Saturday, June 27, 2015
We have a baptismal date!
Hello friends!!!! Well
this week was very long. Since I got my new companion I had to show her our area
and it was just tiring. She is very nice and cooI, and I love her. She has been
in the mission a year and she is sad she almost goes home, so this week we did
service we went to a food place and we helped people get food and it was just
really nice. Also this week we found a lot of people and we have a baptismal
date. I'm not sure I told yall about her, well she is from Argentina (Cintia)
and she is just awesome we taught her the restoration and we invited her to be
baptized and she said YES! Haha them she was like wait, does that mean I
have to stop smoking??? and I thought in my head nooo she smokes?!! Haha we
told her to stop smoking and she said she will try but yeah she does want to
quit. She has a rough life but she is very thankful that she found us. Her date
is July 5th let's hope everything goes well. I'm so glad we found her she
is just great. Also we had a fiesta on Saturday and it was awesome. It was like
a cowboy theme for dia de Los Padres. We danced Haha, also on Sunday we had 2
investigators!!!!! That’s a record!!!! Haha it was great. My new companion and
I just want to work hard. :) It was a good week. And this coming one is going to
be better. I know this gospel is true I love serving others and I love finding
new people. I want to help more and I know that with my new companion we are going
to work harder. I love yall have a great week. :)
-Hermana Escalante :)
-Hermana Escalante :)
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| Her new companion Sister Luau. |
New companion her name is Hermana Luau!
Hello friends!
So this week was crazy!!!! I have a new companion her name is Hermana Luau she is from Samoa. She is great, and now I'm taking over my area and I'm nervous but I know my heavenly father is going to help me! My companion left to another area "el Molino" so that means I'm done with training!! I'm going to miss my companion (Hermana Bateman she was great). I can't believe I’m in charge now, when I heard that I was getting a new companion I'm like I don’t know this area a whole lot but I have confidence that everything is going to be alright but This week we didn't have as much success or we didn’t find a whole lot of people because school is over so people are going out of town and it's hard to find people. And it's getting really hot here. But we found some people and we worked more with. This week went by pretty fast, and I don't remember what we did hah but we took a district picture and had district meeting and we really focused on helping people keeping commitments. We want them to feel the love of God in their lives so if we don't remind them to read, pray and do those things that is going to help them progress they are never going to have a change of Heart. So we are trying to be better and helping them have this repenting process in their lives. I know that as people start seeing that by keeping these simple things like having faith in Jesus Christ, repenting, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. I'm trying to do this to help also members realize that after baptism is doesn't mean that you’re good; you still have to endure to the end. Well also this week we found a black widow spider, there are lots of black widows here and I'm afraid Ahhh. But I'm good. Lol my plan this week is to work hard and have confidence that I will do well. Hopefully my companion likes to work I have heard bad things about her but I'm going to be strong. I love this gospel We actually had an investigator on Sunday at church and she is from Argentina, she sat next to me and she told me why are those people going up there and saying good things and I explained they are bearing their testimonies, they say things that has helped them grow and good things that come from their heart. She told me I want to share my testimony! Haha I'm like WHAT?' ..... Sure she said but if you come with me?! I'm like sure I don't mind. So we went up there and she bore her testimony or saying how god has blessed her and she was just great, she cried and was thankful she found us. We will for sure give her a baptismal date this week. Well I hope everyone is great with yall. Keep working hard, missionary work is not easy, with the member’s help the work will grow more. I'm so grateful for serving a mission and looking at people trying to be better. I want to work hard and bring many souls to him. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I love this gospel with all my heart. Pray always friends, prayer is so important, it's a way you can feel Heavenly Fathers love and you can feel him in your life. I know this because as a missionary we pray alottttt I didn’t t pray as much before the mission but now I pray for everything. I love being able to pray. Keep working hard friends and endure to the end. I love you Rama Liahona.
