Bautismo de Paloma!!

Oh what a great week!!

We saw so many miracles dealing with Paloma´s baptism this week! So we were able to get Paloma´s mom to sign the papers for her baptism on Tuesday and we were beyond happy, but then on Thursday ( the day before her interview) Paloma told us that her mom said she couldn´t get baptized because they got in an argument. WHAT??

We were so distressed about what to do, but we taught Paloma about repentance again and she said she would ask forgiveness from her mom and ask if she could get baptized again. Anyway, we called her on Friday and she said her mom still hadn´t given her permission, so we went to talk to her mom. Her mom was super nice and as she saw us talking to Paloma and trying to get her to apologize, the heart of her mom was softened and she let Paloma go to the interview! Woo Hoo! Paloma passed the interview with flying colors and after was so excited for her baptism! 

 

The next day, Saturday, Hermana Morinigo and I went to the chapel to clean and fill the font. It took two hours but we entertained ourselves by singing our lessons to each other. I´m getting really good at making up songs about the prophets and Joseph Smith. I think I´m going to record a cd when I get home. :) Anyway, we went to get Paloma after the comida (meal) and she was so excited.

 

She would have run to the church if Hermana Moringio could walk faster. We were so happy, and she had us take a ton of pictures of her in her baptismal dress. One Hermano asked her if she was nervous and she said, YES! And when he asked why, she said, "because it's my first time getting baptized!" We laughed a lot at that and then afterward made sure she knew that this was going to be the only time she was baptized too. 

 

The elders and nosotras (us) sang "Cuando me bautice" (When I am Baptized) for a special musical number and she teared up. It was so precious :) After she got baptized she couldn´t stop smiling and kept telling us how good she felt and how much she liked it. Seriously, it was the best day of my mission so far! To see someone that I taught enter into such a special covenant with Heavenly Father is so special! 

 

Hermana Morinigo is using a cane right now to help her walk. Poor girl looks like a grandma but the youngest and cutest grandma I´ve ever seen :) We went to the doctor because her foot had swollen up again and was hurting and he said she needs to rest again so this week she is going to stay in the house of familia Echeverria and I´m going back out with the members! Woo hoo! More training!

 

I guess Heavenly Father really wants me to learn to not rely on anyone else but Him. I´m really grateful for the experience though :)

 

One day this week we were crossing the street and Herman Morinigo has to go slow cuz her foot hurts and she thought she was being funny and she just stops in the middle of the street with cars coming and says, "I think I need to take a break." I practically carried her out of the street and told her she wasn´t funny. But in reality it was pretty funny and she laughed a lot while my heart calmed down and then I started to laugh with her. She´ll be the death of me, in the best way possible :)

 

This week I learned something very traumatic. I´M NOT READY TO GET MARRIED! Who would have thought! We were at a member's house and I offered to cut the tomatoes and onions and she told me that we´re going to see if I´m ready to get married or not by the way I cut them. I was super nervous and I tried to cut them super thin but I failed miserably. Well, atleast I have 15 more months to learn how to cut tomatoes and onions right! I´ve been practicing all week and I´m going to be so prepared for married by the end of my mission :)

 

Also this week I ate a chicken foot. It was very interesting but it looked like a baby´s hand. I had to be very careful not to eat the bones but the meat tasted like chicken. But I had to close my eyes as I ate it because it didn´t want to imagine eating a baby hand. That was my experience for the week :)

 

All this week we studied about how we can recognize the spirit more and use the spirit more in our lessons and yesterday we had an incredible experience with an investigator named Sandra. We taught her about the Spirit and it was the first time I felt the spirit super strong in one of my lessons and I felt the guide of the spirit to help her learn to recognize how she recieved her answer. She could feel the sprirt too and she was super interested in our lesson. I was so grateful for this experience and I can´t wait to have more and more experiences like this one. 

 

Well Family! I love you guys a lot! I´m doing better with my Spanish and my confidence in my lessons has improved. I´m like a whole new person! I have never been so happy as I am right now :)

I LOVE YOU ALL!

 

Love,

Hermana Huff

This is Dana! My mexican version of Summer!

 

Happy Birthday Shelly! I love you!:)

 

Because Hermana Morinigo can´t carry anything I carry everything!

 

It´s so fun to serve her :)

 

 

 

 

Paloma!!

 

And her Aunt Bertha

 

Paloma and Shayla

 

My Chicken Foot!

 

I can't think of a clever subject line ...

