Aquí anda (they use "andar" here sometimes instead of
"estar") mi carta al presidente:
Esta semana bautizamos a la Hermana Albertina Velazquez
Pereyra. Encontramos a ella mi segundo día, y hemos visto un gran cambio
en ella en el último mes. Eso fue una experiencia muy especial para mí, y
me dio mucho animo de trabajar con mas diligencia para que podamos llevar el
gozo que trae bautismo y progresión en el Evangelio a mas gente aquí en el área
San José.
Algo que hicemos muy bien esta semana fue nuestro invitaciones.
Aprendimos que realmente sólo hay que hacerlas. Mediante eso, podíamos
ayudar resolver muchas dudas que tenían nuestras investigadores. Algunas
cosas en que nos vamos a enfocar esta semana son los siguientes:
1. Hacer hincapié en las invitaciones. Si nuestros
investigadores no guardan sus compromisos, no ganan fe. Vamos a planear
mejor en centrar las lecciónes en las invitaciones, y explicar mejor nuestro
proposito en invitarles a venir a Cristo, y que no van a acercarse a Él sin
leer, orar, y asistir a la iglesia.
2. Tener mas investigadores en la iglesia. Esta semana,
vamos a pedir los numeros de todos nuestros investigadores para que podamos
hablar con ellos el sabado antes. También, nuestra primera meta de hacer
hincapié en invitaciones ayudará nuestros investigadores a hacer esto al
reconocer la importancia de eso.
¡Buenas tardes!
So, just a couple of things real quickly that I wanted to say last
week that weren´t necessarily super important (actually a couple of them
are maybe) but I just wanted to say.
1. I sent some packages in the MTC my last week. I know
you got the one with they hymn books (and MTC books and stuff, right?), but I
sent one with a sweater and my extra set of Spanish scriptures, and I´m not
sure if that one got there too.
2. My camera charger is very MIA. Not good. I
looked for it like an hour last p-day and could not find it. It
leads me to believe that it is gone. So
if you had some way of getting another one of those (although I´m sure it will
be awhile before it gets to me) that would be awesome because I don´t have a
camera until then... For now I´m using Elder Howell's. If not, I could
find one to buy here if I needed to.
3. I CUT MY OWN HAIR. Two weeks ago. It was
terrifying. I think it looks ok but I don't really know... It´s not
really at the top of my priority list :)
Now to respond to your questions:
1. We´re close to what´s called "The Stone of
Izapa", which apparently has Lehi´s Vision engraved on it. We
haven´t had time to do really anything on our p-day´s though. They're
really busy. I don´t think we´re close to any pyramids though... Not
sure.
3. Sorry--I can´t really think of anything specific that would
be nice in a package other than just a camera charger... I´ll try to think more
about that and get back to you.
4. That might be a good idea. I do print out the emails
every week so that I can have them when I get around to writing letters
(although I have been reading them all during my hour too, it would probably be
better if I started not doing that and just emailed--that way I would have more
time--I just like being able to feel a little bit more connected before I
respond).
So!!! It´s so good to hear from you guys each week. I
really miss you (although I would rather be here at this point in my life :p)
and I pray for you all each morning and night. Mom, it´s ok that you had
to drop your Spanish class, the language will still be more or less the same in
6 weeks :) It´s better that you learn it well anyway so that I can talk your
ear off in Spanish in a couple years :p the awesome thing about Spanish is that
although in and of itself it´s a pretty tough language (just because the verbs
conjugate in a thousand different ways), the pronunciation is infinitely easier
to pick up than English, and there are way less idiomatic expressions, and it
just makes sense in a lot more ways.
So, this week was the baptism de la Hna. Albertina (as seen in my
letter to Presidente Cárdenas--how did translating that last week go?)!
She got baptized Saturday and confirmed yesterday. I´m trying to send a
picture from Elder Howell´s camera but I´m not sure if I´m going to have
time.
So, this week changes are seen (just kidding--my English isn´t that
bad yet). This week we have transfers. Elder Howell and I are
staying here in San José. By the way, this week I found our chapel on LDS
maps, it´s the furthest one south in Tapachula (the wards are San José y
Indeco). I don´t think we have any satellite imagery in our area
though. Anyway though, our district leader, Elder Townsend (who is an
awesome missionary), goes home in 4 weeks (right in the middle of a transfer,
which is really weird, apparently his family is moving to Peru and they need
his help or something, so he´s going home two weeks early). Anyway,
apparently he´s supposed to be training someone new there in Indeco, but
then he´s leaving after that. So the new guy will have to know the area
in 4 weeks. I feel like I know my area really well after 6 weeks, but
after 4 I´m not sure if I would have, and Indeco is a lot bigger than our
area. So we´re a bit confused about that. We´ll see what
happens.
Update on investigators:
Cesar we found twice this week. That was
awesome. We invited him to be baptized the 30th, and he agreed,
but the investigators have to come twice to church before they can, and he
didn´t come this Sunday because of work, and he has to work one of the
next two Sundays, so we´re just praying that our lesson about the Sabbath day
goes well and that we´ll animate him to ask for the day off
work.
Gabriel did not come to church again. We´re really frustrated
about that, because he said he would, and that means we´re going to have
to move his baptismal date back from the 23rd. He still hasn´t
been to church yet, so we´ll be focusing a lot on that this
week.
A couple other people too, but I´m out of time on my machine so I´m
just going to get on Elder Howell´s (he´s done and he has a little bit more
time still) and send the picture from the baptism.
Love you!!!!!!
Con amor,
Elder Nickerl
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