So this week was crazy!!!! I have a new companion her name is Hermana Luau she is from Samoa. She is great, and now I'm taking over my area and I'm nervous but I know my heavenly father is going to help me! My companion left to another area "el Molino" so that means I'm done with training!! I'm going to miss my companion (Hermana Bateman she was great). I can't believe I’m in charge now, when I heard that I was getting a new companion I'm like I don’t know this area a whole lot but I have confidence that everything is going to be alright but This week we didn't have as much success or we didn’t find a whole lot of people because school is over so people are going out of town and it's hard to find people. And it's getting really hot here. But we found some people and we worked more with. This week went by pretty fast, and I don't remember what we did hah but we took a district picture and had district meeting and we really focused on helping people keeping commitments. We want them to feel the love of God in their lives so if we don't remind them to read, pray and do those things that is going to help them progress they are never going to have a change of Heart. So we are trying to be better and helping them have this repenting process in their lives. I know that as people start seeing that by keeping these simple things like having faith in Jesus Christ, repenting, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. I'm trying to do this to help also members realize that after baptism is doesn't mean that you’re good; you still have to endure to the end. Well also this week we found a black widow spider, there are lots of black widows here and I'm afraid Ahhh. But I'm good. Lol my plan this week is to work hard and have confidence that I will do well. Hopefully my companion likes to work I have heard bad things about her but I'm going to be strong. I love this gospel We actually had an investigator on Sunday at church and she is from Argentina, she sat next to me and she told me why are those people going up there and saying good things and I explained they are bearing their testimonies, they say things that has helped them grow and good things that come from their heart. She told me I want to share my testimony! Haha I'm like WHAT?' ..... Sure she said but if you come with me?! I'm like sure I don't mind. So we went up there and she bore her testimony or saying how god has blessed her and she was just great, she cried and was thankful she found us. We will for sure give her a baptismal date this week. Well I hope everyone is great with yall. Keep working hard, missionary work is not easy, with the member’s help the work will grow more. I'm so grateful for serving a mission and looking at people trying to be better. I want to work hard and bring many souls to him. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I love this gospel with all my heart. Pray always friends, prayer is so important, it's a way you can feel Heavenly Fathers love and you can feel him in your life. I know this because as a missionary we pray alottttt I didn’t t pray as much before the mission but now I pray for everything. I love being able to pray. Keep working hard friends and endure to the end. I love you Rama Liahona.
Los extraño, Cuídense!!
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I have goals everyday of finding people to teach!
Hello friends!!!!
Well this week was pretty good, we had one investigator who is doing great I'm not sure if I talked about her last week. But her name is CITA lol so we saw her 3 times this week. The first one we went on Wednesday and we talked about restoration and she had so many questions about church because she went to church Last Sunday and we just answered all of them and they were pretty hard. Haha but she invited us to her house on Thursday because her husband was going to be there I really didn't like him he is a member but very negative. We talked about the Book of Mormon and gave her a copy, we read 3 Nephi 27:1-21 and we talked about baptism and the true church on earth and her husband knew where we were going with it and he told us that she is not going to get baptized any time soon. My companion and I were so mad because that was our plan and he ruined everything. :( But on Saturday we had a tour of the Church with her and it was great :) she said eventually if we keep insisting she may change religions. Anyway, we had zone conference and it was my first one, our mission president talked to us and some missionaries too and our mission president talked about working hard until your last day on your mission. And I want to work hard and find those souls. Also, I have goals everyday of finding people to teach. :) This week was great we found new people and we are still working on the two that have baptismal dates!!! :) pray for us this week our goal is to work harder. :) I'm almost done with training! Ah transfers are in two weeks my companion may leave :( and since 4 new Hermanas are coming in I may be training ah scary well hopefully everyone is doing great love you guys!!!!! Have a great week and do great things. I love this gospel and I love to learn more from the scriptures. I love my mission and my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ they are always there to help me and my companion at finding people. Go out with the missionaries!!!! And keep sharing the gospel. :)
Love, Hermana Escalante
Well this week was pretty good, we had one investigator who is doing great I'm not sure if I talked about her last week. But her name is CITA lol so we saw her 3 times this week. The first one we went on Wednesday and we talked about restoration and she had so many questions about church because she went to church Last Sunday and we just answered all of them and they were pretty hard. Haha but she invited us to her house on Thursday because her husband was going to be there I really didn't like him he is a member but very negative. We talked about the Book of Mormon and gave her a copy, we read 3 Nephi 27:1-21 and we talked about baptism and the true church on earth and her husband knew where we were going with it and he told us that she is not going to get baptized any time soon. My companion and I were so mad because that was our plan and he ruined everything. :( But on Saturday we had a tour of the Church with her and it was great :) she said eventually if we keep insisting she may change religions. Anyway, we had zone conference and it was my first one, our mission president talked to us and some missionaries too and our mission president talked about working hard until your last day on your mission. And I want to work hard and find those souls. Also, I have goals everyday of finding people to teach. :) This week was great we found new people and we are still working on the two that have baptismal dates!!! :) pray for us this week our goal is to work harder. :) I'm almost done with training! Ah transfers are in two weeks my companion may leave :( and since 4 new Hermanas are coming in I may be training ah scary well hopefully everyone is doing great love you guys!!!!! Have a great week and do great things. I love this gospel and I love to learn more from the scriptures. I love my mission and my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ they are always there to help me and my companion at finding people. Go out with the missionaries!!!! And keep sharing the gospel. :)
Love, Hermana Escalante
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
This week was AWESOME!!!!!
