Dear friends and family,
La Mariposa is great! Can I please just say how grateful I am for light. I love the word in spanish for light, it´s ´luz´. i just love it and it has so many different meanings. We needed some serious light from heaven this week as we passed for some difficult situations when Satan wanted us to feel bad. But it´s like what we told one of our investigators this week, that the light of the gospel is always going to win and be stronger than the darkness of satan. we all liked that idea.
Also with the idea of light, we talked about d and c 50;24 that talks about if we endure, we will receive more light, more lknowledge about the gospel and ultimately, Heavenly Father will guide us day by day with the light that we need, when we need it.
Then right when we had some weird things happen, we had other appointments with our ´luces´ like heidy ochoa and Blanca Escobedo. I hope we can all be a light for someone this week and look for opportunities to serve others, especially people who we think don´t need it or that we always serve.
General Conference is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope we´re so excited, I´m excited to be here for two general conferences in Amatitlan!!! yahoo! have a great week! happy birthday mol!
Love,
Hermana Peach Wetzel
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Quick Update
swimsuits and hotdogs...hna Ch.
we had an interesting week. there´s so much to do!
Hermana Rezzio left for her mission.
We are happy for her but sad that now we won´t get to work with her anymore.
It´s a good thing she left about the same time I m leaving, if I do leave next change.
there´s a package on its way!
Love you all, have a great week!
Hermana Wetzel of Guatemala
we had an interesting week. there´s so much to do!
Hermana Rezzio left for her mission.
We are happy for her but sad that now we won´t get to work with her anymore.
It´s a good thing she left about the same time I m leaving, if I do leave next change.
there´s a package on its way!
Love you all, have a great week!
Hermana Wetzel of Guatemala
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Your Version of Conversion
Hey Family!
This weeks letter is going to be entitled ¨ÿour version of conversion¨
Why? Because this week we have been focused as a companionship on the conversion of oursleves as missionaries, we´ve seen miracles happen with the conversion of our investigators and our bishop gave a legit lesson from Alma 17 about conversion. Everything is wonderful here in La Mariposa, again I am grateful for this change that I have had to be here again. We had an incredible lesson last night with our bishop and one of our familias that is progressing, la familia Obregon (thanks for your prayers!) The lesson was about baptism and clearing up doubts that they had. They always ask a ton of questions which is great, but sometimes they are not always the most relevant. So our bishop gave them some scriptures from Alma 17 about how to be converted and how no matter what they might always have questions or doubts, but not to worry becuase they would keep growing and learning in the church. This family is awesome! Their meta is for this month on the 27th and we are meeting with another family tonight who wants to be baptized but just have to get married first. We´re so excited! But the bishop told them that Alma 17: 2-4, 10-11 was the key. Read these verses and you will find that these are the things we need to do to have a real conversion. I was in awe this whole lesson at the spirit that was felt. All these ideas were just flooding my mind and I just felt so much love!!! for everyone!!! These are the moments that make everything worth it, puchica! It also made me so grateful for the role of the bishop. I am so grateful for my dad and all that he does for the good ol MP 17 and now working this closely with bishops in the mission, I understand a little bit more of the workload and weight that they carry and the unlimited amount of love that they have to have for their fold. I feel bad asking the bishop to do things sometimes because I know how busy he is, but he always says that its no problem, whenever we want he will do whatever needs to be done. That reminded me of what my dad would say, so I just want to say thanks dad for all you do to support me and the ward.
The other part of conversion this week is the level of our converts love for the gospel. Ingrid is the one sitting next to other investigators making sure they feel good. Evelt brought a family of 5 to church yesterday because the dad is his friend and he wants him to know the gospel. Heidy was showing off her hymnbook that we gave her to one of our other investigators and now they are besties. It´s just incredible to see these people that I love so much... progress! This area really is a dream and I have been so lucky to have had the chance to work here.
My comp gave a bomb talk on testimony yesterday and how our testimony stems from our personal conversion and that all we need to do is to share our testimony with others and not be afraid to share what we have!
