Family and friends,

This week was actually a really good week and as always Im learning something new each day. This week my companion and I worked hard and we definitely saw the blessings of our work. Last Monday we had an interesting experience because the week before we met someone who spoke English and wanted to be taught in English so we brought our English materials and we went to teach her, but she wasnt home. We went to do contacting and we ended up finding a dad, named Rafiel, and his son, Jaun, and we began to teach them. As we started teaching them, Jaun said that he had lived basically all of his life in New York and didnt speak that much English so luckily we had all of our English materials and my comp. taught him in English while I taught his dad in Spanish. Its crazy how the Lord works. Also this week we went to do service for Hector and his family and we were able to talk to him about the gospel. We helped him to set goals for his life, and he and his daughter ended up going to church yesterday. They are doing well, and he is progresing again, so hopefully all will go well and he will be able to be baptized with his daughter this month. We were actually very fortunate this week to have six investigators who came to church which was definitely a blessing. This week as Ive watched our investigators progress, my faith has really grown. Ive learned that as a missionary I can only do so much, but if I really put my faith in the Lord I will see the "fruits of my labors." Lauren Bangater Wilde said "We set goals to show our faith. We follow up on goals to count our blessings...As you raise your expectations, your effectiveness will increase, your desire will grow, and you will be able to follow the Spirit better.Heavenly Father always answers prayers of faith--even when the answers come in ways we don’t anticipate." Im greatful for the experiences that Ive had in my mission so far and I cant wait to see what more the Lord has in store for me. 

Love,

Hermana Ontiveros :)

The Adventures of Ayutuxtepeque: 

1. So this week we went to visit our recent convert, Hermana Alicia, and while we were teaching her about the love of Christ, she gets a phone and all of a sudden she starts packing. She hangs up and says to us "This guy says that I owe him $500 and if I dont pay him he is going to come and kill me!" So my comp. and I look at eachother and we ask her if we should leave and she says that we dont need to and everything is fine, meanwhile shes packing everything she owns and is shutting all of the blinds. My companion and I couldnt help but laugh at how crazy the situation was, but at the same time we definitely were scared. Yes we did leave eventually...and so did Hermana Alicia. She ended up moving and we actually dont know where in the world she lives now. Yep...thats the kind of people I baptize! ha 

2.Oh another funny story, we were walking in the streets and we start talking to this lady about the gospel and she tells us about how shes catholic, but appreciates the work were doing, and she then slaps my comp. on the arm as she says to her "sabiduria, tenga esta sabiduria!" Oh the adventures of Ayutuxtepeque.