BAPTISM!!!

Baptism!!!!

Hola Todos!!

This week was great! There were very few people home, as everyone here in Juarez is from somewhere else and just came here to work. So pretty much all of our investigators were gone home for the holidays and there was no one in the streets, but we spent the week busily and happily preparing for Jessie´s baptism, so all was well! 

Baptism!!!!

This week as we ran around looking for anyone who was home.  A member told us about a woman who had gotten baptized 10 years ago who never came back after. Her name is Ramona and she is about 80 years old. When we knocked on her door she willingly opened it and invited us in, and began to explain what had happened. 

She told us that the week after her baptism she was looking for her class, and someone led her to a room and sat her down, and about 2 minutes later someone else told her she didn't go there and that she should leave to go to the other class. Hermana Ramona explained that in that moment she felt embarrassed and offended, and when they sent her out of the class she walked straight home and never came back.

Leadership Council!!

For the following days I thought about her experience and came to 2 conclusions:

1) We all need to be careful with our words and actions. We all know that as we begin something new we are nervous and vulnerable. We feel uncomfortable, and if we do not find the love and support we feel like we need, it is easy to just go back to places and customs that we are used to, places we know. If you see someone sitting alone, lost, confused, sad, etc., go to them. Help them. They are entering a new world and need your help.

2) We can't let little things get us down.  Satan will always put stumbling blocks in our path. He wants us to fall. He wants us to be as miserable as he is. If we are looking for an excuse to stray from the path we can and will always find one. However, if we look at the reasons we have to stay, to follow, to work, to fight, we will find more than enough.

Leadership Council!!

This gospel is true. This path is His. This battle is worth the fight. Just keep going.

Countdown continued: (sung to the tune of 12 days of Christmas)

  In my time here in Juarez my Father gave to me...

      6 great companions!

Hermana Hernandez: From whom I learned to be perfectly obedient, even if no one else is.

Hermana Sanchez: How to give everything you´ve got. We finished every single day running to our house and from appointment to appointment to try to see everyone.

Hermana Cruz: How to laugh, even through the pain.

Hermana San Martin: How to look for the good in EVERYONE and EVERYTHING.

Hermana Marques: How to be firm and immovable.

Hermana Gonzalez: How to find joy in the little things and endure to the end.

Hope you guys have a great week!

Hermana Naatjes