This week was AWESOME!!!!! We have two baptismal dates!!! Ahhh I'm so excited, one of them is Cesar and he is 14 years old. His parents are members but less actives. And he told us that he had taken a bible class in school and that he had been praying for God to help him with tests and he said God is real and he is there and he told us that he wants to learn more. He is ready and he wants to do good things. We extended the invitation to him to get baptized and he said, yes!!! On June 14th :) hopefully he gets there, I'm praying that he is ready that day. :) The other one is a lady named Soledad, we've been
to her house 3 times and we read the Book of Mormon with her 2 Nephi 31 about baptism and how it's very important and we also extended the invitation for her to get baptized and she said YESSSS!! On June 28th, Haha we love her she is great, we hope she is ready on that day. But I have faith that she will be ready she always tells us that she has to read because she knows we will ask her questions. Lol it was great. Oh this week we went on exchanges and my companion went to another area for a day and I stayed with another sister and I was terrified because I'm still learning the area, I know the main streets but
Ugh I was so nervous about getting lost or not finding anyone, but it went great we actually found new people! This week we did a lot of finding and we actually were walking (like always) or biking and we met this lady that we stopped cause she had the cutest puppy. We always make an excuse to stop people or just say something random to talk, and share the gospel Told her we are missionaries, she said she has talked to missionaries and invited us to her house!!! She let us share our message with her. :) She told us that her husband is from chile, and he is a member but has been inactive for
like 20 years. She is catholic but not an active one, she has always wanted to earn more about LDS church, her husband always had excuses, busy working and never had time to go with her and they always went to the Catholic church. But we invited them to come to church and she said she would ask her husband and maybe they would come to church.
THEY CAME!!!!!!!! I was so happy, they left early but at least they came to the most important part of church the sacrament! They invited us to come over their house sometime this week because they would like to learn more so we may have another baptismal date?! Aghhhhhh I'm excited oh yeah her name is CITA(which in English it means appointment) she is awesome. Heavenly Father is awesome and he puts people in our way who are ready :) I invite all of you who are members to please give referrals to the missionaries cause members need to help us with this work too,it's not easy. It's hard for people sometimes to really be interested. If you have a neighbor that feels that hey they need to hear the gospel I encourage you to give them to the elders or sisters. It would
be wonderful, because we would love to receive a lot of referrals from members but they are lazy. Thanks! And please email me, cause I want to hear from yall too. Lol I know this church is true, I know that as we ask Heavenly Father for something he will help us. I know that he lives, I know the scriptures are true because I always pray for Heavenly Father to help me understand them. I love them and they help be a better person and a
better missionary. I love our prophet Thomas s. Monson and know he is our prophet today I know that testimonies can change people's lives.Increase your faith like elder Richard g. Scott invited us to do 4things that will strengthen our faith and increase our testimony for
this gospel. 1. Pray 2. Scripture study. 3. FHE. 4. Temple attendance.Go to the temple, the members here have the temple so close here 40 minutes away and they Dont go!! Ahh I would go every week. The temple is wonderful and it's a way to feel Heavenly Father close to us. I love it. Also remember this , it was from conference about Latter Day
Saints I love it cause it helps me keep going. "My invitation to all of us is to evaluate our lives, repent, and keep on trying. If we don’t try, we’re just latter-day sinners; if we don’t persevere, we’re latter-day quitters; and if we don’t allow others to try, we’re just
latter-day hypocrites. As we try, persevere, and help others to do the same, we are true Latter-day Saints. As we change, we will find that God indeed cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming than about who we once were. Let us be LATTER DAY SAINTS. I love this quote. Share the gospel with everyone! Well have a great
week everyone!
