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Miracles and Raindrops

how are all of you doing!! great!!!! :) well i dont know if you guys know this..but in less than a week i will see all of your beautiful shining faces...through a blurry computer screen!!!! ;) PREPARE YOURSELVES PEOPLE!! i have forgotten english.... ;))))))

anywho..i dont have tooooo much time today bc me and my comp have to go to Reu tonight bc we are going to the capital tomorrow!!!!..entonces...we have to leave malacatan at 4..its a very long and sickening bus ride... ;) but yeah! lol

so i will get to it! THIS WEEK WAS AMAZING!!!!! i dont know if you all remember my email after the stake conference when i wrote about all of the investigators who came!? well 2 of those investigators were baptized and confirmed this weekend!!! YEP THATS RIGHT!!! their names are Maria and Selvin. its a mom and her son. #story time.... when i first got here to malacatan the other sisters had only taught them like 1 or 2 times and the mom was a little sketchy about letting us meet with her kids, and even less pleased to let them go to church. well as the time passed and we continued to work with them..they still didnt come to church. but THEN came general conference, asistence #1, then came the stake conference, asistence #2, and then 2 weeks ago, asistence #3!!!!!!! the crazy thing is though, is that when hermana mendoza left, the kids were really sad and werent really wanting to progress (read, pray, come to church) but the mom still was!!! and she kept telling us, "i have made my decision to get baptized and even if they dont right now i am going to" it was so crazy bc she was the LEAST positive of the 3 of them when i came!!! :) but MIRACLES DO HAPPEN PEOPLE!!!! :) god has a timetable for EVERYTHING!!!!! 

their baptism was so cool!!!!!! the son got baptized first, and when he walked out of the font..the mom was crying. she was so happy and told him, "congrats my son, you were baptized." it was seriously a moment of pure joy!!!!!!!! :))))) she was also baptized and it was equally joyful! now we are just gonna work with the daughter to help her! she said she wnts to get baptized but doesnt feel completely read yet!!! and sunday, they almost gave us a heartache...they showed up late to church! BUT they came and made it in time to be confirmed!!!!! :))))) bienvenidos to the newest members of the Malacatan ward!!! :)

also...this week it rained so much! i have never seen anything like it!!!! but its also really pretty!! :) in the letter that presidente ruiz wrote me this week he asked me what i thought it meant to be a strong missionary!? and he went on to say that strong missionaries have to suffer so much...heat, rain, stress, and everything in between! and while that is true...i thought..even though we have to suffer all of that...the HOT sun of guatemala, the INSANE amount of rain, the STRESS of investigators..it is NOTHING compared to the things christ had to suffer! when we suffer..we are "walking shoulder to shoulder with the greatest life this world has ever known!" I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)))))))

one more thing, this week we had a multi zone conference. and presidente ruiz talked about the importance of the sacrament and the sabbath day! IT WAS SO POWERFUL!!!!!!!! i knew that it was important...but seriously the sacrament is one of the most sacred things we do!!!!!! :) it should be high priority for us!!! :)...sorry just had to crack the whip a little ;) hahahahaha im a real missionary now! ;) 

i love you all so much and know that you are working so hard! you all are such great examples for me! thank you for your love, support, prayers, EVERYTHING!!!! keep being great!!!! :)))) have a great week and nos vemos a las 7 pm domingo!!!!! :))))

CON MAS AMOR QUE PUEDEN IMAGINAR,

Hermana Canty

Good Afternoon!!!!

GOOD AFTERNOON!!!!!!!! :)))) how is my beautiful family! hopefully still full from that DELICIOUS birthday dinner you all had!!! ;) thank you for thinking of me!!! birthdays in the mission are pretty cool!!! we wake up and do all the normal stuff, but it just feels different!!! :) here in guatemala there is a tradition that when its your birthday, early in the morning they light off firecrackers outside your house. well it was like 8:45 when they went off but i did receive the fire crackers! :) hermana rosas and hermana garcia (the other hermanas that live in the house) did it for me and they bought me a cake! i also opened up the package that you sent me for my birthday..yes i waited a WHOLE WEEK to open it!!! THANK YOU!!! so much for the food!!! and the "cake" haha we sure enjoyed it!!! :)))) also hermana ruiz, the wife of presidente ruiz, came with us to our citas, and brought me a BUNCH of chocolate..so needless to say hermana canty doesnt need to buy snacks for the rest of her mission!!!! ;)))))) also on friday a member invited us over to celebrate a little! and they have a tradition here that they sing happy birthday, in english, and then they sing a song, "ya queremos pastel, ya queremos pastel, aunque sea pedacito, ya queremos pastel." and then they count to your age!!! :) it was really fun!! and after they sing...you have to bite the cake!!!! entonces...my birthday in gautemala was GREAT!!!!! :))))) 

well this week was also a good one! a little rough on the finding investigators side, but thats just part of missionary work!!! :) we had a goal as a mission to find 20 new investigatores for every companionship..and we only found 13! but WE FOUND 13 NEW INVESTIGATORS!!!! :) thats 13 more people who we are going to teach about the gospel!!! and one of them is a family! (let me tell you the story lol)

about a week ago we were talking with a member and we asked her if she knew anyone who we could visit, and she told us, "my neighbors, they are a young family and i think have gone to church before..visit them." well we went immediately to their house...and they werent home..haha but we went back this week and they were! were taking a little break outside the house of the member and saw them playing with their kids outside and so we went and talked to them! they didnt have much time right then but told us we could come back the next day..and we did!!! it was really a great lesson! the husband said, "i have been to a lot of churches but i have always noticed how much emphasis the mormons put on the family, and i really like that!" it was in that moment that we could testify of the reality of ETERNAL FAMILIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :))))) we have another lesson with them tonight and i am so excited to see how it goes!! :) its also kinda funny bc the wife looks a lot like whit...wierd!!! ;) 

a lot of things happened this week but that experience was one of my favorites!!!! i am so thankful for you all and the love you ALWAYS give me!!!! keep being the great family that you are and know that i love you all so much!!!!! :))))))))) be strong and press on!!! :) I LOVE YOU!!!!

 con amor,

Hermana Canty

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7 months and expecting?!

