First of all thanks for the emails! That's so sick that the lax team won the tournament in Cali. I hope Chloe won her election too! Those fools would be making a big mistake if they didn't pick her. I'm also glad to hear that you survived tax day at work, it must've been crazy! We heard about the Boston marathon thing too and we're trying not to get too distracted thinking about it but it's hard not being in the loop. We're praying for them though. I hope there aren't any more deaths and that nothing else like that happens while I'm out. Anyways it's been a pretty good week.
We had lessons scheduled with both Daisy's this week but unfortunately they both got cancelled. It kind of sucks because we were excited to be able to teach them and check up with them but we rescheduled for this week so hopefully those go through. We actually just found out that they're good friends with each other too, which makes the story even that much better. Another pretty cool thing that happened this week was our lesson with Marixa. She's this really cute young hispanic mom who has three little girls. She speaks Spanish and English but she prefers speaking English because that's what her daughters speak with her. Kind of like the Daisies, she's looking for what church to join because she wants to raise her daughters well and for them to have a relationship with God. We taught her and her daughters the Restoration and it went really well. At the beginning of the lesson we talked to her about following Christ and about how she could do that through baptism, and right away she accepted the invitation to be baptized as she came to know and feel that what we were teaching was true. She could feel the Spirit during the lesson and said that some of her questions had been answered. At the end, my companion decided to invite her to be baptized on a specific date (this is where it gets interesting). So when she said the date she accidentally had her days mixed up and invited her to prepare to be baptized on April 13th, which was just TWO DAYS later, and the girl actually accepted without hesitation! So like 5 minutes later my comp realized what she had accidentally done. We thanked Marixa for being so willing and brave, but we changed the date to May 4th instead. Haha it was an awesome experience and I hope she's able to be ready by the 4th.
Another cool thing that happened this week was that we got the Valeros- the mom and 3 of the kids- to church on Sunday! We were hoping the Daisies would come too but they didn't make it. The Valeros were a little late but they were able to catch the end of Sacrament meeting and hear a few testimonies, and then they stayed for the next two classes and it was so fun. It was probably a lot for Hermana to take in because she never really has gone to church and the Sunday School lesson was kind of complicated and not basic doctrine or anything, but I think she liked it and hopefully they'll come back next week! One of her daughters really like young womens though and is excited to go to mutual today. Those are the most interesting things as far as investigators go that happened this week.
So back to the transfer stuff: we actually moved yesterday from our basement in Clinton to a house in Roy that we get to ourselves. There's going to be six of us in one house. It's a nice house, but elders have been living there for years so it was a bit filthy when we got there. It's going to be weird having to buy our own food and stuff too- I'll probably be getting into better shape again because I'll be eating way less.
So the big news is that I won't be with Hermana Marcum anymore. Both she and Hermana Kreutzer are getting one of the new girls to train and we're not going to be in trios. The reason that we're freaking out is because that means my new companion is none other than Hermana HALES. What the???!! I love her a lot and we're best friends but neither of us know spanish, we've only been out 3 weeks, we have no idea what we're doing, and we joke around so much when we're together that I have no idea what's going to happen when we have to try to focus and do real missionary work. Also I'm worried because our personalities are so similar that we share the same weaknesses so I'm not really sure how the balance between us is going to be as far as when we're tracting and teaching.. It will definitely be a memorable transfer, that's for sure, and we'll have a blast. It might be pretty rough for a while though.
So that's what's happening for transfers and it seems a bit impossible right now but I'm sure Heavenly Father knows what he's doing. Herm Che (BTW "Che" is an Argentine word that means dude and every time we tell people we're going to Argentina the first thing they talk about is how everyone calls each other Che all the time there) and I will be needing all the prayers we can get, so keep 'em coming por favor! I love you guys and I'm going to send some pics now! Also, if it's at all possible could you send me my ukulele? Herm Che can play it and we actually did a musical number at a church event using a uke that we borrowed but we'd like one of our own so we can keep doing stuff like that! Oh and if you do send it, could you throw in maybe some Cajun trail mix or something? (; Thanks for all you do, and don't worry about me too much!
<3, HermCrawf
My MTC district on our last day before we left for Ogden
Herm Che and I on the train to Ogden
Herm Kreutzer, Hales, and I in front of our old house (the one in Clinton)
Herm. Kreutzer is the one in the pic. We tried to fit a bike in the back seat of our car and needless to say it didn't work out too well
My comp (well, old comp), Herm Marcum
Checking out some of the animals in our neighborhood
This is me getting creative in my search for new investigators
I found a new investigator!
Candid shot of Herm. Che and I about to start tracting while our comps were in SLC
Us holding a piece of the Nauvoo temple!
Herm Kreutzer had some troubles while trying to cook a pizza
On our way to meet with the consulate
It snowed yesterday (stupid Utah) and our car's battery was dead so we ate popsicles while waiting for the elders to come jumpstart it for us
Our zone leaders: on left is Elder Richardson who's from Scotland and has the coolest accent, and Elder Dodge is on the right
We found a dead mouse outside our window and we named T-Dawg after the black guy in Walking Dead.
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