Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
San Diego #34 3-2-09
Well Family:
March is here and I'm feeling the heat and my missionary tan is coming back. On saturday we went to the swap meet. Pres. Donaldson told us to be creative in our finding efforts-so-us and the englsih elders got a booth and swap-meeted it up. We met lots of interesting people...but it was successful. We might do it again next weekend. We need lots of bright shiny clutter to get people's attention though. Every since I've got here me and all of my companions have always joked about going to the swap meet, so I just lived every Spring Valley sister's dream! People here are serious about this-most people that go-do it for a LIVING. Serious business.
Sam got baptized yesterday! The whole chaple (STACIE'S SPELLING) was full-not just of people-but of investigators! It was good.
Ruben Gonzalez did one of the baptisms (3 people got baptized, not just Sam) But Ruben did it!! He was so excited-whe it was over he looked over at me and gave me a big thumbs up! Melissa wanted me (no one else) to take her to the bathroom-so we did and she went in the stall (remember she has Down Syndrome) and started dancing and singng at the top of her lungs "My Maria" and "Whoo-oo" over and over for like 15 minutes before she finally went to the bathroom, the she didn't want to wash her hands and was adament about it! So I raced her-she won and rubbed it in my face the rest of the night. People kept coming into the bathroom adn when we came out-everyone turned and looked. Pretty funny...
Thanks for all the post cards-there is NO WAY I am writing back to all of them! Just tell them thanks.
That's about it I guess. Thanks for the package
Love, Hna Baker
P.S. Los Gonzales mandan muchos saludos! (THE GONZALES' SEND MANY GREETINGS!)
P.S.S. Mom-turns out I can see better when I wear my glasses! So I just use them in the day too. Just driving pretty much.
Thanks for all the stuff!
March is here and I'm feeling the heat and my missionary tan is coming back. On saturday we went to the swap meet. Pres. Donaldson told us to be creative in our finding efforts-so-us and the englsih elders got a booth and swap-meeted it up. We met lots of interesting people...but it was successful. We might do it again next weekend. We need lots of bright shiny clutter to get people's attention though. Every since I've got here me and all of my companions have always joked about going to the swap meet, so I just lived every Spring Valley sister's dream! People here are serious about this-most people that go-do it for a LIVING. Serious business.
Sam got baptized yesterday! The whole chaple (STACIE'S SPELLING) was full-not just of people-but of investigators! It was good.
Ruben Gonzalez did one of the baptisms (3 people got baptized, not just Sam) But Ruben did it!! He was so excited-whe it was over he looked over at me and gave me a big thumbs up! Melissa wanted me (no one else) to take her to the bathroom-so we did and she went in the stall (remember she has Down Syndrome) and started dancing and singng at the top of her lungs "My Maria" and "Whoo-oo" over and over for like 15 minutes before she finally went to the bathroom, the she didn't want to wash her hands and was adament about it! So I raced her-she won and rubbed it in my face the rest of the night. People kept coming into the bathroom adn when we came out-everyone turned and looked. Pretty funny...
Thanks for all the post cards-there is NO WAY I am writing back to all of them! Just tell them thanks.
That's about it I guess. Thanks for the package
Love, Hna Baker
P.S. Los Gonzales mandan muchos saludos! (THE GONZALES' SEND MANY GREETINGS!)
P.S.S. Mom-turns out I can see better when I wear my glasses! So I just use them in the day too. Just driving pretty much.
Thanks for all the stuff!
Thanks to All!!
STACIE SENT HOME A THANK YOU CARD. HERE IS WHAT IT SAYS:
Thanks for all the B-day wishes everyone-even those of you that I don't know...
and thanks mom for doing it all. It was funny.
-Hermana Baker
P.S. Show this to those that want a thank you card...
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED WITH STACIE'S BIRTDAY POSTCARD THING. WE SURE APPRECIATE IT! IF EVERYONE SENT THEIR POSTCARD-SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN AT LEAST 170 POSTCARD FOR HER BIRTHDAY!
