HEY FAM!!!
I LOVED seeing and hearing you guys on skype!!!!! It was the greatest present ever! I have like zero time today, all of you guys wrote emails!! Good job :) But now I don't have time to write an epic letter!! THIS WEEK WAS A MIRACLE WEEK! Merry Christmas to us! Seriously. We had a baptism! MIRACLE! K, super quick back story, this super nice lady- Juanita- is like 60 years old and her husband is a new member and she has been taking foreeeeever to decide to be baptized. She is super golden and pretty much preaches the gospel to her friends but she never would commit to being baptized. We fasted and prayed for her every second and we got nothing. She has had the date for this last saturday and we knew she would cancel again last second. BUT GET THIS! The DAY OF her baptism she calls us at like 10am: "Hermanitas, I don't want to be baptized, I'm not sure...I can't do it, blablablabla...." Sanchez and I are like, greeeeaaaat, now we have to call everyone and cancel it. Two hours later she calls again, "I want to baptized!! My husband doesn't really know how to baptize me though. Can you come over and teach him?" haha we felt stupid that he didn't know but we were on cloud nine!! SO COOL!! We were just in shock and the baptism was amaaaaazing. The members in our branch ROCK!!! Like 70% came and we called them 3 hrs before the baptism was starting. They all brought super good nacho toppings and we had a good old fasion Hispanic baptism haha it was super fun and Juanita is just awesome. LOVE HER! We have pictures on Sanchy's camera (Hna Sanchez lol). I hope I can get those to you today...if not, then next week. I swear I will buy a camera today and I will take tonnns of pics for next week!
Another crazy story, I gave my first talk out the mission field!!!! I had zero time to prepare and we were like 30 mins late to sacrament meeting because we were dragging some less actives to Church with us and they actually came!!! So we showed up like during the sacrament and we were babysitting all of the less active family's CRAZY KIDS! OH MY GOSH! They were devil children I swear. I was freaking out because I had no idea what my talk would be like and I couldn't prepare or even say a prayer because we were trying to tackle the kids down but we couldn't because we are missionaries so we have to somehow "use the force" to make them sit down without touching them. I hate being a missionary when it comes to kids because I just want to grab them and sit them down. Sheeesh they are psycho. It was super funny, I was in the middle of speaking "children Spanish" to one of the kids while the President of the Branch was telling me to come up and give my talk...I was like "Oh...si si, lo siento, Im coming" haha the members were just laughing. I got up there and smiled and just tried my best. I tried not to read the whole talk that I had prepared but I mostly did...oops lol but I think it went well! No one laughed so that means I didn't say anything super stupid. The members were way nice to me after the talk and liked my spanish so that's good! It was about the new program for the youth that is coming out next year. Soooo yeahhh that's that :)
Ooooo one more super super super suuuuuper awesome story!! AH I LOVE THIS STORY! Be ready. ok. So I just went to a fun party with all of the sisters from the VC and it was glorious. We had cookie dough and biscuits and painting nails party this morning. So fun. We sisters know how to party! Anways, so I saw my old awesome frenchy comp Hna Sordes!!! Love her :) She runs and jumps into my arms and says, "Daily Contact, Daily Contact!!" (she calls me that a lot...lol) "Guess what! Deshaun that we talked to on the streets is getting baptized!!!!!"
K rewind...back story on the awesome Deshaun (he's black and super cool) We saw him just chilling at one of the apt complexes we cover and we just went to say hi to him and he was so hilarious. He was all, "Hey, I'm Deshauuun, I'm from Chicaaago and I hate it here, There is NO SHNOW!" We were like, what? what the heck is shnow? He had the funniest accent I have ever heard and it took us forever to understand that he was saying SNOW. Anyways, long story short, we asked if he wanted to have the English Elders teach him and he was like, yeah sure why not. So we sent his info to the other Elders and they were really really excited to finally have a referral. Then I guess Hna Sordes saw him at the Christmas lights one night and he was like, "HEY! I was hoping I would run into you sisters again! I am getting baptized in February!! Thank you so much for everything" MIRACLE! I was screaming and crying I was so excited when she told me that story. YEAH DESHAUN!
LESSON LEARNED: It's so interesting how you never know who you will have an impact on. We talk to so many people in passing every day and most of them just hate us and don't want to hear. But, sometimes we end up changing people's lives even if they hated us or didn't want to listen in the beginning. That was the first time I actually got to see this in action. SO COOL! Now I want to know how many others actually listened to what we had to say! So you never know who is watching and what kind of an impact you're having on people :) Be a good example and talk to everyone about the Gospel!
Other cool stuff: Sanchy and I are the best bikers ever. I have finally mastered the one wheely and the grind and riding without no hands. Next trick is the 360 spin thingy. I'll get some videos up on youtube for ya ;) lol yeahhh not really but I CAN ride without hands! YEAH! I know that's like the easiest thing in the world but I was pretty proud of myself. I am now a legit biker. Pics are coming next week I hope!
Thank you for all the emails!! I love you guys! I have the greatest friends and family in the world. I always feel so supported and loved. It really helps :) THANK YOU! HAPPY NEW YEARS! We get to play sports with 3 other zones for like 4 hrs tmrw :) And we probably won't proselyte tonight because it's new years eve. We have permission to just stay inside if we need to and just write in our journals and be obedient...and not party. I will try super hard to not go crazy tonight haha it's hard though with 4 sisters in one house. We have some serious fun. I love those girls. But I swear we are 90...I mean 100% obedient! We work hard! haha love you guys!
Love,
Hna Daly
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