Well, I hope everyone had a great week! This week was really good. Leonardo Pedriel was baptized and confirmed! He is such a sweet kid. The young men's president baptized him and it was so sweet to see how happy they both were! Now all we need is to baptize their dad!
This week the Choque's son, Jose carmelo, is getting baptized. He's thirteen and is a little different, but is really sweet and I'm so excited for him. His dad is going to do it, which I'm soooooo excited for! They are just so great. I love them so much.
I always forget to talk about Maria Elena Gil, the menos activo that we have been able to help come back to church. She's so great. Her mom is in the presidency of the relief society and her brother is menos activo also, so the elders have been working with him. But it's really funny because we literally visited her once and then she started coming back to church. She got a calling the second Sunday she came back and hasn't missed a Sunday since. So she's been active now for about a month. She accompanies us on visits, is doing her visiting teaching, and is fufilling her calling to the fullest. She's 22 and is so great. I just love her. The best part is she acts like she's been active forever. We taught her the other day about the plan of salvation and mid lesson she asked us "hermanas, why do some people leave the truth and the church?" Hermana Feddock and I were like, well hermana, there are a lot of reasons. After we had to laugh a little because like three weeks ago that was her. But she's so great, the other day she showed us the metas (goals) she has and one of them is to go to the temple and be married and raise her kids in the gospel.
Hermana Feddock and I always have lots of fun and I always forget to write about those stories too! But, this week on Thursday night we were walking to our very last cita and it was kinda raining, but not a ton. Anyways, in Bolivia rain equals flood and it started to pour. We're talking Noah and the flood pour. We huddled under a little tienda roof for about five minutes and then decided to ask the lady for plastic bags to put our bagpacks in so all our stuff didn't get wet. So, we stuffed our backpacks in plastic bags and took off running. We were completely soaked in about .5 seconds. The water was up to our mid calves and it was hard to see, but we ran on. We rain past the church and some members were waiting outside and when they saw us running past they started cheering us on. It was hilarious. I was dying. I wish you could have seen it.
Anyways, the mission is great. It's hands down the greatest thing I've ever done. I'll be eternally grateful for the opportunity I have to serve. I'm loving every second of it. The church is true and this is the Lord's work. I know that because everyday miracles happen that make me so grateful that He is in charge and I'm not. I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Hermana Willes
Baptism of Leonardo Pedriel
Hermana Willes after surviving the downpour
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