Week 17

This week went pretty well. It was our first week actually working in a very long time and we got so much done:)

Lunes: We went to Monte Alban! If you've seen Nacho Libre, it's those ruins at the end of the movie. It was so cool!! And it's huge! We didn't even get to go everywhere, but we got to take pictures and just have so much fun. And it's crazy to think that Lamanites or Nephites could have lived here! And there were a ton of people selling a bunch of handmade stuff on the side of the road, so I bought some really pretty bracelets for like 15 pesos:) Then I finally did laundry for the first time in forever and we got to finish up the night with teaching Hugo.

Martes: We started out our day with our weekly district meeting and we met Elder Allred's new companion... I can't remember how to spell his name.... Elder Sulat is now working in the offices, so they needed a special change. He will be missed:( We had comida with Hermana Margarita today, but in the middle of eating I felt so sick. Hermana Olsen had already been feeling sick that day. It was so sad too because Margarita's food was so good.... But we went home and slept for a couple of hours and that really helped my stomach. We went back out and taught Hermano Hugo and la Familia Martinez. And we did a bit of shopping. We needed to change the type of milk we've been drinking. Here they don't have milk from the cow. You just buy these liter things of milk that don't even need to be refrigerated. But the kind that I've been drinking has 7 FAT GRAMS in a serving with 4 servings in a liter.... We drink like two liters a day...... Yup! We're going to light milk from now on:)

Miercoles: Today was pretty good. We tried going out a little earlier than normal today to teach, but no one was home!! As we started walking to our comida, we decided to see if Carmen was home and she was! And so was Rocio, her daughter. So we went in and taught them a little bit and we got on the subject of baptism and they had tons of questions, kind of got a little defensive, and when we asked if they would be baptized, it was a blunt no for both of them. But they want us to come back and teach them more... maybe if we keep doing that they will change:) We were finally able to find a menos activo family today: La Familia Trujillo. We're going to try to get them to come back to church. We also had our meeting with Hermano Pino and things were a little different with him. He was more calm and accepting of everything we did this past week... He told us that he was touched by what I said in ward council last week and felt he needed to chill. Woot! Making a difference:)

Jueves: Today was pretty good. We had our weekly planning and headed out. We taught Hermano Hugo and we tried going to Hermana Margarita and Familia Martinez, but they weren't home. So we heading in the direction of comida and tried door contacting for about a half an hour. We also talked with Hermana Rita too. She bought us oranges and mangos:) And we finally found another nuevo! Her name is Ester and we found her in her new shoe store, reading the bible. But we taught her about prophets and gave her a Book of Mormon:)

Viernes: Today was a little weird.... Hermana Olsen was a little sick and super exhausted that she couldn't get up until about 10. So I did everything by myself this morning. And our mission president and his wife went home. We're now working with President and Hermana Matsen. We also ate really early too, but the food was really good: veggies and chicken:) And we had some fun and got self ‘serve frozen yogurt at a place near our house:) So good! Later we went up to Loma Linda and taught Familia Trujillo and Martin. We also taught Ester again. She had a lot of concerns about the Book of Mormon and how we know that the people were real. So we compared it to John 10:16 and read the intro and Moroni 10:3-5. She has a better understanding and now she's asking questions that we can answer with the Plan of Salvation:)

Sabado: Today we started out with teaching Hermano Hugo. We taught him about temples and encouraged him to have an interview for his temple recommend. Then we went over to Familia Ferra for comida. We had so much fun with them and we did a little bit of service for them too. Oh ya. And today we found 27 menos activos! All from one family!! Familia Martel and they are so amazing! They started coming back to church a couple of weeks ago and we finally found their house, so we went and shared something and got to know them. They are such a sweet family:)

Domingo: We first went out to go visit a menos activo family, but they were leaving. So we decided to go searching for our investigators to go to church. We could not find any of them because it was a Mexico game in the World Cup. That even affected the attendance in church with them members. There were about 40 people there today. And maybe if there were more members there, Mexico would have won.... They lost to Holland... Way to go Dad... Your mission country won...;) And Hermana Olsen gave a talk on being examples. We ended up eating at our house because the member we were supposed to eat with left for a family member's house. Then we walked all over Loma Linda to find people to teach, but there weren't any people on the streets... They took the loss pretty sadly... So we went back to Reforma and taught Familia Martinez and pan dulce and te do manzanilla.

Anyway, that's my week. I hope yours was good too. Love ya'll!

Love Always,

Hermana Walker