Hermana Emmaline Kmetzsch

Hello Everyone! This week was great! The weather is starting to cool down and we have that nice ocean breeze :) THE GOOD STUFF: So we have an investigator named Gary who is getting baptized this next Saturday! He loves everything about the church but he has mentioned to us before that he left other churches because he had to pay tithing and told us that he has a lot of doubts about that subject. So we have been a little nervous about teaching him about tithing. So yesterday we met at the church with some members to teach him about tithing. The members ended up being 1 hour late so we decided to start the lesson without them. We taught him the whole lesson and asked him how he was feeling after, he said that he was feeling good but that he still had doubts and needed to pray A LOT before he could get baptized. I was feeling a little nervous and then our sweet member friends showed up to the church. They are converts of about 1 year and they just got sealed in the temple...

Hello Everyone!   This week was crazy and full of changes! I got transferred and I am now in Torre Alta, Puerto Plata. It was hard saying goodbye to all the people I love in Esperanza, but it's great to be in a new place! My new comps name is Hermana Butterfield and she is the sweetest! She has one transfer less than I do, so the Spanish is a little bit of an adventure but we are doing great!   THE GOOD STUFF: Something that I have been learning this week is about the importance and the power of prayer. Life is hard! And sometimes we just feel like we can't handle it all. BUT. The amazing thing is, that God is always here with us and he hears and answers every single one of our prayers. Whenever we need him he is there.   THE FUN STUFF: So Puerto Plata is BEAUTIFUL and you can see the ocean from my house which is the sweetest little treat every morning. We got to visit the beach today for P-day and wow. We walked up a little watchtower and you can see almost all of Puert...

Hello Everyone!  So we got transfer news this week and I am getting transferred! I am SO sad to leave this area and all the people that I love so dearly, but I am excited to start a new adventure. I am going to Puerto Plata which is a tourist city by the beach! You got that right, we're gonna be spending Christmas on, (well close by anyway) the beach this year :)  THE GOOD STUFF: The mission is hard but it's amazing to see the changes that the gospel brings in people's lives. We are teaching a girl named Dali, she is Hatian and doesn't speak a lot of spanish, so teaching her is a little bit different. But we brought a member with us our last lesson who speaks Creole. She told us that if God wanted her to be baptized then that's what she wanted to do. She comes to church every Sunday even though she doesn't understand and it's amazing to see her faith. The language of the spirit is really what connects us all. It doesn't matter who you are or...

Hello everyone! This week was great and full of miracles! The mission is hard but God has a plan and he is watching out for us! THE GOOD STUFF: So this week was full of miracles! We have a lady that we are teaching named Maribel. We found her one day while we were contacting. This day wasn't anything out of the ordinary, our other appointment had fallen through and we were just contacting in her neighborhood. We knocked on her door, (when I say knocked I mean we yelled, "Saludos!!" at her front gate) and her mom came to the door. We started to introduce ourselves and then Maribel came out of her room to the door. She immediately invited us in and told us that God had sent us to her. She explained that she had been passing through a really hard time and that she was praying that same day for God to send her someone to help her. Then we came to her door. She came to church last week and we asked her this week if she was going to come again and she said, ...