Thanks for all the B-day wishes everyone-even those of you that I don't know...
and thanks mom for doing it all. It was funny.
-Hermana Baker
P.S. Show this to those that want a thank you card...
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED WITH STACIE'S BIRTDAY POSTCARD THING. WE SURE APPRECIATE IT! IF EVERYONE SENT THEIR POSTCARD-SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN AT LEAST 170 POSTCARD FOR HER BIRTHDAY!
San Diego #33 2-23-09
¿Cómo estan bonita familia mìa?
Happy B-day yesterday!! Well---We go tracting a lot. We were reaping a little of the fruits this week. Next week will be better. So they are making plans to make 3 branches from my ward! It's finally happening and we're supposedly getting a truck load of newbies this comming transfer to help open up some areas! If sister Howarth was here, we would both cheer!
Send some pictures of Ty would ya?. And for a b-day gift you can send me knee highs (skin colored). I go through them fast---not as fast as before because I fixed my shoe with glue!!
Yay-we found Rocio-well, I'll tell you, we went to our ward temple day. First let me tell you how I got there-Freeway driving-125 to the 94 to the 5. Let me tell you how I got back-5 to the 8 to the 805 to the 94 to the 125 and got off on Jamacha Road to to find Rocio. Well, she wasn't there for our appointment :(. So I was writing a not and as we were turning around to walk away-she pulls up! Yay! So she was sick and would have called but didn't have our number. Bu she invited us in so we talked a little bit, prayed, and left with another appointment. So we are excited for her
-GET THIS-The APs just called and asked what time our Sacrament meeting starts...normally that would just be weird, but Pres. Donaldson has been having meetings galore with Elder Cordova from the 70 and they are splitting the ward Bonita 3 into 3 branches. I just realized I just said that already. But it's exciting!! Espring Valley Branch!!
Well, I don't have anything else to say!
-Hna Baker
Do you still put stuff on that blog? (TO ANSWER HER QUESTION-YA, I DO...)
Jenn-Glasses are only because I can't see singns (I THINK SHE MEANS SIGNS) well enough to read them. You win blindy!
Way to go on winning Jazz tickets-All sorts of blessings come from sending your sister on a mission eh?...
Thanks for the pictures.
Happy B-day yesterday!! Well---We go tracting a lot. We were reaping a little of the fruits this week. Next week will be better. So they are making plans to make 3 branches from my ward! It's finally happening and we're supposedly getting a truck load of newbies this comming transfer to help open up some areas! If sister Howarth was here, we would both cheer!
Send some pictures of Ty would ya?. And for a b-day gift you can send me knee highs (skin colored). I go through them fast---not as fast as before because I fixed my shoe with glue!!
Yay-we found Rocio-well, I'll tell you, we went to our ward temple day. First let me tell you how I got there-Freeway driving-125 to the 94 to the 5. Let me tell you how I got back-5 to the 8 to the 805 to the 94 to the 125 and got off on Jamacha Road to to find Rocio. Well, she wasn't there for our appointment :(. So I was writing a not and as we were turning around to walk away-she pulls up! Yay! So she was sick and would have called but didn't have our number. Bu she invited us in so we talked a little bit, prayed, and left with another appointment. So we are excited for her
-GET THIS-The APs just called and asked what time our Sacrament meeting starts...normally that would just be weird, but Pres. Donaldson has been having meetings galore with Elder Cordova from the 70 and they are splitting the ward Bonita 3 into 3 branches. I just realized I just said that already. But it's exciting!! Espring Valley Branch!!
Well, I don't have anything else to say!
-Hna Baker
Do you still put stuff on that blog? (TO ANSWER HER QUESTION-YA, I DO...)
Jenn-Glasses are only because I can't see singns (I THINK SHE MEANS SIGNS) well enough to read them. You win blindy!
Way to go on winning Jazz tickets-All sorts of blessings come from sending your sister on a mission eh?...
Thanks for the pictures.
