Loli's Baptism! - Oct 28, 2013

Loli's Baptism

the family of Loli...two new investigators are in this pic!! (two women that are sisters)

LOVE THESE GIRLS! Zaira is the blonde one holding the sign and posing like a rock star ;)

Hna Hoffman and I matching at softball pday in Jerez. Cara de mono shirts! yeah!

Our two Zone Leaders

Loli - love her!

Depressing week filled with miracles!!!- Oct 28, 2013

Hey Fam!

So this week was insane. It was super devastating because a baptism failed on us the day of BUT we were able to reach our goal of finding 7 new investigators this week and we were only in our area for 3 days this week. Don't mean to brag....but yeah, the Lord loves us and blessed us big time. We honestly did nothing to get these 7 new investigators but we did have the faith and prayed for it every second and He answered our prayers BIG TIME. I also think he blessed us big time because he knew our baptism would fail on us and he wanted to comfort us lol.

So here's the story of the baptism: Loli is 8yrs old and is technically not a mission baptism because she's 8, but she counts for us because we fought our butts off to get her baptized :) She has always wanted to get baptized but her mom could never get a day off of work so we couldn't ever schedule a day for her baptism. After 3 months of this fight, we get a random call on a Wednesday and they told us that Loli was getting baptized that Saturday. It was very rushed and not many people showed up but we did it! We got Loli baptized. Her older sister who was our investigator was also supposed to get baptized but in the end, she didn't :( That was super super sad part but the baptism was still a great day! I love Loli to death!!! She is the most incredible 8yr old in the world. I want to take her home with me so bad. SO BAD! I am going to die when I leave her. I love her.

Out of the 7 news we found this week, one of them we found on the street in the pouring rain. We were running with our crap umbrellas to a cita and there was absolutely nobody in the street except for our dear friend, Jesús. As we were running, I hear a guy shout at me, "HEY! You're umbrella is huge!" I turn around and Im like, "yeah, yeah it is...." I was like, dude you are super weird haha. I wanted to keep running to our cita but he continued to yell at us. So I stopped and decided that I should probably be the Savior's servant and talk to him. We chatted in the pouring rain while he was smoking underneath a little spot out of the rain. He was telling us how he knows our church and would totally be baptized if we didn't have the law of chastity. I was like, "seriously, that's the only reason??" I kinda laughed and was like, "well, Jesús, we are having baptism tomorrow, you should come and we'll teach you more." He totally accepted the invitation and was dead set on coming haha. AND HE DID! HE CAME! It was a huge miracle and he's a little crazy sometimes but we'll see how he progresses.

YAY for lots of miracles! hna Hoffman and I are working our butts off and can't wait to get some baptisms and find even more people! I love this work so much and it makes me sad when I think about how much little time I have. I feel like I'm finally getting the hang of missionary work!! lol love you guys so much. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Eat some candy corn for me.

Love
Hermana Daly

Pics!! - Oct 14, 2013

Here's rocio!!! She is miracle! Im so glad I got see her baptism

hehe here's a funny pic of me and a huge fruit cake!! My Arizona comp, hna Sanchez's family sent it! It's so huge!!!

TRANSERS!!! - October 14, 2013

What up!!!

 

YEAH transfers totally pasó! I am staying here in Puerto when Hna Hoffman!! We are super excited to be working together. We are going to tear it uuuuuup. Puerto has been having some issues and we havent had much to teach but we are so ready to start seeing some major miracles and get some baptisms. We have some serious faith and are ready to start showing it.

 

Miracle time!!!!!!!!! This miracle happened in our neighbor city, Jerez. Jerez is actually super big and it has a lot of stuff happening. I have done aaaaa lot of exchanges in Jerez this last transfer and so I had to opportunity to help find this wonderful investigator, Maria when we were at a member's house. (NOTICE: The members just happened to have this non member friend over and we just casually talked to her and got to know her and invited her to learn more!!! GO MEMBERS!!) So we meet Maria and this member's home and she has like zero faith and says life sucks basically and we helped her rekindle that faith (totally by the Spirit). THEN, I returned back to Jerez just one week later and I got to teach Maria again and heard that she invited a friend to church with her, Rocio, and this lady was SOOOO prepared. She just went to church one time and was like, "I am not leaving until you guys give me this Book of Mormon."

 

I was in Jerez two days and I got to teach Rocio about the Restauration and then later taught her and Maria about tithing. They both got baptized together last night in Jerez.

This was the coolest thing ever to see how these ladies had never ever heard of the church and then got baptized within a week and half after meeting us. HOW COOL IS THAT?!

 

The Lord prepares people like crazy and thanks to the MEMBERS we found Maria and then Maria invited Rocio and now Rocio is inviting her friends. What a cool chain reaction. I have pics to send of Rocio. She is AWESOME! So even though I didnt get to teach all of the lessons, I got to be a part of their conversión and see how the Gospel brought them so much joy :)

 

We just need to see this in puerto!!!

 

I love you guys a lot. Keep looking for friends that you can invite to church and the Spirit will do all of the work :)

 

love

Hna Daly

Last week of transfers!! - Oct 7, 2013

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!

Sorry for not writing last week! It was a crazy pday and I had to write my mission president first. Sorry sorry! We got to go see the monkeys last week and it was so fun and scary haha. One monkey attempted to attack me when I tried to steal back my bug spray that he took....dumb monkeys! They are evil. 

YEAH CONFERENCE! It was the best conference ever for me. This is my 3rd conference on the mission and I really believe that this was the best one and I havent even heard the very last session yet!! I really hope you heard every single session because it was incredible and seriously changed my life. Bednar and Holland answered SO many of my prayers and helped me to know how to help our less actives. The Church is just so dang true. 

This week was a toughy....we didn't see many miracles. We are just praying so hard for investigators. We literally don't have anyone and it's not very fun. This conference really helped me personally to get some more faith and keep working. We're ready for a brand new week!

Transfers are coming! We hear this weekend and it really is a 50/50 if Im leaving or if Hna Hendricks is leaving....usually I would stay because I havent been here this long buuuuut due to the fact that there are like zero older sisters, I may be taking over some leadership positions....but if not, then I guess I have more learning to do here in Puerto. We'll see where the Lord puts me :)

Family, I LOVE YOU! Happy Birthday to Cammo!!! Love you lots. I hope you all try to help out your missionaries that ask for your help! Go share about this awesome Gospel and bless someone's life :) I just pray that the members here help us cuz the work isn't going anywhere. Goes to show that members are very very very important. 

Looooove

Hna Daly