Week 14

Alright. This week was so great! So many things happened:)

Lunes: We finally found a house for ourselves, so we spent the morning packing everything all over again and we moved into our house. And we're finally living in our area, so we don't have to walk a half an hour to actually get into our area. And for the rest of the afternoon we went food shopping, cleaned the house, unpacked, and checked email. We also had a really good lesson with our borachos:)

Martes: We had our district meeting this morning and it was awesome! We each had to make our own model on how we can get members to visit investigators by themselves. Everyone loved ours:) It included singing Teach Me To Walk In the Light and we shared the scripture in D&C about being anxiously engaged. We also had a really good meal with la Familia Martinez. I love that family. They're one that I want to come visit again after the mish:) We also had a really good lesson with Hermano Hugo. He's doing so well now that he's baptized:) And to finish up the night we had a meeting with our ward mission leader Hermano Pino and ward correlation. We also contacted this lady named Maria... oh my goodness.. She was so poor. She asked if we had money to give and we said no, but that we had something even more special. So we shared something about the first lesson and made her feel special. And she can't read so she's going to have her niece read a pamphlet to her:)

Miercoles: ¡TEMPLO! I love going to the temple here. It's so pretty and I'm learning a lot of the Spanish there too. And I did everything in Spanish too! I was happy:) And we had comida with La Familia Corzo. They're another family I absolutely love. They made my favorite tacos:) And we met their son who has been studying in Arizona for a year. And after we had a really good day with lessons with Hermano Hugo and Hermana Margarita, and we contacted a lot:)

Jueves: Today we started out with service. We helped Hermana Margarita made this soup called Pezzoli. It's made with veggies, oregano, lemon, chili, and the meat from a pig's head.... Yup.... I saw a dead pig's head. And when we were cooking the chili... Dang! I almost coughed up a lung! But it smelled so good:) We ate with the bishop today and got a lot of information on menos activos in our area too. After that we went to our borrachos and found Edgar. He's the only one who's progressing really. But we finally got him to come to the church!!! We gave him a tour, introduced him to the bishop, and we had a lesson with the Young Women about how they can share the gospel with their friends. Afterwards we ate the Pezzoli. It was so good!!! But had way too much chili for me. I think that's why I get sick sometimes. The chili... But he loved the church. He was so happy afterwards:)

Viernes: Today we had divisions with the sister training leaders. I went with Hermana Noriega and Hermana Olsen went with Hermana Delgado. We had some fun. I met their group of borachos and we helped them out by teaching them about faith. It started raining really hard too. We ended our day with teaching one of the members, Hermana Sanchez. She was super sweet:) And I was so tired I went to bed early. It was awesome:)

Sabado: During my study this morning I finally got to the chapters of Christ's visit to the Americas! I'm so excited to read it:) I haven't marked my scriptures this much... We ended divisions and I went back with Hermana Olsen. We went to go teach a couple of our investigators, Bruno and Roberto, but they left without saying anything.... So we kind of wandered around until we had comida with la Familia Ferra. We had hamburgers... And not just one... Two!! Goodness! It's so hard not to say no as a missionary.... I was so full after the first. But they were good:) And we had a good lesson with them with the bishop and Hermano Pino about our new ward mission plan. We tried teaching Edgar today, but it was hard because it started pouring rain around 5. Like literally. Flash flood in a minute. So we went home and studied until the rain stopped... Around 8.... so we couldn't do anymore teaching.

Domingo: Oh my goodness! Today! Was! So! Great! We got Edgar, Martin, and Martin's wife to come to church!! We went out to Loma Linda and they were all ready:)) And it was so awesome because when we walked in, one of our other investigators, David, was there. And later, Bruno and Roberto came in with a member that lives near them, and Hermano Martinez came with his family. It was the coolest thing ever!! And Hermano Hugo came and sat with us:) And they did so well in the Gospel Principles class too... Except for Roberto.... We found out that he came to church DRUNK. He was mumbling and everything.... I guess the Hermana that he came with couldn't get him to go home. But during third hour Martin and Edgar got priesthood blessings from the bishop for strength in letting go of alchohol and he bore his testimony to them. I guess before he was a member he had the same life and he wanted them to know that it's possible to change. They loved church and we can't for them to come next week. We also taught Hermano Martinez and got some of his doubts put onto the table. And during this lesson it started pouring rain again, so we had to go home so we wouldn't get sick. But today topped off the week:)

Here are some pictures!! :) 

Our Borachos!

Companion Hermana Palominos!! 

Templo!! 

And here's another thing. This is the poster for that little play I'm in here. It was drawn by an elder here. The faces are what the actors look like, just with the Disney twist on it:) 

Have a good week! Keep smiling!

Love Always,

Hermana Walker