Week 24

This week was pretty good! Just still working, we lost contact with a ton of our investigators this week which sucked but we are slowly getting back into contact with them. We've had a lot of appointments cancel still but we have a lot more people that we are working with and hope to see things start improving with our investigators. On Sunday we made a list of everyone and what we wanted to happen this last week of the transfer and that's what we fasted for. And on Sunday we had an investigator who has been investigating for probably like 3 years she came to church for the first time!!! It was really amazing! She has always said that she would come but never did but yesterday she texted us asking us to drive to her house so she could follow us to the church! We were so happy! She and her three kids came! She only stayed for two hours but it was a miracle that she even came to church!!

On New Years Eve we hung out with the Santiago family at night for dinner and ended up staying there forever! We played sorry while dinner was getting ready and then we played it after too. I won one of the rounds :) it was a lot of fun.

On new years eve we meant to go to bed on time but we were talking and then we were looking at journal entries from when we first got into the mission and then I looked at the clock and said "new years is in 5 minutes" so we got on our shoes and grabbed a blanket and stood on our balcony and then there were fire works that we got to see too so haha then I didn't go to bed till almost 1 because I had to write in my journal and pray haha so without meaning to I stayed up till the new years :)

 On January first we went to the Hernandez house because they told us to come over for lunch and haha they were almost all still sleeping but we ate with them and then the Santiago family came over too and we played sorry again, we visited a few people and then we went to Blanca's house and ate nachos :) which were super good. First she gave me a hug and then she pulled away and then said here is a hug from your mom :) made me happy and she told me about the post and how you guys talked a little bit :). Later we went over to the Rodrigues family and ate again and it was really good too. I love all these families that are in our ward! They are seriously the best!

On Friday I woke up and it hurt to walk we had eaten so much on Thursday that just standing up hurt but it went away slowly throughout the day. We had zone meeting on Friday and it was really good, I got to see hermana provost! I feel so bad for her and her companion...she has a cold and they have bed bugs. I didn't even know those things really existed I always thought it was a joke!

Anyways for the month of December we didn't go over miles!! With the miles we had exempted we were right on where we needed to be! We had to walk a lot to stay under though. I need to invest in rainboots...there was one day it was raining and I accidentally stepped in a puddle and my feet were wet and freezing for the rest of the night. I've gotten some tights from walmart but I might invest in a few more pairs. I have to keep my jacket in the car because every night it is so cold! It's probably in the low 50's highish 40's by the end of the night and the days are not very warm either. It's been pretty cold lately. I really am surprised that i haven't gotten sick with how much we have been outside in the cold lately.

Yesterday at church I was just sitting there listening to the testimonies and Leo came up to me and gave me a hug he had left to go to the bathroom or something and when he came back in he gave me a hug it was the sweetest!!! Also we went contacting last night at the lavandaria and I was talking to this one guy who spoke English and I asked him if he knew of anyone who spoke Spanish and wanted to learn English and he said "no me and my wife are both coconuts." I didn't really understand it until I was talking to my companion afterwards and then we realized that it meant brown on the outside but white on the inside haha like they look like they speak Spanish but they don't haha. We started laughing. During primary I was asked to play the piano and hermana carbajal directed because the normal piano player and conductor were both sick. There was some time before they needed the music and hermana carbajal and I just talked. I'm so glad that she is still in my district I'm going to be so sad when i leave because I'll probably end up leaving before she does! Elder Perez has an English companion for this week. But his companion is picking up Spanish really good! He bore his testimony in church yesterday and he has been speaking Spanish for less than a week! It was slow but it was so good!

This week we just saw Hugo...we are praying that We never see Edilma's name on our phone because he said she was going to call us and tell us that we couldn't come back. He doesn't want that. That was last Monday that she was supposed to call us and she hasn't yet so the spirit is working with her. We told him he needs to text us when she is home that way we can see her and then he will leave that way we can just talk with her and help her. He wants to be baptized so bad but he doesn't want contention between him and his wife.

Anyways, our p day ends short today because one of our investigators who we lost contact with could only see us at 4 today and so our p day ends at 4. Right now we have a lot of investigators but none of them are progressing yet. Hopefully that will change this week!!

Love y'all!!!!

All the missionaries in our ward

We have spent so much time with this family lately!! I love them!

Having fun with a christmas tree ​ :D

Hermana Provost!!!! I got to see her at zone meeting

Never buy food from a store that is named this...haha

So there are these chips...they are called Takis I think they are super super spicy and I always get made fun of haha because a 5 year old Hispanic little kid could eat them while watching tv and be fine haha anyways I bought a bag about two weeks ago and finally finished it and my mouth was burning and my tongue was super red. Everything is still hot to me!! I'm trying to kill some taste buds so I can handle the spicy haha because I like the spicy food!!!! But it hurts haha