Success!

Hola! Como estan? Frutal 2 is thriving. Thanks for the emails and everything! I feel good about the work we are doing, but there is always more to be done and I know we can always improve in our efforts. But having Hna Ramos here is amazing! She is an incredible missionary and I have learned so much from her. I am also learning a lot from Hna Moeai, she is great too! This week we had the baptism of Christian Castro, he is a 13 year old varon and is so pilas! he really has a spirit of gold, already talking about where he wants to go on his mission, asking questions about the temple because he got to go see the temple with some members in the ward. And wow we worked so hard to have him be baptized. He has been through so much with his family, his grandma really isnt that good of an influence, and just one thing after another...but we arrived to pick him up for church after 40 minutes of waiting and trying to find a taxi or bus!! There were just randomly no buses, of course that would happen on this particular morning. It was nuts, Satan was really working hard on all of us, but he was baptized right after the meetings. I have all the faith in the world in him, after having been through a lot, that he will be one of those people that turns their life around and will give his future family a better life than he had. We´re still working with Rosa Liliana who is surrounded by family members in the gospel and has a testimony, just is a very nervous person and has a really hard time making decisions and also has a heart condition that makes it hard to come to church sometimes, but she is so pilas! And guess what!!!! Emiliana and Pedro came to church!!!!!!!!!! you have no idea how huge this is. Emiliana is an inactive grandma and her son Pedro, who baptized her nonetheless, havent been coming to church since December. But, with this awesome Plan Proceso Misional in the ward, we have a good active family assigned to one inactive family to have a noche de hogar with them every week. It´s an awesome plan and theres more to it, but essentially, we have been having these FHE´s con Emiliana and the Familia Gomez for four weeks! We have repassed the lessons with Emiliana and she is always bien positiva during the lessons, but then on Sunday she has an exucse that she cant come. But this last week we decided to teach about, whats dia de reposo in English? anyway, sorry i cant remember right now! but the importance of Sunday and she loved it and then guess who walks into Sacrament meeting...both of them!!! Oh man that was an awesome feeling and an answer to many, many prayers. Then there was this other hermana, Anita, who just decided to show up at church because she found a Book of Mormon in her daughter´s house and started reading it and loved the message in it about Jesus Christ. So now we´re going to start teaching her this week! Keep praying that we´ll find the chosen people, love you all!
This week in PME and my scripture study I learned a lot about tithing. We have taught quite a few lessons about tithing last week, so I decided to study it more. We are so blessed to be able to pay tithing. We are blessed a hundred and ten times the amount we are asked to sacrifice, and for that, it shows that God is such a merciful God. He asks so little and we receive so much. In the mission we have a ´reserve fund´ that Pres. Baldwin has been inspired to implement, that every missionary puts 10 percent of our asignacion in this reserve fund. It serves two purposes, it prepares us and helps us be in the habit of paying tithing for the rest of our lives and also we have money on hand if we need to take an emergency trip to the capital or something like that. I really like it. President is pretty strict but very nice and Hna Baldwin is a gem, love her!
Mol, thanks for the packages! I also got the Ensign! I love conference and I cant believe we´re only three months away from hearing the prophets again! We´re going to start inviting the world to come see conference because in Guatemala time, sometimes three months isnt enough time for them to prepare and remember to come!!! haha love these people, they run on warner standard time most of the time. We were also busy this week with baby showers and teaching sunday school, helping our neighbors move(yes im so sad, ericka, my favorite little girl and her family moved mas arriba en Fuentes, where we live, but now i wont get to see her everyday!) and so much more, the life of a missionary is so great! Remember to invite everyone you know to ward activities, parties etc. Even having an investigator come to a baby shower in the ward is something that gives them a chance to meet the members and have a positive uplifting experience! muah! love you alllllll soooooo much! you´re in my prayers...have an awesome week!
Hermana Wetzel