Hello mi querida family!!!
So, this has just been a CRAZY week!!! Good news, WILMER AND YEIMI GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just love baptisms. Especially because as we watched it, Hermana Crouch leaned over, and almost crying was like "That's two more people in the kingdom of God with us!" It was just the most precious experience. I just love these two kiddos, and they will be the change in their family. We are going to start working in on the mom. It is going to be awesome!!
So this week we have had to travel TWICE to the capitol. Thursday we went to go and get Hermana Crouch's visa all worked out and everything, and Saturday, we went to get our halfsies compa!!! She is named Hermana Morales. She was already in our zone, but she had to send her compa home for health problems, poor thing! So she is just living with us, and then is going to be working her area with members. She is so incredibly strong and SUCH an amazing example. We already got along really well, and now we get along even better. I think that Hermana Crouch and I are really helping her to be happy and get back to how she used to be. She got really upset and stressed out about her compa pobrecita. But now things are getting better, poco a poco. But here is the big miracle of the week:
HEAVENLY FATHER PUT US IN A TRIO OF GRINGAS FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!
well, that is the closest i can get to red white and blue. But yeah...... who does that happen with?!?!?!?!?! Missionaries that God loves a whole super lot. And He really loves Hermana Crouch and Hermana Morales, and He really loves me too. I just feel so blessed every day with tender mercies from my Heavenly Father. Today we shopped preparing ourselves for this friday. Bonus: fridays we do weekly planning which means all gringos of the zona will be together!!! YAYYYY!!!! We magically found root beer in a kind of expensive grocery store. Definitely bought some for root beer floats. We also bought Chex Mix muddy buddies. Also.... mac and cheese. We will be celebrating this blessed holiday ALL WEEK!!!! We may even decorate the apartment. and when i say maybe.... that means the decision has already been made and the answer is yes. Unfortunately fireworks are not even sort of allowed. But, we will do our best and celebrate as much as possible because well, this only comes once a year. And it is probably my only patriotic holiday outside of the country. Hay que aprovechar.
Well, life sounds good there. You guys sound like you are still alive! Keep surviving, it will all be worth it! I just love reading your emails because well, life is crazy, but it is really good. And I can't help but see how many incredible blessings Heavenly Father gives to our family. I mean, two missionaries AND a bishop AND a sealing in the temple?? As Hermana Farner (Seattle) wrote to me today "your family is going to have great parties in Heaven". SO TRUE! Our family is definitely my favorite family! I just love you guys a whole stinkin lot. And Madeline, I am all over the picture, I definitely have a blouse, it is adorable, and we will do the best with good lighting. I may even have Hermana Crouch do my hair. You can expect this picture next week! I can't wait to get the invitation!! I am sure it is adorable! Life is just so crazy, but I LOVE IT!
Mundial is pretty fun. Everyone is just crazy about it. I'll send a picture of the people at the mall in the cap. All just sitting at tables watching the TV, SO FUNNY! It is pretty crazy, but the work has continued pretty normally, and when someone gets a goal it is crazy!! But I love it. All of these precious Guatemaltecos. So wonderful this gente. I love em! Also, the guy that contacted us in English, Kevin. WE LOVE HIM!!!! He hasn't met with the Elders in this week, and they thought maybe he didn't actually care about the gospel, but we called him Sunday morning and told him to come to church. I always let Hermana Crouch call because she can talk in English, which she loves. jajajaj and he got to Church and told us that he told his dad about us and his dad told him that he would be a satanist if he went to this church. Then he told us about how he started the book of mormon AGAIN, and he is reading about when nefi and his brothers are on the boat, and he is like but my dad hardened his heart like laman and lemuel, I want to come here, i love the church. it was so wonderful!!! he started crying just talking with us and we told him how much God loves him, and he was like I just feel so good here, I don't ever want to leave. So basically, Kevin is a rock star and we LOVE him. We are really going to work hard to get him baptized because well, satan has ZERO control over him. I LOVE THE GOSPEL!!!!! The Atonement is real and I have realized that when someone is truly prepared to receive the gospel, we don't need to worry because well, the gospel just makes sense to them. It is so beautiful!
I hope that you all have an amazing week!!! Madeline your dress is BEAUTIFUL!!!! my compas agree. Also, the cake topper is ADORABLE. I just can't wait to chute on all of your wedding pictures when I get home. (Chute means nosy.... don't look it up because i think it can be a bad word in other countries).
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!
love love love,
Hermana Roll
primero: this is a yay we are in the cap picture
segundo: adorable picture from the baptism with the kiddos, their mom and the members that helped them!!!
third: so..... we were walking home and just super happy and saying hi to everyone when a car drove through a GIANT dirty puddle. Welcome to Hermana Roll on a normal day outside of the cap. WOW.
fourth: This is our precious new companionship. Also..... we were again adorable to go to the cap. Yay cute clothes!!
and last one is all of the people distracted by mundial.
LOVE YOU!
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