Week 61

Hi! I hope everyone is doing okay and we are all happy! :) This week was pretty good. We didn't have as much success as we've had in the past, but we had a lot of fun experiences. 

On Monday I was able to meet my new comp Hermana Gonzalez. She is from Quintana Roo, which is a State of Mexico along the border of Belize. She's Mayan! It's so cool!:) She's 23 years old and is so ready for the work. In fact, she teaches like none other. She can think of an example or idea in the moment. It's awesome! :) We get to work a lot conquering the hills here because she's not used to them. Her house is all flat. But she's super adorable and we already get a long really well so I think training her will be a little different than the first time I was training.

We've also had a TON of rain this week. On Tuesday we left not only our windows open again, but the door to our balcony... And we were on the other side of our area..... So we had to run all the way back to the house to close up everything and we got home more soaking wet than I've been in my life... Oh ya! While running home I saw Hermano Hugo driving by on the freeway! I think he saw me too and he looked super surprised as he drove away... Anyway. We were super wet and by the time we got done cleaning up the house it was like 7:30 and our neighbors were freaking out that we were going to get fevers if we didn't jump into the shower right away. So we couldn't leave for the rest of the day.... And yesterday there was a HUGE lightning storm. Like lightning that strikes like 5 times before it goes away. And it wasn't very close at all, but the brightness was like none other. It was cool:) I love the rainy season here:) 

Well, we didn't have that much success in finding people around because with it being Dia del Niño, or Work Day, and Cinco de Mayo they had basically a week of vacations. So we spent our time contacting on the street and I realized my confidence in talking to random people on the street has gotten stronger. But we also found a ton of people we haven't been able to find in a really long time, like Neri and Amerika. Also a lot of members that don't exactly like the missionaries for some reason allowed us in their homes for a message. And they opened up a lot and shared some very personal stories. There were some awesome lessons and I really think that in time they will have a lot more confidence in the missionaries. :)

Also just a funny story.... We've been having Janiery read the Book of Mormon from the beginning and we're still in 1Nephi. But one day this week she went looking on Youtube for videos about Nephi and she found the Living Scriptures in Spanish! She got so excited and wanted to watch them with us but we couldn't. But isn't that funny?? I love those videos! :)

Well I hope everyone is doing awesome. I know some words in the Mixtepec and Zapoteco dialects!  I've been doing better from the stomach infection, but I've had a random sore throat this week, my comp too. I might also be having a weird allergic reaction on my hands. When I wake up there's random bites on my fingers and stuff, but there aren't bite marks. And they keep coming up and they itch! We'll see what happens..... Have a good week!

Love ya’ll!

Hermana Walker