Looking at Hermana Belliston's blog this afternoon, I realized I totally forgot to include the captions for her pictures last week! Oops! Well, here they are, in order of the photos from the last post:
1-2. International night!!
3. The two little girls are Sofie and Layla. They are the cutest things and I've basically adopted both of them.
4. Familia Martinez - he used to sing in a mariachi and is so cool. He has a phenomenal voice, which I love.
5. Sorry for the creepy eyes, but this is Cindy, Carlos David, Nilmar, and Janeth. We're teaching them and they loved the activity.
6. This is Karla. We just put her on date for the end of October:) she is so cute and we love her!!
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Noche Internacional
Hola y'all,
This week went well! Lots of laughs and good times. We had the international night this weekend which was incredible! Oh my word heather I loved it. So basically I get to enjoy all the great Hispanic culture and amazing food, but I still have target and Walmart and no parasites.... I'm a big fan. Anyway, there were tons of people there and so much good food. When I get home, ask me to make you tostones, mangu, carne molida con platanos, baleadas, tacos de carne asada, agua de sandia etc. It's the best food and from all of the countries. It's amazing :)
Sorry this weekly is really short... not a ton to report. This week we were able to teach Karla and put her on date. She has a lot of things she has to do before she gets baptized, but we had a very good lesson about the Atonement of Christ and how we can do everything with His help. We read through Mosiah 14 and it was very powerful. I testified about how all of us have gone astray. We've all made mistakes and wandered off. Thankfully the Good Shepherd knows exactly what we need 100% of the time. My favorite verse is the end of verse 5, and with His stripes we are healed. Truly. He always invites us to come so that He can heal us. This Gospel is amazing and meant for everyone.
...and loving it!
Hermana Belliston
This week went well! Lots of laughs and good times. We had the international night this weekend which was incredible! Oh my word heather I loved it. So basically I get to enjoy all the great Hispanic culture and amazing food, but I still have target and Walmart and no parasites.... I'm a big fan. Anyway, there were tons of people there and so much good food. When I get home, ask me to make you tostones, mangu, carne molida con platanos, baleadas, tacos de carne asada, agua de sandia etc. It's the best food and from all of the countries. It's amazing :)
Sorry this weekly is really short... not a ton to report. This week we were able to teach Karla and put her on date. She has a lot of things she has to do before she gets baptized, but we had a very good lesson about the Atonement of Christ and how we can do everything with His help. We read through Mosiah 14 and it was very powerful. I testified about how all of us have gone astray. We've all made mistakes and wandered off. Thankfully the Good Shepherd knows exactly what we need 100% of the time. My favorite verse is the end of verse 5, and with His stripes we are healed. Truly. He always invites us to come so that He can heal us. This Gospel is amazing and meant for everyone.
...and loving it!
Hermana Belliston
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Something Like Cake
Hola yall,
K, the best thing about training a new missionary is that everything is so new and different and hilarious to them. For example:
We were teaching Cindhy this week. Her lesson went a little long so we were already 20 minutes late to our dinner appointment, but then she offered us tres leches cake so we couldn't decline! We sat down and then Cindhy asks if we'd like orange juice, too. Hna Smith is still working on understanding the people, so she readily agrees and Hna Dibble and I die laughing. Hna Smith hates orange juice, but she didn't know that's what Cindhy had said. So Cindhy brings out a big glass of orange juice and Hna Smith's eyes got big, but she smiled and said thanks. But it gets better. We start eating the cake, and I look down and see mold on my strawberry. I look in the middle of my cake and yep, more mold. Hmmm, I thought. I ate it and chugged some orange juice. We all finished the cake and left. As soon as we got out the door, Hna Dibble and I burst out laughing. Hna Smith had no idea she'd just eaten moldy cake and almost died when we told her. It was sooooo funny. Pobrecita. Surprisingly, we eat things like that all the time. I still haven't got food poisoning though, so.....
This week went well :) Lots of teaching and studying. It's so great to be in a trio. We just laugh all day. Our ward was so relieved to finally see a new face and to get to feed someone new! They actually think Hna Dibble and I are members of the ward :p It's possible that we are. Man I love these people :)
So we had a downer week on Sacrament attendance... only our sweet Natalia came. But there will be more next week! We have planned Darwin's baptism for this weekend, and Natalia and Camila for the first week in October.
I love being a missionary. I learn so much every day. We had a mission conference call with President Adler and he encouraged us to teach our people about faith and hope. We have some people who are beginning to doubt the truth of our message. I was thinking it's much better to help people realize how much faith they have rather than point out that they are doubting. Christ always pointed out the faith. I know as we cheerfully do all that we can, we can watch miracles happen. What a joyful thing the Gospel is.
