Week Siete

Hola todos!

How is everyone doing?! It´s almost November! Can you believe it? I am officially in the last week of my first transfer in the field. Time has flown! It´s a comfort to know that I will be staying in my little area for at least another transfer. You are garanteed 12 weeks or 2 transfers with your trainer. There´s only really rare cases where a new missionary is only with their trainer for 6 weeks. I don´t think that will happen to me which I am fine with because I love San Juan! These last two weeks have been super busy. We´ve had Zone Conference and a Training Conference, so twice we had to take a bus to Azua which is about an hour from San Juan. The first trip to Azua we took a normal bus and on the way back I got soooo car sick. For all of those who know me well, I´m sure you know what I am talking about. I have never been so car sick in my life. But I was proud of myself because I didn´t throw up even though it took all my will power, plus divine intervention, not to. So the second time we had to go to Azua a week later, I was really dreading it. But fortunately, we paid to take a nicer bus. These types of buses are called Caribe Tours. They´re a lot bigger with comfy seats that lean back and they even have movie screes. Reminds me a lot of an airplane... We were able to get seats up front so that was nice. 

But leaving San Juan for only part of the day and being in Azua made me realize how much I love San Juan. It is very familiar now and I know my way around. I will be really sad to leave buuuut i dont have to worry about that for 7 more weeks :).

Alrighty, so a few people have been asking about our investigators. I know I havent talked that much about them..or at all... so here it goes.

First up, yesterday so great because we had 6 (SIX) investigators and 1 less active come to church. People. This is huge. I was soooo happy! Every Sunday we work so hard to bring our investigators to church and finally they came! Not all that we are teaching but that´s okay. Next week :)

Okay first, we are teaching a wonderful lady named Tihara. She is 23? Her ¨husband¨ (not married but living together) is inactive. The missionaries have been teaching her for a few months now. She was good about coming to church but once we taught the Law of Chastity and told her she needs to get married (which was received well. her and her fiance want to get married), she stopped being consistent because she wants to go with her fiance. But he finds excuses not to come each week. Finally yesterday, she was fed up with him i think, and came by herself. I´m so proud of her! She has a wonderful testimony already and has a lot of faith! They did set a wedding date for Nov 27 so we´re going to do everything we can to get them to that goal so she can be baptized. 

Next, is Pascual. Oh Pascual... Pascual has been taught all the lessons and was going to be baptized but because of family things that came up, he wasn´t able to be baptized on the previous date. We´ve had a tough time with him because although he knows the Church is true, he´s finding it hard to pioritize his life and put important things (like God) first. Also, he has been stuggling financially so our last few visits were mostly just trying to build his faith and hope because he is very depressed. He´s been doing better though. But he´s started this new pact thing- he won´t come to church till his financial situation improves. Isn´t that when we need church and God that most? When we´re struggling through trials and problems, God should be the first person we turn to. Faith and trust, my friends. Faith and trust. 

That last few I want to talk about are our little group of youth investigators. I love teaching teeenagers! They are sometimes a lot easier to teach than adults because their knowledge (in this case, religion) is still new so they are a lot more accepting. Plus they come to church! We have a pretty solid youth group in our branch so it´s pretty easy for a new youth investigator to be fellowshipped. The missionaries before me have been teaching most of the youth investigators we are teaching now except 1. His name is Haner. He´s a contact. Turns out he is learning English in school so we invited him to our English Class on Saturdays (my comp and I teach english class by the way). He has been coming to class ever since we invited him. So not only are we teaching him in class but we also teach him in personal appointments. He is actually already very religious and has a wonderful desire to learn. He came to a church activity we had on Saturday and he came to church! He´s great :) I enjoy teaching him because he knows quite a bit of English so he understands me when I talk in Span-glish. I feel more of a connection to him because he is one of the first investigators my comp and I met and began teaching ourselves. I really excited to see how he continues to progress. 

Hmkay, i´ll stop there. We have a few more investigators than that but it would be a really long letter if I wrote about them all and you would probably fall asleep in the process, so I´ll stop :) But i´m really looking foward to this week! We have everyday practically booked up so it´s going to be a busy one! Plus me and my comp have set our goals high this week. We are going to try and achieve the weekly goals that the mission president has set for the whole mission. It´s going to happen. "Indoor plumping, it´s going to be good". Name that movie! :)

Entonces.... that´s all I have for today. The work is progressing, i´m doing great, life is good. Thank you for all your support and love! The Church is true! And if you don´t know it is then you should talk to the missionaries and pray about it because the Gospel of Jesus Chirst is for everyone and can bless your life in so many ways. I know this because it has already blessed my life in countless ways and continues to bless my life every day. I wouldn´t be here in this crazy country (said very lovingly), if I didn´t know the Church and this Gospel was true. So go find out for yourself if it is true and those who already know this, keep living and sharing it! 

I love you all! Scripture of the week: 2 Nephi 31:13

Hasta luego! 

con amor,

Hermana Dibble 

Me and my companion:

The San Juan Zone: