work on and yah.

and when we went to leave the house, I asked if they knew anyone we could visit and the dad pulled out his phone and gave me a name, address and phone number right there! Yep, I thought I was dreaming. The family was perfect, I am pretty sure if every family was like them we would not need missionaries haha.

We left the house and my companion said "nope, that was more awkward then lunch"

3. We were contacting people in the street and we contacted a woman and her husband in front of their house. We asked if we could share a message with her, and she said "of course! Come sit with us!" so we happily sat down at the table with them, excited to share a message with them. The lady told us that her husband had Alzheimer's, so don't be worried if he yells or something like that. 

So we explain to her about our purpose as missionaries and we pulled out our himnarios to sing a hymn when her husband lets one rip right there. Yes, he farted.

The lady elbows him and says "shhh, they are trying to share a message about Jesus to us!" me and my companion were trying so hard not to laugh. We began singing, and got about half way through and just bursted out laughing. We could not hold it in anymore, and then the lady starts laughing with us not knowing why we a laughing.

Yeah leaving the lesson my companion said "Okay! This is the most awkward moment for the day! Yah! No more!" hahahah

What else happened this week? 

I had to teach the district meeting Tuesday, And I accidentally went Elder Holland on my district and went 20 minutes over time,(time flies by when your receiving revelation) and when I finally ended and went to apologize to my district leader for going over time he said "That was awesome! I wanted you to keep talking! Im going to ask you to teach in the district meetings more often!" yay! 

Perla is now teaching lessons with us!!! Whoow!!! The best part about helping people be baptized is watching them grow after the Baptism =D I love working with converts they are the best!!! 

We have had so much fun teaching and learning about families this week. Honestly, if you put your family first and everything else after it, life is so much easier! I know as we think about eternal goals and what decisions will benefit us for the future instead of what we want "now", we will be more happy and have more peace in this life and for eternity. =) 

 I just got an email from my other companion in Mochis, Two of the families I was working with before just got Baptized!!!!! =D Whoow!!! I LOVE THE MISSION!!!! =D

Feliz Dia De Madres!!!! =D

    FELIZ DIA DE MADRES to all you Mommies out there!!!! 

Skyping my family yesterday was amazing! =) I love you all! When I got done Skyping, the family of the house I was Skyping in laughed at me when I got done because I had a huge smile on my face. They also told me that they understood half of my conversation because I had been speaking Spanglish without really realizing it, oops! To my family, I am sorry if you didn't understand everything that I said, the Spanish is getting to me =P

     Yesterday we also got Transfers, and I am staying in Mochis again with Hermana Serrano. Third transfer here, whoow! I feel like this next transfer here is going to be really good, I am excited for it =D 

Little Funny story: Saturday we had another mission activity where we invited all members and investigators to the church to watch Meet The Mormons, we were sad when only one of our investigators showed up. But 20 minutes into the movie, the DVD stopped working and one of the Elders thought it would be a great idea to put ¨17 miracles" on instead. I love that movie, but when you have a bunch of people watching it that don't really know anything about Joseph Smith or Pioneers, its a little weird. Especially when the first 2 minutes is of a wolf chasing down someone and a person freezing to death, AHHHH!!! Me and my companion quickly became happy that we didn't have more then one investigator there (Who asked a ton of questions, but said he really liked it. Yep, he is our Golden Investigator =) ) Gotta love the life of the mission =)

I hope you are all doing wonderful! I love you all!!

     I want to include this link to a Mormon Message (by Elder Uchtdorf of course) for all the Moms out there, you are the greatest creators, I mean you make people? How cool is that? haha LOVE YOU!!! =D

 

 

 http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/mormon-messages/create

 

And here is a Photo of my Zone before Transfers =)

Another One Rides The Bus

Hola Everyone!!  This week was full of some first time experiences.

         I had the opportunity to go on divisions with a member. The member I went with is about 65yrs old, and was a blast to work with. She is like a crazy, awesome Grandma to me, and we taught really well together =)

     Then I got to go on exchanges the next day with my Sister Training leader and help teach some of her investigators.

