Feliz Páscoa, Happy Easter :) I hope everyone had a great Easter sunday yesterday. We had a great weekend this weekend and the fun news, we had a baptism this morning! Woohoo!
So I´ll explain the story quickly, so there is a
less active, Eduardo, that lives just 2 streets behind our apartment
building and we knew that he had a son that hadn´t been baptized. Well,
his son Gabriel, lives with him here and also lives with his mom in
another neighborhood. Well, we were able to finally talk to Gabriel Saturday
(he has already been to church at least 2 times) and we explained that
his baptism was going to be yesterday. Well, last night we went to go
get him for the baptism but his dad wasn´t home and he didn´t want to be
baptized without his dad there. Well, we waited and waited but we had
to leave because it was almost curfew. But, we got up this morning,
cleaned the house, and went to go have the baptism. haha, we got to his
house, (it was POURING down rain) and we got everyone to go, Eduardo,
Gabriel, and Eduardo´s other son Leo, and we went to the chapel. There
are elders that serve in the other ward in our chapel and they came to
help us out and he was baptized! I sent some pictures as well. haha,
it´s always an adventure here but it was great :)
So...I loved the pictures that you sent Mom! Baby
Guy is so adorable! Could you print some pictures of you all and send
them to me because it´s pretty expensive to print pictures and I want to
put them up on my wall. Thanks you´re the best! But, I´m glad to hear
that your trip went well. you look great :)
Oh, and I got the two packages FILLED with goodies!
Thank you sooo much! We had interviews with President Nogueira and
training with the APs and they brought mail and packages. I even shared
the oreos and some Reese´s with the elders, they went crazy :) They were
very grateful for some good ol American goodies :) But really thank you
so much Mom! And I got your card of encouragement as well, thank you,
thank you, thank you :)
I´m glad to hear that the sisters in Kimball and
Kelsey´s ward are having success. That´s so great. Is it still elders in
the Brambleton ward? It would be so cool to have sisters in our ward :)
I´m glad to hear that Heather emailed you as well. They emailed me last week and it seemed like they were doing well :)
Oh
and talking about my hair, no, I haven´t cut it, the last time I cut it
was in November, Sister Shirts just trimmed. Haha, I don´t really feel
like cutting it and it´s always just in a ponytail anyway because it´s
so hot... :) And it´s lighter too, the sun is doing it´s job here
Bryan: I laughed out loud when I read your email
about Norah saying that it´s really just Santa that fills the Easter
baskets. hahaha, she´s so funny
Lindsey: I
wasn´t able to hear Norah´s talk but I was able to see a part of it,
aah, Norah is growing up just way too fast :) But I´m glad to hear that
everyone is doing well :)
Dad:
Glad to hear that you all had a nice
Easter. Nothing like giving a surprise talk. Oh, I almost forgot to
write, I gave a talk in Stake Conference, Saturday night, yes, you read right, I was asked to give a talk in our Stake Conference adult/youth Saturday
night session. I was so nervous, even President and Sister Nogueira
were there. I sat next to Sister Nogueira and she was very sweet. She
kept saying, don´t worry it´ll be great :) haha, it went pretty well and
seemed like at least a few people understood what I was saying haha, a
few members came up to me and said that they were able to understand :)
Of couse, it was on missionary work. All of the Sat. night session was
on missionary work. It was actually a pretty great session :)
Oh and I know what it´s like being asked to give a
talk when you walk in to church. A few weeks ago, Sister Cameron and I
got to church and the bishop asked me to give a talk in sacrament
meeting, completely unprepared, haha, but it turned out ok.
So funny stories from this week:
The second counselor in our stake, President Clayton, lives in our ward and we had lunch at his house on Saturday.
He and his wife had just gotten back from the US. They went to watch
conference and spend time with President Hall, the ex-mission president.
President Clayton was one of his counselors. So we were eating lunch
and all of the sudden they got the rice out and it was in a rice cooker!
Oh the memories that flooded back, haha, Pres. Clayton asked, "Have you
ever been to Costco?" ha, have I ever been to Costco?! It was pretty
funny, he just kept going on and on and on about how amazing Costco is.
The hot dogs, the free samples, the never ending ice from the soda
machine, I think the part he loved the most was the ice from the soda
machine. haha, the little things that we take for granted.
Funny story #2:
So
Sister Cameron and I were teaching a lesson about the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and I was teaching about the Holy Ghost. So, we have two little
laminated cards, one has a picture of Jesus being baptized and the other
side has an image of a boy receiving the Holy Ghost. The other card is
picture of Pres. Monson (to show investigators when we teach the
Restoration) and on the other side has a picture of the Book of Mormon
and the Bible. Well, I was teaching and grabbing the little card at the
same time and I grabbed the card that has the pic of Pres. Monson and
without looking, showed the pic of President Monson and said, "And this
is how we receive the Holy Ghost." Sister Cameron just looked at me and
started to laugh, haha, I just lost it and broke out into laughter.
Let´s just say we had to explain receiving the Holy Ghost again.
Funny story #3:
So, during the second
session of stake conference, in the afternoon, the first few talks went a
lot faster and we were left with a little more time. Well, the first
counselor got up and just started talking about so many random things.
He talked about giving missionaries lunch for about 10 minutes. "We need
to feed the missionaries, they need to eat a lot, we also have to feed
them." And literally, no joke, the next phrase he said was, "And
remember that Jesus atoned for our sins." It was literally the most
random transition ever. Sister Cameron and I just looked at each other
and began to laugh. I don´t know if our investigators understood
anything haha, but it makes for a good story.
Funny Story #4:
So stake conference was in
the stake center so our ward rented a bus and we went to the chapel
that is in the neighboring city (only about 10-15 minutes away). Well
one of our investigators that came with us yesterday is Larissa, she´s
17 years old, and has a baby son. So, it was already hard enough to take
care of him for two hours during stake conference and finally we got on
the bus and we were heading home and all of the sudden the bus just
stopped. yah, that´s right, the bus broke down, the poor baby was crying
his eyes out, we were giving him Oreos (yep, those little snack packs
are great that you sent mom). haha, so we ended up just going to the bus
stop and caught a normal bus. The funniest part is that the exact same
thing happened at the last stake conference I went to when I was serving
in Queimadas but at least that time they got the bus to start again.
Let´s just say it was an adventure.
Well, I´m doing great here, I love you all so much and miss you all!
I love you the MOSTIEST!
Love,
Sister Hicks
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