Querida Familia :)
Hey guys! Sorry I didn’t write at all last week, someone (mom haha) distracted me. So now I get to tell you double about what’s happened these weeks:)
First of all Angela was baptized!!! It was super special. There were so many things going wrong that at first it seemed impossible, but with a Little bit of patience and a whole lot of prayer we got through it. We don’t have a chapel right now so we had to go to a public pol to have the baptism. When we arrived there was a huge wedding going on! Luckily we found a Little back room just big enough to have our meeting. A lot of people turned up, even people we weren’t expecting. So many people came that the brownies we had made weren’t enough! That was a huge blessing. My favorite part was when we got to take pictures with Angela and her family. We’d decorated a little table with pictures of Christ, brownies, and a picture of her daughter that’s on a misión in Chile. She grabbed the photo of her daughter off the table and held it in the picture so she could be in the photo too:) yay!!!
We have 2 other people who are preparing to be baptized in February. The first guy is named Alfonzo. He’s the father of a member of the church and has been receiving the missionaries for a long time, but this is the first time Hermanas have been able to visit him. His wife recently passed away and he told us that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to be baptized and be with her again. He’s already fought for 2 months to overcome smoking and drinking and when we told him he had to stop drinking coffee to he just said "okay Hermanas’ desde ya no mas" (okay from now on no more). He and his family went to the store and took a picture of him waving goodbye to alcohol haha with a caption that says "hasta nunca" or until never! He’s getting ready to be baptized the 6th of February.
The other investigator were preparing is named Adrian. He’s the boyfriend of one of my favorite members, hermana Carmen (she washes our clothes, like our misión mom haha). He is like my miracle investigator. He does EVERYTHING we tell him to do and MORE. He’s read all the pamphlets and the chapters of the Book of Mormon that we’ve left him. He decided to start Reading everyday from the book of Mormon and is already through 1st Nephi. He’s come to church 5 times in a row and always arrives early. He told us he looks forward to the day when he can take the sacrament as a member of the church. Hermana Carmen gave him a tie last week and he said that he didn’t have Sunday pants to go with his White shirt and tie. We told him jeans were fine and that he should just come in the best he had. But when we saw him on Sunday he came in a pair of new slacks that he’d bought especially for church:):):):):) we love him! He’s preparing for the 13th of February! Please pray for them. They need strength to overcome the obstacles that would keep them from being baptized and they need to be able to recognize the answers that our heavenly father will give them.
Something else awesome that happened is that a new family moved into our Ward. They’re gringos!!! The weaver family moved here for the next 4 or 5 months just to take a family break between moving their houses. They have 3 kids. Mitchell, 8- Kate, 6- and Jane, 4. They’re adorable! They don’t speak any Spanish except the mom who only semi speaks. But they’re a huge example to me of keeping the Sabbath day holy. Although they don’t understand anything of the meetings they come to take the sacrament every week. aaaaannnnddd... they have a pool in their house! Maybe we won’t have to use the public pool for baptisms anymore:)
One more fun experience from this week. Our Ward mission has a friend named Aaron. We’ve been waiting weeks to be able to teach him and finally this week we could! We had an fhe with Roberto and his mom and we watched The Testaments. Afterward we explained about the Book of Mormon and gave him one with chapter 22 of Alma marked (you know, where it talks about the missionary Aaron and how awesome he was!). A few days later we visited him again and asked how it was going with the B of M. he read the whole chapter and told us all about how the King had been converted and how he like the King, wanted to be able to know God better. We had a sweet lesson about the restoration and the spirit was really strong. You could just see it in his face that he was feeling and understanding that what we said was true!
Anyways, I love you guys so much! I feel so blessed to be a missionary and represent the Savior here in Turrialba. It’s such a sweet and special experience to get to testify of all the truths that we as a family hold so dear. Well I’m just about written out, have a great week fam! Lots of prayers from Costa Rica:)
All My Love,
Hermana Kugath
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