Familia!
DIANE IS GETTING BATIZED ON SATURDAY! This weekend it going to be one really good weekend and I cannot wait for the miracles to come. Diane is going to get baptized on Saturday, and confirmed on Sunday. Seth is getting the Priesthood on Sunday and is so excited. Ethan, Miles, and Titus will be able to come to church with their dad Dominic to see Seth get the Priesthood. Denise is bringing her family to church on Sunday for the first time. Marie is bringing Desiree to primary once again. I have faith that it will work exactly like that! :) This weekend was exactly that smooth sailing but it was pretty close. Marie came to church for the first time on Fast Sunday and the Lord surely is good. The exact members that got up said exactly what she needed to hear and spoke to her heart. She also brought her granddaughter Desiree that is 9 years old even though she didn't want to come at first and then she didn't want to leave primary when Marie wanted to leave before Relief Society. Desiree is going to make sure she keeps coming back and I can just feel it that she is going to get baptized with her grandma. I am so excited for her family to have the Gospel! They came to the Battalion and LOVED IT! Denise also came to the Battalion with her daughter Maria who brought her sons. No one in El Cajon has the normal family set up but it works. We are a companionship of SERVICE. We are constantly doing service for people every week and I have done more service in these couple of weeks then in the whole 7 months that I was here before! One of the members asked us to help with weeding their pool when we asked them if there was anything we could do for them after they fed us a delicious dinner. Well we put on our pants one day of the week and headed over to get er done. Well they had essentially filled in a pool with septic tanks, dirt, and had not dumped them or weeded it for two years. We were the clean up crew and Sister Kearsley didn't exactly comprehend what that meant yet. As we were weeding away and jumping into the mud, I was still a little hesitant but Sister Kearsley was getting right in there. Half way through it, Sister Kearsley looks at me and says, "What is a septic tank?" I start laughing hysterically and respond, "A poop tank!" She says, "SERIOUSLY!? No wonder you weren't jumping in there and I was just jumping right in!" We laughed and laughed until I sides hurt. Anyways, one of the family members who just returned from a mission was helping us the whole time and he left us with a poopy hand shake as he called it. But really it was pretty funny and we even got oranges and lemons from there tree out of it. It wasn't too gross until one of the tanks overflowed and then we decided it was time for us to leave laughing all the way! Thank heavens our next two appointments cancelled because we smelled awful so instead we did more service for Diane's friend Rodrigo. He is always drunk and sings us songs about how the Mormons are all about the pizza and taquitos. But we made a deal that we would help him move if he wouldn't drink! I think it mostly worked and we were able to help out a lot. It is a pretty sad situation but we are hoping that the service will help his see that God still loves him! We then showered like crazy to serve some amazing tours at the Battalion. We had a smile on our face all day! I even took a dream tour this week with an amazing senior couple from Texas. He was an Air Force pilot for 6 years and then flew for Delta the rest of his life! They were really cool members that decided that their retirement wasn't fulfilling enough so they would spend it serving mission and working at the Temple. They are currently waiting for the next mission call and I am hoping they get called to the Battalion since we are losing the Woodburys and Brenchleys in February. It is going to be sad to see them leave! But the wife is a San Diegen and she said that when she was in Elementary there were five students that were randomly picked to go the Battalion Statue dedication up on the hill. Anyways, when they were there she said for the first time in her life she felt prompted by the Holy Ghost to let the group know that she was a Mormon. After the field trip, one of the girls that came along started asking about the church, joined, and has been a life long friend! The Battalion's story has touched so many people's lives in so many ways! We really do take the coolest people on tours and this story ALWAYS touches the hearts of the people that come through the tour. I sometimes imagine having each one of you on my tour and it will be fun to have that happen one day! But we are getting a new director of the Historic Site this week so this week is going to be a week of changes for the Mormon Battalion. The Evans are leaving on Friday and the new couple will follow. You will hear more about them next week. I continue to be grateful that I am here. I think that having had it taken away has made me really appreciate having it back and has made me a thousand times more grateful for the moments that I have here. It has been easier to not look behind me but it is not always easy that is for sure. I know that I could not do this with out my Savior's Atonement. He makes this all worth it! The church is true so keep spreading the word!
