Hola mi familia y amigos!
This week has been really out of ordinary. Tuesday we
visited a lot of people shortly and invited them to the conference this last
weekend. We had to end our day short though because we had to leave for Bani
and we stayed the night with the sisters there. I learned how to make Tostones
which is the plantanos chips things. they are really good... but super healthy
ha. We made those and fried salami... Dominican cooking. haha its dangerous
though so much popping oil yikes. Anyway we left the next morning for the
capital to go to the temple and we managed to shove our whole zone into like a
8 passenger van. 21 people.. ah yikes. it was a like a huge snuggling pool...
but not really ha. anyway we went to the temple and it was amazing. first time
all in spanish so that was interesting but it was good. Met a girl there that I
had been talking to before the mission so that was cool. We then had Wendy´s!!!
after the temple and came home. Thursday we went to Las Flores and visited a
lot of inactive members and had good lessons. They just have a hard time
getting to church because of their health but they have so much faith.
Okay... Friday. Friday started out a
little rough because the night before we were told Deilyn couldnt get baptized
and we were devasted because he was so ready and was working so hard. However
we called pte..(presidente) well my comp did and he okay´d it. So that was wonderful
but then things just kept getting worse... We lost the church keys and spent
forever looking for them because we needed to lock the church because it was
all prepped for Deilyns baptism and then the zone leaders called us and said he
had sent the baptism registry papers with a gua gua ( a bus thing )and we spent our whole
lunch chasing this guy down and I was ¨hangry¨because we were fasting and then
the guy way overcharged us and ugh... so i downed my lunch very unhappily but
we met up with Emilkin our awesome member missionary guy. This kid is seriously
amazing... bless his little heart. He really is like the glue of our
branch.
Anyway, we headed over to Deilyns
familiy to invite them to Deilyns baptism and they said Deilyn was home and
that he was up the hill getting his hair cut for his baptism... ahh so
precious!!! it really helped to lift my spirits to see him so excited.
Deilyn a little later had his baptism
interview with the district leader a little later at the church and asked if he
could run home and go pick up his mom so he jumped on his motor and went and
picked her up. it was so sweet to have her there. I had said the opening
prayer, my comp gave a talk on baptism then we had a musical number. We sang
Nearer my God to Thee in spanish.. I sang the first verse (SOLO!!!... crazy
haha) and then my comp did the second verse then the 4 of us sisters sang the
3rd verse,.
Emilkin baptized Deilyn, and we totally
forgot to tell him to bring a towel... so we gave him a another jumpsuit to dry
off with. After the service Deilyns mom said she would be interested in
learning more about the church which is so cool. Deilyn is seriously so
awesome! I love him! He really is like Nephi in the Book of Mormon. His
brothers are involved in some not very good things but Deilyn is such a huge example and prays and relies so much on Heavenly Father. I wish I had more
time to share a lot of the miracles Deilyn has had because of his faith.
I like a verse in the Book of Mormon,
Ether 12 verse 6 and it says ¨You receive no witness after the trial of your
faith¨
Miracles come AFTER our
faith.
Anyway, I love you all. My week has been interesting to say
the least. being stuffed in gua guas and drowning forever in spanish but its so
worth it. This Gospel is true and it brings so much happiness. Anyone who is
searching and wanting to know if its true can ask God, our loving Heavenly
Father directly... prayer is amazing. You can receive an answer through prayer.
I testify that you can. I love you! Remember Faith is key...
but most importantly faith in Jesus Christ is the Most imporant key.. Show your
faith through your works.
I love you all!!!
James 2, verse 17
Hermana Hildman
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