Agradecidos En Todas Las Cosas

WELL WELL WELL HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :))))))

eventhough they dont celebrate it here...we are going to this year. so thats definitely something to be grateful for!! :))) i hope this week we can all remember the things we are truly grateful for and the MANY BLESSINGS our heavenly father gives us each day!!!! :))) 

this week was good and wet!! we got soaked everyday and it was GREAT!! :))) the people think we are crazy walking and working in the rain storms that happen here..but we are in the work of salvation and a little water cant stop us!! ;) but on a serious note this week was really good. 

we had some great lessons with our investigators, we have this lady named Amarilis (we contacted her in a bus a few weeks ago and she is really great!) she is a single mom and is way great! we taught her a lot about prayer and the holy ghost this week. she has been reading every assignment we have given her and is praying to know if the church is true...she just hasnt recieved her answer yet. hermana aguilar and i were thinking a lot about that this week and decided that maybe she wasnt praying in the right way. (here is guatemala almost EVERYONE goes to a church..mostly evangelical, and so they know how to pray...in some way or another. but as we know..God has instructed us how we should do it. so we decided to have a lesson with her about that and how we need to KNEEL to our father and ask specifically for the things we want. it was a great lesson..and to make it better we went with Hermana Johana...she is the super pilas ex-missionary in the ward!! :) it was great to have her because she was able to bear STRONG testimony to Amarilis.

also we have another investigator whos name is carlos. he is the son of another investigator...elizabeth (she and her partner..hector cant get married for a BUNCH of complicated reasons that are personal and long so just remember that they can get baptized right now lol) anywho with carlos. he is super great!! really pilas and like amarilis, reads and prays!!!! but still is hestitant about accepting a fecha for baptism! but i know that heavenly father is working in him!! we have some super lessons planned for him this week and we hope to help him accept a fecha for december!! :))) 

one thing i learned this week is that we can lead a horse to water but cant make him drink!! we can do all we can for people, but its up to them to decide, but we MUST DO ALL WE CAN!!!!!!! :)))) I LOVE MISISONARY WORK!!!! its the best work and we are all members of it!!! just want you all to know how GRATEFUL i am for each one of you and the blessings you are in my life!!! i am the luckiest person in the world to have a family like you!!!!!! please eat LOTS of food for me this week..and even more pie!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!

CON AMOR Y GRATITUD

Hermana Canty

PICTURES!!

 and baptism of ana!!! :))))

temple with hermano frandy

Soy Chapina Adoptada

HELLO MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY!!!!!! 

how are you all doing!? it sounds like the normal excitement of basketball is finally back in the house...with that brings Thanksgiving, Christmas, and a New Year! well i will get to updating you!! :))

first things first, ANA GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have been teaching Ana for about a month, and she was ready to get baptized the day we met her!!! partly because she is so pilas, and partly because she has listened and met with missionaries for 9 years!!!! needless to say it was a VERY spiritual baptismal service!!!! watching her enter the waters of baptism was so amazing. she told that over all the years she has talked with missionaries not once had she gone to church. she kept telling us that we made the change in her life, but thats a lie. she made it and god made it. we were just lucky enough to be there. 

also, CHANGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yep there is a new change in the mission of hermana canty!! my new comp is hermana aguilar!!! she is 21 and is from honduras...and I LOVE HER!!!!!! she is so cute and so pilas!!! we are having a great time!!!! :))) 

we were able to see many miracles this week!!! thats is a goal i have to pay more attention to the small mirclaes we see everyday!! i know they are there and you can see them too! we just have to look for them!! :)

we had a special stake broadcast yesterday and Elder Bendar said something that really stuck out to me...he said, "Living the gospel and keeping the covenants isn´t hard, but NOT doing it is" HOW TRUE THAT IS!!!!!!! this gospel is easy...it comes down to LOVE and OBEDIENCE!!!! we just have to trust in our heavenly father for what we need and we will be blessed!!!!! that is what i have truly come to learn on the mission...obedience is first!! when we are obedient..we are blessed and when we arent...we dont receive those blessings. i hope that each day we can strive to be more obedient to the SMALL things of the gospel (the big things are easy to do...its the small things that take the effort!)

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!! thanks for your love and support and everyuthing you do for me!! have a great week and we will talk more next week!!! GO BIG GREEN..AND RED..AND BLUE!!!!! ;)))

con mucho amor,

Hermana Canty

¡PEDID Y RECIBIREIS!

HELLO CANTY FAMILY!!!! :))) 

i hope you are all enjoying your brisk november days! :) please enjoy them for me, Guatemala is starting to heat up again!! :)

well enough about the weather..THIS WEEK WAS FULL OF MIRACLES!!!!!!!! :))

1) Hermana Galland came with me again this week and it was one of the greatest days i have had on the mission. GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS! we decided that day that we were going to talk to EVERYONE! and not have any fear!! so thats what we did. we got on the first bus and started talking to these 2 women who were seated in front. and it turns out that one of them, Amariliz, is SUPER positive, we have taught her twice already and she is really interested!!! (also her eyes are literally golden!!!..thats the conversation starter!:P) we then just talked to every person we saw in the street..every tienda we stopped in! and in one of them we found a super cool family!!!!! we found lots of new investigadores that day and even more we saw that when we ASK god for righteous things he gives thm to us. and if we show him we are willing to do HIS will and NOT ours...even more blessings we will receive!! 

