Elder Woodfield will finally (maybe) send pictures next week! :)
Monday, October 24, 2011
Hello
family! I love you all!
Como
estan todo? Me gustaria hablar en español por un minuto esta bien?
Gracias! Esta semana ha estado muy bien! hemos trabajado mucho y tenemos una
fecha bautismal por el proximo fin de semana!
Hey
everyone! How have you all been this week? The rain here finally stopped! We
have jumped back up to our 90 degrees with 100 percent humidity all day, every
day! Yay!! haha I hear it has been fluctuating up there between the 70s and
40s? Cool cool! Sounds really nice! I want to not be a stinky sweaty person for
a change! I have totally forgotten what air conditioning feels like! I was
talking to my companion the other day and we were like, “what are we going to
do when we get home?! We will go to brush our teeth and have a cup to go brush
our teeth!” I was like “Woah! I used to be able to just use a sink and drink
right out of the sink?? I had almost forgotten! Loco, eh? Anyway, as you can
see, I am basically a true Salvadorian now! If I wake up and there isn’t any
water to shower, I don’t worry, I just take a bucket shower. I am totally used
to the noises that come through our non-existent front wall and it is all good!
haha Wow when I first got here, I was like, “Are you serious?! This is so
different! I hate it!” Now, it’s just normal! haha but I definitely miss the
snow ;) send pictures, deal???
Anyway, this
week was way good! To start out the week, we couldn’t leave on Monday but
Tuesday we could! The rain had basically stopped so we could go out! But
basically all week, we have just been working really hard to find new people
and get the people we have closer to baptism! We have one guy named Manuel that
will be baptized this weekend! He has had a lot of problems with alcohol in the
past but now he has given it up! His family (mom and sisters) are all
members and they have helped him a lot to complete his goals! We have also been
working with the bishop to help him to feel comfortable and everything! Anyway,
pray for all to go well in this next week yeah? :)
Also, we
have found 3 really cool families! (Really, only one "complete"
family with a man and wife but the rest are families too in reality!) But
one family is familia Garcia - Francisco and Karla. This couple just had their
first baby 3 weeks ago! Grand new and so beautiful! But they are really
good people! We just started teaching them this week! They seem really positive
but we definitely need more time to tell for sure, right? :) Also, we
have another family, a mom and a son - Patricia and Bryan! They are really positive!
We challenged her to be baptized in the second lesson and she said yes! We need
to explain a lot to her but she really wants her and her son to be baptized! So
exciting! Also, we are teaching another family that has a mom, a son, and a
daughter! The mom’s name is Sandra and the daughter is Sarai and the son is Mario.
They are really good friends with a member in the ward and we have been having
him at our lessons. It has been a lot of fun! The mom is a little fed up with
religion - so many people telling her what to do and so many people telling her
different things. The gospel is good for her! The way the spirit teaches is by
calming those confusions and helping her to learn and that is what is happening
with her! It has really been testimony-building experience to teach her
and her family! I love the gospel! I am so excited for this opportunity to
teach and to learn! I love it!
Anyway,
some random facts from this week :) Me and Elder Hammond (his full name is
Steven Michael Hammond :)), have been doing a lot of talking! I have loved
talking in English, not going to lie! You never realize how much you love a
language until you can’t speak it for three months! But anyway, throughout the
day, we only speak Spanish, but at night when we come back to our hous,e we
speak a lot of English! It is really fun! We talk about stories from school,
our girlfriends, and just a lot of fun stuff! He went to BYU-I before his
mission and he has a girlfriend that is still going up there! I love having
someone to talk about Lizzie! I love sharing stories and just laughing for a
change! I still have a lot to learn about the Latino’s jokes and humor! It is a
lot harder to understand! But yeah, it has been cool! I love my companion and
he is already a good teacher! He is really driven to do everything and he
learns really fast, a lot like Lizzie (haha)! So it is very enjoyable to be
around such a familiarly cultured person! haha It is nice!
So
everyone, once again, I am a failure! I forgot my camera this week! You can be
mad at me if you really want..... haha but I PROMISE that this next week I will
bring it and send pictures, deal????
Anyway, I
love you all so so so so much! I hope that you are all doing well! If there is
anything I can do for you, let me know! I am always praying for you all! Thanks
so much for your love and support here! I couldn’t do this with out you all! Thank
you so so so much!!!! Thanks again!!
I love
you all!!
Braden
Woodfield
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