August 2, 2010

This week is a special week because it is Mom and Dad's anniversary!!!! Happy Anniversary! It is crazy that it is August already!

So, this week has been a very trying one for me. It was very sad. For the past couple of moinths we have been working really hard with a part-member family, and trying to reactivate the members and teach the non-members. It was going pretty well and we were getting through to the family members. The mom's name is Minerva and her sons name is Sam. We were especially getting through to Sam. He has been living in Miami for the past 15 years, and they are from Nicaragua. We ate with him at his house last Friday....(he loved to cook so so much) and the food was always so delicious.

Well, we were planning on him bringing his girlfriend who was here visiting from Miami to church with him on Friday...and none of the family showed up....and we had another appt. with them on Tuesday all set up. So, Monday night we called to confirm and see why they were not at church, and his phone was off....so we called his moms phone, and his girlfriend answered and she told me that Sam had died on Friday and that he was now an angel in heaven and to please pray for him. I was shocked and in denial because we had been with him on Friday until like 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and he was fine and loving life and so excited about the future and he had just gone shopping and bought all these new clothes and he was running around the house showing us all of his new clothes and his new shoes and his new watch. He was so excited about opeing up his own restaraunt in Nicaragua, which was going to be taking place in 3 months...and he was SO passionate about cooking and he loved life.

So the next morning (Tuesday morning) we went over to his house and everyone was there.....and it was true. He was dead. He died Friday night at 8:45 PM in a car accident. He had taken the car and gone out to get drunk (we didn't even know that he drank) and he was speeding really fast and running red lights and stuff, and he went around a corner too fast and ran into a pole, and the car split in half and half of it lit on fire, and the other half that he was in went down a cliff.... they they say that the car hit so hard that he died instantly with the impact so he didn't suffer or anything and I was happpy to hear that. This all happened only a few hours after we were there with him at his house and he had cooked us a wonderful meal. I took a picture of it and I asked him if I could take his picture and he said no, bt that I could on Sunday because he was going to wear his new clothes to church and look really good.

So, his girlfriend arrived the next day to see him, and they could not find him for 2 days...he had just gone missing since Friday....and they called the hospitals, but he didn't have ID on him. Finally Monday afternoon they recieved a call and went into the place and identified the body as his. The investigators had been trying to figure out who he was for 2 days. Such a sad story.

But on another note, we have a really great couple that we are teaching. Nancy and Wilson....and they are great. They are from Columbia. Also, we are teaching a white 12 year old from the white ward....and she only wanted sisters to teach her and there are only Elders in that ward.. and she wants to be baptized. She is super cute and her name is Cierra. I Loved her and she is a bright sunspot in the dark world. So yep....she will be my 13th baptism on the mission so far. I really love her! I think her baptism will be the 15th which is the week of my b-day!

So, that is my week. You are always in my thoughts and prayers. I love you with my entire heart.