Week 35

Hello everyone! I hope all is well :)

Things are still going good in cartago. Its still really cold...but good! :) 

On thursday we had a zone conference (elder toledo who was in nicoya with me for 5 months is now my zone leader haha) and Presidente Cordon, who used to be a mission president in el salvador and who took the place of president wilkinson for a couple weeks came and talked to us about what we can do to be better missionaries. It was really good. Those meetings always makes us feel a little guilty for the things that we are not doing so great haha but they help us be motivated to be better! :) Theres so many things that go in to being a missionary, but more than anything its about giving your all to the Lord. Your heart, might, mind, and strength. And as human beings we dont want to give everything up. But its necessary to be able to be a successful missionary. The only thing we can do is getter better day by day and give a little more each day. Some days i havent felt good because i know i didnt give it my all, but i know that ive done okay when i feel peaceful at the end of the day, and when i feel like the Lord is proud of me. Thats all we need to know, if the Lord is proud of us. Thats all that matters.

We are teaching a 21 year old girl named Griselda. She is awesome. She was a reference from a member, and we have been teaching her in the members home. She lives like 30 minutes away in bus so it takes like the whole night when we go to teach her because of the bus schedule but its worth it! She has a baptismal date for the 7th of march. We have a ton of promising investigatros for march, but we need to improve our daily contact with them to really help them progress! Because really we need to have daily contact with them to help answer their doubts and everything. And more than anything we need to pray for the Lord to help them!

Time is going by so fast. Im about to complete half of my mission. Its scary because i know that the second half goes by a lot faster! And i have so much to learn and so much to improve - thats why all missionaries say it goes by too fast because we just want to change and grow and theres not enough time haha! But i know that conversion and change is a lifelong process, and that im learning a lot of things that will help me for the rest of my life. 

Well i hope that you all have a great week and that you can share the gospel with someone. We have been teaching lots of member references in the members home and it really is such a big difference. I know that that is how we can best bring souls unto christ.

I love you all! :) 

Con mucho amor ("With much love"), 
Hermana Geis

some recent converts gave us fake roses for valentines day! ;)

in front of the church with hna chatwin

somebody left these little puppies inside the gates of the church!!!

Week 34- Cartago!

Hello everyone!

Well this week was really good! It feels like I havent been in Nicoya for like a year, its really weird. I called my converts yesterday on Pday (we can do that now :D) and everythings good with them! But i feel like im in a different country than them haha. Jakeline was sustained as a counselor in the Primary Presidency on sunday!! :) Sooo happy for her.

 

So we have been seeing lots of miracles in Cartago! We´ve been finding people who are really prepared to accept the gospel. But it is so crazy to see how fast satan works on people - the first visit they are awesome and want to get baptized and all these things, and then the next day they dont want anything. It is so sad to see. But its also their own decision - we cant force them to do anything. We just have to keep following the spirit and trusting in the Lord, and focusing on the people who are willing to accept the gospel and follow the answer that they recieve.

 

I just love my comp! We have been having lots of fun together. And we love teaching together - we just have the same vision of what we need to teach and its just really good. I miss nicoya and everyone un monton but I really like Cartago! :) its so different though. Here´s some things that ive seen that im not used to:

-American fast food

-People exercising

-Stylish clothes

-etc etc etc

 

Haha even the sense of humor is different here than in nicoya.

And of course ive been freezing. I had to buy jackets and sweaters yesterday...where am i?!

 

Going to the ward on sunday was suuuper weird, because its a lot bigger and a lot more like the wards in the states organization wise and everything. But it was really good! And the converts that have gotten baptized recently are just golden. And the members are really strong as well. But again people have a lot more money here so its different!

We get fed a lot more here which is also weird, but good! We walk a lot but also take a lot of buses, because lots of people live super far away.

Our mission president is really sick :( hes in the states right now getting surgery and treatment for cancer. It was amazing because at first he refused to leave costa rica to get treatment. he said that theres too much work to do in costa rica and he said, ¨I will rest in the millenium.¨Can you believe that? Hes a great example to all of us for giving EVERYTHING to the Lord. But unfortunately the first presidency insisted that he come to the states to get treatment. So he´ll be back hopefully next week. We have one of his counselors acting as the mission president right now.

Well times up, sorry i didnt get to write too much this week. But i love you all and ill talk to you soon!

Trust in the Lord!

Love, Hermana Geis

Marielos & fam

Sad faces on transfer day :(

Transfers

At Subway with new companion, Hermana Chatwin

Cartago