2) My comp sprained her ankle this week (doing an example in zone meeting...oops..we were running for some cookies..and she sprained it...not very bad but its the first time so it hurt a lot!!!) and the nurse told her that she cant walk for a week!!!!!! we were so sad bc we had found lots of new people and wanted to go with them to help them learn more..but nurses orders. so we started calling the members..and luckily..EVERY DAY i was able to leave for at least 3 hours to work!!!!!!!!!! i did divisiones with members and other missionaries to be able to work but i was able to and we helped these new investigators progress. my comp was sad she couldnt leave but was also so grateful for the BLESSINGS that the Lord gave us these week. (i also learned that EVERY LITTLE THING IN OUR LIVES HELPS US ON THE MISSION...for example..all of the times i sat on the table and watched dad tape my ankles helped me be able to do that to my comp this week!! :P)

3) In my study this week i learned lots of things but one stood out to me. its a quote from President Brigham Young. "The men and women who want a place in the Celestial Kingdom will discover that we must battle DAILY!!!" i love this!! because in this life we are battling the evils of the world to be able to overcome them and enter the celestial kingdom...and so its a DAILY battle, not just a "once a week" battle!!!! we are not part time members, or even part time children of god...ITS A FULL TIME JOB!!!!!!!! i love having this knowledge and this tesimony. 

4) I have learned more of the Living Christ (Presidente Ruiz has asked us all to memorize it..in spanish of course lol but its so cool!!) but to memorize this declaraction and be able to say in my head whenever i want has really strengthened my testimony of MY savior!! HE LIVES AND IS THE REASON FOR ALL WE DO!!!!! i am his representative for this time of life and it is such an honor to be able to wear his name!!!!!!!!!! if you havent read the living christ i invite you to read it and try to memorize it!!!! IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!!!!!

well that was about all that happened this week...its another week of amazing work in guatemala!! with corte and tortillas!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

con amor,

Hermana Canty

Where can I turn for peace?

Well first things first, HAPPY DAY OF THE DEAD!!!!! here in guatemala they dont celebrate Halloween, just Day of the Dead (Nov 1 y 2) so there ya go! we welcomed it in with LOTS of people in the streets, fairs, and FIAMBRE (which was WAY better this year!!!!! if you would like to remember what it looks like, look back at my pics from the beginning of the mission...i know i sent one home lol) it was a good day!!! i hope your weekend of halloween was equally great!!

well a little about this week. Hermana Canty is learning patience and trust in the Lord´s timing. sometimes we expect our efforts to be like the fireworks, that blow up right away, when really they arent anything like that. but its also so great to feel the reassurance that God is pleased with the work we do. speaking of pleasing God, this week i was reading in the Book of Mormon and came across a scripture that got my mind going, its in 3 Nephi 11:15 its when Heavenly Father presents His Son and it says, "For behold, this is my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased. hear ye him." well my question is ¿how would God present us? are we living the manner that he wants so that if he had to present us he could say, "For behold, this is my beloved daughter Hermana Canty, in whom i am well pleased?" that made me think this week. i hope that we can ALWAYS strive to live in such a manner. we should not be so worried about what everyone else thinks of us and if we are pleasing them, but we should PLEASE GOD!

also this week we were able to find A LOT of peace. so the stake has been planning a huge event for like a month and it came to pass yesterday! we were able to go to the temple in Xela!!!!!!! we went with our recent convert Frandy!!! (the event was for recent converts to take a name to the temple and do the baptisms and confirmations for them there. and if we took a convert we got to go!!!) IT WAS SO GREAT SEEING THE LOOK OF FRANDY´S FACE WHEN HE WALKED OUT OF THE TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we werent able to go in the temple bc it was a saturday and there were lots of people (and we cant do baptisms anyway..) but we were able to sit outside and give some tours of the temple to some investigators which was great!!! the spirit of the lord TRULY is there!!!! these people are so blessed!! they have 2 temples in their country and one of which is only 2 hours away!!! i seriously love the temple. and to make it even better i was able to see one of our converts GO AND DO BAPTISMS!!! he took a name of his grandpa and was able to be baptized and confirmed for him!!!! when we asked him how it went when he walked out he just sighed deeply and said, "AMAZING!!!!" i almost cried i was so happy!!!! he was able to feel of the spirit!! i was glad he could go bc he has been having lots of difficulties lately in his life and to go to the temple just helped him relax. it also helped me! this week, like i said, was one of learning and struggling, but just being at the temple for 2 hours helped me forget all of the stresses i had and remember why i am doing what i am doing. I LOVE TO SEE THE TEMPLE!!!! ( i took lots of pics..but have lost LOTS so i will be saving them for when i get home to show you!! :P) 

i LOVE being a missionary! this week we had a multi-zone conference with Presidente Ruiz, and let me just tell you, HE IS TRULY CALLED OF GOD!! for the entire time we were there i just felt so strongly the spirit! he is one man who truly is willing to do everything in his power to help us!

well i hope that your week has been great! and that everyday you are striving to be better!! that is the greatest thing, we dont have to be perfect but we have to be in perfect in TRYING!!!! i love you all so much! thank you for your love and support ALWAYS!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!

