In Bolivia Waiting For a Package

Hermana Cuadra is great! She is from Nicaragua and we are dong some good work.  She is different from Hermana Routsong, so it is taking time to adjust.  She has a bit of a short temper and is very straight forward, but i guess i might not be the easiest to work with either.  She already has to much love for the people in this area and is doing all she can to help them.  Pres just told me in an email, ¨Hna Cuadra doesn´t have any support at home and often feels alone.  She has a hard outer shell but with patience and humility I know you can crack it and be a great team.¨ She does have a hard outer shell and I am learning just to cope with what she wants at times, but the mission isn´t about me, and I am blessed to be with her, to learn this patience and humility, that will so greatly help me later in life.  She is an amasing missionary and i am glad that we can both help eachother.  Her name, in english, translates to, Rachel of the Angles Block.  HAHAHAHAHA i was laughing when she told me that. 

 

So we found out why Cintia was having all these problems, she is scared.  She doesn´t want to get hurt again, because she was a little innocent girl and someone tried to take advantage of her, or did, i am not sure.  Now i just pray we can find her mom and talk to her, we haven´t been able to at all.  

 

Dana came to church alone again, well she brought little David, but i am feeling so good about her baptism, yea she is only 11, but she is way better than i was at 11!  May 30! maybe my last saturday here i will be able to see her be baptized, and Hna RS said she will come too! 

 

Ian and Lorey said they are going to stay here until their baptism and then move to where the Elders are.  I am excited! If they get married like scheduled, they will be baptized with Dana!! They are soo cool! 

 

Wendy didn´t come to church again, so she can´t be baptized as schedluled, pucha! She is pretty golden, i am sure their is a good reason, i am just way sad, we are moving her date to the 30th too.  Someone will get baptized then!!! 

 

So it has been so weird without Hna Rs, a little sad, but haha, it happens.  She is close! We were able to eat our saltañas today together so that´s pretty awesome! We had a ncie talk about all the things she is missing, she is sad to not be here and her other area is really hard.  Really hard.  i said she is welcome to come back and work with us! She said she didn´t need to because i have it under control.  Actually this whole week i just kept thinking, ¨Would Hna RS do this? What would she do if she were in my shoes.¨i was unable to think of some answers so i just did what good ol carol would do.

 

Funny story, Hna Theresa has a new living set, that i bet is from the states.  It has a recliner.  Her brother said to her, ¨I bet your daughter from the states would love this!¨He was right i did enjoy it while we were waiting for an investigator!! 

 

I am happy.  I am Healthy.  I am still in Bolivia waiting for that package. 

New Companion

We had transfers! and we are together again!!!

JK! I now have a latina! Can you guys believe that! Her name is Hermana Cuadra and she has been in Tupiza so no one knows her. i have heard a little bit, but you can´t always believe what you hear so I don´t know!!

 

So we had an interesting week.  The other day i was in Cala Cala for intercambios, man i love that area, it is beautiful! Apparently i missed a big day in Las Cuadras!! However when i cam back, man, Friday felt like a year!

 

We saw the Familia Pary, their son in law sold all of their pension stuff, when we went over he was taking everything out.  They literally have nothing now, he took the lights! He was selling it to another lady who wants a pension but doesnt´have anything to start it, how ironic! It was heartbraking just seeing Lucia standing there while they took everything.  We gave a lesson on fasting and they are going to try that! I know it will work.  They have pure hearts.  I just will never forget that.  I shared a scipture in DC about how our trials prepare us to recieve gloria!

 

Also Friday we went to see Barinia.  ummmmmmm . . . She was dancing around then she sat down.  I was talking to some Elders on the phone so i had my back turned.  I heard a giant crack, turned around and well . . . she was having a seizure! I screamed to her aunt while HNA RS was trying to help her.  It was her first one ever. It was so weird! She is ok though.  For our lesson she taught me lesson 3 with hermana routsong as her companion.  During repentence i was talking about how i can´t fully repent of my actions with my boyfriend because i still see him.  hahaha, i snuck that in there because she still talks to her 23 year old boyfriend micky.  It went really well and Hna Rs caught on too.  

 

Wendy is the best! Hna Prieto said to Hna RS during intercambios that she wants everyone to be like her! We did however, and this was Friday too, have a lesson with a testigo de jeovah.  that was weird.  their religion is quite different.  Then we invited her to stay with us and she said no.  ok, i didn´t want to show you the Joseph Smith video anyways.  I was a little direct with WEndy after that.  All religions are good yes, but they arent´all true.  I think she understands more now.  I hope so.

 

Ian and Lorey are moving soon and i am so sad.  They will be in my district still but it´s too far to continue teaching! They are still planning on getting married in a week though!

 

Cintia, oh man.  The Primary Pres. said yesterday that they are hiring professional help.  WE had a way good lesson though! And yes it was Friday too.  We watched a mormon message about our true identity.  WE had the Young Womans president with us, becuase she is going to complete 12 years next week.  We will see how it goes.  Maybe the Hna Cuadra will have an idea.

 

We started teaching the husband of Yessenia, a member.  He is so cool and wants to know so much! They had a baby so it´s perfect! They can soon be an eternal family! Sadly we have to wait till Sunday to teach Arturo, he has to work a lot.