      I also had the fun experience of Contact a bus this week, haha nothing like standing at the front of the bus and preaching the gospel to everyone in a language you don't know, haha quite the adrenaline rush, cant wait to do it again =D

The scripture for this week that I really love is: 

Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

          I love this scripture because it is a reminder to me that no matter what situation or who you are, you are still a child of God and He loves you. Period. He is always reaching out His hand to help you reach your full potential. Even when you feel like no one can help you, He is there walking every step with you.  

I love you all and hope you all have an amazing week! 

Love ,

Hermana Orison

Photo:

 Exchanges!! =D

 

 

Grave Yard Shift (Litterally)

Hola mi amigos!!

 Wow, this week went by realllllllllllly fast, I cant believe it! I now have seven months in the mission, its so crazy!! I feel like I still only have 3 here =P So what is new this week?

For one, we had a service project this week with our Stake. And we got to clean a Graveyard!! Whoow!!! Actually kind of exciting, you definitely find and see some weird stuff in Mexico grave yards. Lots of pictures of The virgin Mary and Guadalupe =P Oh speaking of which, I finally bought some new Tennis Shoes because my other ones got "lost" ;( . And I have started running again in a park...around a Catholic Church. At times its a little awkward when you have Guadalupe or the Virgin Mary staring down at you haha and its always fun when they ring their huge bell right as you run by (ouch!). definitely still enjoy running =)
 

     Loving Mexico! Our area is getting a lot better, we are finding a lot more people to teach =) And we had four investigators come to church this past Sunday (whoow!!!) and you will never guess who came to church! The bread man!! haha! I talked with him in the street one day and invited him to church and he came!! haha it was awesome! =)

Hope you are all having a great time! I love you! Take care!! =D

 

 

Photos:

I found Silver Surfer!! (Gotta love it when you find Marvel or DC references here!!)

One of our Investigators was making an awesome Pinata out of eggs full of confetti!

And the big catholic church =)

 

 

Burn!!!!

     Ah well this week has definitely been really hard. I will start it off in a somewhat funny manner with a story.

     Tuesday we went Less Active searching, Hermana Serrano and I found all the addresses of less actives in one of our areas and we went looking for all of their houses. Funny story about Mochis, most of the houses do not have numbers and the ones that do are all out of order (for example we have 20 by 145, I do not know why!) So we were out looking for houses and knocking on doors for 4 hours straight and nobody opened their door =( So we went to a Ward meeting at the church after all of our "less active tracking" and when I entered the door my zone leaders looked over at me and went wide eyed and started yelling

    "WHAT HAPPENED? HERMANA ORISON ARE YOU OKAY?"

"Yeah...why?" I replied having no idea what they were freaking out about.

"Your RED! like, redder then red head red!" I realized I had no put on sun screen that morning and I went and looked in the mirror, and yep I'm a little red missionaira, whoow!!

    In other news, Ill admit this week was really hard. It seemed like we could not find anyone to teach (a lot of people our in vacations right now) and we were having quite a few difficulties, so I asked one of the Elders to give me a blessing. And when he gave me the blessing I was totally shocked because the words he used were so specific for my situation, it was like he knew everything that was going on in my life at that moment (Which I am pretty sure he didn't because I have only talked to him twice in my life ) It just really opened up my eyes to the Priesthood power, because I knew those were words from God to help me, they were his words to keep me going.

 

I know that we are all children of God and that he has a plan for us. A plan of happiness, and to help us in this life, he placed the Priesthood Authority in the world to help us and guide us. He gave us prophets and scriptures to give us guidance and He gave His beloved son Jesus Christ to atone for us. To help our weaknesses and imperfections, become strong and perfect. This Gospel is so true and I invite all of you to apply its principals in your lives and receive the blessings God has waiting for you =)

     Love you all!!!!

 

Crazy RM!

     Ah don't have too much time! but my companion was a little sick this week. And our sister training leaders ordered her to stay home and rest for two days, meaning as her companion I had to stay home too.

