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| Photo from Washington City (home).....this is where Austin worked before his mission. We were driving home on Sunday this week and we had just had a rainstorm with LOTS of lightening. Saw this beautiful rainbow and had to stop to take a quick photo with the blurry Blackberry. |
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:07 AM
I got T's bit of good news! It's nice to hear that Wonder Boy is back at it! :D I loved the picture of the Community Center. It looks at lot better when it rains at home! It's been raining here for the past couple of days, and it always seems to rain harder when I grab the bike.... Hmmm...
So that's where we begin the rain. Elder Homewood and I were on the bikes Wednesday. And it was raining cats and dogs. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Quik at one point was in the storm with us! We were fortunate that Elder Ramsey and Gonzalez left us off a little bit closer, but we still had a good uphill bike. Not to mention the flat tire I got halfway up the hill! I don't know what it is, but rain just causes more problems than it fixes.. For Missionaries at least! After the good half an hour of being pummeled by "Quiks" falling out of the sky Elder Homewood and I went to our lesson with the Batistas. We got to teach Julio the Plan of Salvation. We watered it down to you need to be good, repent, listen to your mom, and then you can be with her forever in the Celestial Kingdom. Afterwards I was pumped! With his Baptism coming at the end of the week everything seemed to be falling into place. Unfortunately we didn't see them for our next visit, and they didn't make it to church. It's been hard getting this family there, but it's going to happen!
The story with Alma just keeps taking more interesting turns. We've taught around three lessons with her; get her a ride to a lawyer to get some advice, and another to her court hearing. Getting all of this coordinated with her was stressful, especially when these two events were during work hours. With the trip to the lawyer we were able to get a ride from my favorite Guatemalan Juan Santos. As for the ride to the court we couldn't find a ride, so we gave our wallets a sorry hug, and shelled out $30 for a cab. With all of this going down she trusts us. I hope we can take that trust and put it in the Book of Mormon. She has been reading a bit of it, but we hope that she has a solid testimony of it before her baptism on the 8th of October.
The other Elders also had their Baptism Thursday for Isaac Howell. He is the son of Sister Valdez. The crazy part of this whole situation, Isaac doesn't speak a lick of Spanish. It's interesting he is going to a Spanish Branch, and especially interesting that his service was in English, and there were Hispanics that don't really know English supporting him. I thought it was great! I was able to give a talk about the Holy Ghost before Isaac was baptized by Brother Krueger. Isaac was later confirmed a member by Elder Ramsey in sacrament meeting yesterday.
The story with Alma just keeps taking more interesting turns. We've taught around three lessons with her; get her a ride to a lawyer to get some advice, and another to her court hearing. Getting all of this coordinated with her was stressful, especially when these two events were during work hours. With the trip to the lawyer we were able to get a ride from my favorite Guatemalan Juan Santos. As for the ride to the court we couldn't find a ride, so we gave our wallets a sorry hug, and shelled out $30 for a cab. With all of this going down she trusts us. I hope we can take that trust and put it in the Book of Mormon. She has been reading a bit of it, but we hope that she has a solid testimony of it before her baptism on the 8th of October.
The other Elders also had their Baptism Thursday for Isaac Howell. He is the son of Sister Valdez. The crazy part of this whole situation, Isaac doesn't speak a lick of Spanish. It's interesting he is going to a Spanish Branch, and especially interesting that his service was in English, and there were Hispanics that don't really know English supporting him. I thought it was great! I was able to give a talk about the Holy Ghost before Isaac was baptized by Brother Krueger. Isaac was later confirmed a member by Elder Ramsey in sacrament meeting yesterday.
This past week we hit the midpoint of the transfer. I wonder how much time I still have left in this area, but whatever the Lord wants me to do I will do!
I love you all so much! Thank you for the peanut butter, y papa ya tu sabes que dijo la tarjeta! Les amo, ye les vaya bien esta semana especialmente con El Lotoja!
Para Siempre,
Elder A. Ipson
The Great Ohio Columbus Mission
P.S. Temple clothes. I'm good. Companion.... Said he's good.. So we'll see if I'll need anything else later.
P.S.S. Thank you for sending that hoodie. When it's cold before bed, suit coats don't always cut it!
P.S.S.S. Is this Uke. a myth? It still hasn't made it to the "Nasty Natty", but I will keep waiting for it.
P.S.S.S.S. Oh yeah stamps... I'M PRETTY GOOD! Haven't sent out too many letters as of late. So I have a nice little stash of stamps.