HELLO FAMILIA CANTY!!!!!! :)))))

how are you all doing!? great i hope!!! you all sound great in your emails! thank you for the birthday wishes..even though im not quite 20 yet, i still feel like a child!!! :) 

anywho! my week was GREAT!!!!! :) it started with a great surprise tuesday!!! normally on the tuesday before changes during out district meetings we find out who has changes! well presidente didnt have them ready so they didnt tell us! and we didnt find out until 7:45 that night!!! well hna mendoza had changes!! she is in Reu now! i seriously love that girl!!!!! she is so amazing!!!! 

but we also received some other news!!!! IM A MOM!!!!! yep thats right! i am training a new missionary!!!! her name is hermana leon and she is from el salvador!!!!! she is a convert to the church of 1 year and 7 months!!!! and wow is her testimony strong! training is fun..but different! you forget that the new missionaries dont know the schedule very well yet! but its getting there! and she has a lot of desire to learn!!! i am seeing the words of hermana hernandez come to pass! she told when our change ended that the lord would give us the gifts we need to do the work he has for us! and how true that is!!!! :))))

also i want to share with you all about our most recent convert, MARIA INES!!!! :)

she is 12 years old! and is one of the smartest people i have met! we have been teaching her since i got here!! :) and last monday we went to make sure she was still set for the 18 to be baptized...and she said she had to pray about it! well this little KNOWS how important prayer is!!!!! long story short..she prayed 3 times! and EVERY SINGLE TIME she received the same answer! we went on wednesday to see what her answer was (the second time she prayed) and she said, "hermanas i want to be SURE, and i know that god will answer! this is the last time i am going to pray! and when i receive the answer...im getting baptized!" we sure enough! we went on friday to visit her and she said she had received her answer! and that saturday at 6 pm she was getting baptized!!!!! i almost cried when she said that!!!!! 

this week i have had a little bit of a cold and less of a voice and some problems with my stomach! but when i saw this little girl walk into the baptismal font...none of that mattered!!!! NONE!! another soul was saved this weekend! and the lord used me and my companion to help save it!!! :) she is a huge witness to me that GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS!!! she said that she felt a peace wash over her and a joy in her heart! THAT IS THE SPIRIT!!!!! we wont always see visiones, 99.999% of the time we dont see them, we wont always have huge dreams, or life changing moments. but we WILL feel peace, joy, HAPPINESS, calmness! i know we will!!! i have not only seen it in the lives of SO many investigators, but in my own life! 

we are children of god! this life has no purpose if we dont return to his presence, bettered!!!!! that is why we are here! to be tried and tested, and to prepare ourselves to RETURN TO LIVE WITH GOD!!!! i love you all so much and am so grateful that i have such an amazing family like you all!! please be safe and eats lots of food for me on wednesday!! I LOVE YOU!!!

con mucho mucho amor,

Hermana Canty

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Miracles!!!!

Wow was this week full of miracles!!!!!!! :)

  

so much happened this week! :)

so this weekend was the stake conference! and we were working really hard to get ppl to come to it! well we saw the miracles! we had 8 investigators come with us!!!! :)

MARIA INES AND ELVIRA:

its a mom and daughter! and they are so great! they came with us saturday..even though we were a little late! but they lvoed it! it was the first time for hermana elvira (the mom) and the 2nd for maria ines! maria is so positive and so loving! she has a baptism date for this weekend and we will see what happens!!! :)

ABIGAIL, SELVIN, AND MARIA:

its a mom (maria) and her 2 kids! we have been teaching them since i first came here! and they havent came to church! but last week for general conference..they came! we didnt know they came bc they were downstairs and we were upstairs but we were talking to them and they were telling us all about the talks they liked!!!! we were so surprised and happy wehn they told us that!! and they also came to the stake conference!!!!!:) we are going to challenge them to be baptized the 25th of april!!!!!!

ROSADELIA AND SAIDA:

we found them on thursday of last week! and they are super positive...its a mom and her daughter! we went  on sunday to bring them to church and hermana rosadelia told us that she wasnt gonna be able to come bc she had to go to her church but that her daughter was going to come. we were waiting for her daughter and all of sudden rosadelia told us that she was gonna come too!!! she came with us to church and REALLY liked it!! we also introduced them to president and hermana ruiz bc they talked!!!

this week was amazing!! we saw many miracles are excited to see what happens next!!!! :) also...in this conference they talked alot about the families..again!!! and it hit that the lord is telling us! HE WANTS FOREVER FAMILIES!!!!!!!! we need to do all we can to be the family he needs!!! :) i love you all so much and am so grateful you are my family!!!! :) thank you for your prayers and love!!!! :) have a great week!!!! :)

CON MUCHO AMOR,

hermana canty