Familia,
Another week.
Every week when I sit down for emails I really have no idea
what to say. Like really, every week is pretty similar. I don't know what to
tell you. What you want to hear, or don't want to hear. I mean really. I get
up, do studies. and then we have appointments. And a lot of our appointments
are regular, weekly things. . . monday: p-day, dinner at the sosa's. Tuesday:
salgado, garcia, flores, quinonez. Wednesday: district meeting, armenta.
Thursday: weekly planning, salgado, junta, garcia. Friday: imelda, esmerelda.
Saturday: Gonzalez. Sunday: church, Rivera. And then the inbetween is just the
other people we are able to make apointments with and finding. But never
anything super exciting.
So I don't know what to tell you. Things are going well.
We're trying to build up our teaching pool, but haven't had much success. We
are really busy with our regular appointments too, and always seem to have
something to do, which is good- But we just haven't managed to find any new
investigators for a while. We work a lot with less active members, part member
families, and recent converts. During my mission this is where I've seen the
most investigators come from, from these families and their friends- but right
now it looks like I'm going to need to figure out a different method to find
people to teach. Its just a matter of figuring out whats effective and not just
busy work, without real results.
The people we are teaching right now that are the closest to
baptism are the Armenta's. Hermana Armenta is a member, but her husband and two
daughters are not. Her husband isn't interested really in converting, is fine
listening to what we have and likes it, but wants to stay Catholic. But the
girls, Patty (22) and Alex (19) say they do want to be baptized, once they know
more. They are also really hesitant to set a baptismal date, because they don't
want to set one that they won't be ready for. It doesn't matter how many times
we reassure them that if they 're not ready, we can change it- they won't set
it. So we're teaching them right now and then once we've taught them all they
need, I guess we'll baptize them. We are currently working with them to try to
get answers to their prayers about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. Alex
isn't sure if she's gotten an answer from praying or not, and Patty hasn't
prayed specifically to know if its true. Its slow going, but they have good
intentions- just aren't on the same schedule as we are. :) They are great
though. I really like them. \
Leslie is doing great. We gave her and her cousin Cynthia
(who is 10 but her mom won't let her get baptized) triples with personal notes
inside each of them and they loved it. They both have started reading and
brought their books to church super proud of them. We finished reading the
children's Book of Mormon with them, so yesterday we had a party to celebrate.
The party was really just watching the Testaments and eating popcorn, but the
word party excited them. :) We watched it with their grandma, Hna Salgado- who
is a recent convert of about 6 months. At the end she and Leslie were both
crying, and it was really special. Then our next appointment cancelled, so we
stayed a little longer and Hermana Milliron practiced teaching the Plan of
Salvation. I love that family so much. I'm starting to get worried about
getting transferred in a couple of weeks, and it will just rip my heart out to
leave these families. This is my ward! I can't leave. But I probably will. .
. :(
Imelda is still having a lot of pain in her legs. She had to
cancel our appointment on Friday because she had a doctor appointment, but the
medicine still wasn't helping by Sunday so she didn't make it to church. Its
pretty sad, since the day I knocked on the door she hasn't missed a day of
church until these last few weeks with her pain. I know she really wants to be
there, but she just can't make it.
Wednesday night we had a mini adventure. We had an
appointment with Stephanie at 6, and the Elders from the Chicago 2nd ward were
going to come with us. So we met up with the Elders and headed over to Steph's.
. . but she wasn't there yet. She was held up at the Bishop's house helping is
wife with something. So we told her not to worry about it, we'd go grab
something to eat and she said she'd let us know when she was home and that
she'd hurry. So we eat. . and she's still not home. So we head over to a park
to wait for her. At the park there is a pond, with a little bridge that goes
out into it. So we're chilling on this bridge, talking, waiting for Steph. And
I dropped the keys in the pond. Like an idiot. And its a disgusting dirty pond
and we have no idea how deep it is and its already dark so we can't even see
into the pond at all. so the elders go over and try to employ the help of some
people fishing. while I stand there freaking out and feeling like an idiot. The
fisherman tell us the only thing to do is get in and try to find the keys. So
Elder Derby jumps on the chance to get in the pond, and in his full pros he
jumps on in. Luckily it was only up to his upper thighs, and he found the keys.
But. . it was an exciting night for all of us. And Steph ended up not being
able to meet with us anyway.
Well. I think thats about all of the stories I've got for
you this week. This week should be full of the same. Hopefully with less key
disasters. Tomorrow Millie and I are going to Naperville for some super long
training meeting. Its from 10 am to 2 pm. And I am so not exciting. But it'll
be good to see some other missionaries than usual I guess, all of the zone
leaders and trainers and greenies should be there.
Love you all! Hope going back to school goes well, and that
you have fun!
les quiero,
Shaelyn
fotos:
my cityyyy
rainy day on the pier
Hermana Salgado
Karlita and Leslie
Karla teaching us her version of the Plan :)
me if i were bald, also rainy day at the pier
kombucha drink. its disgusting
missionary work calls for some serious planning.
even more planning for pday,
which is what we're doing here. :)
love these girls
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