Week 33

i got moved to the top of Scotland! like the highest place you can go for sisters besides the islands, so i was traveling from 6am-10pm yesterday and all this morning and i finally made it to my new area. its called elgin. 

our friend Fausto got baptized last week!

love you!

Week 32

The pday ruins were cool. I think the ruins was like an old castle. i don’t know. but it was very beautiful when you got to the top of it. 

Fiona got baptized it was so cute! She had to get dunked like 5 times though because when she would go under the water she would just float on the water and she got a belly and it was just stick out of the water. i was dying, cute girl. 

homeboys are good they are still taking the lessons, the one i think will be for sure is bukhosi. 

we have move calls this week and i think i will be moving, but i hope to stay in the republic. 

yes i write in my journals sometimes hahha i need to be better at that. 

we taught a guy last night named alex who had referred himself online and we went over and he was just like i am lost and i know that God is there and want to learn more. he is pretty cool.

my homegirl fiona

it was a party after the baptism

the ruins

Week 31

our district

Week 30

So my homegirl Sister Carabott peaced out of here, sooo i have gotten a new companion but stayed in Limerick which is such a blessing because we have a great teaching pool right now. I was very sad to say bye to Sister Carabott but it is for the best:) 

We went street finding on Saturday and I started talking to this guy named Bukohsi and he is from Zimbabwe. We started talking about the book of mormon and he was so interested that we sat down right then and there and we started to teach him. He said he only had a couple minutes to sit because his cousin was coming. Well 15 minutes into the lesson his cousin Menzie rollls up and he sits down and we start teaching him as well. they both really liked what we shared with them and they both accepted a baptism date for the end of this month! It was sick. Then we invited them to church and Menzie said that he would be able to make it, but Bukohsi said he was going to be out of town on sunday. SO the next day, on Sunday, we go to pick Menzie up from the bus stop and he and his friend walk off the bus and he says he "i hope you don't mind that i brought my other cousin Bryan with me?" We were like lets gooo! IT was awesome, Menzie rolled up wearing a leather jacket with his named written on the back of it haha. But the church service started and at the end of church Menzie said that he felt very happy there and that he believes everything that we teach him and what the church says and that he is so excited for his baptism. And Bryan loved it so much that he wanted to be baptized as well! So we put him on date also! Menzie said he was going to go home and tell Bukohsi how great church was and that he needs to come with him next week! it was amazing! 

Then later that Sunday our branch president comes up to me and my companion and says, "this family that is in our branch comes to church every sunday but aren't baptized and their 8 year old daughter just said she wanted to be baptized." so we are teaching that family right now. they are from Nigeria. there names are Gledys (the mom), Hillary (12 yr old sister), and Fiona (8 yrs old). So Fiona is getting baptized next week and we are going to try to get her family to be baptized with her :) It was a week of miracles, thats all i am going to say. I swear God was like these girls are struggling, i will give em some good people lol. 

I went on exchanges this week with my homegirl Sister Osmond in Dublin and it was great. we had a fun time and she helped me with a lot of things. It was a crazy week with everything going on so we decided that we were going to go to the Hard Rock Cafe. probably not the best idea for my wallet butttttt it was worth it. We sat at the bar and just ordered appetizers and i felt like a normal person again lol. it was great! 

1 .Me and Elder Haynes with our tall ice creams 

2. Me and Sister Carabott eating food

3. Me and sister carabott on our last day together

Week 29

i really dont know what to write about this week. it was a pretty frustrating week to be honest.

Yesterday we went to a members house for a dinner appointment and teach our investigator Rodrigo who we haven't taught in a long time. I was really excited to finally teach him and so after dinner we started to teach him and the member family started going off about how great the temple is and how they were able to get sealed together and started talking about the freakin 12 tribes of Israel! it was insane haha but very frustrating. but we got him back on track so we were able to make it out all right.

We were teaching our investigator Mike who was so set for baptism and he was so excited to be baptized. then we taught him the law of chastity and he dropped the ball. he is living with his girlfriend and their daughter. He said he was going to go home and talk with her about everything and next day we met with him and apparently she freaked out on him and got upset that he was investigating the church sooooo he told us that in the next couple of days he will tell us what he wants to do about his baptism so that sucked. very sad.

Then we taught our friend Ali, that one dude that we met on the street that was from Brazil who named his dog Salt after Salt Lake City. we go to meet him and he completely just dropped us as well. It was actually very sad. it has been an interesting week haha.

Me and my companion were doing companion study in Burger King and she was pretty upset about something so i got up in the window sill and danced in the window. if that doesn't make anybody happy i don't know what will.

We met with our friend Lisa who has been taught everything and she was struggling a little bit the past couple weeks. we sat down with her and she was so great and had been keeping her commitments! Then we sat there and asked her all the baptismal questions and she accepted all of them which is so amazing because when the missionaries first started teaching her she had no belief in God at all. The spirit was so strong during her lesson, we all got emotional haha.

I hope you all have a good week :)