June 3rd, 2013
Dear family
Where to begin.....I am so busy it’s crazy. I really literally have no time to think about you all until Monday.....Wow that sounded really mean and like I don’t love you. But I really do so don’t worry ha. We have just been trying to get a hold of this new calling, work our butts off in our area, do divisions, split our area so the assistance can come and oh yeah we moved today. Hah it has been a crazy full week... and I absolutely love it!!! I am so happy and I love the feeling that God is happy with what I am doing right now. So download of that is going on in our ward that we are working in. We have the expectation, and goal of baptizing every week and you want
to know what’s cool ....we are baptizing 2 people every week this month!!! God is blessing this area and the work so much. We have found amazingly prepared people that hear of the word of wisdom and stop in
three days all coffee, smoking etc. The faith of these people I am just in shock of.
Where to begin.....I am so busy it’s crazy. I really literally have no time to think about you all until Monday.....Wow that sounded really mean and like I don’t love you. But I really do so don’t worry ha. We have just been trying to get a hold of this new calling, work our butts off in our area, do divisions, split our area so the assistance can come and oh yeah we moved today. Hah it has been a crazy full week... and I absolutely love it!!! I am so happy and I love the feeling that God is happy with what I am doing right now. So download of that is going on in our ward that we are working in. We have the expectation, and goal of baptizing every week and you want
to know what’s cool ....we are baptizing 2 people every week this month!!! God is blessing this area and the work so much. We have found amazingly prepared people that hear of the word of wisdom and stop in
three days all coffee, smoking etc. The faith of these people I am just in shock of.
Oh so
funny stories. Really this amazing investigator is named Mauricio. He is like
50 and he is so excited for his baptism. If he had it his way, he would have been baptized
last week but he has to wait because of coffee. But the funny story is we told
him he could choose who to baptize him. He got really excited. He came back 2
days later and started this really long and prepared speech about his thought
process to choose who he wanted to baptize him. He was praising and thanking Hermana
Messina for all she had done for him and then he said I would be honored to
have you baptize me....... we both looked at each other. After the whole long speech
it was so sad to tell him that we can’t baptize. But at the same time it was
actually really funny. He was fine with her not baptizing him and we had a good
long talk on authority and the priesthood. I am just amazed at the faith of
this man we
literally go to the lesions and he is taking notes and ....he is like a sponge and just sits at our feet and soaks up everything we say and not just that but puts it into practice. He is truly an example to me. He will be getting baptized this week with another man named Gustavo and he has been investigating for a while. We have been
praying so hard that he would accept a date and he finally did this week. I feel a little sad the day that he accepted the date I was on interchanges and I wasn’t there. But I heard about it after and wow.....this guy has been trying to change his life before his baptism. We started to see some changes in his life and we started to talk to him
about a date and he always said he wanted more time even though he was ready ...but this day Hermana Messina, she is so good at following the spirit, talked about prayer and they all knelt down at the end of the lesion and he prayed to know if he should get baptized this Saturday. She said the spirit was so strong and after the prayer everyone just waited and were listening. After like 4 min (that’s a long time on your knees and waiting) Hermana Messina asked how he felt and.....oh I get goose bumps thinking about it. He said he felt so good and put his hand on his heart and was saying he never felt like that before and that he couldn’t explain what he was feeling. He just felt really good......!!! I am so happy for him. He got a strong answer that he was to get baptized this week and so we are planning those two to be baptized this week. Next week I am excited because there is a family in our ward that after like 8 months of trying to get a divorce and get papers to get married, they are finally going to have everything ready and they are going to get married the 14th and then get baptized the 15th and the President is going to come. We are all nervous and everything.....it’s the best feeling ever. I am so grateful for the work I have here and the companion I have. She is pushing me to be so much more than I am now and not just be a passive worker....( you know work hard and all but be fine with the results that come) No with her this is what is going to happen and we are going to work our butts off to get it done. I am learning to be anxiously encaged in good things and do much good on our own and not wait for the mission to tell us we are doing something wrong before we
fix it.
We are working so hard in our area and we have a miracle street. It’s the coolest place in the world. There is a member Hermana Johnny and the family Acosta. They are recent converts and another recent convert that live on this street. We literally go there and we teach all day long the friends of these people in their homes and we
pull people off the street and teach them for like 10 min.... the spirit in this street is like so cool. Everyone is like “what’s going on? I want to get in on this thing. Why is everyone at these houses all the time? Why are these two gringos here all the time? “I love the Buena Vista. It is the most beautiful place I have seen. It is on the side
of a mountain and you can see all of San Salvador and the other side of the valley is the huge volcano and there is always clouds trying to go up and cover the volcano. It is so pretty here. I love it.
