The Branch children passing out pass a long cards.
-Well
first item of business is that Gino's baptism didn't work out for
this weekend:( We told him at the beginning of the week that Satan
was going to work extra hard on him this week to try and keep him
from getting baptized and to remember to put God first. We tried to
meet with him almost every day but last minute he would call us and
say I'm so sorry I'm still at work I have to finish this job! ( he
works on cars) he's like I don't know where all these jobs have been
coming from but I need to do them so that I can make the money to pay
my rent and help my family. Meanwhile I'm like �� I
know where they're coming from! This is the adversary at work here!
Ah that sly dog. He kept Gino so busy doing something "good"
this week to prevent him from doing something way better. And the day
that we had planned for him to get his baptismal interview of course
his phone wasn't working so we couldn't get a hold of him. So we just
had to hope and pray that he would show up that night. We felt so bad
though because the elders had to meet us at his house and had gotten
a ride from one of their investigators since they don't have a car.
We waited out by our car for a while and when he wasn't showing up
the elders went over and knocked on his door but they did this before
we could warn them about Gino's evil roommate/landlord who threatened
to call the cops on us one time while we were waiting for Gino to
come home. They actually didn't even make it to the door...they just
walked past this guys window but it was enough to wake the beast and
he came storming out and started yelling at them in angry Cuban
Spanish saying "get off my property! Get off! Who do you church
people think you are! This is not a public place get out! Who is your
pastor?! Who is your pastor?! Give me his number I'm calling him
after I call the cops!" Yeah it got pretty heated. And the poor
elders and their investigator are just standing in the middle of this
like what the heck is going on?? So yeah that was a fun night!
Hopefully this week will go better though and Gino will be able to
finish work so we can meet with him and can be baptized this next
weekend!
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Marcela is doing good! She actually hated her new job! She said they
made her work 14 hours straight with no break for her first day last
weekend and she was like Ya no that's not going to happen again she
is trying to get out of that now and will hopefully be able to go to
church soon. Man I love Marcela. She's kind of like our grandma.
She's pretty young but she actually is a grandma and is pretty much
raising two of her grand babies right now. They are so cute! The
whole not being allowed to hold babies and kids rule is probably one
of the hardest rules for me,especially with Marcela. There have been
a few times when Marcela will just hand me a crying baby and will be
like here take him for a second and I'm like ahh what do I do I just
want to comfort you but I can't ...I feel like I'm holding a bomb
because Hermana Newbill gives me a look like "put it down! Put
it down!" And I'm like "ahh I don't know what to do with
it" hahah it's actually pretty funny.
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A cool thing that happened this week was that one of the members came
and told us that she wants her granddaughter to be baptized the
same day that we are preparing 3 other 9yr olds to be baptized which
is in 2 weeks! We were like yes! Baptism! Our favorite word! Our
favorite color! Our favorite food! Our favorite pastime activity! We
went to her house this week to teach her granddaughter Sheila and her
cousin was there too. I asked her if she had been baptized and she
said no but I really really want to! And I want to be baptized on the
same day as my cousin! So now we are teaching her too and are
preparing FIVE 9/10yr olds to be baptized on the same day in 2 weeks.
The Ward is so excited...it's gonna be a fiesta!
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speaking of the Ward, we had our primary program this week and oh my
goshhh little kids singing primary songs in Spanish is pretty much
the cutest thing ever I was dying. There was one song I've never
heard before called "la familia es de dios" that I've been
trying to find but its not in the primary book but I love it! I make
the primary kids sing it to me every time I see some of them haha
- Everyday is full of different people
and different experiences that I learn different things every day.
And I love it. I love being a missionary...it's something I can't
really describe. Before I left I thought I'd have a problem with
being home sick or something but I don't. When you are just so
involved in doing missionary work and putting everything you have
into it you don't really have time to think about anything else. And
I'm not just forcing myself to only think about missionary work- it's
all I want to do! It literally makes me so happy! Yeah it's hard
sometimes and I'm awkward and mess things up and don't know what to
say a lot of the time but I know it's okay because I know Heavenly
Father knows I'm trying my best! And I'm just happy because I know
this is what I'm supposed to be doing! I've got to go but I'll share
more about the area I'm in next week. Love you all!!
Love
Hermana baugh
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