el 13 de Julio

woo! another week, really? sitting down, thinking about all the 

adventures i have had, i can see where all the time is going, but at 

the same time, yikes! slow down already!

a big success... getting over an upset tummy. this week, just for a 

couple of days, i got a little rumblies in my tumblies, and thanks to 

some good ol' pepto bismol and some tums, i am back on track. 

no fever, need to worry.

our biggest challenge... sunday night we had to have 12 lessons with 

investigators, 8 lessons with converts or less actives, and 40 contacts 

to complete with the standards of excellency. and what did we do? 

completed with almost all of our lessons, all of our contacts, and 

almost all of our recent converts. here, after nine oclock, everyone is 

in bed, doors closed and ready for bed... so it's kind of hard to find 

converts to talk with... and do you want to know why we were so in 

the pit with numbers? because we had a multi-zone meeting!

thursday we woke up at 4:30am, travelled an hour in a bus to get to 
managua, and spent all day with President and Sister Russell, learning 
and practicing, and doing a lot of listening. we even got special 
permission to watch Meet the Mormons in Spanish! i almost
 understood all of it, but thanks to having seen it two times before in 
the MTC, i had a basic understand of what was going on... of course, 
photos had to be taken, because i saw sister garfield!

here, we dress up real nice for activities like that, so of course i had 

to wear my $1 skirt, and my new shirt!

i also received my medallion, which certifies that i successfully 

completed my training as a missionary, almost three months late, 

but we won't talk about that.

a tender mercy... this week we found a brother of an investigator 

with lots of desires to learn and understand the church. he came to 

church, and was a little confused because the speakers got a little 

baptist-preacher like, but we ended up having a great discussion 

afterwards, and he is now on the path for a baptism the eighth of 

august!

my favorite person this week, would be my mother. she taught me 

so many wonderful things in my childhood, and i am so glad that i 

was able to be born into a home where the gospel is so intertwined

 into everything. there is no other way to live the gospel... 

it's a way of life.

::For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that 

humbleth himself shall be exalted.:: 

something that i am working always to do, is to emmulate more the 

attribute of christ. i am, after all, his representative, and i need to be 

more like him in every way. him that is humble will be exalted, and 

those who stand tall in pride, will be struck down and humbled 

forcefully.

i love you all, thank you all for your support!

hermana martinez and i send our love!

​the tennessee hermana