Dear Family and Friends, First off I want to wish my dad a Happy Fathers Day, and I want to thank him for everything he has done for me. I love you dad so much and I want you to know that I miss you and I'm so greatful for the example that you've been to me and for the love you've always shown me. I love you so much dad! This week over all went by really fast, and it really was a good week. We've been teaching this woman and her two daughters about the gospel and her daughters have gone to church before, but finally she went for the first time yesterday to church and she really did like it. We're working to help them become baptized, and we're working on serving them because they're going through a really rough time right now and as missionaries its our job to not only teach the gospel, but to  live it. We've also been teaching this young adult from Nicaragua and her boyfriend about the church and the importance of families(they're expecting a baby in July) and they're both really positive and she was actually taught by missionaries before so I would like to thank those missionaries who well prepared before. She's really nice and they do want to get married so we're working to help them become a family for eternity and be baptized. We were also fortunate enough to find a less-active member. President Hintze always asks us to visit 25 or more less-actives/recent converts each week because it's the best way to find investigators and to help them become strong members who will help build the branch. Less-actives need others to show love to them so that they can come back and feel needed. SILLY SAN IGNACIO: 1. Crazy enough I got stung AGAIN but this time we were teaching about the plan of salvation and I was holding a picture and was in the middle of saying "and so the celestial kindooooooommmmmouchhhh!"  when it stung me in the armpit! Who knows how the bee got there, but yes I had never before my mission been stung by a bee and now I've been stung twice within one week! 2. Contacting in Belize 101: I don't know how other missions contact but here in Belize we contact people in the streets, through references, and by yelling "good (time of day)" outside thier house. So this week we found a house who is surrounded by houses on both sides and whose house sits all the way to the back and there's a fence in front that surrounds the house. So the only way to contact that house is to yell really REALLY loud. So, without planning or anything, at the same time Sister DeLeon and I threw back our heads and her in Spanish, me in English, yelled "GOOD EVENING/BUENAS TARDES!!" It's a good thing that the person didn't come out of the house because DeLeon and I looked at each other and then just busted up laughing! One house that did happen to respond to our yelling actually ending up as a debate. The first thing that the man said to us was that the missionaries never come back to his house because he just fights with them because the Bible is the only true book, and it's not right the we worship Moroni and Joseph Smith. Um...what?! So Sister DeLeon and I testified and taught The Restoration to this man and when we would prove our point, he'd then find other excuses as to why our we are "preaching false doctrine." For example, he said that we shouldn't worship a prophet who had many wives and then he proceeds to ask us "Did Moses have many wives?" I told him I honestly didn't know and then asked him the same question and he said to me "You shouldn't be asking me I should be asking you!" Then he said that it's not right that we do baptisms for the dead because we should do it in the name of Jesus Christ not in the name of the dead person. An my all time favorite, "The true church is The Church of Jesus Christ." So we said "We are The Church of Jesus Christ brother, read our name tags!" He then read them and said "No you changed the name because you guys were The Mormon Church before! You're teaching false doctrine and we'll see who's right in the last day!" So I don't know about you guys but...I thought it was definitely an interesting contact experience! haha   My thought this week comes from Bonnie L. Oscorson who said "As we act upon the doctrines of the gospel and put them into daily practice, we will become converted and we will become the means of doing much good in our families and in the world." As missionaries and members it's important to not only share the gospel, but live it as well. Before we convert others, we need to first convert ourselves. We must pray often, read our scriptures, have faith, repent, remember our covenants we have made, go to the temple, and go to church, so that we can build and strengthen our own testimony so we "will become the means of doing much good." Love, Sister Ontiveros