San Miguelito Week #3 “Forgot to Write”

After watching the recording of Hannah’s mission call opening...

ahahahahaAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY BABY SISTER IS SOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooo excited right now, you cant believe it! AHHHHHH! Sitnks im in a computer writing lab cuz I cant celebrate like normal haha! ahhh, she is gonna be such a good missionary!!

Forgot to write and no time but here's my letter to President Current

Hola President!

This week was great! Hermana Garcia and I have been working sooo much! We have found a lot of great people and seen so many miracles! On Friday we had a baptism interview that fell through, and instead of letting that get us down, we felt that would should do Cosechas. We knew that the Lord would always bless us with more people to find, people who have been prepared by Him. In our prayer, we felt strongly to ask for a miracle, to find a mango bajito that can be batptized the next week. About 10 minutes later we passed a man that we felt we needed to talk to. After talking for a bit, he told us that he knew a member from our church, one that had a lot of family. He told us where he lived, and we quickly found the house. There we found a lady and her two kids. The lady told us that all the family were members, every single one had been baptized already. We asked her if her two kids were baptized, and she told us no! We asked if they would like to be baptized and they said yes! The Lord had more blessings in store for us than we could imagine. We only had the faith to for one mango bajito, but the Lord had prepared two. Not only that, but my testimony has been strengthened. I know that Cosechas is and inspired program and I know that the Lord has His hand in this work!  

I love San Miguelito and am so happy to be ending here! My little sister recieved her mission call this week to Independance Missouri, spanish speaking. It makes me soooo happy! I have loved being a missionary and all the things I am learning. I am gonna end these last three weeks strong!

Thanks for everything!

Hermana Hallsted

San Miguelito Week #2 “really kind just like another week”

Hola Family!!

This week was another pretty normal missionary week. I dont have other bedding but I dont have lice anymore. 

We did cosechas (blessing people's houses), found new people, dropped some old people, went hungry, had a zone conference which was legit, and had 2 BAPTISMS!!!! woohoo! And it was great cuz one was Alfredo and the other his brother Ricardo. We didn't even realize Ricardo was ready until Friday. We suddenly realized that he as come to church too and has all the lessons, and really was more ready than his brother. So we baptized him too! We had just been focusing on his brother cuz he has come to church more times. Anyways so he got baptized too.

Yustin, we are still working with her because her mom all of the sudden decided she has to be 16 to be baptized, sooooo we'll see what happens...

We have a super great investigator Josue, whose wife is a member! He is progressing great and we think he can be baptized in a couple of weeks!

Louis and Henry are the brothers of Alfredo and Ricardo. They are going to be baptized the next week.

This week we are working on getting Oneis baptized. He's only challenge is that his dad doesn't want to give him permission, but he's never met me yet, haha, jokes, but we'll see how that goes!

I found out Paco passed away this week. I was pretty sad, but I'm doing okay! I can really feel a lot of peace in my heart and I feel really calm. I am so grateful for the fun memories I have with him and I'm sure going to miss our water fights we would have haha. I am so grateful for the Plan of Salvation and that I get to be with my grandpa again! I love my eternal family!

Anyways, love you all sooooo much!!

Hermana Hallsted

San Miguelito Week #1 “I GOT LICE!!!!”

Dear family!

Well, this week I finally got lice! I was starting to think I wasn't ever gonna get it. When I got to my new area, I had to use the sheets of the last hermana who was there, who, of course, had lice. Whoops! I didn't know lol. Welp, anyways, it's a pretty neat experience, and I’m sure I am now prepared for anything, but really it's not that fun haha. We bought some lice shampoo today, so we'll how it goes!

As for the area, I LOVE SAN MIGUELITO!!! You wouldn't believe these mountains we climb! The hills here are huge, I feel kinda like in my first area again! But it is soooo beautiful and I tried to send pictures, but for some reason it's not working. Also I looooove working here!! I haven't had so much success since san blas! We are planning to baptize every week this change!

We are currently preparing the baptisms of Justin, the smartest girl I have ever met! She fills out all of her pamphlets we give and writes essays on the Atonement. She's like 11 or something. It's great! We found her on my first day, and it was such a miracle find! Her mom is menos activa, so we are going to help the whole family be baptized!

We are also preparing Alfredo. He is Novey, a different indian tribe of Panama, and Im super exicted cuz Ive never taught a novey! He is suuuuper poor. He has 3 hermanos, we will be baptized in these next few weeks as well, but they don't even have shoes to go to church, so I lent them some of my missionary girl shoes, and Alfredo showed up with a giant rip in his pants, without underwear, haha. So Hermana Garcia gave him her cardigan to put around his waist! He was so chill with his hole in his pants, that I'll be honest, It was pretty funny! Haha! He didn't want to use her sweater, but we made him.

Anyways, I am super happy to be here and I am even happier to be with Hna Garcia!! She is suuuuper buena!!! I am so happy to see what happens in these next 5 weeks!!!

Love you all sooooo much!

Hermana Hallsted

Colón Week #6: “Goodbye Colón! Hellllo San Miguelito!”

Chao Shum Hermana Rodriguez!!! I love her soooo much!

C3 4 lyfe (it's Colon's gang sign lol)

Us sadly leaving Colon cuz it was a partay

A lovely delicious Dairy Queen cake that some members gave to Hna Rodriguez for a little farewell party

Our lasssst day together!!!!!!!!

My new Companion Hermana Garcia!!! In San Miguelito

Hola Fam!!

Welp, I had changes. I'm writing to you live now from SanMig! I was suuuuper surprised with these changes though! I definitely did not think I would be leaving the hood! But I am grateful for these changes because when they told us, I was surprisingly really sad. It was hard to have to leave Colon, which really was amazing cuz when I got there I never thought I could learn to love the sass and black people and gangs and all. But because of all the amazing experiences we had, I did learn to love it! I am soooo grateful for the trials that the Lord gives us so that we may grow to  be more loving and Christlike- something I am still working on haha. In my last change I am super motivated and I will sure give my all! After all, you feel better when you push yourself!

My comp is Hermana Xochilt (like Soshilt, super cool right? That's her first name! 2 legit!) Garcia. She is suuuuper great! I have heard a ton of great things about her and I know she works hard. She is from El Salvador and has about a year on the mission. I am really excited to end my mission with her! Mom, her facebook is Gb Xochilt if you wanna find her haha.

Annyyyywayyys, that's about all! Love you soooo mcuh!

Chao Shum!!

Love,

Hermama Hallsted