     Let me tell you, I almost went crazy that first day staying in our house! It was the first time in five months that I had spare time. Time with no plans or scheduled things. I was freaking out because I didn't know what to do, so while my companion was sleeping, I cleaned the whole house, translated two chapters of the Book of Mormon from Spanish to English, read a bunch of conference talks that could help our investigators, studied Spanish, cooked dinner and on and on. 

Yeah, lets just say the second day I called our sister training leaders and asked them to do exchanges with me because I couldn't handle staying in the house "relaxing" for another day. There are souls that need saving dang it! haha

     Just warning all of you, I am probably going to be a really crazy RM. to my family, Please plan out a lot of things out for me to keep me busy when I get back or I might go insane lol =) Besides that I am loving my mission!! And we are getting a lot of work done here =) I love you all! Have a fantabulous week!!

Love

Hermana Orison

Teaching and Sunday Miracles

     Wow, so I just typed a paragraph and realized it was all in Spanish haha Delete! Anyways, this week has been really hard but resulted with amazing blessings too.

 

     For one, I officially had 5 months in the mission on the 15th. (How crazy! This mission is going by way to fast! I don't know how to stop it! AH!) And we had the baptism of little Carmila, who is 8 years old. Her mom was reactivated a few months back and she asked us to help her prepare her daughter for Baptism, so we have been teaching her all the lessons this past month =)

     This week we started teaching English lessons! Whoow! They assigned me and Elder Arnold to teach them, which definitely challenges us because I only have 4 months in Mexico and he only has about a month, so our Spanish is not the best, but I decided to just teach the Class Herr Corry style, and just run around pointing at things and yelling English words, it actually worked pretty well =P 

    Sunday was a big miracle. These past few weeks we have been working reallllllly hard, teaching and finding as many people as we could. But every Sunday no one would really come to church and we were not seeing any results of our efforts. I definitely prayed a lot more this week, asking what more I could do to help this area grow, to help those people we were teaching to receive the Gospel and come to church and feel the Spirit. Behold, we were blessed with 6 investigators this Sunday! We went to pick up a family Sunday morning (who are never usually there...) and they were all waiting by the door with their books of Mormon(s) and pamphlets. I honestly almost cried in the door step because I was so happy just to see them so ready to learn. 

    I cannot tell you how blessed I feel being a missionary. I have the opportunity to visit soooo many families and help them strengthen their relationships with each other. It is just awesome to see them grow in the Gospel and apply these principles in their homes. Its the best! I love it! I have the best mission in the world!! =D

I love you all!!! Have a fantastic week!!! =D 

Love Hermana Orison

 

 

The Bread Man

Hola Personas!

Its been a long week, but a good week. We got four Less actives to come to church this week! Quite the miracle! It was a happy day for me and my companion =)

Haha Saturday me and my companion were meeting with an Less Active member and we were talking about her job which is pedicures. And she looked down at my shoes and asked me to show her my feet. Yeah, I was a little reluctant to show her because lets face it, when you walk at least 10 miles a day on unpaved roads  with at least 15 pounds in your bag, your feet aren't going to look that pretty...

But she grabbed my foot and said "oh its beautiful!!! I love your feet! I want to work with them!" so we got pedicures from her today haha so I am happy =)

Ha, funny story of the week, my companion and I work in a area where a guy sales doughnut type bread in his little bike cart. (its like the ice cream man with a song and all, but its bread and on a bike). One day we were walking down the road and a guy was buying bread from the bread man and he saw us and told us we were beautiful and he wanted to buy bread for us. So he bought bread for us and walked away.

After this incident, the bread man now follows us around to our appointments because every time we visit one of our investigators and they see the bread man come by, they buy bread for us because everyone likes the sister missionaries haha. Its just great, now I am going to get fat off of Tortillas and bread =P Thank you Mr. Bread man. 

