We got more photos this week! Our missionary is doing so well! We are proud of him! See his weekly email below. P-day was on Thursday this week so we just heard from him. Enjoy!
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| Braden with another missionary from his zone visiting the volcano in San Salvador |
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| Braden's Zone at the El Salvador Temple |
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| Elder Woodfield, Elder Encarnacion (former companion), and Elder Hammond (current companion) |
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| Elder Hammond and Elder Woodfield at the volcano |
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| Looking down to the valley at the El Salvador Temple |
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| Beautiful sunset in San Salvador - I like to think it was sent just for me (Lizzie) ;) |
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| So pretty!! |
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| Cute missionary! |
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| Sarai and Mario's baptisms on Saturday, November 12. There is Sandra on the right by Elder Woodfield (why isn't he smiling?!). |
Hello family! Hello everyone!
How are you all???
Lots of stuff to tell you from this last week and a half or so!
It has been a very long time without a p-day, I must say! haha but anyway! Here
we go!
First things first - this last Friday, we had a special activity
with our Zone and the Mission President! He took us to the Volcano in San
Salvador! It is a dormant volcano but it was so cool!!! We drove up there and
had a blast just taking pictures and running around and playing! We hiked a bit
to the top of the caldera (cone) and got to look down in and see it all! I will
send a picture, and maybe a video if I can! It was so fun! Then, after that we
went to the president’s house and got to eat a lot of food! That was way fun!
It was just a really fun day and a treat because this last month as a Zone we
baptized the most families in the mission cool huh?!?
So the next day, on Saturday, we had a baptism! 2 actually! I said
that we were going to baptize Sarai and Mario, and maybe their mom if she could
(she had problems with the law of chastity). Anyway, it went through! We got to
baptize the two kids and we are baptizing the mom Sandra this Sunday!! Yay!!! I
will send pictures! Anyway, so we went through this whole week just working
like normal and then last night, we had divisions with the zone leaders and I was
in my area with one of the zone leaders and we went to do an interview for
Claudia (who will be baptized this weekend too!) At the same time, we found out
that Sandra was ready too! It was sweet! This is what happened - Sandra has
been having problems with a boyfriend and the law of chastity and we have been
working with her to be worthy but it was taking time! And I was going to use
the zone leaders help to help her out so we had an appointment with her. When
we got there, she said she had been fighting with her boyfriend and they
finally officially ended their relationship! She says, “Everything is settled
and I am good!” I was like, “SWEET!” And we had her interview right then! She
has been so ready for her baptism - the only problem was her boyfriend
supported her with food and stuff but she finally had the faith to trust in God!
I loved to be a part of her decision! I love her and her family so much! They
are so strong and are so loving!!! I love to be here working with them!! Also,
do you remember Claudia? She is another lady that we have been teaching for
about 2 months? She finally made the decision to be baptized this next weekend!
So we will have 2 more baptisms this next Sunday!!! I am so excited! Keep
praying for them for me! I know you can love them as much as I do! In the
picture of the baptism that I will send, it has a picture of Sandra who is
getting baptized this weekend!
The last thing I have to say about this week is…the temple! We
got to go to the temple this morning! IT WAS AMAZING!!!! If I could make the
capitals on AMAZING bigger, they would be, trust me! I LOVE THE TEMPLE! There
is SUCH a strong spirit of love and peace in the temple! And I just want
to say…I hope that no one is taking the temple for granted. We can receive so
many answers and find so much love there! Those that are worthy to go, should
go and reap the blessings that are found there! Even if you are not endowed, you
should still go do baptisms! It is so important to just go and serve!!! Anyway,
I will send a couple other pictures of us at the temple (even though I took
these pictures when I was going to the volcano on Friday last week and they
aren’t from this morning they are basically the same right???? :))
I love you all!! I hope you are all doing so so well! I love
reading all your emails every week! Thank you so much for the time you take to
write and send them! I enjoy each one! Thank you so much for everything! I love
you so much!!! I pray for each and every one of you every night!
Love from LOURDES!
Braden
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