Buenas Tardes!!!
Como estan mi familia?? Saben que no puedo hablar in
Ingles.. lo siento. Ojala google search puede traducir este correo :) jajaj
So crazy news!! I can't talk in English... only in my email
home to family. Last week on Tuesday I was discussing my Spanish to
President about my Spanish and then he gave me a commandment that I can't talk
in English until the end of the transfer. So when we go to restaurants my
companion has to order for me and has to translate every time we are with
people that speak English.... It's been an adventure!! I have 9 days left and
I'm pretty confident I can do it. It's almost like I have something in my mouth
that is stopping me from talking in English. I'm
excited to finish this fast and see the improvement. I have improved a lot
already, and I'm truly grateful for this commandment. Even though I have a
headache like 24/7. Vale la pena!! President also announced it to everyone else
in the mission that I can only speak Spanish... haha que divertido.. This is
really hard writing in English my brain doesn't work in either language right
now.
Okay so this week spanishlishish... haha palabra nueava :) I
got to go on two exchanges. I feel like I'm a sister training leader right now
going on all these exchanges, but I really like them. I got to go back to my
first area with Hermana Lister (my sister) :) We had some super powerful
lessons with some of my favorite investigators and less actives. The lesson we
had with out Less active was amazing! I met him my seecond week here and every
lesson with him just gets more and more powerful. He wants to change his life
to much. We we first met him he really didn't want to do anything with us, but
the last lesson we had with him he broke down crying saying how grateful he was
for us and the spirit and light we have brought in to his life. He is the one that
was in a gang and almost died 3 times and has some crazy life stories. He has
yet come to church, but I know that once he does things will change very fast.
I LOVE HIM!!
Our investigator Blance told us this week and she really
wants to get baptized and she decided that she will get baptized 15 of
December!! I'm super excited for her and this step that she knows is something
that she needs to do.
Yesterday my investigator Margarita who was in my last area
with Hermana Groves and Carlson who got married a couple weeks ago... well she
got baptized yesterday. :) YAY!! Her husband received the priesthood yesterday
morning and he baptized her. It was so beautiful and spiritual. They had to baptize
her 4 times because he couldn't say it right, but she is now a member and is so
happy!! Two of our investigators went to the baptism, Hector and Lupe. They are
both part of part member families. Hector is super interested and comes to
church every week and didn't want to except a baptismal date until he saw an
actual baptism. So hopefully this week he will except one. :)
The other exchange I had was with Hermana Wilzbach and she
came to my area. :) The whole exchange was AWESOME!! We finally got to see some
of investigators that we haven't seen in weeks. Yeah miracles all around, but
the one thing I want to tell you about is the experience we had with the Guerra
family. They are the Jewish family and we stopped by their house Saturday night
to see if we could teach them. Well they just happened to be ending their
Sabbath Day and they invited us to do it. We started off with wine glasses. Us
and the kids had grape juice, (Hopefully) ha and the parents had wine. And the
dad would read out of the tora really fast in Spanish and Hebrew. Then we all
drank the our drinks and he said more stuff, and then they turned off all the
lights in the house and they had this candle that was blue and white chain that
symbolized families and the light of God. After they read more stuff they
distinguished the candle in some wine. And then they past around this goblet
looking this that they shake and read something and it blesses their food for
the whole week, and they passed it around and they would all shake it and sniff
if.... Once it came around the table we just passed it along. And the 4 year
old girl got really mad at Hermana Wilzbach for not doing it. haha At the end
they all went around the table and they all had this memorized in Hebrew that
they would all say. Even the little 4 year old girl had it memorized in
HEBREW!!! It was super cool, but really different. I love all the different
experiences that I've had on the mission though. :) After they ended their
Sabbath we decided to teach them about Prophets. :) It was a really good
lesson. I wanted to teach about the Sabbath, but the spirit said other wise.
ha
Well I believe that is all. I love you all so much! Thank
you for all of the support and love that you give me. It really means so much
to missionaries. :)
Don't forget to share the wonderful message that we have
about our Savior, Jesus Christ. Especially during this season. God is preparing
people for each and everyone of us. Pray to see who they are.
Les Quiero MUCHO!!
Hermana Watkins
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