Like a Baby

T​his week was the best! 

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e had a family home evening with the branch here and we did sharing your favorite scripture but it was with a twist hehe they had to act, or draw or sing their favorite scripture muahaha.

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t turned out really well! lots of people came and even a less active FAMILY!

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oom

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aby!

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ut everything went smoothly.

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t was really fun to see the members act and sing hehe and as people did their scriptures 

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would share a joke or something in between a few and people laughed so that's good haha:)

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ut it went so well and all this week people have been telling us that it was really fun:)

And guess what

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elida was baptized and confirmed. Nelida is just like me. really sometimes 

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think to myself she is what

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m going to be like when

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m older haha

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ts so funny:) but she has been so excited for her baptism this whole week

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he told us that on Wednesday she called her mom at 4 in the morning to invite her to the baptism but over all throughout the week she has felt a lot of peace:)

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nd the day of when we were walking up to her house to pick her up she was waiting outside for us already:)

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he

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s the cutest!!​W​e don't have a font here in our church so we had to travel to the next town over. But the baptism

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everything was perfect! the members came and they gave talks perfectly and all that but when it was time for her to change that's when things w

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a little crazy. So we had to borrow a dress because we don't have any baptismal clothes here cause we don't have a font but when she put it on it was too small!!!!!!!!

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e were like

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h

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nap

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er dress is too small.

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uckily we had brought a skirt and shirt that she could try but guess what happened to this option, when she put them on they were see through

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really!?

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f all things-- the clothes aren't working!?!

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o for 5 min we were asking everyone if they had something white that she could use and that's when the elders of this chapel showed us that they had a dress that she could use!:) YAY she can still get baptized! it would have been so sad if we didn't find anything but we did!!!! and she was baptized!:)

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fter her baptism she says to us...

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k everyone pay close attention to what she says

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. ..."

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m clean just like a new born baby!"

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ow:)

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t

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s such a great feeling when you know that your investigators, your friends, really understand what they just did:) Really

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elida was a chosen one of

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od. The

​ Spirit helped us a ton with her. Helped her understand what she should do and that this path really is the path of God. Its really so fun for me to see miracles everyday here in my mission and to see people's lives change. I LOVE IT!!! 

My comp and i sang

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ome

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hou

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ount for her in English and Spanish of course and then we had a little remembrance book that all the members wrote in and us as well and then we gave it to her:) SHE LOVED IT!! 

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ver all it was a really great week and

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m so happy for

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elida!

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 love you all!!!

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eep reading your scriptures!! and praying for the investigators!! 

hermana ñelson

onward and upward.

The Sweet Spirit

This week i had one of the most precious experiences in all my mission so far. So remember our investigator, Nelida? Well, she is a nurse and is really busy so the past week we couldn't teach her but she is progressing to baptism:) and we finally got to have a lesson with her. When we were in the lesson with her she was telling us that she has recieved an answer but she doesn't really know if it was real and she was just having all these doubts. I felt really stongly that we needed to kneel down with her right then and there to see if the Book of Mormon really is the Word of God, and to help her recogize the Holy Ghost. So I asked her if we could do it and she said yes:) . So we knelt down and she said the prayer and asked God if the Book of Mormon was true. The Spirit was so strong. I have never had a moment like that in my mission so far and it was some thing that I will always remember:) The spirit is so strong but yet so soft. After her prayer she felt better about being baptized:) She knows what the Spirit feels like now with out a doubt. It was awesome. 

She really has been prepared by the angels. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!

I love you all!! Stay stong and keep working hard and reading your scriptures and sharing your tesitmony with everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE YOU!!

hermana ñelson

onward and upward

Cuidado Gorda

So this week we had a little miracle and it helped my faith. 

I always say this but we have the best investigators here they just need some more help. Anyways so  a while back for Christmas when we were handing out those little cards one morning before we left we prayed that we would find someone through these cards that would want to talk to us and eventually be baptized and then we left and started walking. We walked for a while handing out the cards but I still felt like we hadn't found "the one" yet. And then we saw this young mother and she had a baby in her arms. and we really wanted to talk to her but we didn't know how to approach it and then her baby dropped his bottle and boom that was our chance!:) So we helped her pick it up and we introduced ourselves and talked and got her address to have a lesson with her:)  Prayers work!!! But when we went passed the day that we had the appointment she wasn't home:( BUT this past week I was thinking about her when we were walking near her general area but I forgot exactly where she lived anyways we were walking around listening to the spirit and boom we found her house! We knocked and no one was home so we knocked on the house across the street and no one was there so I looked back to her house and I see a young married couple walking toward her house ... it was HER!! We had a great lesson with them! They are married and believe in God:) and her husband listened to us too! I'm so excited to work with them but I need your prayers!! We are going to need all the angels in heaven to help us! Everything happens for a reason! 

A funny thing happened, I was walking across the street and I tripped right as a guy was coming around the corner with his motorcycle and he said "Hey! Cuidado Gorda!" which means watch out fatty. haha :) 

 2 nephi 26.24

hermana ñelson

onward and upward.