Love yall,
Hermana Escalante
to her house 3 times and we read the Book of Mormon with her 2 Nephi 31 about baptism and how it's very important and we also extended the invitation for her to get baptized and she said YESSSS!! On June 28th, Haha we love her she is great, we hope she is ready on that day. But I have faith that she will be ready she always tells us that she has to read because she knows we will ask her questions. Lol it was great. Oh this week we went on exchanges and my companion went to another area for a day and I stayed with another sister and I was terrified because I'm still learning the area, I know the main streets but
Ugh I was so nervous about getting lost or not finding anyone, but it went great we actually found new people! This week we did a lot of finding and we actually were walking (like always) or biking and we met this lady that we stopped cause she had the cutest puppy. We always make an excuse to stop people or just say something random to talk, and share the gospel Told her we are missionaries, she said she has talked to missionaries and invited us to her house!!! She let us share our message with her. :) She told us that her husband is from chile, and he is a member but has been inactive for
like 20 years. She is catholic but not an active one, she has always wanted to earn more about LDS church, her husband always had excuses, busy working and never had time to go with her and they always went to the Catholic church. But we invited them to come to church and she said she would ask her husband and maybe they would come to church.
THEY CAME!!!!!!!! I was so happy, they left early but at least they came to the most important part of church the sacrament! They invited us to come over their house sometime this week because they would like to learn more so we may have another baptismal date?! Aghhhhhh I'm excited oh yeah her name is CITA(which in English it means appointment) she is awesome. Heavenly Father is awesome and he puts people in our way who are ready :) I invite all of you who are members to please give referrals to the missionaries cause members need to help us with this work too,it's not easy. It's hard for people sometimes to really be interested. If you have a neighbor that feels that hey they need to hear the gospel I encourage you to give them to the elders or sisters. It would
be wonderful, because we would love to receive a lot of referrals from members but they are lazy. Thanks! And please email me, cause I want to hear from yall too. Lol I know this church is true, I know that as we ask Heavenly Father for something he will help us. I know that he lives, I know the scriptures are true because I always pray for Heavenly Father to help me understand them. I love them and they help be a better person and a
better missionary. I love our prophet Thomas s. Monson and know he is our prophet today I know that testimonies can change people's lives.Increase your faith like elder Richard g. Scott invited us to do 4things that will strengthen our faith and increase our testimony for
this gospel. 1. Pray 2. Scripture study. 3. FHE. 4. Temple attendance.Go to the temple, the members here have the temple so close here 40 minutes away and they Dont go!! Ahh I would go every week. The temple is wonderful and it's a way to feel Heavenly Father close to us. I love it. Also remember this , it was from conference about Latter Day
Saints I love it cause it helps me keep going. "My invitation to all of us is to evaluate our lives, repent, and keep on trying. If we don’t try, we’re just latter-day sinners; if we don’t persevere, we’re latter-day quitters; and if we don’t allow others to try, we’re just
latter-day hypocrites. As we try, persevere, and help others to do the same, we are true Latter-day Saints. As we change, we will find that God indeed cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming than about who we once were. Let us be LATTER DAY SAINTS. I love this quote. Share the gospel with everyone! Well have a great
week everyone!
Love yall,
Hermana Escalante
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Sunday, May 17, 2015
Happy Mother's Day everyone!
