Week 25

Alright everyone! I just started a new transfer so hopefully everything goes well with my new, and first, Latin companion Hermana Molina:)

Lunes: Today we started out with cleaning the house for the other Hermana’s and after that we left for the ADO to get our temporary companions for the day. I stayed with Hermana Martinez while Hermana Delgado went with another Hermana that's going home. We were at the ADO for a bit of time, talking with other missionaries and taking pictures... I have a feeling I'm going to be the one leaving from this place in six weeks... After that we went emailing and rested at the house in the other area. Then we all left to go back to the ADO to get our companions. Hermana Molina came here with 7 months in the Istmo and she only has one more transfer than I do. When we got to the house we unpacked (because I had my stuff still packed from the week before) and we bought a pizza because we hadn't eaten all day. It was pretty great:)

Martes: We didn't have a district meeting today. Instead we took our 3 hours of study and then went out to buy food because there wasn't any in the house, like our fridge was literally empty... And I love that Hermana Molina eats so healthy too. All fruits and veggies:) Afterwards we went to la familia Pino for the comida. Super good entomatadas:) Teaching today was a little hard because no one was home.... Weird... It's Martes... We did get to teach Hermano Hugo before our meeting with Hermano Pino. This meeting was really weird... He only wanted to meet with us because of what happened last week. But he made it really secretive with us... And consejo was awesome! We were able to get a lot across for the things our investigators need.

Miercoles: Today we didn't have district meeting either because we found out that we were going to have a zone conference en Viernes. So we did our 3 hours of study. I love doing language study with my comp because she seriously wants to learn English and she really wants to help me with my Spanish. So we work really hard in this study:) Today was just like Martes... No one was home and no one was on the streets to contact... We had comida with la familia Padilla and that was really good as well... Tacos durados:) Afterwards we needed to go see Dr. Morales for Hermana Molina. I guess she has like a cyst or something that's growing and keeps hitting her spine so sometimes it hurts to walk and sit up. He told her it needs to come out, so he's going to talk to President Madsen about it.... Not another comp!!! We were able to go meet with Hermano Hugo and then we were told to go home so Hna Molina could rest.

Jueves: Today we did our studying and after we started on our weekly planning.... Took almost 4 hours in the morning to do and we still didn't finish... But then again I had to introduce our investigators and we're also planning an activity for next week. We're going to watch The Testaments movie:) After we went and tried to contact a reference that went all wrong. They didn't want anything to do with us and they told us this in an English southern accent I want to steal... Then we went to the Pino's house for the comida and after that we went to go teach, but literally no one was home.... We met with the familia Maison and tried to meet with Eufemia, but she seemed to be very standoffish to us and said she was leaving.... Weird.... We finished our weekly planning that night and found a bunch of old investigators that we're going to try finding and teaching.

Viernes: Today we had our zone conference and it WAS AWESOME!! It was all about how we can better our teaching in specific principles, how to drop investigators nicely, and that the line of authority really isn't something to worry about because all missionaries are equal. It was so great, especially with dropping investigators because I feel that the people I've been teaching here for a long time haven't been progressing and I don't know what to do with them. After we went out searching for these old investigators and it was hard. Some only had phone numbers, some only had house numbers, some didn't want anything, some houses didn't exist, or they weren't home. Ooh! And I had my first soft pretzel in a long time! It was so good! Again we tried with Eufemia, but she still seemed standoffish and wouldn't give us a day that we could come and pass by... So weird...

Sabado: Today we stayed inside for the most part. Dr. Morales still hasn't talked to the president so the sister training leaders wanted us to stay home. So we stayed until the comida. We went to the familia Ferra. And it was really good and super healthy:) After this we had no idea who to teach. No one was around, but also we were having a meeting for stake conference, so anyone we could teach would be at that. We tried to see if Eufemia or Martin were down by the bridge, but they weren't. Just the borrachos. We talked to them and one had this big issue that all women have wickedness because his wife left him for someone else. We tried teaching him about the responsibilities of the family, but he still doesn't believe that women are equal to men. We did find a new one who wants help with his drinking problem. He's from Italy! And he introduced us to him mom as well:) And the meeting for stake conference was awesome too.

Domingo: Today we went to stake conference and Julia came this week. This conference was so awesome. We were taught that each person in the church has a responsibility, with a calling or not, especially with the mission work. There was another talk about the temple and that we don't know our Heavenly Father is we are not going to the temple because there we earn the most sacred knowledge. It was so great!! We didn't have comida with anyone, so we went to la familia Limon with the other Hermana’s. But afterwards they told us to go home because they don't want hermana Molina working with her back......

Well, I hope y'all had a good week. And remember the Book of Mormon challenge. Now we are going to read Jacob in a week:) Good luck!

Love ya'll!

Hermana Walker