San Diego #32 2-16-09
Hola Querida Familia mìa:
So I realized I forgot to write a "real" letter last week... (SHE JUST SENT HOME A BUNCH OF BILLS) Sorry...but I'll do it now...So Sis. Howarth is gone. Another one bites the dust-It's always hard to send your companion home-especially when they don't want to go! Schallen and Hna. Howarth were definitely the hardest. But Schallen came back this weekend (again). It was fun to see her. We really had good experiences.
Anyways, enough reminising my comp. Now is Sister Urban. I'm still in Spring Valley-It was funny to see everyone's faces at transfers when Pres. said I wasn't trining. I almost started laughing.
Right now we only have 1 investigator w/a baptism date. His name is Sam. Really cool kid. He's 15-getting baptized Marth 1. His favorite topic in school is history. Sam is friends with the Rameriz Family, so they brng him to church and he wants to get baptized. So we are teaching him. That simple...He's trying to get his family to come to church with him!
Leticia is doing great. In church yesterday, they talked about missionary work and she loved it! We have been trying to get her to do missionary wrok for the past while but she says no-in church yesterday with out her realizing it, she went up and started fellowshipping an investigator!! If Sis. Howarth was still here we would have cheered! But she's not, so I rejoice in my heart. So Leti is doing great.
Robert...Well he's super excited to go do baptisms for the dead this weekend...in the temple! We are working with Leti too. Robert always tries to stump me with his "Bible Questions" which isn't hard since I'm not studying the bible right now-so now he's going to write Pres. Donaldson (who has studied the bible in HEBREW) and try to stump him. But he is doing great on his soccer team. Reading the Book of Mormon and Bible every day.
The Gonzalez Family: Ruben got the Priesthood yesterday! He is stoked about family history and their family are going to the temple this friday to do baptisms. Melissa is great most of the time. She calls me 'Dude' or 'Hna. Bakery' or 'Mana'. Findencia is always running around with the other young women or the ward. Teresita-well, I taught her thumb wars, so she's pretty good now. Let's me win every once in a while :).
We are teaching Ruben Contreras (Martha-Member). We go study the Book of Mormon with him, and we "sneek vegetables into his rice" by teaching him priciples that are in each chapter we are studying. It's pretty fun and challenging. Like when we studied 1 Nefi(STACIE'S SPELLING) 2 & 3. We taught obedience 10 Commandments. Wow, follow the prophet and 1 Nefi 1 we even taught parts of Lesson 1 with the Restoration. He's very very slowly progressing. But it is good practice.
The rest of our time is pretty much filled with tracting, jumping out of the car and chasing after people as they run away-to see if they want the hear a message about their Savior. Parking lot contacting as soon as it warms up. Park contacting! We're getting a lot of refferals for the English missionaries...they love it when we go tracting. We did knock a street and a lady said yes-she wants us to come back on saturday at 1:00 to teach her family! Her name is Rocio. That is a phrase that every missionary wants to hear!
Oh, ther is a cool old lady named Aurora Laurean that is blind and in a wheel chair-but super active member of the Barrio 20 in San Diego that we go read with every week. I'll send pictures. Anyway, she lives by herself pretty much-in a side apartment by her son's house. We go read to her, it's fun.
Yesterday, Maria Eva Ballow's Grandkids got baptized! She was IN-active an after Schallen left I didn't know any members, so we went down the ward list, found her, and at first she wasn't nice to us at all, but we kept trying and she reactivated into the english ward -so that she could take her grandkids-the elders found them at the English ward and taught them without knowing that we were working with them until we all showed up at an appointment one day. The whole spirit has change in their home. Jaqueline, their mom, likes us now! She's being reactivated by the elders now too! It's amazing to see how the Gospel not only blesses families, but changes them completly. There really is a huge difference in them, and it's not something that can be faked either.
Last week I was so sick, I completly lost my voice for 3 days...Lemme tell ya-that makes missionary work tricky...but members loaded me up with all kinds of sick tasting tea and I feel better and my voice is back. I took pictures of that too.
That's crazy about Becky and Calvin getting another kid. Send pictures.
Anyway...I guess that's pretty much it.
