11/18/13

Hoooooolaaaaaa!!!! 

This week has been awesome and crazy and wonderful and scary and stressful and AWESOME! First, monday night, my zone leaders called and asked me to give a 30 minute training at the zone meeting . . . it was crazy. I was SO scared! But I did it, and I survived and it was good, haha. It´s weird how I used to be terrified to have to give a 2 minute talk in sacrament (in spanish) and I´d have to write out every single word and it was terrible . ..  now I´m giving 30 minute trainings and teaching and conversing with people all on my own . . . it´s like, one day I woke up and all of a sudden I could speak spanish more or less. It´s cool how the Lord really does work changes in us and blesses us, and we can´t even really see it happening until we´re put to the test, and we look back and see how far we´ve come. 

So all week long I´ve had to search for members to go teach with me until I get a companion the first week of december. I mean, I have two companions from the other Area, but as for my area Santa Fe, I´m the only representative, so if I don´t find a church member to go teach with me, I can´t really teach in my area. It´s been a little frustrating, with members not just canceling, but forgetting to call and tell me that they need to cancel and just don´t show up, and things like that, but I´ve usually been able to find someone to teach with me when I need to. 

This week we had two baptisms, and one was Flavio´s. He´s the bishop´s father, he´s about 70 years old and almost ALL of his family are members. All of his children are active members and returned missionaries and he´s the only one who wasn´t baptized. His wife is an active member and volunteers in the Temple. She also is our pencionista (the lady who makes us breakfast) so we´d see him every single day,and so when I first came here, as soon as we´d walk in, he´d practically run out of the room. Then he had a major surgery (he had a brain tumor) and they thought he had died. He litterally woke up in a morgue. During the time he had a very profound dream, and he felt like God was giving him a second chance to change his life, so little by little he started talking to us and came to church, and we taught him, and now he´s baptized! It was so amazing to see this change take place in him. He has such a strong testimony and it was one of the most beautiful things to see His three sons and his grandson who´s leaving on a mission, confirm him as a member of Christ´s church and to bestow upon him the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

I hope all of you are having a wonderful week . . . oh hey! Thanksgiving is this week! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope everyone remembers to count their blessings! Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD on the 19th :)

I love you all so much! Thanks for all your support and love. You´re in my prayers! Love yoooouuuu!!!

H´ Hulse

Flavio on the day of his baptism! Companions Hna. Olaechea and Hna. Murdock.