How cute is La Hermanita?

"Yeah, I am trying not to think about home....only 4 more changes is weird. I have had nightmares about going home....sometimes I just want to serve the mission for my entire life.

Well, last night was a night of waiting and anxious feelings….are we going to have changes (was I or my companion going to be moved to a different area)? The Assistant to the President finally called, and after talking for a good few seconds….we found out that….we didn't have changes! WOO HOO! I am very happy to be with my companion…Hermana Romagoza. Speaking of her…we sure have had an adventure this past week….

"Last change, everyone told me to take care of Hermana Romagoza. She is just such a doll….well at the beginning of the change she told me that her foot was starting to hurt. We are missionaries…(we walk a lot)...I didn´t think much of it. Well, last week it started to get a lot worse. So, we were by the doctor one day and we went. He gave her some antibiotics and told us to wait a couple of weeks to see what was going to happen. The next day I asked her how her foot was….she said, 'Hermana, I am not going to lie, but it really hurts.' It was swollen! So we called the doctor, and he told her to rest. She rested for a day and a half and then we went back. We got an x-ray….he is pretty sure she has a fracture. Everyone told me to take care of her…and I end up giving her a fracture L I know it isn't my fault, but we do walk a lot in this area. So, we haven't been working at full pace this past week. The more we walk, the more she hurts. Tomorrow we will know more…pray for her? Diego and Andres got confirmed (they are now members of the LDS church)…thanks for your prayers. Can you pray for their father, Marco? That he will have the will to stop smoking? And Julianna and Reyel? That they will have support from their families for their baptism? Please…thanks so much. I have a lot of work to do in this sector and I don't know if I have the energy to do it. But I know that Christ will help me...."

"God did miracles (this week). Monday I was down because of the baptisms that didn't work out. But it turns out a family that we have been teaching have been attending another ward (you have to attend at least 3 times before you can get baptised). I didn't realize that (they were attending a different ward). (Let me just interject here that a ward is simply a group of members that meet at a certain time. So this family was attending church at a different time than La Hermanita was, and she didn't realize it). And the boys told me Monday that they wanted to get baptised this Sunday!!! BLESSING! So, the entire week we went to their house to teach them the lessons. It was a great week. The mother is less active (she's a member of the LDS church but doesn't attend very often) and the husband is investigating as well. This family is AMAZING. I am so incredidably grateful to be a part of their lives right now. I love this family. We went to the temple with them on Saturday. I know the Dad will be baptised next. He just has to stop smoking first, but he will quit. This last week was amazing, teaching this family. We did so many things with them; we played soccer, went to the temple, had a get together after the baptism - they are progressing rapidly, and Diego and Andres got baptised yesterday! They will soon recieve the Priesthood and serve missions someday. This family wants to get sealed in the temple....in one year...at least after the Dad gets baptised. It is my wish to be there and see this family be sealed for time and all eternity (this means that after the family dies and leaves this life, they will still be joined as a family in the next). All the bad things that happen in the mission.....this family has made it so worth it. God is blessing me SO much."