Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Best & Worst Week (very, very sad)

Well this week i would have to say was one of the best weeks of my mission up to sunday night. monday gets here and it became the worst week of probably my whole mission for the next two years. i will start with the good news. the young man we have been teaching, anderson, we continued to teach and he stopped smoking! it was an answer to prayers. he started when he was 11 and he is 26 now and he smoked lots for a while but the last few years he had been minamizing how much he smoked and when we started to teach him he continued trying, well he went to the church last sunday and said he wanted baptized so during the week we taught him more so he could and he comitted to stop smoking and we helped him and he stopped and this sunday he was baptized!!! it was awesome! a member in the ward baptized him, which is good because now he has a friend in the ward that wont get transfered. but it was great still becasue we taught him and helped him to be baptized so it was great to see success and have a baptism cause it had been a while without one. the same night the other elders in our area had 2 baptisms, Enrique and Solang, Enrique asked the other elders how many baptisms they had and the told him, it was a high number casue ther older in the mission, then he turned to me and was like how about you, i said one but i will have more with time casue im still new. and he was like ok i want you to baptize me. haha. i didnt even really know the kid haha. i had only seen him like once or twice before and heard aobut him in our house haha. so i ended up baptising him and his sister. haha. it was way excited sundya to have our investigator baptized and then to be able to baptize two others!!! great day and week. Monday gets here and were teaching and we recieve a phone call. remember my first baptism Waldarina, wel her daughter Valdarane, the one who has had all the health problems and been in the hospital for 4 months on and off, well finally all is better for her and she gets home. the phone call we found out there was a bad accident. her husband is a police oficer and her son was playing with a gun of his and accidently shot is sister. in the picture the you can see the son and daughter. there is only one son and the daughter is the youngest. he is 10 and she was 6. it was so sad. i love that family and they were one of the first families i met in the mission. she was shot in the back of the head and died. we went to the hospital to comfort them and help. it was so sad. tuesday was the viewing, it really is hard. i love that family. i pray for them soo much now. the son is so confused and scared, it was an accident. the mom is just overloaded with every problem in the world now. her health and then this. but its sad. but i guess look at the bright side. the Plan of Salvation! I know that this helps that family a ton becasue the dad of the girl is not a member and the funeral was in his church and...well...wow...it was OUT OF CONTROLL. Valdarene was calm and stuff but ppl who werent even family were going crazy, ppl were screaming over the little girls body and ready scriptures way loud and singing songs loud and just out of control. Valdarane is a VERY strong women to be able to stay strong during all of this with her health problems to. ive never met someone like her. she is always just smiling and making the best out of what she has. it just doesnt seem real. a day or two before this we were at her house and glauber the son and the little girl victoria were painting a little wood box for there toys. she was painting it pink on the inside. this is what i remember every time i think about her now. its soo sad. she looked so pretty. she had a little white casket. ill miss her
i know its still not the same for you all because you didnt know them. but they are family to me and it is real. we always think this coundln't happen to my family. but STOP thinking that. make sure EVERY gun in our house and everyones house is locked up GOOD. and just a piece of advice dont buy toy guns for kids. what a gross toy, a gun, seriously. what is the point.

2 comments:

Melissa S. said...

Oh Hyrum! I'm so sorry. That little family will be in my prayers. You are right, thank goodness for the gospel and the atonement of our sweet Savior, but unfortuantly the pain still hurts. Thankfully we know God is in control; there is a plan. We love you!

R&R said...

Hyrum I am so sorry! I will pray for that family.