April 1, 2024
Hola!! Well after 16 months in the mission i just felt done.
I couldnt really keep up with everything anymore so i decided to call it. Im coming home.
If you would like to hear about my time in Uruguay ill be...here in Uruguay still because that was just a big joke!
April Fools!
I absolutely love the mission and the only stress to put up with is a stress I would choose over college and real-life
stress any day! The joy that comes from being a missionary is priceless! Ill gladly be here in Uruguay for a few
more months!
Anyways, this week was a week!
On tuesday we put our friend Jose on date for saturday and Lane Got His Mission Call to Peru!!!
On wednesday we were supposed to go to 33 and have exchanges and return a key we had accidently stolen from the missionaries there but my comp woke up sick and part of the highway was also closed because of flooding so we rescheduled to go the next day.
Thursday my comp was even more sick and the road supposedly still flooded so we didnt go.
Friday. My comp was still sick but we had to make it to 33. We got our bus tickets for 8.30, a bus showed up, and we got on and felt relieved we were finally making it. The bus takes off down the highway, the guy comes to take our ticket, and lets us know WE ARE ON THE WRONG BUS!!! That bus came to a hault and they dumped us on the side of the highway. It was like a movie scene where the bus stops then its just someone and their luggage in the middle of no where jaja. We walked for an hour back home down the highway. The next bus wasnt till 3.30 so we got to work and at lunch time we needed to go to another town to eat but then we found out that since it was a holiday weekend, the schedule was different and we had already missed the only bus. We were so done with life at that point. But all is well we tried to move forward with animo. I said, hey this weeks been pretty crappy but atleast we have a baptism this weekend! Then we got a message from our friend jose saying "hey i dont wanna pay tithing and for some personal reasons ive decided to not get baptised. Sorry"
That one got us- we sat down on the side of the road for a sec. Our sweet lil friend lucas happened to walk by and was like what are you guys doing?? We put on some happy smiles for him even though we were kinda dying inside.
At the beginning of my mission the temple president here told me one time to just never get discouraged. I always try to remember that advice. But this day was different, man, everything was going wrong. We kept saying man this could not get any worse. Crap has hit the fan. And then another thing happened. And another. We made it to lunch and while we were there we got a message saying that my release date got pushed back a little. Haha. So funny. That was a nice cherry on top to the fantastic day we were having. Dont worry- ill come home eventually! Anyways we decided there was no way we'd be taking the 3.30 bus to 33 cuz we had to figure out how to help jose. So we sent the key in the bus and luckily had taken it through customs just incase we had to do that because we happened to pass by the customs place on our long walk home on the highway and the spirit told us to do it!! Then we had a nice long charla with Jose and in the end we had canceled the baptism but it was a beautiful lesson. I could see how powerful the Atonement of Jesus Christ is and felt the love God has for him and the potential he has!!
We went to bed that night pretty wrecked but honestly i could just feel throughout the whole day, Gods presence and it was like Christ was there with us every step. I recognized that in the mission ive learned to turn to Him more quickly. I found myself not just laughing off the fact we got on the wrong bus and were in the middle of nowhere and everything kept going wrong, but also that i quickly prayed for help and strength. I prayed God would make some miracle out of our mistake and in the end it was a miracle we were here to help jose. Saturday at 4 pm we had another charla with Jose. We talked about the Holy Ghost and then invited him to be baptised that night at 8. He said yes! We filled the font, ran to our other lessons, and had his baptism! When we went home to get the baptismal clothes we found our garage FLOODED!! there happened to be an open extension chord on the ground that was just like sizzling in the water...and my comp was standing in.the.water. God saved her and nothing happened we dont know how!
The baptism was really cool because his friend who got baptised like a month ago was able to baptise him!! Sunday was Easter and we had a visit from elder lattaro, the area seventy, and a beautiful program. The missionaries here all did a musical number and it was a beautiful, rainy, Easter Sunday!! That night we ran into a distressed homeless mom and her 2 kids. We gave them hugs, testified of Jesus Christ, and left them with some chocolates.
This week was crazy. It was stressful! But Christ lead us through it all. And thats whats beautiful about the gospel, about this covenant that we can make with God. That He will walk through it all with us. We take His yoke upon us and He carries it all with us. But we gotta keep walking.
I love this Easter video! We had a charla this week with a new friend and we werent sure what to share. I felt like we should share this but i didnt really want to because i wasnt really sure where to go with it, but we decided to listen to the Spirit and shared it. The woman broke into tears and said that she had been carrying and burying in her heart a lot of resentment towards her father for over 70yrs. She was ready to get rid of it. As she was talking to us i was so unsure of what to respond. I had nothing. I prayed so hard asking God to help me know what to say. Im not sure what i said, but apparently we said what she needed. She came to church on Sunday even though she was scared because for years every time she entered a catholic church it made her cry, but on Sunday she felt peace. Christ is peace. This is His church.
Forgiving Others: An Easter Message from President Russell M. Nelson
Con muchisimo amor,
Hermana Bailey 
Happy 3rd birthday Leo!! 
Spider count: a big fat black one entered our kitchen and that was its last decision!
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