-Hna Baker
So I realized I forgot to write a "real" letter last week... (SHE JUST SENT HOME A BUNCH OF BILLS) Sorry...but I'll do it now...So Sis. Howarth is gone. Another one bites the dust-It's always hard to send your companion home-especially when they don't want to go! Schallen and Hna. Howarth were definitely the hardest. But Schallen came back this weekend (again). It was fun to see her. We really had good experiences.
Anyways, enough reminising my comp. Now is Sister Urban. I'm still in Spring Valley-It was funny to see everyone's faces at transfers when Pres. said I wasn't trining. I almost started laughing.
Right now we only have 1 investigator w/a baptism date. His name is Sam. Really cool kid. He's 15-getting baptized Marth 1. His favorite topic in school is history. Sam is friends with the Rameriz Family, so they brng him to church and he wants to get baptized. So we are teaching him. That simple...He's trying to get his family to come to church with him!
Leticia is doing great. In church yesterday, they talked about missionary work and she loved it! We have been trying to get her to do missionary wrok for the past while but she says no-in church yesterday with out her realizing it, she went up and started fellowshipping an investigator!! If Sis. Howarth was still here we would have cheered! But she's not, so I rejoice in my heart. So Leti is doing great.
Robert...Well he's super excited to go do baptisms for the dead this weekend...in the temple! We are working with Leti too. Robert always tries to stump me with his "Bible Questions" which isn't hard since I'm not studying the bible right now-so now he's going to write Pres. Donaldson (who has studied the bible in HEBREW) and try to stump him. But he is doing great on his soccer team. Reading the Book of Mormon and Bible every day.
The Gonzalez Family: Ruben got the Priesthood yesterday! He is stoked about family history and their family are going to the temple this friday to do baptisms. Melissa is great most of the time. She calls me 'Dude' or 'Hna. Bakery' or 'Mana'. Findencia is always running around with the other young women or the ward. Teresita-well, I taught her thumb wars, so she's pretty good now. Let's me win every once in a while :).
We are teaching Ruben Contreras (Martha-Member). We go study the Book of Mormon with him, and we "sneek vegetables into his rice" by teaching him priciples that are in each chapter we are studying. It's pretty fun and challenging. Like when we studied 1 Nefi(STACIE'S SPELLING) 2 & 3. We taught obedience 10 Commandments. Wow, follow the prophet and 1 Nefi 1 we even taught parts of Lesson 1 with the Restoration. He's very very slowly progressing. But it is good practice.
The rest of our time is pretty much filled with tracting, jumping out of the car and chasing after people as they run away-to see if they want the hear a message about their Savior. Parking lot contacting as soon as it warms up. Park contacting! We're getting a lot of refferals for the English missionaries...they love it when we go tracting. We did knock a street and a lady said yes-she wants us to come back on saturday at 1:00 to teach her family! Her name is Rocio. That is a phrase that every missionary wants to hear!
Oh, ther is a cool old lady named Aurora Laurean that is blind and in a wheel chair-but super active member of the Barrio 20 in San Diego that we go read with every week. I'll send pictures. Anyway, she lives by herself pretty much-in a side apartment by her son's house. We go read to her, it's fun.
Yesterday, Maria Eva Ballow's Grandkids got baptized! She was IN-active an after Schallen left I didn't know any members, so we went down the ward list, found her, and at first she wasn't nice to us at all, but we kept trying and she reactivated into the english ward -so that she could take her grandkids-the elders found them at the English ward and taught them without knowing that we were working with them until we all showed up at an appointment one day. The whole spirit has change in their home. Jaqueline, their mom, likes us now! She's being reactivated by the elders now too! It's amazing to see how the Gospel not only blesses families, but changes them completly. There really is a huge difference in them, and it's not something that can be faked either.
Last week I was so sick, I completly lost my voice for 3 days...Lemme tell ya-that makes missionary work tricky...but members loaded me up with all kinds of sick tasting tea and I feel better and my voice is back. I took pictures of that too.
That's crazy about Becky and Calvin getting another kid. Send pictures.
Anyway...I guess that's pretty much it.
-Hna Baker
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