Dear Family, June
16, 2014
WELL!! Happy Father's day to
all!!!....Yesterday. Dad, Jason, Jared, Alan, Brian, Rick, Jon, and others whom
I don't have to time to write your names, but you're still special :)
I have to ask for forgiveness,
because I haven't done so well on birthdays. I think I missed some in May, and
there's a LOT In June! So...Happy birthday :) Okay, maybe you don't get
anything, but just remember it's from Mexico, so it's way more special.
Now! I actually don't have a ton of
time to write becaaaauuuuse. I got to spend 5 hours of my P-day on a bus! I had
to go to Culiacan for immigration stuff, but guess what. Some miscommunication
or I don't know what, but I get to go back Friday! Yay! It wasn't so bad,
except that we didn't get to do laundry...which...is really not so good.
Probably tomorrow.
I'm just gonna do the main
highlights of this week –
I don't remember if I already told
you, but we were teaching Jose Luis and his sister, Alexia, but we could never
find their dad at home. And finally we found him and we've been teaching him
all week. And He's been receiving the lessons really well. They have an odd
situation, with his wife, and other children in another house. Buuut, we're
working through that. Jose Luis, the Dad, is catholic and I think he's afraid
to change because of his family - especially his mom, who helps a lot around
the house while he's at work. ANYway!!
We had a "noche de hogar"
(family home evening) with him and his kids with another family - Familia
Salgado Romero. They are/were menos activos. Irving, their son, is 9 years old
and ready for baptism.
Anyway, it went really well. All
about Alma 32. :)
Moving on, Irving's baptism was on
Saturday!! It went really well. It was stressful a bit, because we didn't have
the clothes until the morning of. And we had to clean the pila(baptismal font)
and set up and print programs and whoooo! fun. But it was good.
Next morning, Sunday. Excited to see
Irving be confirmed and hopefully Jose Luis is able to come. Well. We got to
his house at 10:45. It takes about 10 minutes to walk to the church from there,
and church starts at 11:00. We get there and they had no intentions of going!!
What!?!?! But we told them they needed to come, so while they all got ready, we
went up the road to pick up another young woman to come with us as well. Well,
she wasn't ready either, so we told them we'd be back to pick her up in 10
minutes.
So, we went back to the house of
Jose Luis(fam. Solis Ochoa) and...hahahah we didn't leave until 11:40ish. So,
we missed the sacrament, the confirmation of Irving and we smelled like Smoke
because they were cooking something and smoke was coming out the door where we
were standing :D
BUT!! The whole family came, and the
young woman, named Rosario Isabel. And they stayed the whole block!
Then, after that we had to go back
to the house for progress information because we have our ward missionary
meeting that night, so we didn't get to our dinner appointment until 3:30,
which is supposed to be at 2:00. And then we had Cochinita Bibil for lunch. And
it might have been the best thing ever.
And the Hermana that fed us really
is amazing. She's a convert of...I don't how long. But she's 25 and planning
for a mission next year :) And we taught her Dad who isn't a member which was
good. Really, I hope he progresses.
Anyway. This week was rather
interesting...but, then again, when is it not? Gosh, I have so much to learn.
I'm always going to have so much to learn, but the last few weeks, actually
have let me know just how much I need step it up. Okay, I guess I always knew I
needed to improve a lot, but now, I just want to know everything now. And you
know what? hahahahah That's now how the system works. I have to humble myself,
but at the same time trust in myself, in my calling, in my companion, and
especially in the spirit and the Savior. Easy, peasy, right? Like Ammon and his
brethren,(it's Ammon, right?) Lots of fasting, prayer and of course studying
and studying and studying the scriptures.
This week. It is going to be awesome. I don't know why yet.
I'll let you know next Monday.
I love you all and thanks for everything! Have
a marvelous week!
Love your favorite, not-so-Mexican,
missionary,
Hermana Daniels
P.S. It was really good to get
pictures :) muchas gracias. And gracias for the update on everybody. and the
recipe. I tried to make them (crepes) the other night...it was okay...I just needed
another egg :D Sadly we don't have an oven so I don't think I'll ever get
Puffed-oven-pancakes.
Irving
and family
Jose Luis in Yellow, Irving - who
was baptized, Alexia in the white, and America in the pink. And the little one
is Travis who is a punk! He's a pretty fun kid
Five hours on the bus to Culiacan!!!
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