Happy late Mother's Day everyone! I got to talk to my Familia and it was awesome I really needed to talk to them! Lol so this week was so cold here in Azusa and it was raining! We found a lot of new people and we have 3 progressing investigators. We found this lady named "Soledad" which in English her name means "loneliness" but she is really not lonely. We taught her the restoration, and then her friend came over and we taught her, so we kinda had 2 lessons at the same time. They both said that they want to come to church. :)
this week we also did a lot of finding and we contacted a lot of people. Everyday is a new adventure. :) I learn more and more. My scripture reading is getting so much better. I always read talks from Liahona or from general conference they Help me a lot and reading the scriptures too.We found this young lady (Guadalupe) who is now 25 who
got baptized when she was 15 but stopped going because her grandma and mom had died so she didn't go back. We found her and we started talking to her. She opened up to us and told us everything about her life, EVERYTHING :/ but she was very nice and told us that before she didn't believe in God, because he took away her mom who had cancer and
her grandma. but she started going to the Catholic Church and she started getting closer to him. And her boyfriend has helped her a lot, because he treats her nice and he wants the best for her. We showed her the video " because of him" and she loved it. She was so happy that we went to her house and she said she felt better. It was a great experience and now she wants to be an example to her sister who is not doing the right things. Our goal with her is for her to come to church and to feel his love in her life more. :) this week as we went to eat tacos with my companion for dinner I ordered like 5 tacos and I
saw this old man who was poor, he was dirty and didn't smell pretty good but he only had 2 dollars to pay for 1 taco! I literally felt the spirit telling me to go and buy him 2 tacos and I did! My companion saw me doing it, and she was very happy. I felt so much better
afterwards. I knew that I did what Jesus Christ would've done. We should be more like him, in preach my gospel it says how we can apply Christlike attributes and I have been doing that more. I want to be more like Jesus Christ. And I am representing him Because I have his name close to me from that I know that he is very happy with me for everything I'm doing. :) I invite all of you to be more like Christ. You will see that as you do Christlike attributes you will receive more blessings. :) Our goal for this week is to talk to more people and to at least have 10 contacts a day :) I know that we can do it. I love being a missionary, it's hard at times but the lord is always there with us. The scriptures and praying everyday always helps me know that heavenly is always there. I know that reading the scriptures everyday can help you get closer to God and feel his love for you. This church is true. People every time they see us tell us that they admire us for helping others come unto Christ. They never close the doors to us because they say that we are good people who go around and teach the word of God. Always share your testimony! Well peeps have a great week. And share the gospel with everyone!!!!! :)
Love yall!
-Hermana Escalante
this week we also did a lot of finding and we contacted a lot of people. Everyday is a new adventure. :) I learn more and more. My scripture reading is getting so much better. I always read talks from Liahona or from general conference they Help me a lot and reading the scriptures too.We found this young lady (Guadalupe) who is now 25 who
got baptized when she was 15 but stopped going because her grandma and mom had died so she didn't go back. We found her and we started talking to her. She opened up to us and told us everything about her life, EVERYTHING :/ but she was very nice and told us that before she didn't believe in God, because he took away her mom who had cancer and
her grandma. but she started going to the Catholic Church and she started getting closer to him. And her boyfriend has helped her a lot, because he treats her nice and he wants the best for her. We showed her the video " because of him" and she loved it. She was so happy that we went to her house and she said she felt better. It was a great experience and now she wants to be an example to her sister who is not doing the right things. Our goal with her is for her to come to church and to feel his love in her life more. :) this week as we went to eat tacos with my companion for dinner I ordered like 5 tacos and I
saw this old man who was poor, he was dirty and didn't smell pretty good but he only had 2 dollars to pay for 1 taco! I literally felt the spirit telling me to go and buy him 2 tacos and I did! My companion saw me doing it, and she was very happy. I felt so much better
afterwards. I knew that I did what Jesus Christ would've done. We should be more like him, in preach my gospel it says how we can apply Christlike attributes and I have been doing that more. I want to be more like Jesus Christ. And I am representing him Because I have his name close to me from that I know that he is very happy with me for everything I'm doing. :) I invite all of you to be more like Christ. You will see that as you do Christlike attributes you will receive more blessings. :) Our goal for this week is to talk to more people and to at least have 10 contacts a day :) I know that we can do it. I love being a missionary, it's hard at times but the lord is always there with us. The scriptures and praying everyday always helps me know that heavenly is always there. I know that reading the scriptures everyday can help you get closer to God and feel his love for you. This church is true. People every time they see us tell us that they admire us for helping others come unto Christ. They never close the doors to us because they say that we are good people who go around and teach the word of God. Always share your testimony! Well peeps have a great week. And share the gospel with everyone!!!!! :)
Love yall!
-Hermana Escalante
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