Olympic: Traslado 6: Semana 2 / Sept. 13, 2010

Hola Familia!
 
I had a really great week. It has been a lot of work getting to know everyone in this area, but I am so excited for this transfer. We've been coming up with a lot of great ideas of how to do the work more efficiently. It is so great to have a companion that has a such a similar perspective and is willing to try new things. She had a really good idea to mail our picture with our phone number and a note to all of the members that live in our area, so we are doing that today. We are also going to start doing a Family Home Evening in an retirement complex where a lot of members from our ward live. We've been working with a really sweet older woman named Hortencia who is in her seventies. Her son just got baptized a couple of months ago, and she sat in in all of the lessons and has a testimony of everything she has been taught for the past few months, the only thing is that she doesn't want to be baptized because she is afraid of changing and has all of her friends at the Catholic church. We are hoping that through having this FHE with all of the cute old members in the ward and her that she will be able to meet some friends and feel comfortable with being baptized. We are also working with a man named Fernando. He is about 30 and his girlfriend Monika is a recent convert. He is searching for the truth and really wants to get that same conviction in his life that she has. I have loved meeting all of these new amazing people and just throwing myself into the work, but at the same time not being too serious about it. Sister Garza is really funny and a lot of fun to be with, so she helps me lighten up and just laugh at myself. She got a real kick out of finding out that my mom married her zone leader, so she likes to tease me a lot and joke around about that. :)
 
Well, I don't really have much time to write this week, but like I said I'm doing really good. I love you all!
 
Hermana Dansie