Well, I´m definitely getting trained, but it is in a completely different way than normal missionaries. So Monday we went to the doctor for Hermana Morinigo and turns out Hermana Morinigo needed a week of rest for her foot. So this week was a little strange but really good for my confidence in my teaching and my espanol.

 

Hermana Morinigo obviously couldn´t walk which means she couldn´t leave to do lessons, and I thought that meant I couldn´t leave to do lessons, but boy was I wrong. Tuesday and Wednesday I left to teach lessons with the hermanas in our ward. Between the two days I had 7 new companions. It sure was a party. Hermana Morinigo stayed in the house of a member and I was left all alone to fend for myself during the lessons. I was SUPER nervous but turns out I can teach people all by myself! Who would have thought?! 

 

So pretty much I was training myself this week, well actually Heavenly Father was training me, but still. I truly believe that Heavenly Father sent us this trial so that I could gain more confidence in my teaching and in myself because I was having a problem with my confidence these past few weeks. I´m so grateful for this opportunity I had to teach alone and not have anyone else to rely on. 

 

But by the end of the two days I was missing Hermana Morinigo a lot! She was able to walk by Friday so we started little by little, each day walking a little more but anytime she felt pain or started to get really tired we headed back to the house because we didn´t want to push her and end up making her injury worse. So needless to say we were in the house more than normal, but I have been able to serve my companion, so I didn´t feel bad about being in the house.

 

She, on the other hand, was pretty discouraged this week because she felt horrible that I am being trained like this and that we can´t work as hard as before, but I assured her that this is the best training I could get, and I am so grateful that I have this opportunity to serve her because then I forget about myself and my problems. 

 

I always call her my baby because I take care of her so much right now. Every morning I make her breakfast (Yeah, I actually make breakfast, and we haven´t died yet, it´s a miracle right?) and then I heat up water so she can put her foot in the water, and apparently that takes away the swelling and the pain, and then I do everything else she needs. I don´t have any time to think about myself it´s the most fantastic thing ever! 

 

This week we have our first baptism!!!! Oh I am so excited!! We have definitely seen SOOO many miracles this week! Paloma is getting baptized on Saturday. She is so fantastic and so excited. We had a really cool experience with her this week. We taught her the word of wisdom and when we talked about not drinking coffee she got kind of upset because apparently she drinks coffee every morning and she loves it.

 

She agreed to try to not drink coffee the next day but we left really worried because if she has a problem with the Word of Wisdom we would have to postpone her baptism another week, and we didn´t want to do that! Anyway, we prayed so hard that night for her to receive strength to quit drinking coffee and to help her find a way to motivate herself to not drink it. The next day we went to visit her and we were super worried to ask her if she drank coffee but we finally did and SHE DIDN¨T DRINK HER COFFEE THAT MORNING!! She said that she woke up earlier to go running while everyone else made the coffee and she made sure that she ran long enough that by the time she got home there was no more coffee. How great is she?? Next week I´ll send pictures of her baptism :) 

 

Oh I also saw another miracle this week with the food. We eat with the Elders everyday at a members house and the members always ask us what we want to eat, and this week it was Elder Chavez´s turn to pick what we ate and guess what he chose ... Sushi. When I saw that we were eating sushi I looked at the Elders and they both started laughing cuz they knew I hate sushi.

 

They gave us 14 rolls each. FOURTEEN! I only almost threw up twice and I every time I put a roll in my mouth I said a little prayer and apparently my face was hilarious cuz the Elders could not stop laughing. But I ate all 14 of those sushi rolls. I was so proud of myself! 

 

Another interesting thing we ate this week was nopal which is cactus. It was actually pretty good! They take the cactus piece and make it kind of like a pita pocket and then stuff it with bacon and ham and cheese. I don´t know why we don´t do that in Arizona ... We have so many cacti it´s like free food. 

 

Well I love you all and I am so grateful that I´m out here even though it is hard! I just hope I can help people find the joy and light of the gospel! 

 

Love,

Hermana Huff

One year for Hermana Morinigo!!

THursday she completed one year in the mission! Apparently no one burns anything for completing a year but I made her pick a shirt to burn. She was really sad but after she felt good about it! I was glad to start this tradition with her :)

Yeah, not for me. For Hermana Morinigo!

14 sushi rolls??

Before and after of my sushi experience!

We take a ton of taxis right now cuz Hermana Morinigo can´t walk...

I made that food!!