Well, little bit of my week, hope you are all doing well! Have a good one! =D

Love,

Hermana Orison

Meet the Mormons

 So our mission President let us watch meet the Mormons this week! AHHHHHHHHHH it was amazing!!! (even more amazing was that we watched it in spanish and I understood it!!) It is full of awesomeness! Boxing, prosthetics, zip-lines, missionaries, Navy, Football, and all my favorite stuff =) It did make me really miss home (especially when the missionary is leaving for the MTC, I think all the missionaries watching it were crying, because we all knew how it felt) the spirit was really strong in the movie, it was amazing. Everybody, por favor if you have not seen it, go watch it! Its the best!! =D  

Work here is definitely getting better, we taught a less active family yesterday. Everyone in the family are members except for the dad. The dad is usually never home, but yesterday he was and we got him and his wife to listen to our message about the restoration and during it we were feeling the spirit so strong. We invited the Husband to baptism, and he said yes! The wife started crying and said "I have been waiting for so long to hear him say that" It was one of the best lessons I have ever been in! I know this family will be so happy when they are united together in the principles of the Gospel. The family is the primary ordinance of God, and a family the applys the principles of the Gospel in their lives will have a home full of the Spirit and happiness, I have seen it so many times here in the mission. I am in love with this gospel! It is the best! I have the best job ever! =D

I love you all! and miss you too! Have an amazing week! =D

Love,

Hermana Orison

The Less Active =P

                Well yesterday was my last day of training, I am now a full on missionary today, whoot! Kinda scary because my Spanish is still not the best haha (And my English is getting worse and worse as days pass haha). These 4 months have definitely flown by fast!

                This week was a really hard week, getting adjusted to a new area is never really fun. Especially this one, I found out that my job here is quite different, Me and my companion were sent to this area to focus on the less actives (this area has at least 200 less active familys just in this ward, because some elders, years ago, were baptizing and not teaching -__- ) So we have to cover three different missionaries areas (really huge area for us!) and find all the less actives and reactivate them. I found out that the past two transfers (3 months) no one had really worked in this area, so we are starting from bottom. 

But I am enjoying working with the Less actives, they all need a lot of help and I am glad that I have the opportunity to be here and teach and learn from them. =)

                 But I got some really good news =) Yesterday was "normal" transfers and me and Hermana Fisher are staying in Mochis (of course, since I just got here Friday =P) but my Best friend Hermana Capps is transferring from Ciudad Obregon to be our sister Training leader here. Whoot!! I pretty much screamed and jumped up and down in the middle of road with excitement when our district leader told us. I know Hermana Capps will make this area awesome and I finally have a friend here! Whoow!! Miracles do happen!! =D

Anyways, funny moment of the week,

                 In Mexico when you greet each other, you hug/shake hands and kiss the air by their cheek (I think its called a face...) and as Sister missionaries we only greet girls this way and have to tell the guys no, because of mission standards. 

                 We had just finished with a lesson and I was really tired and not thinking straight. I gave quick kisses to the sisters and then shook one of the guys hands and went in to give a face, mid way through my brain started working again and I quickly pulled away, apologizing and everyone started laughing. 

yep, I bet I was pretty red then. Gotta love different cultures haha =) 

Anyways, Love you all! Have a good week! 

Love, Hermana Orison

 I found turtles!!!! =)

2 Gringas y 1 Grande Area

Hola Mi Amigos! ¿Como Esta?

So yeah, I didn't really write a group email last week, (sorry!) didn't have much time. I have to say these past two weeks have been a little challenging. But hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger =) Or I guess in the case of a mission, strengthens your testimony =)

On Friday I had a "special" transfer to Mochis (another State in Mexico, yes our mission covers two states). It was reallllly hard to leave Ciudad Obregon, saying goodbye to everyone was awful =( Especially since two of my investigators have Baptisms coming up on Feb 14 (I know great day to be baptized, right?) But I know this is for the best and this is where God wants me right now =)

Mochis is definitely different then my last area. It is really beautiful! It is a mix between California and Texas, and the area we cover is HUGE!!! TONS OF WALKING!! WHOOW!!!  My new companion is Amazing!!! Her name is Hermana Fisher, and she is from California =) I'll admit I was really nervous to have an American as a companion because I thought my Spanish would decrease because we would probably be speaking more English. 