...and loving it
Hermana Belliston
K, the best thing about training a new missionary is that everything is so new and different and hilarious to them. For example:
We were teaching Cindhy this week. Her lesson went a little long so we were already 20 minutes late to our dinner appointment, but then she offered us tres leches cake so we couldn't decline! We sat down and then Cindhy asks if we'd like orange juice, too. Hna Smith is still working on understanding the people, so she readily agrees and Hna Dibble and I die laughing. Hna Smith hates orange juice, but she didn't know that's what Cindhy had said. So Cindhy brings out a big glass of orange juice and Hna Smith's eyes got big, but she smiled and said thanks. But it gets better. We start eating the cake, and I look down and see mold on my strawberry. I look in the middle of my cake and yep, more mold. Hmmm, I thought. I ate it and chugged some orange juice. We all finished the cake and left. As soon as we got out the door, Hna Dibble and I burst out laughing. Hna Smith had no idea she'd just eaten moldy cake and almost died when we told her. It was sooooo funny. Pobrecita. Surprisingly, we eat things like that all the time. I still haven't got food poisoning though, so.....
Dinner at Hna Macias house. Background on Hna Macias.... she gives all the misioneras princess names because she cant say our last names. So I'm Cinderella, Hna Dibble is Ana Ferris (not a princess) and Hna Smith is actually real life Elsa we decided. So we all got pictures with her daughter Karlita. And then she fed us these tacos. Okay folks. I literally touched the tip of my tongue on the meat and my whole mouth exploded. My lips when numb and I thought I wasn't going to make it. That's what happens when you cut up 7 jalapeño peppers and put them in a stir fry.
Aside from that, the tacos were divine.
This week went well :) Lots of teaching and studying. It's so great to be in a trio. We just laugh all day. Our ward was so relieved to finally see a new face and to get to feed someone new! They actually think Hna Dibble and I are members of the ward :p It's possible that we are. Man I love these people :)
Sometimes we do a lot of shopping on Pday...
So we had a downer week on Sacrament attendance... only our sweet Natalia came. But there will be more next week! We have planned Darwin's baptism for this weekend, and Natalia and Camila for the first week in October.
We did a booth for the temple! It was so fun!
I don't know if I sent our labor day brunch picture last week....
but we had brunch with Josh at Waffle House .
Hna Powell came to say hi and we got a generational picture!!
I love being a missionary. I learn so much every day. We had a mission conference call with President Adler and he encouraged us to teach our people about faith and hope. We have some people who are beginning to doubt the truth of our message. I was thinking it's much better to help people realize how much faith they have rather than point out that they are doubting. Christ always pointed out the faith. I know as we cheerfully do all that we can, we can watch miracles happen. What a joyful thing the Gospel is.
...and loving it
Hermana Belliston
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Mija!!
Hola y'all,
This week went really well!! It's kind of a blur for sure.... but we welcomed Hna Smith!!! Wahoo. She is SO great. She came from the Mexico MTC so she's got a little different experience and speaks a lot better than I ever did for sure! Hna Dibble and her are basically the same person, as in the things they've done in their lives, but then we have really similar personalities. Haha! We were at dinner yesterday, and Hna Cielo fed us enchiladas (the best enchiladas I've ever eaten to be honest), and Hna Cielo put down a plate of four enchiladas in front of Hna Smith and she looks at us and goes, "Nice! is that for us to share?" Nice try, chica. We each ate a plate of four enchiladas, and 3 glasses of agua de sandia, and 3 pieces of watermelon. It was divine and just about right, but poor Hna Smith was dead! Haha, it was a good time, though. Good initiation :)
So, every week we play soccer on Saturday. The past three weeks in a row I've gotten nailed in the face by the ball and this past week was no exception. So that's the update on Soccer. I've gotten worse, not better as we would have hoped.
Not a lot happened this week, but life is going well. I'm loving it. Being a missionary is the best way to go ever. I've been learning a lot about the Atonement and Repentance this week and it's a beautiful thing. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real and that is my favorite thing to teach as the central part of Heavenly Father's Perfect Plan.
Wow! I love y'all. Have a great week.
....and loving it
Hermana Belliston
This week went really well!! It's kind of a blur for sure.... but we welcomed Hna Smith!!! Wahoo. She is SO great. She came from the Mexico MTC so she's got a little different experience and speaks a lot better than I ever did for sure! Hna Dibble and her are basically the same person, as in the things they've done in their lives, but then we have really similar personalities. Haha! We were at dinner yesterday, and Hna Cielo fed us enchiladas (the best enchiladas I've ever eaten to be honest), and Hna Cielo put down a plate of four enchiladas in front of Hna Smith and she looks at us and goes, "Nice! is that for us to share?" Nice try, chica. We each ate a plate of four enchiladas, and 3 glasses of agua de sandia, and 3 pieces of watermelon. It was divine and just about right, but poor Hna Smith was dead! Haha, it was a good time, though. Good initiation :)
Classic Trio!! It's a blast and a half!
Those enchiladas though....
So, every week we play soccer on Saturday. The past three weeks in a row I've gotten nailed in the face by the ball and this past week was no exception. So that's the update on Soccer. I've gotten worse, not better as we would have hoped.
Kayla is the daughter of Denisse, someone we're teaching. I LOVE her.
Zone conference a little while ago!
Not a lot happened this week, but life is going well. I'm loving it. Being a missionary is the best way to go ever. I've been learning a lot about the Atonement and Repentance this week and it's a beautiful thing. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real and that is my favorite thing to teach as the central part of Heavenly Father's Perfect Plan.
Wow! I love y'all. Have a great week.
....and loving it
Hermana Belliston
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