Baptisms!

Isabella's Letter

this week we only had 4 lessons which really bumbed me, my comp keeps feeling ill but we also went to sucre for a talk from elder useda thats from lima peru and he spoke about obidience and i felt i had many things i needed to do better and on top of that we werent leaving the house much to teach and i felt like the people werent going to progress but i decided to repent and pray and i spoke with the lord for a long time and then we went on saturday to invite one of our investigators who wanted to be baptized but her father wouldnt sign her permission well we found her and her dad and we convinced him that she should get baptized and she said she wanted to get baptized that same day and it was such a joy to see the lord take care of everything even thou we had many inconveniences with the keys the water the heater and such nothing got us down. also janice i did say i would go to salt lake for many reasons some of which you mentioned. i will be set apart there,

have to go Hna Florido

 

Christopher's Letter & Photos

Hey!

So, this morning we went to the temple and it
was just so beautiful. Right now it is four o clock!
Wow! It is late. This week we are planning on
having 5 baptisms (2 families), which will be miracles,
all of them.

I hope that Grandpa feels better. That is really strange.
I dont know what to say. Tell them that I love them.

I hope that as much of a burden is the snow and doing
Christmas Tree Jubilee that it might be enjoyed. Here
there isnt even snow here. I miss the snow and clean
air. I am a little sick from the polution of the city. I have
a lung or sinus infection always. Haha. I love Honduras.

I love you, mom. I love you, dad. I miss you. I hope that
you give Elder Christensen a big hug, and that you all go
well dressed. He has impacted my life more than you know.
I hope that you would gift him something. Ha! I remember what.
Gift him one of those prepared dried sausages that they
sell during Christmas and write on it "The day you were called
to be the asistant to President." Maybe he will remember.
We ate a bunch of this sausage that his parents had sent him,
and we felt sick afterwards. Me because I ate too much and
him because he was called to be Asistant.

Oh, and you asked me if you wanted to come get me or if I

wanted to go home. The rules are that it is better if I leave
directly from Honduras. So, I think that I will just go home
and get married. :)

Among other things that I would like for Christmas:
Vanilla extract that doesnt have corn syrup.
In other words, Organic Vanilla Extract.

Here are lots of photos. I love you all.

WIth love,
Elder Hill

 

Bishop Henri Castillo

Familia Andino

Familia Andion and Sister Jesenia

Temple

The Temple is Almost Done!

  

Work!

Isabella
We received a letter from Isabel today that was addressed just to Dave and I. Because the letter was specifically for Dave and I we felt it better to not share it on the blog.   She didn't have much time to write but said the mission in Potosi is awesome and she is finding lots of amazing people.  She has completed 15 months in the her mission and thoughts of returning home are exciting her.  She says she has alot to share with us from her mission!

Christopher
Dear mom and dad,
Did you get the pictures and story I sent?
We´re working really hard here and we´re seeing results. I am really
trying to dedicate everything to the Lord. I´m not perfect in writing you
and I need to learn to balance out my time on P'Day.  
Be careful on the roads with the snow please. Take care of yourselves.
I miss you all. 
Here it´s cold somedays and hot. We´re in the city and the pollution is
getting to me. I´ve had a sinus infection, but I think that I´m getting better.
I wish that I could go to the temple with you and be at home in the snow.
I love the snow.
This month, I think we´re going to baptize a family this month and the next
month we have plans to baptize 3 or 4. We´re going to see what the Lord
has in store for us. 
I hate to ask, but I don´t have any money right now. If you could help me
out, that would really help. The wedding killed us a little. I also, for Christmas,
would like to have:
1) a small Preach My Gospel in English. They somewhere online sell miniturized
Preach My Gospels. I want one to carry with me. :)
2) a black, wool v-neck sweater.
3) a big bag of ginger snaps.
That´s all I want. And pictures. New pictures. Of everyone.
I love you all so much. Please help me with money. Sorry, I just have nothing
for two weeks.
I love you so much. Please don´t lose the romance of life.

I Let The Game Come to Me, Wedding & Baptisms!

Isabella's Letter

i had the game come to me! what a blessing

so this week has been very special. and i have a ton of pictures already but! it has virus still and i dont know how to fix it. but today i will work on it. potosi! its supposedly summer but its way cold and it snows lightly its so fun. the one thing is that my pressure drops way to rapidly and it feels like you have been in a roller coaster that left you woozy. we are exactly 4850 meters above sea level. i know thats why my prayers are better heard jk ha ha but we have still worked whats amazing is that my comp has felt bad physically so we have had to rest a lot this week but we still found many many new people and she was like here people are catholic they wont let you in, she said trust me dont get hurt over it its normal but we had no troubles getting in and finding families and WOW talk about your efforts being rewarded, i remember cala cala just about broke me everyone so rich and occupied with no time for Christ except for the ones God had prepared but it was like finding water in a desert. but here all that perssitance paid off. janice thanks for sending me that picture of joeson so funny am glad they are having fun. its nice to see them happy. oh and i did just get the other package and i love the gray cardigan and its coming way in handy but dont send me anything really just a letter with pictures :) i love hearing from you guys i have pictures of birds for granpa finch again. i have this fear that my bags will be over weight when i come home so yeah. people just give you stuff and its wat dear to me i dont care how but im bringing it. oh also they dont know what halloween is really except that its something they see on the movies, people ask me that all the time is the US really like the movies? anyway here they celebrate todos santos whats interesting is that here in latin america and in many other place of the world people celebrate similar things. as humans we have aneed to mourn and oversee the safety of our ancestors souls. what they do here is that they dress all in black for mourning and the first day they mourn the ¨angels¨ meaning the kids that died the next day the grown ups so they build an alter and put things by the picture of the dead things they liked chicken candy beer anything they liked then they pray and whoever comes to pray gets masitas those are little pastries made of either orange flavor or caramel or coconut. then the 3rd day they go to the tombs and the cemetery but things get kinda scary because everyone is drunk. so we dressed all in black and told them of the plan of salvation and temple work and how to pray with real intent, it was a good experience and i promise pictures.

 

(just a side note:  Isabel was so concerned in her last letter about having a companion who was sick again and not being able to do what she would like to do in missionary work.  Dave wrote to her about how a missionary experience was just brought to him and how like Karl Malone used to say, "Sometimes you have to let the game come to you!"  Hence the reason Isabel titled her letter this way.  Way to go Papi in Roy for giving great advice to your future daughter in law! :) )

 

Christopher's Letter

 

I don´t have much time! I am sorry.
Here are photos from a wedding and
a baptism that my companion and I
had. I´ll send you the story on it!
I love you all so much.

Adios!.