But nope! When the President put us together he told specifically that we could not speak any English with each other, and so far we have followed though with that. Surprisingly,  I have learned so much more Spanish! More then I have even learned in the past two weeks! This transfer has definitely helped me a ton with the Spanish =)

  Yesterday we had Stake Conference, which is considerably different then the conferences in Utah. They used a lot of visual aids, and called up volunteers to help them with Missionary practices, it was so weird! But pretty cool, haha our mission president had to give four talks =P And A Seventy spoke too! His name was Elder Ortiz. He came and visited with us missionaries after he gave his talk, never thought I'd see the day that I would be talking to a seventy in Spanish. Miracles do happen haha ;)

Well hope all is going well in Utah =) I am doing much better and getting adjusted to my new area =) I love and miss you all! Have a good week everyone! =)

Love

Hermana Orison

 Me and Hermana Fisher! :)

How Embarrassing

Whoow! It has been a hard working week! My companion and I got more  lessons done this week then ever  before (hehe we got more lessons done this week then the Elders! They usually only get in two, yes, they were a little irritated ;P Sister Missionary Power! bam! ) And we got so many new investigators that are just amazing! I am so excited to teach them! =)

I had the opportunity to teach a lesson with someone who knows English! Whoow! I am proud to say that I can teach perfectly in English, I got him committed to read the B.O.M., pamphlet and pray! I honestly this he will do it (unlike other investigators...) and it was funny because my companion had no idea what was going on (tables turned) and I was leading the lesson. It was a happy moment this week =)

Oh so funny story:

We had just finished teaching a lesson with an Investigator, and she seemed to know a lot about Joseph Smith, a lot more then most investigators. After the lesson I asked my companion about it and she said 

"well yeah she is a member"

me: "wait shes a member!?"

"Yeah, just really less active"

me: "But, I invited her to Baptism the first week here..."

"yeah, that's why we were all laughing"

Yes, I found out this week that I had invited an member to baptism my first week here...Yeah as Yoda would put it "How embarrassing" or as facebook or Instragram would put it #Languageproblems #don'tknowspanish #SoyGringa and on.

Well, Have a good one everyone! Love yah!!

Hermana Orison

Trial By Spanish

3 months! Ive been in the mission for 3 months! Ah! I cant believe it, time is flying by waaaay too fast! 

This week was a really trialing week for my Spanish. 2 weeks ago we had transfers and I new My mission President was going to do something with this transfer, that would really challenge me, but the transfer came and no one was transferred. The only change was that my Companion became Sister training leader (which is weird because the sister training leaders are supposed to be companions...). But I found out this week that her becoming a sister training leader was the challenge. As a leader she has to have one companion exchange a week, meaning so do I. And this week me and Hermana Jackson were put as companions for a day in my area.

Imagine, two girls from Utah with only 7 weeks in the mission (both of us still have trainers, haha I feel like a Pokemon! =P) and very little Spanish. Yeah, sounds a little scary. But we did it! In fact we did more work then we usually do with our normal companions! And it really surprised us how much Spanish we actually knew! We were able to teach all the lessons clearly, and contact 16 people in the street, And they all understood us, haha Gringa Power!!

And this Sunday I had the opportunity to speak in Sacrament meeting (yay...noooooooo) Definitely a nervous experience, I always thought Talks in English were scary haha wow was I wrong, giving talks in a different language is definitely scarier. But I used my humiliation to my advantage and told all our investigators and some less active members that they could come and laugh at me at church this Sunday. And it worked! we got 4 investigators and 4 less active to come to church, totally worth the humiliation! okay, so it was not too bad, people said they could understand it and they really felt the spirit, so all in all not too bad of a experience. I'm really happy to say, I only needed to use my dictionary twice to translate words while writing my talk =) whoot!