Hermana Canty

El Momento Es Ahora

HELLO FAMILY!!!!!!!!!! how are you all!? well i would just like to appologize now in advance if this email is kinda hard to understand...the keyboard is a special one and doesnt work to well but hopefully the spirit can help you all understand what i would like to share haha

well a little about my week! we had a great lesson with ana and her daughter! we went with the zone leaders to meet with her and without even asking she shared with us a challenge that she has. she smokes( it was like a brick wall that came out of nowhere!!lol) but she has ALL the desire to stop and since meeting with us has reduced the amount she smokes everyday. ITS PROGRESS!!!!:))) to help her we made cute little scriptures and rolled them up like cigarettes (we even colored them..) so that when she feels the urge to smoke..instead she can read a scripture. she was very greatful for that. (small acts of LOVE go a long way!) but what is even cooler is that they are gonna get baptized Novemeber 7th!!! we were inthe lesson and she was telling us that she was thinking about throwing a big party for her birthday!!and then she thought `i can spend a lot of money on alchol or i can get baptize this day..iwill get baptized` it was a super cool experience!!!! she is SO prepared and will be so pilas in the church!!! :)))

also! FRANDY BLESSED THE SACRAMENT!!!!!!! and he is going to the temple this weekend and will take a name of one of his family members in to do the baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is so pilas!!! i realized this week that if i have had no other reason for coming to Reu, its for Frandy!!!!!!! he is seriously a miracle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

also this week we had interviews with Presidente Ruiz, and they were really good!!!:)))) he shared with us about Pride!!!!! and wow...since then in my scripture study i have read nothing but pride!!!! let me tell you, WE NEED TO BE HUMBLE!!!!! he also said something that stuck out to me, "the lord is speaking to us, but we are NOT listening" that hit me! the lord is advancing his work and is calling us to prepare PROMPTLY! but yet we are prideful and put the things of the world ahead of the things of God and we dont prepare. that is what i have learned this week, that while the worldly things (school, work, friends, etc) are important to live, without the spiritual things (prayer,scripture study, repentance, church,etc.) we cannot live HAPPILY!!!! 

I LOVE YOU ALLL SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! thank you for your examples to me!!!! keep working hard and be safe this week!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!:)))) 

CON AMOR

Hermana Canty

Pero Vendrán!

HELLO FAMILY!!!! :))))
 
we met a single mom this week named Ana. (she is friends with a member in our ward and she and her daughter came to general conference. and we were finally able to have a lesson with her this week!!) her daughter is also named And, and so we call them Ana Squared!! ;) anyway...THEY ARE SO PILAS!!!!!!!!! Ana has listened to missionaries for almost 6 years! but has never been baptized. when we went with her she shared that she KNOWS the church is true and wants to join it, but she is afraid of failure! she is afraid that she wont be worthy to enter the waters of baptism and that she wont be able to live up to the standards of the gospel. (i saw a little of myself in her that night.) WE SHOULD NEVER LEFT THE FEAR OF STRIKING OUT (OR MISSING THE SHOT) KEEP UP FROM PLAYING THE GAME! fear of failure is satans way of keeping up from progressing. its true, the gospel requires a lot, but its NOT hard!!!! and its even easier because Christ is with us EVERY STEP!!! we just bore testimony to her that she is not alone and that she IS worthy to be baptized!!!! and yesterday in relief society she shared her experience and i was able to FEEL her testimony!!! she said "i think now really is the time for me to join.." I KNOW GOD PREPARES PEOPLE!!!!! i am so blessed to be a part of ana´s life! and see how the spirit of the lord blesses the people!!! :)))))

also, yesterday in church one of the hermanas said in her talk (she was talking about the youth and "for the strength of the youth" pamphlet!) she said that "many time the youth (or us as people) think that the blessings will never come, but THEY DO COME!!!!!" i really testify of this!!! if i have learned nothing else from the mission its that THE BLESSINGS DO COME!!! not when we want them or think that they will, but when we NEED them and when GOD SAYS they will!!!! DONT EVER GET DESPERATE FOR THE BLESSINGS!!!!!!!!!!!! as it says in Mosiah 23:21 "Nevertheless, the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith." THE LORD WILL TRY US BECAUSE HE LOVES US!! and if we endure it well, we will receive the blessings!!!! 

well i love you all so much!!! i cant believe how amazingly blessed i am to have a family like you all!! thank you for everythign!!! have a great week and be safe!! good luck with work, games, school, and all other things you do!!!! :)))

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!! :)))

Con Amor,

Hermana Canty