Week 62

Well this week was AWESOME, but also very looooooooooooooong. Hermana Gonzalez and I are now in the process of looking for new investigators and that has been quite the search. This week we decided that we were going to go find 6 new investigators and I just have to say that I have definitely gotten out of my comfort zone to do this. Here is what we did: We went looking in the area books and found a BUNCH of old investigators that were basically abandoned because they only had one or two lessons done and they seemed like awesome people. But the missionaries didn't write down why they dropped them. So we did a bunch of walking searching for them. We found a few houses, but no one was home. So we did a bunch of contacting. I don't think I have talked to this many people or bought this many little snacks on the street just to talk to someone. And we knocked on doors. That's never been my biggest thing to do because I never know what door to knock on. One day were walking for so long I got desperate enough to knock on a door. So we went down a random street and we found a metal door and I went up and knocked on it and said to the guy "We are missionaries and we are here to sing a hymn with you." He tried to give us the excuse that his family wasn't there and we just ended up contacting him and singing the hymn anyway. And he told us we can come back!:) We didn't find any investigators this week and yes we did get slightly sad that no one wants to listen, but maybe it's because Heavenly Father has something bigger in mind for us in the next couple of weeks.:)

We also went to the doctor. Last week we started getting sick from the rain and we got sore throats. But mine changed to a cold and my comp got a huge sore throat and a temperature. It stayed for about 4-5 days, so I took her to the doctor. She had a throat infection and a little bit of bacteria which was causing the temperature. So she took some of the medicine that he gave her and slept for the day. He told me I might have parasites, as if I didn’t know! and my stomach is backed up. So good thing I am doing the diet I'm doing. Here's to drinking lots of Jamaica! :)

Oh ya! I bought a guitar! I am so happy! :) It only cost me like 650 pesos which is like about 60 bucks! So worth it... But I have no idea what I'm doing. I figured out how to play a Christmas song that I don't remember the title of just by playing. It's not tuned right so I have no idea if it's the right note for this song anyway. So please send me the sound from that vid of tuning a guitar. Por favor!:)

I also taught the Hermanas in the ward how to make chocolate chip cookies! The Relief Society wants to learn things so that they can be more self-sufficient. And it went really well. They were all willing to help make them and they turned out awesome. The kids kept coming back for seconds:) They tasted differently though because the butter, Crisco, and chocolate taste differently here. But I was happy to have REAL chocolate chip cookies! They eat theirs hard and toasted.....mom would love them… Not sure if I'm going to stick with that idea when I get back...

And Mother's Day! It was so Awesome:) In the Relief Society the Primary and Young Women sang to all the moms and passed around a cute little note and a sucker rose. And at the end the priesthood gave us cupcakes. It was adorable:) Talking to our families was awesome. Even though we had a ton of technical difficulties we were able to get Skype working and the talk was fantastic!  It is just weird to think this was the last call home, but even more weird when I told you guys, "See you in September!" It was weird and time is going really fast, but the time here is so worth it! :)

Well I hope this week was good for you and keep smiling. Keep reading and stay close to the Lord. He loves you! Ya you!

Hermana Walker