AshLee Ontiveros Letter:
Dear Family and Friends,
Another week has flown by here in San Ignacio and as always there's wonderful and crazy stuff that happens. As always I shall start with the spiritual uplifting things and then I will tell about the adventures of Hermana DeLeon and I.
This week we had three of our most progressing investigators in church, the two sisters and the 17 year-old boy. Hallelujah! They really enjoyed church and later that day we went to visit them with a member family and we could really feel the spirit during the lessons and it really helped the investigators to see the happiness that the gospel can bring to thier families, and their, future families. So please, as I asked in the letter that I sent last week, please help the missionaries out by going on visits with them, or by letting them have a lesson in your home. It really helps the investigators to progress and see the blessings that they can have through living the gospel and making that baptismal covenant with the Lord.
We are also teaching a cute family, they have a little girl that is 7, but acts like she's 20, a 5 year old boy, and a 3 year old boy. On Sunday we went to visit them and as we were teaching The Restoration, the little girl asked us "Do you want to stay for dinner?" We just laughed and told her it was up to her mom and then we continued the lesson. At the end of the lesson we asked if anyone had any questions and the little girl said "You never answered my first question. Are you guys going to stay for dinner?" Well as you might have guessed we did end up staying for dinner and it was fun being able to talk with them and hear stories about thier lives.
Speaking of dinner, Elder and Sister Rinderknecht invited us sisters over to thier house for dinner last Wednesday and it was soooo nice to eat a home cooked meal and to just talk with them. They're the best, I love being able to have such a wonderful senior couple in my area.
Sister DeLeon and I are definitely seeing the blessings of our hard work here. We've been working really hard to get our investigators to progress and go to church and we've been working with the less actives as well and low and behold there were less actives that went to church and our investigators. I know that if we work hard that we will eventually see the "fruits of our labors." I know that this is the Lord's work and that he is hastening his work. I love to see how people's lives can change for the better through the work of missionaries and members. I know that this church is true and that this is His work. So we must all do what he asks of us "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men."Matt 4:19.
Love,
Sister Ontiveros
Silly San Ignacio:
Oh so guess who fell off of their bike again? Yep you guessed it..my comp! ha Yeah I'm ridiculous and fell off of my bike again, but luckily this time it was on asphalt so my scrapes weren't as bad. We were heading back from the church from trying to get our investigators to church and well my front tire caught the side of the road wrong and I fell over. So now I have an even bigger scar on the right hand and a scrap on the left and right knee now. Whoops!
Every week we teach English classes to whoever wants to come and learn and on Friday one of our investigators came with her son. Her son sat down on one of the bigger chairs and she told him that he needed to sit on a littiler chair so that she could sit on the bigger one. After she said that her son started to get up out of the chair and she pulled the chair out from under him because she thought he had stood up all of the way..but he hadn't yet. So as she pulled the chair out he slipped back and the bag of cookies that he had went flying everywhere. No worries he was fine, and well the rest of us got a good laugh out of it. ha
Dear Family and Friends,
Another week has flown by here in San Ignacio and as always there's wonderful and crazy stuff that happens. As always I shall start with the spiritual uplifting things and then I will tell about the adventures of Hermana DeLeon and I.
This week we had three of our most progressing investigators in church, the two sisters and the 17 year-old boy. Hallelujah! They really enjoyed church and later that day we went to visit them with a member family and we could really feel the spirit during the lessons and it really helped the investigators to see the happiness that the gospel can bring to thier families, and their, future families. So please, as I asked in the letter that I sent last week, please help the missionaries out by going on visits with them, or by letting them have a lesson in your home. It really helps the investigators to progress and see the blessings that they can have through living the gospel and making that baptismal covenant with the Lord.
We are also teaching a cute family, they have a little girl that is 7, but acts like she's 20, a 5 year old boy, and a 3 year old boy. On Sunday we went to visit them and as we were teaching The Restoration, the little girl asked us "Do you want to stay for dinner?" We just laughed and told her it was up to her mom and then we continued the lesson. At the end of the lesson we asked if anyone had any questions and the little girl said "You never answered my first question. Are you guys going to stay for dinner?" Well as you might have guessed we did end up staying for dinner and it was fun being able to talk with them and hear stories about thier lives.
Speaking of dinner, Elder and Sister Rinderknecht invited us sisters over to thier house for dinner last Wednesday and it was soooo nice to eat a home cooked meal and to just talk with them. They're the best, I love being able to have such a wonderful senior couple in my area.
Sister DeLeon and I are definitely seeing the blessings of our hard work here. We've been working really hard to get our investigators to progress and go to church and we've been working with the less actives as well and low and behold there were less actives that went to church and our investigators. I know that if we work hard that we will eventually see the "fruits of our labors." I know that this is the Lord's work and that he is hastening his work. I love to see how people's lives can change for the better through the work of missionaries and members. I know that this church is true and that this is His work. So we must all do what he asks of us "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men."Matt 4:19.
Love,
Sister Ontiveros
Silly San Ignacio:
Oh so guess who fell off of their bike again? Yep you guessed it..my comp! ha Yeah I'm ridiculous and fell off of my bike again, but luckily this time it was on asphalt so my scrapes weren't as bad. We were heading back from the church from trying to get our investigators to church and well my front tire caught the side of the road wrong and I fell over. So now I have an even bigger scar on the right hand and a scrap on the left and right knee now. Whoops!
Every week we teach English classes to whoever wants to come and learn and on Friday one of our investigators came with her son. Her son sat down on one of the bigger chairs and she told him that he needed to sit on a littiler chair so that she could sit on the bigger one. After she said that her son started to get up out of the chair and she pulled the chair out from under him because she thought he had stood up all of the way..but he hadn't yet. So as she pulled the chair out he slipped back and the bag of cookies that he had went flying everywhere. No worries he was fine, and well the rest of us got a good laugh out of it. ha
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