The Work is Progressing in Rose Park

This week has been another good one!

 

On Saturday, we got to do a big service project at the local community center.  It was 3 zones of missionaries and it was so fun.  Our group was painting and of course it turned into everyone painting each other and then they put us in a room and told us to paint whatever we wanted on the walls.  It was super fun! I loved it!

 

Then later on Saturday, we has Eva's baptism!!!! Oh my goodness, she's so amazing! The spirit was so strong in her baptism, everyone could feel it, even her kids.  She has 3 kids : Paco, Chris, and Alexandra.  We have been teaching Paco and Chris but Alex hasn't been willing to sit down and listen to us.  She usually just says "I'm catholic, I don't want to change.  I'm fine where I am."  And then she goes back to her room.  But after her Eva got baptized I went into the dressing room and Alex was in there waiting for her too.  I asked her, "so what do you think?" And she said, "it was really cool.  I felt something different, I don't know what but I liked it."  And I said "well, we're having another baptism on May 8th.  Will you get baptized on May 8th?"  And she said "YES!  Can Chris get baptized with me too?"  It was so cool!!!  SO now it turns out that Alex and Chris are going to get baptized together on May 8th.  And Chris has a friend from school that is on our ward that he wants to baptize him.  It was so amazing how things just worked out so well.  It's all proof that this is the Lord's work.  And that His hand is in every aspect of it.  Oh ya....and when Eva was leaving the baptism she gave me a huge hug and wouldn't let go and said "I love you!!!" (In English)  It almost made me cry.  It was probably the most sincere 'I love you' I've ever heard.  She's just the sweetest lady ever!

 

I wrote about Eva's family when we found her but I want it all to connect who she is....Hermana Hernandez and I had been praying to find a family of 5 for about 7 or 8 weeks and we hadn't found them.  Then one day, we were tracting and we talked to some members who said that their neighbors across the street had just moved in and they speak Spanish but they're catholic and they're probably not interested.  But we went anyway and we met Eva right then.  Nobody else was home but we found out that they were a family of 5.  And that day she told us that she wanted us to come again when all of her family was home so that they could learn about God's word too.  (they always say "God's word")  Anyways, it turns out that the Lord is blessing us in enormous ways because all of the family is progressing.  Even her husband who really hasn't wanted anything to do with us.  At her baptism we handed out papers for people to write something to Eva and her husband wrote the sweetest note to her.  He said that he is so grateful for this step that she has taken in her life because he knows that it is going to bring their family even closer together.  I almost cried when I was reading it....vamos Meche!!!!!

 

We've received so many blessings from the Lord in this week.  Last Monday the assistants came and we talked about the people that we are going to put on date this week to get baptized.  After we picked a few people who we thought would be ready,  we knelt down and prayed right there to promise the Lord that we're going to do it.  Then it turned out that 2 of the people that we told the Lord we were going to put on date moved out of our area.  We were so bummed.  But then the Lord put 2 other people (Bonifacio and Alex) in our path who we weren't expecting(to make up for the people that moved out of our area).  WOW!  Sometimes I feel like we don't deserve the miracles that the Lord blesses us with.

 

Also on Saturday we went to temple square with Marilu.  It was really fun.  She's told us before how much she dislikes the missionaries and she didn't even know why she let us in in the first place.  Bu

t we've been getting to k now her better and better.  It's been really fun.  And she HATES to take pictures and on Saturday we wanted to take a picture with her and she said no but then she said, "ok...fine,  I'll take one...but only one! Only because it's with you two."  I almost fell over backwards....she's super stubborn but super sweet and she's finally opening up to us more.  I attached the picture of us at temple square.  Oh ya.....and while I was there, there were about 20 couples getting married and one of them was James Sullivan and his new wife! I talked to them for just a minute and had to keep going but it was super awkward as a missionary!!! HAHA! Never thought that would happen!

 

Yesterday we went over to Eva's to learn how to make tamales!!! It was so much fun! Now I k now so when I came home we can make tamales!!!!  She is SOSOSOSO funny! Everything she says is super witty and sarcastic and she makes fun of herself all the time (Same as her kids).  Their family is really fun.  We love spending time with them.  I attached some pictures of the tamale process.  I started mixing the masa, Eva was worried that my hair was going to fall in the bowl so she tied it up with a zebra scarf.  That's why I'm wearing that in almost all the pictures.  haha...it was pretty funny.  Tamales are a lot og work but totally worth it when you're done.  They were SOOSOSOSO good!

 

Anyways, I love you all so so much! I hope all is well with all of you!!!  speaking of...CAM CONGRATULATIONS~~ England!!!!!  You're gonna come home with an accent!!!! That's so exciting!

 

Tay Tay I hope you're feeling better.  I heard you guys came down for Sam's Rugby game...That was so nice of  you!

 

con muchisimo amor

Hermana Taylor

 

 

PS: last week I got my haircut and I actually really like it.  It's a lot shorter, but I'm doing it straight now.