"That's yours" June 4, 2012

Well, this week has been super sweet here in Sal! We had the baptism of Lenin! He's 14 years old and honestly has a HUGE heart of gold! He's such a nice kid.

Update on my favorites of who we are teaching:
Poéjo. He's the grandson of Senhor Toi. He's super smart and I love him. He's honestly been so prepared by the Lord! His baptism with be on the 16th.

Vilma. She's the best friend of Rony (Toi's step-son). She is also SO PREPARED. She completely understands the plan and is so willing to put in practice the Lord's commandments instead of sit on her tush. She's a feiry go-getter. Seriously. I love her. :) We hung out with her this morning. She's one of the happiest people I've ever met. We're going to be friends for a long time. :) Her baptism date is also set for the 16th... But she's scared of water.... Yeah. I'll let you know how that plays out. Hahahaha.

We've also been visiting alot of random inactives and families lately so I'm not sure what is going to turn into anything, but it's been alot of fun! We've been using "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" alot in our teaching. Did you know that THE most important truth about the Restoration is that our families can be together forever? You would think so right? But some people just don't realize it!! It's terribly sad that they don't know. We were teaching Perla and Autolindo and their two kids earlier this week and Perla was like, "I know I can't have my children forever, but I just hope they live happy lives." I wanted to scream, "BUT YOU CAN HAVE THEM FOREVER!!" Hahaha. It's such a joy telling these people the truth about what happens after this life. Families CAN be together forever!

Other than that, today is Pday. This morning, Sister Holland & I learned how to make bread at Toi and Bella's house. Their bread is SO DELICIOUS!! and then while we were waiting for it to rise and bake, their daughter Gilda braided our hair! Well, rolled it..? Hahaha. It's interesting having the air on my scalp... I'm not so sure I'm a fan. Hahaha. Then they fed us and sent us on our merry way with tons of bread. I love their family. :)

Also.. Our washing machine is stupid. We FINALLY had water this week. The washing maching has been leavign some marks on our clothes when we wash anything but what else are we going to do? It takes too long to handwash & our butts are sore for like 3 days bc of all the kneeling. ANYWAYS, We finally had water. We REALLY needed clean clothes. What does our devil machine do? It stays on the first cycle alll night, USES ALL THE WATER WE HAVE AND STAINS OUR WHITES ORANGE. (%minutes after we realized we were out of water, our power went out) We've been showering and flushing our toilet with the emergency water barrel that is sitting in our apartment. It's really hard to shower when you are rationing your bathing water to half a bucketful. But I guess I shouldn't complain too much, its what these people do everyday. I just hope the water comes back on so we down have to haul water up to our apartment on the 2nd story.

Well, That's it for this week!

Sister Buhler