Um, sorry I didn’t write pretty much anything last week. We spent the day, THE WHOLE DAY, in Cartago waiting for the Elders. Literally sitting there waiting, for hours. haha oh well. Now I just have to catch you up on 2 weeks of my glorious mission life! So last week was transfers. Hermana Mazariegos and I will be staying here in Turrialba:) maybe I already told you all this.... may be not, oh well. So yeah, 6 more weeks here in the heat! So far everything has been going really great here. As far as I can tell I’m the most blest I’ve ever been as a missionary! We have a beautiful little house, we make our own lunch so that means no more rice and beans, I’m not freezing from rain or wind, my companion is like my Guatemalan twin and I just love getting to be a missionary! Its like the Lord has taken all my earlier trails from my first areas (food, language, house, weather) and decided I deserve a nice little paradise for a while. I guess you could call me spoiled.
This last week I feel like I’ve been holding my breath and waiting for something to go wrong. I find myself often thinking "its to good to be true"! We had some really beautiful experiences this last week. One of them was with an investigator named Angela. She’s an eternal investigator. Her children are all members, she even has a daughter serving a mission in Chile, but she herself has never made it to baptism. We’ve been talking about her baptism for weeks now, but she got it into her head that she wanted to wait for her daughter to come home so that she could be there when she was baptized. In their Christmas call she asked her daughter if shed like her to wait and she said "don’t wait for me mom, Jesus is waiting for you". The next day we went over to her house to visit. We had her close her eyes as we read 3 Nephi 11 when Jesus Christ appears to the Nephites and he invites them to be baptized. She began to cry and when she opened her eyes we had the clothes held out in front of her. We told her that the Savior had the same invitation for her and that he’d like to see her dressed in white too. It was very special and if everything works out the way we’ve got it planned Angela will be baptized this Saturday:) Yay!!!
Other people who have been progressing this week, Adrian. The one who showed up to church by himself a few weeks ago. He is so awesome! One of the Recent Converts has been visiting him with us cause they’re long time friends. They’re so cute! Just reading their scriptures together and stuff. Pray that he will accept a date to be baptized!
Katherine and Gerardo. Their family is so great I love them. The only problem is that they don’t want to get married and we can’t figure out why. They’ve been together for 15 years; they have 3 children (12,6,3 years old). And they are happy and in love! Casase! Wow. Any advice from the older generation (ah! my generation too guess since some of yall are married and stuff...weird) on how we can help them have the desire to be married?
We’ve also been finding a lot of less active families who have kids over 9 who haven’t been baptized yet. We’re working really hard with them so that they can be reactivated and their kids can be baptized. 2 last things, Sunday we spent the day in Noche Buena and every house we went to and just asked if we could come in and share a message about jesus Christ they opened the door wide and let us in. 5 times in a row. 5! It was something incredible.
Our last, but one of my favorite, experiences of the week... so we have these new neighbors. They’re kind of crazy. Its a mixed up family with friends and cousins and sobrinas boyfriends and all kinds of people living in their house.one night we went over to see if we could share a message with them and they let us in and we had a really sweet experience with lesson 2, the plan of salvation. The next day we were walking home when we saw 2 of them walking, we stopped to say hi to them. As we turned to keep walking the man stopped us and asked if we could help them get married. He said that 2 other missionaries had passed by once and talked to them about how marriage can be eternal and he said that they would really like to be able to have an eternal family. He said that he knew it would require being married, baptized and a lot of other things in the process but they were willing to do it. It was so cute:) yay for families!
Well I gotta run guys,
Love you all and miss you buckets! Lots of prayers from Costa Rica,
All my love,
Hermana Kugath
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