Love,
Sister Haggerty
DIANE IS GETTING BATIZED ON SATURDAY! This weekend it going to be one really good weekend and I cannot wait for the miracles to come. Diane is going to get baptized on Saturday, and confirmed on Sunday. Seth is getting the Priesthood on Sunday and is so excited. Ethan, Miles, and Titus will be able to come to church with their dad Dominic to see Seth get the Priesthood. Denise is bringing her family to church on Sunday for the first time. Marie is bringing Desiree to primary once again. I have faith that it will work exactly like that! :) This weekend was exactly that smooth sailing but it was pretty close. Marie came to church for the first time on Fast Sunday and the Lord surely is good. The exact members that got up said exactly what she needed to hear and spoke to her heart. She also brought her granddaughter Desiree that is 9 years old even though she didn't want to come at first and then she didn't want to leave primary when Marie wanted to leave before Relief Society. Desiree is going to make sure she keeps coming back and I can just feel it that she is going to get baptized with her grandma. I am so excited for her family to have the Gospel! They came to the Battalion and LOVED IT! Denise also came to the Battalion with her daughter Maria who brought her sons. No one in El Cajon has the normal family set up but it works. We are a companionship of SERVICE. We are constantly doing service for people every week and I have done more service in these couple of weeks then in the whole 7 months that I was here before! One of the members asked us to help with weeding their pool when we asked them if there was anything we could do for them after they fed us a delicious dinner. Well we put on our pants one day of the week and headed over to get er done. Well they had essentially filled in a pool with septic tanks, dirt, and had not dumped them or weeded it for two years. We were the clean up crew and Sister Kearsley didn't exactly comprehend what that meant yet. As we were weeding away and jumping into the mud, I was still a little hesitant but Sister Kearsley was getting right in there. Half way through it, Sister Kearsley looks at me and says, "What is a septic tank?" I start laughing hysterically and respond, "A poop tank!" She says, "SERIOUSLY!? No wonder you weren't jumping in there and I was just jumping right in!" We laughed and laughed until I sides hurt. Anyways, one of the family members who just returned from a mission was helping us the whole time and he left us with a poopy hand shake as he called it. But really it was pretty funny and we even got oranges and lemons from there tree out of it. It wasn't too gross until one of the tanks overflowed and then we decided it was time for us to leave laughing all the way! Thank heavens our next two appointments cancelled because we smelled awful so instead we did more service for Diane's friend Rodrigo. He is always drunk and sings us songs about how the Mormons are all about the pizza and taquitos. But we made a deal that we would help him move if he wouldn't drink! I think it mostly worked and we were able to help out a lot. It is a pretty sad situation but we are hoping that the service will help his see that God still loves him! We then showered like crazy to serve some amazing tours at the Battalion. We had a smile on our face all day! I even took a dream tour this week with an amazing senior couple from Texas. He was an Air Force pilot for 6 years and then flew for Delta the rest of his life! They were really cool members that decided that their retirement wasn't fulfilling enough so they would spend it serving mission and working at the Temple. They are currently waiting for the next mission call and I am hoping they get called to the Battalion since we are losing the Woodburys and Brenchleys in February. It is going to be sad to see them leave! But the wife is a San Diegen and she said that when she was in Elementary there were five students that were randomly picked to go the Battalion Statue dedication up on the hill. Anyways, when they were there she said for the first time in her life she felt prompted by the Holy Ghost to let the group know that she was a Mormon. After the field trip, one of the girls that came along started asking about the church, joined, and has been a life long friend! The Battalion's story has touched so many people's lives in so many ways! We really do take the coolest people on tours and this story ALWAYS touches the hearts of the people that come through the tour. I sometimes imagine having each one of you on my tour and it will be fun to have that happen one day! But we are getting a new director of the Historic Site this week so this week is going to be a week of changes for the Mormon Battalion. The Evans are leaving on Friday and the new couple will follow. You will hear more about them next week. I continue to be grateful that I am here. I think that having had it taken away has made me really appreciate having it back and has made me a thousand times more grateful for the moments that I have here. It has been easier to not look behind me but it is not always easy that is for sure. I know that I could not do this with out my Savior's Atonement. He makes this all worth it! The church is true so keep spreading the word!
Love,
Sister Haggerty
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