Hola
There really isn´t much to say this week. To say the least it has been difficult. I really want to try to be positive in my letters home but this week really was a test of faith for both Hermana Quartino and myself. Last night we came home crying. We lost one of our baptisms this week because one of the boys in the branch starting dating the girl that was going to get baptized and her sister freaked out and thought that the church is some dating system or something, she doesn´t believe that we actually follow the law of chastity or anything. Her sister is 12 and the boy that she is dating is 12 also, she is just worried that something bad is going to happen between them and so she doesn't want her sister to be part of the church. That was a challenge because she was golden, she has basically read the entire book of Mormon, has come to church and all the activities and already has a strong testimony but she isn´t allowed to leave the house and we aren´t allowed to come to the house and so thats, that. I´m going to try to pass by on January and see if her sister has calmed down a little bit. Well yesterday both Hermana Quartino and I gave talks and we both felt really inspired about what we talked about. Hermana Quartino talked about putting God first in our lives, no matter what and I talked about having Unity, Charity and being willing to do service for each other. Both of them were kind of strong and we taught doctrine and now our branch is mad at us. We tried to visit two different families (active families) last night and we watched the parents get up and leave the front room and send the little kids out to tell us that they weren´t there. It was heart breaking . . . we don´t have investigators and our branch hates us and then on top of it Hermana Quartino is leaving in a week and I don´t think I can do this without her. We planned two giant activities this week and invited everyone and had a lot of people that promised to come and well the first activity 4 people showed up and the second activity 2 people showed up and so that was hard because we focused a lot of our efforts on these activities this week and they didn´t work out. The most important thing is that we are working hard, we are being 100% obedient and trying to follow the promptings of the spirit. Hopefully things will get better, we know that the Lord is just preparing us for something that is going to come. I don´t know what it is but it´s going to be great because when we do our part the Lord does his part ALWAYS!!! We are just a little disanimados this week no mas. Hopefully things get better, especially for the last week of Hermana Quartino this is her last week and I really hope things work out, she has worked hard her entire mission and I just hope that the last week for her works out well. Well sorry for kind of the downer email this week. I´m going to try to have a better attitude for the next letter.
Love ya
Hermana Hubbard
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