Week 11: Being Sick Sucks!

Richard & Delsey who come back in 3 weeks

Dear Friends and Family,

So, lets begin with that I really am doing great. We are seeing lots of success, but physically, I could be better. I have 1 infection and then on top of that, I also have both of my ears infected which makes it SUPER hard to hear and the left ear is actually really bad. I won't go into detail. BUT the dog bite is healing fabulously. That's all my complaints though. Now onto better things!!

To start off, I want to share a funny experience. After the first hour of church which is the sacrament meeting, we have a class for all of the investigators of the church. We were in that class with the elders and some random guy opens the door and shouts '' HERMANOS!!!!! Today I am happy because I'm here to give my soul to God.'' The teacher didn't know what to do and just said ''That's great,'' and went on with the lesson. We couldn't stop laughing though.

Another gross thing is we are teaching this lady who is progressing slowly and she always gives us THE best drink... ok, well it's not my favorite. It's called agua cebada, but out of all the agua cebadas, her's is the best (because it's loaded with sugar). The thing is, this time, I look down and there are ants all in my drink. There was nothing to do. I closed my eyes and chugged the glass and then smiled! Yeah... I hope you guys don't have ants in your drink this week! May God bless you.

Ok! Now to talk about people!!!!!!!!! To start off, the Family Yanqui. They are a reference from a member. Their 9 year old son always comes to church so we went to visit his parents. Come to find out, they are members, but they have been inactive for 10 years and were talking about coming back to church. WELL.... THEY CAME THIS SUNDAY!!!! Woohoo! Jimmy (the little boy) wants to be baptized. So we are working with the family so that hopefully his dad can be worthy to baptize him, but we haven't gotten that far yet. But it was really exciting to see the parents who have a lot of challenges right now attend church with their 2 little boys and they always invite their neighbor who is a single 30 year old man to always come listen to the lessons. He couldn't come this Sunday, but he said he's going to arrange all so he can come this following Sunday.

I found this in a store and thought it should
be on awkward family photo.com

Next is Pedro. He's old. like 70? I don't know. But he doesn't move super well but understands and is super friendly. He has a lot of desires to listen and be baptized. He also came to church this week. He should hopefully be baptized by the end of this month! His son Nil who is 24 also has some interest. We haven't had much time to work with him because he's rarely home but he loves the church. He attended for a year when he was younger with a family that used to live across from them. I'm super excited to work with them.

THEN! Our family. Junior and Erika and they have a 1 year old. we brought a member with us Saturday to teach them. We were going to teach, faith (fe) repentance, bap`tism, holy ghost and endure to the end. So I started off with the question what is faith, but I said fe. Well, the member heard the word for tea or te. He then went off for about 45 minutes about the word of wisdom. But, here's the thing, it resolved a lot of doubts Junior had and we found out that like half of his siblings are members in another branch! Super cool. They both agreed to be baptized. Now they just need to decide to get married. I'm super excited for this family!!!! We're buying their book of requirements to get married today!

Anyways, short on time. I love you all. Here is my thought. Where much is given, much is required.


Love you,

Hermana Carly Jo Lang