San Diego #20 11/17/08

Mì Famila:

¿Cómo esta todos? ¿Qué hay de nuevo?(HOW IS EVERYTHING? WHAT'S NEW?) Yay! No more doctor for a while!

Well, let me tell you about our newest investigators...Sophia. She's this little old grandma that lives with her sister (Hna. Navarro), a less active member because she has to work. Their both loosing their hair(LOSING...UNLESS THEIR HAIR IS REALLY BEING LOOSENED..?) and live in a rented 1/4 of a house. Sophia doesn't work because she had a stroke.

Leticia RDgz. Okay this is a cool story...Gabriela (recent convert in San Diego)was a school (like 2 weeks after she got bapized) and felt like she shoudl go talk to this stranger in one of her classes. And she didn't...went home and had a dream about it, so the next day, she did. She started talking about her church and I guess Leticia just started crying. So she went to church with her in San Diego and the sisters there (Sis. Hobbs, Marsh, and ?Newbie?) taught a first and gave us the refferal because she lives in our area. Leticia and her family are Catolico pero Leticia tiene mucha buenas preguntas (LETICIA AND HER FAMILY ARE CATHOLIC, BUT SHE HAS A LOT OF GOOD QUESTIONS...IF ANY OF YOU ARE LIKE MY MOM, PREGUNTAS DOESN'T MEAN PREGNANT, IT MEANS QUESTIONS! HA HA) Hace unos dìas enseñabamos el Plan de Salvación y ella estaba tratando a no llorar. (A FEW DAYS LATER, WE TAUGHT THE PLAN OF SALVATION, AND SHE WAS TRYING NOT TO CRY) Ella tiene 20 algo años y estaba casada pero ahorita esta divorsiada. (SHE'S 20 SOMETHING YEARS, AND WAS MARRIED BUT NOW IS DIVORCED.) ¡Ella is tan buena! (SHE IS SO GOOD)

I think I already told you about Adriana. She's still doing so good. And rumor has it, we're going to start to count re-activations in our #'s now! YAY! Th's where a lot of our work goes but before there was nothing measuring it, so it often looked like we weren't workig. Reactivations since I've been here...Carlos Lewis, Saraì Rosales, Medina Family, Hna Higuera, Elizabeth and Evalyn. In progress: Fanny and Carlos Diaz, Malfabon Family, and Rosie, Luis, and Angel (3 members of the familia grande)

Last night was the re-dedication of hte Mexico City Temple. and Saraì went! That's huge because to be there you had to be temple worthy! and she came!

Okay, here are a couple of funny stories...
We were talking to Robert and he had some questions about Adam and Eve, Sis. Howarth was testifying about how Eve had to have courage to partake of the fruit and how she admired her for all that she did...and how we wouldn't be here without her. And Robert said "so your hero...is someone who disobey's God." He didn't quite get the point, but he does his classic Robert face 'like are you stupid' look. It was so funny!

Then we were out at the Familia Grande's Last week and we were talking to Abril, this 10 year old girl (most of the time they don't come to the door), so we'll talk to who ever will come to us) (more background...Fla Grande was this huge miracle, this family of I think 11 or maybe 7 was baptized, in his Latino/Panic culture where kids get married, they still live w/parents and when parents get old, they move in with their kids, So the Fla Grande has a ton of families in one house and we call them Fla Grande because it's easier to keep track of them Ü) So we're talking to Abril, who just asks us, well, dumb questions like "so do you eat? and how do you spell...?, how old do you think I am?, and what do you think my name is?" So were asking her when Rosi an Luis would be home, and she made up some time, and Sis. Howarth says "perfecto, vamos a regresar entonces-perfect, we'll be back then...and Abril looks at us and whispers "perfecto". I couldn't hold it in, I just busted up laughing.

Well, my hair has gone really blonde. I haven't done anything to it, but it's really blonde and long.

Oh! We're also teaching Ana and Mario Flores. Ana is the daughter of Hna Blass, a less active member. She has Alzheimers and we go over every once in a while to sing to her because she remembers hymns, she gets really excited to hear it, she'll sometimes try singing, but her eyes really light up. It's fun, so we're teaching Mario and Ana. Ana likes it, but Mario is afrade (AFRAID...STACIE HAS LOST HER SPELLING ABILITY...) to pray. We think it's because he already knows) but if he recieves his conformation, he can't deny it and he's going to have to change. And he's scared, so that's the iceburg we're chippin' at with him.

We're going sight seeing with the Steinbough's today, so we'll probably send some pictures next week. Yay!

Oh, we've been listening to the same song for the past 3 DAYS! Please send Bar-J inspirational and churh and Christmas music.

We went to Balboa Park and Coronato Island, the to the military base (restricted access) It was fun. We're on our way home now.

I guess that's basically it. Transfers came adn gone, me and Howarth are still the same! Having fun. Zone Conference is tomorrow. It's fun

Hna Baker