Feb 6, 2012

Good morning Family!

Ok so I owe you some good details.  Alot has happened this transfer...it's hard to believe I'm almost done with this one!  Only two more weeks and it's a new start!  Well kinda...pretty sure I'm staying in this area and staying with the companion that I have now. I had my first baptism two weeks ago!  His name is Mauricio and he's
from Uruguay...so he speaks like Paulo but more "shushy".  He got married like 3 weeks ago to a recent convert but they were living with eachother prior so he couldn't get baptized since they were breaking the law of chastity...oops.  But it's all good now because Mauricio will be getting the priesthood soon and we'll be helping them prepare to go to the temple!  Love it.  So two weeks ago, some english elders asked us if we could join them in a lesson with some brazillians. Apparently they came from Brazil a couple years ago but don't know
that much English but they understand Spanish alot more.  So we went in the lesson thinking that we would be able to understand like 50% of what they were saying.  Well turns out that we had no difficulty understanding eachother at all!  The spirit definitely helped us and we were all amazed how well it went.  I can understand portuguese! The gift of tongues is real...no doubt.  So another miracle..we went to go visit a family on Saturday that were kind of investigating.  I say kind of because the sisters before Hermana Coughlen and I were teaching a girl named Elizabeth....but she went to jail.  So her family would listen to the lessons but not really do anything at the same time.  So we went to go visit them and we shared our purpose as missionaries and it was super spiritual.  We then invited them to church the next day and they said yes!  And they actually went....they went to church before evening hearing one of our lessons!! Who does that?! So we'll be seeing them this Tuesday and we both feel good about them.  We have Teresa on date for this Sunday... hola hna ruiz, soy elder palma otra vez , aqui escribiendo por su hija, ella esta trabajando duro , y elola esta muy emocionada por el bautismoque va a tener esta semana de una hertmana que se llam teresa , y estamos orando por ella para que  pueda venir a la iglesia los domingos, y esta funcionando , y esperamos que se pueda bautizarse domingo.  las oraciones funcionan , hna siga escribiendo a su hija ,es unma buena misionera, y espero que usted siga bien. elder
palma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     escribalee!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok it's me again, so it snowed a ton this week!  We were super stuck with our car that I had to dig it out with cookie pans!  They're actually pretty legit.  But we look pretty dumb out in the snow with our skirts and cookie pans...people drove by and laughed at us...with good reason. Oh the mission.  But we bought a shovel and we were able to help people with their car!  My back hurts a ton....cars are heavy...well yeah but after like 10th car, i was so dead tired.  On Saturday we were driving down the road and saw 90 year Hermana Rivera shoveling her yard!  This lady is ANCIENT!  I love her to death...she
is so faithful and has the most powerful testimony I've ever heard. She reminds me alot of Nana.  She is ALWAYS doing something even though she barely can breathe.  So we turned the car around and helped her even though she was basically done.  She's amazing.  Apparently its suppose to snow today....great!  I decided snow as a missionary SUCKS.  But I'm sure as a regular person, it's nice.  Welp that's all I can really think of...please pray that Teresa gets baptized this Sunday!  We really need them.  I love you all and keep being faithful.

Amo,