This past month, our mission president challenged our missionaries to meet, teach and baptize friends that are ready to make a covenant with Heavenly Father. President Cates didn’t have a number in mind. Instead, he challenged every companionship to baptize! This meant that missionaries challenged their friends to seek answers to Gospel questions through theContinue reading “Baptisms!”
Category Archives: Life Lessons
Legal?
Elder Hofhiens and I have been on a mission for exactly one year as of today – January 31. We’ve paid for our mission car ever since we received it in March of 2022. And we legally drove it until May of 2022. Ever since May 11, we have driven illegally. Why? Mainly because ourContinue reading “Legal?”
We caught it…
We have enjoyed three of the healthiest years ever, but this January Covid caught up to us and we were down for the count,… and I still have full sinuses! We were soon enticed out of our doldrums by this lady in the Nike sweatshirt, Adriana Bolanes. She is the wonderful woman who does theContinue reading “We caught it…”
Time To Share
Most Senior Missionaries do not proselyte and teach the gospel to non-members. Elder Hofhiens and I serve in the Mission office, serving and helping the missionaries and the Mission President in the work of Gathering Israel. As a general rule we don’t proselyte, but we still get to participate in the Gathering of Israel inContinue reading “Time To Share”
DAR A LUZ
In the Spanish version of the Book of Mormon, the act of giving birth is described as “giving a light” or dio a luz. IN Luke 2, Mary “dio a luz a su hijo primogénito”. In English, it simply says that (Mary) “brought forth her first born son”. Considering both stories, I love the SpanishContinue reading “DAR A LUZ”
ZONE CONFERENCE
Our Sabana Zone conference was a Christmas party with singing, acting and feasting! These young people are amazing and joyful! Our District members – Sisters Baldwin, DeMille, Hafen, Servellon, Elders Cedeño, Gallegos, Socop and Jenson – showed off their talents! Plus, Elder Hofhiens and I were able to help out at all the other ZoneContinue reading “ZONE CONFERENCE”
MEMORIES
AS missionaries in Costa Rica, we belong to a great ward in Escazú, San Jose. We have a set of Elders and a set of Sisters assigned to our ward too. We often attend Sunday School with these young missionaries and their amigos. Getting to know investigators and members in the ward has been aContinue reading “MEMORIES”
Send it how?
I have started sending out mailing instructions to parents. We’ve had two missionaries whose parents sent gifts via the website address. They spent hours visiting various offices, and paying various fees. Most of them give up and just let customs keep the gifts. Basically, there is no postal service here in Costa Rica. No oneContinue reading “Send it how?”
T’is the Season!
We found the Christmas decorations in the Elder’s apartment and had a fun morning decorating the office. Elder Jensen, Elder Socop, Sister Servellón, and Sister Hafen work well together and we all enjoy a good spirit of cooperation and service. In a burst of creativity, I decided to make a photo tree. Since we alwaysContinue reading “T’is the Season!”
Liderazgo!
Today was leadership training for the Big Event! They are role-playing how missionaries can involve ward and stake leaders in a Christmas activity this holiday season. Everyone in the mission is involved in writing testimonies in Scriptures, wrapping the scriptures as presents to give away, preparing hymns and holiday music for a concert in theContinue reading “Liderazgo!”
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