La Boda! (Wedding)

10-20-14

Hola Mamacita! 

Yesterday we had a wedding! Christina and Samuel got married by the branch president and the ward threw them a wedding. Christina has been coming to church for years, but she has never gotten baptized. Then several weeks ago her boyfriend (Samuel) left for New Jersey, and the missionaries were able to baptize her. Then about two weeks, Samuel came back and the Hermanas were worried, La ley de Castidad! But Samuel is very impressed with the change in Christina that he is now investigating the church and they got married! I'm really hoping we can baptize Samuel within the next couple weeks, he is very interested.

Comment from Hermana Griffith   Christias and Samuels wedding...

Hermana Griffith, Hermana Twitchell, Hermana Burke

We're having another wedding hopefully in November or December as well. Franco y Norma have been living together and Franco isn't a member, but he wants to get baptized so bad! We're just waiting for some papers.

Because I am the new missionary, every single visit we go to, I get the opportunity to say a prayer. All the members and investigators like to hear me pray, and when we are meeting people, Hna. Griffith insists that I pray. I need to come up with more things I can pray about. :P One time I prayed at the end of the lesson, and I asked the Lord to bless our investigator, Maria... it turns out her name was Francesca, well most of the women we meet are named Maria... Haha I need to get better at remembering names. Thank goodness I'm pretty sure Francesca couldn't hear because she doesn't have the best hearing and we were outside. :P

We never ever tract. We always just go off of referrals that we have received and we receive a lot. We get them from the members and from missionaries that go tracting and find Spanish speakers. Often we contact people that we see outside on the street, but we never knock on doors unless someone refers us to them. It's kind of unproductive to tract with us being Spanish speakers in Sacramento. Even in the center of Sac, we would still speak a lot of English.

My Spanish is okay. It's kind of hard to practice with it in a trio because we try to divide the time teaching equally between the three of us, but then I don't know much, Hna. Burke knows a little bit more, and Hna. Griffith knows a lot. I am getting better though. The member in our branch are very helpful and a lot of them speak English so they can kind of know what I am trying to say. It's really bad though, because then they just want to talk in English and I think, "No! I need to practice my Spanish!" I'm getting a little better though. Slowly but surely it will come.

I think just something that I need to work on is being BOLD! Because I'm not, and that's a problem. As D&C 6:19 (...or somewhere around there) says, "Doubt not; Fear not." So I'm really trying to rely on the Lord and focus on being bold in Spanish and during lessons because I learn the most when I'm BOLD! and I don't feel like a very good missionary unless I'm BOLD! The moral of the story: Be BOLD! :P En serio

I finally met my sister training leader and she served in Folsom! She asked me if I knew a woman named Elicia Spencer. And I said, "Oh my gosh! She was my music teacher!" She said she had been teaching her for 6 months and that she was really interested in church and the Book of Mormon. It was so much fun to hear about Ms. Spencer. She is such an awesome person! 

I'm so glad everyone's doing good in the family! Give all the babies a hug and a kiss from me!

Mama! I told you not to cut your hair until I come home because I'm not cutting my hair! What's going on? That's okay, I still love you!

Para Siempre Dios este con Vos

Con Amor,

Hermana Twitchell

 Which Glasses do you Like?  

Hermana Griffith - Hermana Burke  - Hermana Twitchell
Comment from Hermana Griffith :  picture with the glasses we were teaching some young girls and they wanted us to wear them.