literally go to the lesions and he is taking notes and ....he is like a sponge and just sits at our feet and soaks up everything we say and not just that but puts it into practice. He is truly an example to me. He will be getting baptized this week with another man named Gustavo and he has been investigating for a while. We have been
praying so hard that he would accept a date and he finally did this week. I feel a little sad the day that he accepted the date I was on interchanges and I wasn’t there. But I heard about it after and wow.....this guy has been trying to change his life before his baptism. We started to see some changes in his life and we started to talk to him
about a date and he always said he wanted more time even though he was ready ...but this day Hermana Messina, she is so good at following the spirit, talked about prayer and they all knelt down at the end of the lesion and he prayed to know if he should get baptized this Saturday. She said the spirit was so strong and after the prayer everyone just waited and were listening. After like 4 min (that’s a long time on your knees and waiting) Hermana Messina asked how he felt and.....oh I get goose bumps thinking about it. He said he felt so good and put his hand on his heart and was saying he never felt like that before and that he couldn’t explain what he was feeling. He just felt really good......!!! I am so happy for him. He got a strong answer that he was to get baptized this week and so we are planning those two to be baptized this week. Next week I am excited because there is a family in our ward that after like 8 months of trying to get a divorce and get papers to get married, they are finally going to have everything ready and they are going to get married the 14th and then get baptized the 15th and the President is going to come. We are all nervous and everything.....it’s the best feeling ever. I am so grateful for the work I have here and the companion I have. She is pushing me to be so much more than I am now and not just be a passive worker....( you know work hard and all but be fine with the results that come) No with her this is what is going to happen and we are going to work our butts off to get it done. I am learning to be anxiously encaged in good things and do much good on our own and not wait for the mission to tell us we are doing something wrong before we
fix it.
We are working so hard in our area and we have a miracle street. It’s the coolest place in the world. There is a member Hermana Johnny and the family Acosta. They are recent converts and another recent convert that live on this street. We literally go there and we teach all day long the friends of these people in their homes and we
pull people off the street and teach them for like 10 min.... the spirit in this street is like so cool. Everyone is like “what’s going on? I want to get in on this thing. Why is everyone at these houses all the time? Why are these two gringos here all the time? “I love the Buena Vista. It is the most beautiful place I have seen. It is on the side
of a mountain and you can see all of San Salvador and the other side of the valley is the huge volcano and there is always clouds trying to go up and cover the volcano. It is so pretty here. I love it.
We had stake conference this week and it was
kind of funny what I learned but here it is. (Oh right, I need to tell you that
one of the seventies came. It was so
much fun to bring investigators too) Ok so the talk for the seventy, he talked
about a lot of things but what I learned was a story of a sister missionary
that had written down all the
things she wanted in a husband. The President of the mission at the time (Him the seventy) saw the list and told the sister that it was impossible to find a man like that, that they do not exist. He told her that he was nowhere near the man he is now when his wife and he decided to get married. (Up to this point I know all this all ready. I
am not looking for perfection or anything like that) but then he said something that made me look at who I really am and what I want to be. He said the person that he was today had everything to do with his wife and the person she was. She made him good in essence is what he said. Wow I kind of had an epiphany, I always knew I needed to be the person I wanted to marry and all that. But I don’t know, I never thought that the person I was could really change the man I fell in love with into the man of my dreams, into a better man. (Just by who I was).... I need to be better ... a whole lot better hah. But it’s what I love about the gospel we make changes all the time and we can become better though Christ.
Family know that I am happy and well. Really I am just so happy!!!! I love this work and I love helping people. I know this gospel is true. I will never miss a day of scripture study again. I have learned that prayer is more than just a good habit. I know that our father hears us. Sundays are the best day. Church is the most important activity we do during the week. I know that the atonement is real and has real power to strengthen us (literally there is no way I can run (we really do run to all of our citas) and work all day and plan and teach (its spiritually and physically exhausting). I have learned we do not do this work alone. When we are tired and don’t have the strength to stand, God gives us the strength we need and an inner peace that surpasses, ah, any other feeling. It’s so great. In essence I have felt the atonement in my life and nothing brings more joy!!! So I tell everyone to use it!!! Ha God loves us so so much. I love you all so very much and I know God is taking care of you all while I am here.
So I don’t have to worry about you.
I love you all.
Hermana Hale
things she wanted in a husband. The President of the mission at the time (Him the seventy) saw the list and told the sister that it was impossible to find a man like that, that they do not exist. He told her that he was nowhere near the man he is now when his wife and he decided to get married. (Up to this point I know all this all ready. I
am not looking for perfection or anything like that) but then he said something that made me look at who I really am and what I want to be. He said the person that he was today had everything to do with his wife and the person she was. She made him good in essence is what he said. Wow I kind of had an epiphany, I always knew I needed to be the person I wanted to marry and all that. But I don’t know, I never thought that the person I was could really change the man I fell in love with into the man of my dreams, into a better man. (Just by who I was).... I need to be better ... a whole lot better hah. But it’s what I love about the gospel we make changes all the time and we can become better though Christ.
Family know that I am happy and well. Really I am just so happy!!!! I love this work and I love helping people. I know this gospel is true. I will never miss a day of scripture study again. I have learned that prayer is more than just a good habit. I know that our father hears us. Sundays are the best day. Church is the most important activity we do during the week. I know that the atonement is real and has real power to strengthen us (literally there is no way I can run (we really do run to all of our citas) and work all day and plan and teach (its spiritually and physically exhausting). I have learned we do not do this work alone. When we are tired and don’t have the strength to stand, God gives us the strength we need and an inner peace that surpasses, ah, any other feeling. It’s so great. In essence I have felt the atonement in my life and nothing brings more joy!!! So I tell everyone to use it!!! Ha God loves us so so much. I love you all so very much and I know God is taking care of you all while I am here.
So I don’t have to worry about you.
I love you all.
Hermana Hale
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