The Hour of your Mission has Come

We have been CRAZY busy with the mission work, but we have also taken time to play. The mission president said "don't take a p-day (missionary preparation day),  just take one as the opportunity arises." So.... that is what we do. Things are starting to calm down with all the earthquake trauma, but we took the opportunity to organize a class about emergency preparedness with the saints. Many still don't have emergency bags aka 72 hour kits and food storage. The bishop asked us to help the members learn about "mochilas de emergencia" and it was a successful night with 38 people in attendance, including 10 investigators (double arm pump)! We went to Guayanilla in the south again this week to take some more tents and check on some of our friends. It was amazing how happy they were despite their circumstances. For me it is mind blowing, to sleep/live under a blue tarp, with no running water, no toilet, no electricity with just a bucket of water for a sh...

On Tuesday the 7th of January, 2020, 4:24 a.m. the bed was shaking and I thought Kyle was itching his legs desperately from all the mosquito bites he had encountered the night before. I finally opened my eyes and to my surprise he wasn't in bed. Then he came thorough the bedroom door and said, "Did you feel that?" The condo's generator outside had already kicked on (no help to us) and even though I was surprised, I basically rolled over and went back to sleep. A second one came about 7 a.m. At this point, I was more awake and decided that I better cancel my early classes with VIPkids. Again, not being too concerned, I went back to bed, grateful for the "SNOW DAY" in Puerto Rico and that I could sleep and get some extra rest. Kyle went outside to check for a tsunami and talk to the neighbors who were already packing up to leave. Within hours, our condominium was a ghost town and everyone had left except for about three of us. When I finally got up, I was ...

Last Sunday, Julian was confirmed and given the gift of the Holy Ghost along with his mother. Their baptism was Saturday, the 4th of January, 2020. Kyle was asked to do the baptisms and we had a full house at the baptisms like always. I sang with the sister missionaries and the bishop's wife, "I'll Find You My Friend" or ...in Spanish, "Te Hallare" which was recycled from my music file when I lived here in 1990.  The younger boy, Ian, decided the next day that he was ready to be baptized too and told the sister missionaries. I think he just wanted to watch Momma and big brother first. Well, my highlight of the whole thing was being asked to be a witness at the font for Liliana and Julian. It was my first time being a witness. I was able to do so, because of a recent change in church policy that now permits any baptized member of the church, male or female, to be a witness for a baptism. Pretty cool huh?  https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/women...