6.27.11

Hey there family!
Ya it has gotten so cold here! Like I honestly never expected it to be as cold as it has been. I wear my thick tights, sweater, pea coat and gloves. (thanks to jen I have these fleece lined tight, I cant even tell you how much i love them!! I seriously have been wearing them everyday and my legs are still cold but they are better then anything else) its like there isnt really a middle temperature here its either really really cold or really really hot. i think i might be happier with the cold though I am scared to death for summer when the heat starts to come. oh i realized that i never told dad Happy fathers day!!! it last sunday right? well happy fathers day dad!!! love you
  Sad news... looks like we arent having a baptism this weekend like we thought. ya we are both super disapointed. I dont even know what happened but ever since the last saturday when she told us that she wanted to be baptized she hasnt gone to church the past two sundays and we went over to visit her last tuesday and she told us that we cant come over everyday because her dad comes to the house a lot. he doesnt live there but i guess he visits a lot and apparently he is very against the church and one time a long time ago there were elders at their house and her dad came out with an ax to chase them away... so ya... we are basically not aloud to visit her because she is scared that her dad could show up at any minute. we are so sad because she wants to be baptized we just dont know how to help her because we cant even see her and since she didnt go to church the sunday before her baptism we cant baptize her so we are hoping sometime in the near future she will be able to be baptized. her name is Valeria Meza. pray for her that everything will work out so she can be baptized.
  We have this other girl that we are teaching named Eugenia and she is the daughter of a man in our branch who is the secretary in the district presidency and is very active in the church but his wife and daughter are not members. so we have been visiting with them to try to help them and his daughter really wants to be baptized but she has a son and lives with her boyfriend so she has to get documents and they have to get married so she can be baptized. well since we started teaching her middle of may we have been trying to get her to go to church every single sunday but somehow she always thinks of exuses of why she cant go so we have been super frustrated because we cant baptize her if she doesnt go to church so ths past week we had a lesson with her about the sabbath day and the importance about going to church so she promised us she would go to church on sunday. well sunday comes along and we went out early in the morning to stop by one of our investigators houses to take him to church but no one answered the door so we were really frustrated and sad because we were positive we were going to have no investigators in church and we get to the church and we see Eugenias dad standing right inside the door and he greets us as we walk in and we ask if his daughter came and he said no she didnt wake up so she didnt end up coming. at that point my comp and i turned around to go into sacament meeting when all of a sudden eugenia pops up from the other room. man you should have seen our faces! she was probably scared at how excited we were. haha for us this was a little miracle to finally see her come to church after begging her for weeks and weeks. she ended up being our one investigator at church on sunday. hopefully her documents come and everything works out for her to be baptized the 23 of july.  
    haha i am starting to realize that a mission is full of lots of very awkared moments. we as missionary experience many awkward things but the other day we were at families house that we had just met the week before and taught once and we went back to teach them again and visit them and the daughter told us that the parents werent there but we asked if we could talk to her cousin who lived with them who is 16 years old and she said yes and got her cousin. so we sat down and started talking to the cousin wanting to get to know her a little bit better because she lives with her aunt and their family so my comp started asking about this girls life and kind of about her family when this girl started balling and saying that her mom didnt want her so she abandoned her and the aunt took her in. well the cousin was sitting in the room listening and knew nothing about this so she started crying too and then next thing we knew the crazy grandma runs out and it yelling at us to leave their house now!! all of this personal family stuff came out that we didnt even force them to tell us but apparently the grandma didnt like it so we basically felt horrible after and are scared to ever walk by that house again. that they might murder us. im sure now if they ever see mormon missionaries they might kill them. ahhh ya it was horrible but what do you do..
   Oh i recieved moms letter with the stack of pics of busty. oh my goodness i am obsessed!!! he is so cute!! i have a mural of pics of him hanging up on my wall. haha and i just got a letter that is looks like dad sent me in the mtc of laurens blog. i enjoyed reading that!! keep sending letters. its fun to get real letters too!!! well i better get going. things are good. we are still struggling a lot with finding new investigators we have gotten rid of a lot of investigators so we have very few right now we have been getting rejected a lot but i am sure there is someone here that is ready to listen and accept our message we just havent found that yet. everyone is just very very stuck in there catholic ways and cant change. it is difficult but we just keep working hard. im sure sucess will come.. thanks for the emails and support it is much appreciated. i love you all and am grateful to have such a wonderful strong family in the gospel. have a wonderful week and heather I am so excited for you to go to your pageant! I better get lots a pics updates and i want to hear about everything. yay! how fun! love you all lots!
love,
hermana van wag