July 11, 2016

WE'RE STAYING TOGETHER!! So Hna Beutler and I have been praying really hard for the last week or so that the Lord will allow us to stay together and it worked!! We have one more transfer together in Caguas!! They took out both the other sisters that were here with us so it will be a little lonely in our house but I'm so excited!!! Nothing too amazing happened this week, I mean miracles happen every day but it would take me wayyy to long to write them all out. We did catch the little mouse that has been plaguing our house for the last week. I hate mice. So Gross. But yes, everything is going great! We're really hoping to have two reactivations this month with the less-active members that we have been working with and than hopefully another baptism as well!! 

July 4, 2016

This is our coordinating patriotic outfits! 

Hi!! So yes as you know today is my 8 month mark, yayayayay!!!! I can't believe how fast my time is going, I'm almost half-way done!!! wait, what?? 

This week was really fun! We had a baptism on Saturday with our investigator, Franky. He's 14 and his mom his mom is a recent convert as well so it has been a really fun experience teaching them. The Elders also had a baptism with one of the investigators and a ton of the ward members showed up for it, it was great! OH! Something else that was cool about Franky's baptism is that we had one of the young men from the ward who is preparing to go on his mission in like a year or two, baptize him. It was so cute because they both just look so young and they were both so nervous. 

Right now we are working with a STELLAR investigator!! She just needs to come to church!!! She has 4 little kids all under the age of 10 and they are soooo cute!!!!  She told us that she totally believes in the BOM and that she wants to get baptized but she wants to pray about it first... I'm so stoked!!!

Caguas District

Caguas District

Caguas Distric

Franky's Baptism

Franky's Baptism

June 27, 2016

Today we went to the beach for a sisters activity, which basically means we have a spiritual thought for like a half hour and then we go take a ton of pictures of the beach that we can't fully enjoy. It's always fun though to go and enjoy the outdoors for a minute!.

So one day while we were out contacting this week we met the nicest Jehovah's witness ever!! The husband, Will, is technically an atheist but after we gave him a card with our number on it, he invited us into his house to meet his wife. After sharing a quick message, we had planned on leaving because it was like 8:30 and we have to be home by 9PM. Well Will turns to me and asks me if I like food...My response was a big YES! He gets up and tell us to give him 2 minutes. He comes back with a giant bag of frozen chicken and he then informs us that he is going to make us the best fried chicken that we have ever had and that he and his wife would drive us home after we ate.... I don't know how but he had the chicken all fried up and ready in like 15 minutes and it really was the best fried chicken since I have been here! I really love how the Lord knows when I'm hungry!!

I love you and I hope you have a great week!! Here's a couple pics!! I found a coqui this week and I was super excited!! (frog)

The Ants go Marching One by One...

Well ok so this week there was a disaster!! On Tuesday night I had a nightmare that there were ants in my bed. I woke up and made sure that my bed was ant free, and then went back to sleep. Well Wednesday night I was telling my companion about my nightmare as we were getting ready for bed when I noticed there was one little ant on my bed. I laughed about how ironic it was but then I saw another, and then another , and then another. So at this point I saw like 4-5 on my bed and I was freaking out. I pull back the covers and my bed is INFESTED with ants....like infested infested!! I was hysterical!! My comp and I pulled off all of the sheets from my mattress and threw everything into the washer. As we were doing so we quickly found that they were the ants that bite and leave huge welts. I sprayed every inch of my mattress and the circumference of our room with ant spray and my companion taped up the hole in the wall that they were flooding in from. I'm still really confused as to why they chose to attack my bed, I had no food or anything. But anyway, that night I had to sleep on a handy-me-down sheet on my mattress with a super sketchy blanket and a really uncomfortable pillow....oh the joys of serving in a tropical island!!!

I really do love my area and my companion though. She and I are like the same person and it's great! We go running and exercise and we get fat together. I think we've only had to cook like 3 times since I've been here. Everyone gives us food here and it's great!! I think I'll finally get chubby here and I'm so excited!!! 

The amount of food that one member made for the 4 sisters that are in Caguas... the cooker is the size of a small child! Basically, yesterday I was fed a massive amount of delicious food haha!

Wow! So Hot!

Yes well this week has been super hot!!! It's also been really good and my companion and I are really hoping that we can start setting some baptism dates with our investigators. Oh, haha someone asked me if I was white the other day. When I said yes they responded with "yeahh I can tell". Well, I mean, anyone with eyes can see that I'm obviously white haha. It made me laugh though.

Cool story for the week:

We were contacting a woman and she didn't seem very interested until we started asking her about the church she attended. She stopped in the middle of her answer and asked us "If Christ established one  church, why are there so many churches on the Earth today?'. My comp and I just looked at each other like "is this real life?" and then we whipped our restoration pamphlets and shared a message with her and her family. It was great and it helped me realize that the Lord is preparing the hearts of the people that we're teaching.

Have a great week and here's some pics of my view yesterday!

-Hermana Larsen

Caguas!!!

This week was really fun but really crazy!! We had transfers on Tuesday and I had to say goodbye to my cute companion in Toa Baja which was really sad!! She was on crutches because she fell out of bed while sleeping and sprained her foot.

I was in a trio for a couple days while we were waiting for Hermana Galan's companion to fly in from Mexico and that was interesting but I'm glad that I'm back to just a regular companionship! My new companion's name is Hermana Beutler and she is a doll! We have a lot in common and we work well together!

The ward here is great and they love helping the missionaries! I miss Toa Baja because I spent a lot of time there and I feel like left a lot of people that are like family to me there, but I'm ready to work in Caguas!

ME VOY PARA CAGUAS!!!

This week was a really good/sad week!! Yesterday we received transfer calls and I'm going to Caguas!! I'm really excited to finally be leaving my area but I'm also really sad because I love my cute companion and I have a lot of members here who are like family to me. I'm going to be in a trio a north american and a latina companion. I hear we get fed a lot in that area so I feel like I'll enjoy it ;)

A funny story for this week:

During a lesson with an elderly woman we were offered orange juice. I love orange juice and so of course I accepted. Well she grabbed a super dirty cup from her sink, filled it with juice, and gave it to me. It had what looked like week old coffee floating around in it!! Luckily I had an empty water bottle with me so my companion would ask her about the painting that were hanging up behind her head while I would hurry and dump the nasty orange mixture into my water bottle. 

We also finally had a meeting about the dress code changes and it's official....I can wear pants!! I can also use hats and sunglasses but I'm just really excited about using pants!!!

I hope you all have a great week and enjoy your memorial day!

Hna Larsen