 

Well it has been a crazy week! This one will jsut be crazier!

 

Hermana Caroline Parry

13 People at Church!

Someone tell Sean he sends mesome of the best Dear Elders!!

So yea, Dana is doing great, her family does kind of oppose her involvement.  Sometimes we aren´t allowed there.  We are going to work with the ward to get her to stay strong in the church!!

 

So the other day Ian and Lorey, some amazing inv. who live together and are not married, told us that they set a date for baptism!!! Honestly we didn´t believe it for awhile.  We are so amazed! They can now work together for their baptism in a couple weeks! Sadly they are moving so we are going to have to give them to our leader de district.  They came to church and loved it.  Ian has a few more problems accepting stuff, but Lorey sees the importance out of it. 

 

The other day . . . we broke the word of wisdom.  Apparently some members believe tea is ok! They told us it was fine, but when we told Hermana Claros she said it was té no mas! Whoops, we had some repenting to do that night!

 

I finished DC the other day and I learned something way cool! When Christ was in the spirit world, he was teaching people in paradise how to preach the gospel in prison.  Because he isn´t allowed to go to spirit prison, he is too perfect.  He only did preaching to the perfect in the spirit world.  I thought that was cool.  He wants us to come back to him so he can see us, otherwise he wouldn´t be able too.  He is too perfect!!

 

We met a little child who is 11 years old who . . . gets beat by her mom, dresses as a boy, and has horrible heart problems.  God gave us a really hard bridge to cross.  She wants to be baptized so badly!  We went the other day with the primary and they are mainly going to work with her change, because we just can´t.  I don´t know what to do! The elders that were in this area thought she was a member because she is always at church so they didn´t teach her! I guess she had to be taught by us, it was the plan of God.  Wow wish us luck, it is quite hard.

 

Carmen left for Chapari today.  I think we just said goodbye forever.  At least she will be at peace, in

her own home, with her scary son. 

 

We went to a really pretty place today in the mountains.  We are convinced it is Rhoan.  We saw some llamas and ate sandwiches.  

 

Yesterday we had 13 people in church.  That is a pretty good record! 

Conference Was Amazing!

Wow conference was just utterly amazing!

 

Yo sé que mi redentor, salvador, y Senor vive!! Con toda mi corazon yo sé! 

 

Conference was amazing! All week we were testifying about the Atonement and Resurrection of Christ.  People here can only focus on the death.  Why? It´s not pretty, it´s not uplifting, yes it was needed but, why focus on it? We went to Dana´s house for two minutes on Friday, Hna RS had to use the bathroom so i was standing in the door tlaking to Dana.  Her uncle, who is a very catholic less active in our church? haha yea it´s weird.  I think he was mad we were there.  He comes up to me, really close and puts his hand on my shoulder and says, ¨You know today is a holiday.  Christ died today! My mom is at the church celebrating and i am leaving soon.  Maybe you guys should go, Dana can´t have a lesson.¨¨Sorry we just wanted to invite her to conference, we are leaving.¨ As we left i couldn´t help but thinking that it was so sad that he could only focus on the death! YEs Christ died, but more importantly, Christ lives!!! Now we can too! When we baptized Carmen the other day, She is going back to chapari and is choosing not to have her surgery so she probably won´t make it another week, when we baptized her she wasn´t ready but under some circumstances, we had too.  IT was so comforting to think that in a short amount of time she will be without pain, without her 5 tumors.  She knows that Christ lives and soon she will be perfected too.

 

Sooooo we got to watch conference in English in the stake center!! PS I call Elder Holland´s talk as my favorite when the home teachers ask.  It was amazing.  Saturday all the gringos in the zone were watching it in the stake center.  Since we had our baptism after the first session we didn´t have enough time to go all the way back to get lunch so we packed peanut butter sandwiches, fruit and a coke!! Sunday was earth day or something so no cars! WE walked to the stake center, 30 minutes away.  I felt like someone who sacrifices a lot to hear the voice of the prophet! Hahaha sort of, others sacrifice a ton more! Like those Africans!! We packed sandwhiches again! Then walked back! It was so worth it! WE were the only ones there.  

 

So there is a new rule, we aren´t allowed to eat ANYTHING WITH ANYONE!! The only house other than our own we can accept anything is our pension, no water no juice, no store bought food.  Too many people are getting sick.  It is a blessing, but now we have to awchwardl tell everyone that we can´t eat their stuff.  

 

Someone in our ward urgently called us over to his house.  He wasn´t there, but his 6 year old son

was there.  Alone.  Since 10 in the morning.  Locked in a room.  He climbed out the window when he heard us knocking. I think that is illegal but i am not sure, there seem to not be any leyes here, well except no one can have guns.  Well after 30 minutes of calming him down, getting his shoes so we can play, we called Teresa, our mommy.  She came and offered to take him to her house.  Then his dad came back.  He lied as to why he wanted us there, maybe he didn´t want to saying anything in front of Teresa, he said, ¨Oh just wanted you to talk to my son,¨Yea . . . right¨. So yea it was weird.  HE said that his son is ok to be home alone.  Yea no! WE are talking about him in the next ward council because that is NOT OK!! 

 

We had easter eggs yesterday, mine had a dragon it in.