There was a bunch of other funny stuff that I was going to tell you, but there is so much going on that sometimes I forget to write it down. But I will tell you that its pretty funny/ironic that one of my favorite hermanas here has a ¨miller light crew¨ shirt, the first counselor sports a coors shirt on saturdays and the bishops son has a collection of various other beer type shirts. The greatest thing is some of them have no idea what they even mean, everyone just buys 25 cent shirts here and they are usually in english and they have no idea what they say! It´s hilarious and we try to explain to them. Guatemala continues to be crazy but I couldn´t love more what I am doing and where I am doing it.
We got so much sun on Saturday when we were helping with the primary activity from 9-1 pm out in the sun in pday clothes, not noticing that our tshirts were a different style than our normal everyday shirts and so we got fried. It was great. The kids were so cute and loved the activity that Hermana Blanca planned for them and we got to help.
Hope you have a great week! Nara, let me know if you got my postcard! I hope it gets to you before you leave España. Loves to all! Tay thanks for your uplifting story, mol I got the valentines card, thanks! Hope everyone is doing well! love you all! Thanks for your prayers!
Love,
Hermana Wetzel
This weeks letter is going to be entitled ¨ÿour version of conversion¨
Why? Because this week we have been focused as a companionship on the conversion of oursleves as missionaries, we´ve seen miracles happen with the conversion of our investigators and our bishop gave a legit lesson from Alma 17 about conversion. Everything is wonderful here in La Mariposa, again I am grateful for this change that I have had to be here again. We had an incredible lesson last night with our bishop and one of our familias that is progressing, la familia Obregon (thanks for your prayers!) The lesson was about baptism and clearing up doubts that they had. They always ask a ton of questions which is great, but sometimes they are not always the most relevant. So our bishop gave them some scriptures from Alma 17 about how to be converted and how no matter what they might always have questions or doubts, but not to worry becuase they would keep growing and learning in the church. This family is awesome! Their meta is for this month on the 27th and we are meeting with another family tonight who wants to be baptized but just have to get married first. We´re so excited! But the bishop told them that Alma 17: 2-4, 10-11 was the key. Read these verses and you will find that these are the things we need to do to have a real conversion. I was in awe this whole lesson at the spirit that was felt. All these ideas were just flooding my mind and I just felt so much love!!! for everyone!!! These are the moments that make everything worth it, puchica! It also made me so grateful for the role of the bishop. I am so grateful for my dad and all that he does for the good ol MP 17 and now working this closely with bishops in the mission, I understand a little bit more of the workload and weight that they carry and the unlimited amount of love that they have to have for their fold. I feel bad asking the bishop to do things sometimes because I know how busy he is, but he always says that its no problem, whenever we want he will do whatever needs to be done. That reminded me of what my dad would say, so I just want to say thanks dad for all you do to support me and the ward.
The other part of conversion this week is the level of our converts love for the gospel. Ingrid is the one sitting next to other investigators making sure they feel good. Evelt brought a family of 5 to church yesterday because the dad is his friend and he wants him to know the gospel. Heidy was showing off her hymnbook that we gave her to one of our other investigators and now they are besties. It´s just incredible to see these people that I love so much... progress! This area really is a dream and I have been so lucky to have had the chance to work here.
My comp gave a bomb talk on testimony yesterday and how our testimony stems from our personal conversion and that all we need to do is to share our testimony with others and not be afraid to share what we have!
There was a bunch of other funny stuff that I was going to tell you, but there is so much going on that sometimes I forget to write it down. But I will tell you that its pretty funny/ironic that one of my favorite hermanas here has a ¨miller light crew¨ shirt, the first counselor sports a coors shirt on saturdays and the bishops son has a collection of various other beer type shirts. The greatest thing is some of them have no idea what they even mean, everyone just buys 25 cent shirts here and they are usually in english and they have no idea what they say! It´s hilarious and we try to explain to them. Guatemala continues to be crazy but I couldn´t love more what I am doing and where I am doing it.
We got so much sun on Saturday when we were helping with the primary activity from 9-1 pm out in the sun in pday clothes, not noticing that our tshirts were a different style than our normal everyday shirts and so we got fried. It was great. The kids were so cute and loved the activity that Hermana Blanca planned for them and we got to help.
Hope you have a great week! Nara, let me know if you got my postcard! I hope it gets to you before you leave España. Loves to all! Tay thanks for your uplifting story, mol I got the valentines card, thanks! Hope everyone is doing well! love you all! Thanks for your prayers!
