Hermana Carolyn Brown's Mission Blog: New Companion and lots of hard work!

So this week has been pretty good. My new companion is Brenda Alvarado, from Mexico, State of Mexico. She's a convert, only member in her immediate family. She has 6 months in the mission and she's a really hard worker. We're getting a long really well so far. It has just been hard to adapt to the changes because she is really different than Hna Manzanares but she's really great and has a lot of hope for our area! I like Hna. Alvarado A LOT!.

Old and New Companions

We taught Hna L she is really catholic and doesn't want to come to church or anything yet but she believes in the Book of Mormon. President Cubur is really excited to help us this change which is really good. We met the wife of the first counselor in the stake presidency and she's not a member but she will be haha. We're actually going to teach her this week. We visited a less active/recent convert who said he had been having problems with drinking but that he has been sober for 4 months now so that's great. He said he wants to be forgiven but then he didn't show up to church. We taught Hermana S and she said she still wants to wait to be baptized until her husband is ready too. We tried to explain to her that she can't wait and then set a fecha for 10 de junio. We taught S and her family and she's still being stubborn but some of her kids are really responsive. Her daughter R came to church with us on Sunday so that was really great. We taught another less active recent convert named S. I guess she had been having problems with the branch president so she stopped coming to church. On Sunday we had a bus for just members so that raised attendance a bit which was great. The familia S came to church with us. The lesson in Sunday School was about baptism BUT their son was being tremendo (for lack of a better word in english) and Hno. S didn't stay in the class to listen. After church we had a lesson with them about baptism and the word of wisdom because Hna. S told us her husband had been drinking coffee again. He said he would stop. Then Hna. A asked him what size clothes he wore and he told her and asked why. and then she said for your baptism clothes for next Sunday! haha It was great. He didn't say he wasn't ready so that's good. One of the lady's in the ward brought a friend to church so that was awesome! We are going to teach her tomorrow. we taught Hna. G and she still doesn't want to change. It made me really sad when we were teaching her last night. I felt the spirit really strong but she wants to stay catholic for now. We taught a new lady named O. She had been having problems with her husband and when we came she said we were an answer to her prayers so that was a blessing to be apart of that. REMEMBER TO TAKE ALL THE NAMES OUT WHEN YOU PUT IT ON THE BLOG!! (That is why you readers just see letters, we are not allowed to post the names of investigators or members in their blogs)