Hna Canedo making something Mexican. She looooves her food haha!
My last day with my mom in the mission Hna Vanini!
First Sunday with Hna Canedo! also shoutout to Christine for photobombing like a champ!
We got lost in these trees that some members sell and it was so funny that we couldn't find our way out, so we had to take a picture.
Our favorite recent converts, familia Perez
The cunitas labeled our glasses cuz we drink their chicha all the time haha!
Dear familia!
This week there was a giant parade in our area with a million people, and we thought we would go ahead and contact the crowds before it started. It was awesome. I was kinda nervous at first to start talking to everyone, but we just started somewhere and suddenly like a million people were listening! I felt like one of the missionaries of old on a street corner proclaiming the word! We got like a million contacts from doing that and a toooon of references. It was seriously one of the coolest experiences I've had on the mission.
This week was great in the mission, mostly because I have never worked harder before. Hna Canedo and I have been teaching, walking, working, and learning nonstop this week! She's so great! I also really love training. I think I am learning wayy more than she is, which is just great!
Hna Canedo is really great at helping me improve. I learned a lesson to always be positive in training because ayer I didn't feel too great (I got that infection on my face again, and I forgot how to say this is English, but I have sueno with it, so I was a little bit grumpy haha), and I was complaining. She was like, "where did my super mama go? Cmon, let's go to work!". That was super awesome to hear her enthusiasm and got me pumped up again. I know I have that responsibility to be more dedicated, but was so grateful that she was equally as dedicated even when I wasn't. Of course, that won't happen again!
We really are working so hard, and it is so incredible the miracles we have seen. What's hard is that we have investigators who are so positive and then just don’t show up on Sunday. But we did have one investigator there, Marta. She and her sister Minerva are the sweetest old ladies ever. And they loooove church, so I hope we'll be able to see them make the covenant with God soon! Also our convert Carlos is doing soooo well! I gave him a photo of his baptism and he was crying and stuff it was so awesome to see how far he has come! Our other convert, one eyed Satornino got lost again on his way to church. So we talked with the Bishop and someone will be helping him get there every week! Woohoo!
Ili agreed to a date to be baptized this week! And then went shopping instead of coming to church, so we'll have to work on that.
Enoc, still our super positive lil guy, broke his foot, so didn't come to church.
Our family Gomez told us they are for sure gonna be baptized, which is so awesome! But they told us they won't agree to any day until they feel ready. So we talked about what we can do to help them feel ready and they decided they would be super good at coming to church... And then they didn't come to church.
People are so funny. Just trying to get ya to the Celestial Kingdom.
But I know that it is all in the timing of the Lord and it isn't necessarily my decision cuz if it was, they would already be members haha! I am definitely learning to be like Ammon in the Book of Mormon and deal with all the afflictions with patience! (alma 26:27) And that through patience we are gonna see a ton of huge miracles! All in all I love working hard!
I love you all so much and I'll talk to you in 6 days!!!!
Love,
Hna Hallsted
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