Love,
Hermana Wetzel
One Year Out
Hola familia,
ha! you cant believe I have a year? I cant believe I have been here for a year! I haven´t even felt the time go by. Who would have thought that I entered this area with six months and I will now be leaving it with over a year. This has been a great blessing for me to really get to watch this area flourish. The people are gems, all of them. I cant wait for all of you to meet them.
As for special events that happened this week, we had a couple of very powerful lessons with investigator families. the dad of the familia Obregon told us sincerely on Friday night that he prayed with his Book of Mormon stacked on top of his bible, both of them in hand, to know if what we were teaching him is true and if these two books will lead him to where God wants to be. He has the purest desires to do what´s right and best for his family which is awesome! We reassured him that that is exactly what these two books would do and the wife agreed to pray as well to know if the Book of Mormon is true.This week was a fantastic week, especially with La familia Obregon. Pray for them please!!! What more could a missionary want. The Lord has truly been blessing us and his children here. Friday and Saturday were probably two of my most favorite teaching days on the mission. Just for some reason we had a ton of success and they were just incredible dias.
Did I tell you that my favorite third companion is leaving La Mariposa? No, no hermana marin is not leaving which I am so happy about, but the Hermana Rezzio, my favorite grandma who isnt much of a grandma type person because she is more active and out doing visits more than anyone else in the ward. But she is leaving at the end of this month to go serve as a full time temple worker. She has wanted to do this for so long and I am so happy for her, but I will miss her dearly. This woman has such a love for the temple, she´s a red type personality, and loves being a missionary, so we decided that she´s pretty much me in abuelita form. Love her! There is a ton going on right now, we´re runnin around like crazy all the time and its so fun. If you could please pray for the number ten. Just keep that in mind this month, that would be great! Tell the Omers hi and congrats, tell Cathy not to worry, the Lord will be with her, even if the monkeys and other creatures will be too! thanks for the news update, oh good old byu. love ya lots fam!!!! remember that we are all disciples of Christ, 2 nefi 25:26. Love you all, pray for your success daily!
Love,
Hermana Peach Wetzel
ha! you cant believe I have a year? I cant believe I have been here for a year! I haven´t even felt the time go by. Who would have thought that I entered this area with six months and I will now be leaving it with over a year. This has been a great blessing for me to really get to watch this area flourish. The people are gems, all of them. I cant wait for all of you to meet them.
As for special events that happened this week, we had a couple of very powerful lessons with investigator families. the dad of the familia Obregon told us sincerely on Friday night that he prayed with his Book of Mormon stacked on top of his bible, both of them in hand, to know if what we were teaching him is true and if these two books will lead him to where God wants to be. He has the purest desires to do what´s right and best for his family which is awesome! We reassured him that that is exactly what these two books would do and the wife agreed to pray as well to know if the Book of Mormon is true.This week was a fantastic week, especially with La familia Obregon. Pray for them please!!! What more could a missionary want. The Lord has truly been blessing us and his children here. Friday and Saturday were probably two of my most favorite teaching days on the mission. Just for some reason we had a ton of success and they were just incredible dias.
Did I tell you that my favorite third companion is leaving La Mariposa? No, no hermana marin is not leaving which I am so happy about, but the Hermana Rezzio, my favorite grandma who isnt much of a grandma type person because she is more active and out doing visits more than anyone else in the ward. But she is leaving at the end of this month to go serve as a full time temple worker. She has wanted to do this for so long and I am so happy for her, but I will miss her dearly. This woman has such a love for the temple, she´s a red type personality, and loves being a missionary, so we decided that she´s pretty much me in abuelita form. Love her! There is a ton going on right now, we´re runnin around like crazy all the time and its so fun. If you could please pray for the number ten. Just keep that in mind this month, that would be great! Tell the Omers hi and congrats, tell Cathy not to worry, the Lord will be with her, even if the monkeys and other creatures will be too! thanks for the news update, oh good old byu. love ya lots fam!!!! remember that we are all disciples of Christ, 2 nefi 25:26. Love you all, pray for your success daily!
Love,
Hermana Peach Wetzel
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