San Miguelito Week #4 “Temple Trip and Gramma”

Hello family! 

Im just gonna go in order cuz a tooon of stuff happened this week!

Monday: Pres called me and said that a family I had taught was going through the temple Tues. and that I could go with them!!! I wassoopooooo excited!! and that leads us to...

Tuesday: I WENT TO THE TEMPLE!!!!! with the Sigla of tikantiki, Uvaldo and his wife Gabrielina. Uvaldo was an apostate returned missionary and his wife was also inactive. We reactivated them and with their help, baptized their family and their cousins and more family! He was also the one who helped us open up another Island to the Gospel! It was absolutely incredible and I am so covenants and that I can be sealed with my family for forever!

Wednesday: We had consejos (like council meeting?) and it was nuts! We have a new schedule in our mission that is long and complicated, so I'm not gonna go into detail, but the point is that we are gonna start having soooo much more success!! I was thinking a lot about how cool it is to be in the Church that runs by revelation so that we can improve and receive more blessings!

Thursday: Interviews! It was like two seconds long because I'll be having my last interview in just a few weeks.

Friday: we had a zone meeting to present the new mission plan! We havent had one of those in about a year, so it was fun. 

Saturday: we did a fun service and it was great cuz a lot of investigators showed up

Sunday: We had a light the christmas tree activity and just about everyone there were recent converts and investigators haha. They had so much fun and we did too. Then later we saw the Christmas Devotional, which was obviously just incredible!

Anywayyyys, so many people are progressing right now, and I dont have time to write about them all haha, sorry, but we are making a lot of plans and teaching a lot of Cunas, woohoo! Love you allsoooo much!!!

Also sending a big hug to everyone from Panama!! 

Seems like Gramma is going to pass away before I get home, but I feel so blessed because the last time I saw her, she was still dancing around to when we sang the bean song, haha. I have such great memories being with her and I love her sooo much! I know that the hardest times in life are what make us stronger and better. I hope we can all remember the great example that Gramma always was so that we can be just as happy and good as she was. I am also grateful for Jesus Christ because through what He did, we will all see Gramma again! This week when I got to go through the temple with a convert family and see them be sealed for all eternity, it was amazing to see and even more incredible was the peace and happiness I felt as I thought about my own family. I am so grateful to be sealed with my eternal family as well! Love you all so much! I love you Gramma!

With lots of love,

Hermana Hallsted