44: Otro Año Ha Pasado

Otro año más queda ya atrás! I cant believe it. And I finishede 10 months this week, I am getting older and older in the mission every day.

This past week we had our CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!! With the whole mission! It was insane. With all that has been going on in the country we havent had changes or celebrated Christmas for weeks but we decided to just do it all in one day and bring the whole mission to the biggest chapel in Tegucigalpa, one thats 3 stories in Uyuca. It was so fun! Having all of our best friends all together celebrating Christmas brings an incredible spirit. The only sad part is we had to turn our daughter Hermana Garcia over to her real mom in La Guaymuras.  It was a fun week of motherhood though.

We also had our zone conference on Friday. President Chase focused on FAITH, and challenged us to focus our studies this next week on faith. His son also gave a workshop and talked about ETERNAL LIFE, how that is our personal goal and the goal for every person we meet here. And our zone leaders talked about OBEDIENCE. All topics I love and was grateful for their counsel.

We watched Meet the Mormons with the Tercero Family and they are still a little bit stuck on the question if this is the only true church. We made them a promis that if they would read the Book of Mormon faithfully every day they would be prepared to be baptized next weekend. we are hoping they make the effort, because there isnt much we can do to help them if they dont search ask ask for themselves. Please lots of prayers for them, they are so close and we love them very much.

We had our first real lesson with Esteban this week and he is a miracle, without doubt. We started to teach lesson 1 and it seemed like he was teaching us, so we pulled out the baptismal interview questions and he answered to every single one of them. Insane! The only thing is he has to get married, and when he mentioined that it sounded like his wife wouldnt be interested in that idea. We were really worried, but we showed up at their house yesterday to discuss it with the two of them and his wife Veronica wants to be baptized too! They have a wedding date for the 26th and a baptismal date for the 27th.

I cant really describe their whole story because there are so many details that leave me in awe. I just know that God prepares people and puts them in our path. Only if we are faithful and dilligent can we find them. This experience has been more than inspiring for me.

Happy New Year!

Links:
1. Nos hicimos super fitness y nos compramos cuerda de salto y bungee, seamos nuevas misioneras este año!
2-3. Christmas Party
4. Christmas party
5. Hermana Ordoñez and her two daughters  my mom leaves this change!
6-10. Christmas party
11-12. Valle de Angeles this morning

:)