Best part of this week, we have a new District leader and he was asking what I like to do and I Mentioned that I liked running and that I really missed it and couldn't run here because my companion does not like to exercise (as in she got rid of her tennis shoes, because she hates exercising that much). So my district leader turned and told the whole District to make it a goal to run every morning. Whoot! My companion hates me, but I am happier then ever! Running again feels awesome! haha I run around a park now every morning while my companion sits on a swing starring at me (i'm trying to convince her to get some running shoes =P).

Entonces,

I hope everyone is doing amazing! Have a good week everyone!! =)

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3 month mark for all of us!

The proposal

Hola!

          So its been a fun week full of a tooooon of work, we have found many new investigators this week, and we have been working on some reactivating. We got two families to come to church today, along with two investigators (whoot! Whoot!)  I'm loving this mission more and more every week =)

           I just got done with More visa papers today (Ah I love being a Gringa) and realized the last time I went on a Visa trip I did not understand anything that they had asked me, but this time I understood everything, whoot! Spanish is getting a lot better! I now understand almost all the conversations going on around me, its awesome!

          Haha, so this week I realized that I have been learning a lot of Spanish and improving a ton, but my companion was not getting any better at English. Our mission president wants all his missionaries to learn another language during the mission. So To help her learn English, we decided to make a day where I would speak Spanish all day (not to difficult) and she would speak English all day. We call it Idioma Jueves (Language Thursday, yeah sounds better in Spanish =P) and let me tell yah best thing we have done! We are getting along a lot more because we understand the others point of view (the missionaries that already know the language honestly have no idea how hard it is at times XP) and our work has definitely improved.

             Now to my awkward, creepy, funny, moment of the week (the reason the title is The Proposal):

Me and my companion were coming out of a lunch appointment and headed to our next lesson, when a guy on a Motorcycle stopped besides and asked me if I was from Utah.

            I told him yes, and then he asked what part of Utah, And I went to explain the geography of Utah thinking this was someone interested in the church (people always stop us and ask about the church and people who know Utah usually know about Mormons) and after I got done explaining he asked

"¿Will you Marry Me? "

Yeah, I bet my face was priceless at that moment.

he asked again "¿Will you marry me? I need to marry an American girl and Live in America so I can get a social Security Number."

                I explained that I was a missionary and I was here for a year and half and not allowed to get married (to put it nicely) and then I turned to look at my companion for help and realized he had been speaking English and she had not understood any of it and was getting ready to share a pamphlet with him. I quickly stopped her not wanting to turn this into a celestial marriage proposal! =P

                 Then he said "so I have to wait 18 months to marry you?" and yeah I finally just told him up straight no! I will not marry you! Ah! and quickly walked away with my companion, walking down the road screaming "ewwwwww" while she laughed at me. Always thought my first marriage proposal would be romantic, not in the middle of a street of Mexico by some stranger haha hopefully next time is better and after the mission ;P

Well that my week! Love you all! Have a Good one!

Love,

Hna. Orison

Starting this new year with some White =)

              So this week has been amazing! Our investigator L. was baptized yesturday! She is amazing and her baptism was ahhhhh totally awesome! The spirit was so strong! Just being there testified to me that this church is soooo true, I have no doubt about it. Just seeing her glow after Baptism, has once again showed me that this is the Best Mission ever (sorry for you other missionaries But Mexico is the BEST!! =P)

                Entonces, Feliz Anos everybody!! Mexico is crazy on New Years, parties are in all the streets and fireworks are going everywhere (like in the trees, right over me head, down the streets....yeah everywhere). We were with an investigator for dinner on New Years and her Grandson (11 years old) had a firework explode in his hand, everyone was freaking out.

              But I checked it, and it looked like only a stove burn (thank goodness) so I got it quickly wrapped up for him (haha the grandma was applying a tomato to it, something they like to do in Mexico, don't know why...) and got them all calmed down haha, it was an exciting moment for the day.

 These are the best lights we have found so far.

Well I hope all is well for you guys! Have a good one!!

Love,

Hna. Orison