Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Subject: Transfers
To: bclark8@aol.com, Bruce Clark
Hola,
It was a pretty crazy week! First of all, Transfers. We got our calls Thursday night and I am staying! Just kidding... I am going to Santaquin! All last week we had done a lot of speculating and that was actually where we guessed I would be going so it should be pretty fun. My companion will be Elder Wallace, who is from Arizona and has been out around 7 or 8 months. I have met him before and he seems pretty cool. It should be quite the experience both being pretty young and not having a native speaker to look at when people go off and ask random questions. And, I will have a car which I am quite happy about.
On to Tomas....well, Thursday night he had his baptism interview and there was a small issue so we had to move the baptism to next Saturday, the fifth. However, we were glad that he was honest and told him we would be coming back on Saturday to visit. We got there Saturday, Juan invited us in, and then we asked him where Tomas was. His answer of "He left to Mexico" was very unexpected and surprising. Evidently there was some family problems and he just left Friday morning. Hopefully he comes back sometime or is able to get in contact with the missionaries there. There is a new Romero living there now though, a cousin or something... and I guess he has been asking about the church so while Tomas left, there is more possibility.
Marisol's family is doing awesome. Her 3 kids are named Quiavet (14), Ruben Mar (12), and Norvin (6). We had 2 appointments with her during the week and both times when we walked in the 3 kids were all sitting on the couch quietly with the pamphlets we had left and a copy of the Book of Mormon. It is interesting teaching them because the mom is golden, has a strong testimony on prayer, and knows the scriptures well while her kids basically know nothing about religion but are very open. She straight up told us that she felt that she had failed as a mom because she had not taught her kids about religion but was glad we were there to teach them. It is also interesting teaching them because the kids don't understand Spanish very well so we have to teach everything in Spanish then go back and talk to the kids in English. I am surprised how many cases there are of parents who don't speak English and kids who learned Spanish when they were younger but can't speak it anymore because they use English all the time with their friends and in school. A couple weeks ago in one of the wards a kid got up to give a talk but he had to have his dad translate for him because while both of his parents are from Mexico, he can't speak Spanish.
Sunday a couple of cool things happened in the Timpanogas
Subject: Transfers
To: bclark8@aol.com, Bruce Clark
Hola,
It was a pretty crazy week! First of all, Transfers. We got our calls Thursday night and I am staying! Just kidding... I am going to Santaquin! All last week we had done a lot of speculating and that was actually where we guessed I would be going so it should be pretty fun. My companion will be Elder Wallace, who is from Arizona and has been out around 7 or 8 months. I have met him before and he seems pretty cool. It should be quite the experience both being pretty young and not having a native speaker to look at when people go off and ask random questions. And, I will have a car which I am quite happy about.
On to Tomas....well, Thursday night he had his baptism interview and there was a small issue so we had to move the baptism to next Saturday, the fifth. However, we were glad that he was honest and told him we would be coming back on Saturday to visit. We got there Saturday, Juan invited us in, and then we asked him where Tomas was. His answer of "He left to Mexico" was very unexpected and surprising. Evidently there was some family problems and he just left Friday morning. Hopefully he comes back sometime or is able to get in contact with the missionaries there. There is a new Romero living there now though, a cousin or something... and I guess he has been asking about the church so while Tomas left, there is more possibility.
Marisol's family is doing awesome. Her 3 kids are named Quiavet (14), Ruben Mar (12), and Norvin (6). We had 2 appointments with her during the week and both times when we walked in the 3 kids were all sitting on the couch quietly with the pamphlets we had left and a copy of the Book of Mormon. It is interesting teaching them because the mom is golden, has a strong testimony on prayer, and knows the scriptures well while her kids basically know nothing about religion but are very open. She straight up told us that she felt that she had failed as a mom because she had not taught her kids about religion but was glad we were there to teach them. It is also interesting teaching them because the kids don't understand Spanish very well so we have to teach everything in Spanish then go back and talk to the kids in English. I am surprised how many cases there are of parents who don't speak English and kids who learned Spanish when they were younger but can't speak it anymore because they use English all the time with their friends and in school. A couple weeks ago in one of the wards a kid got up to give a talk but he had to have his dad translate for him because while both of his parents are from Mexico, he can't speak Spanish.
Sunday a couple of cool things happened in the Timpanogas
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