Week 39: Yubeniz and Yanela were baptized!!!!!

6/23/14

Hola Familia y Amigas,

So first off I would just like to say Happy Birthday to Grandma Corbett today!!! Only 60 right? haha love you a lot Grandma and all of our fun memories we have had together!!  Make it a great day!!

So second,  Yubeniz and Yanela were baptized!!!!!  It was such a great baptism and we had more nonmembers/family there then members.  So that was awesome.  It was so spiritual!  And I can´t get the smiles they had on there faces after they recieved the Holy Ghost out of my head!  It makes me smile just thinking about it!!  

It has kinda been a long journey for the both of them. Every investigator has a challenge.  Yubeniz´s challenges were smoking and coming to church.  But what helped here more than anything was that before we found here she was very depressed and so when she started applying the gospel and the Atonement into her life, she could see the difference so clearly that there was no way she could not continue forward and progress.  And the other cool things is that her whole family could see the change in her too, especially here sons!  Her family is not quite ready yet, but one day.  Actually Yubeniz is that family member that the missionaries 30 years ago probably said.  "One day"  Her parents investigated the church when she was about 19 and her parents never joined the church but all her siblings did and here younger sister actually went on a mission.  But Yubeniz was the rebellious child and left the family and never got baptized.  Crazy right? Well come to find out none of brothers at least are still active, but she is helping on of her brothers come back!  He came for the first time in like 20 yesterday!! So amazing right!!  She is so great!! I love her so much!

And then Yanela has been a 4 month journey and she was practicaly a member before she was baptized because she was at all of the activities and was always wanting to come visit investigators and other members with us!! She is so great too!!  The only thing that held her back was the law of Chastity, but she seperated and is doing great, and she had a lot of percings and when we told her that the prophets highly suggest only one pair I was so stressed.  And we saw her the day before and she still had them all in.  And then she came to the baptism with them all out and looking as bautiful as ever!! Love them both to death!

So now just a bunch of pictures!!

I love you all a bunch and keep watching the World Cup without me. I think Chile lost today.  I have not heard the results, but everyone is not all hyped up like last time after the game, so I am just guessing!!

Con mucho Amor,

Hermana Corbett