Monday, August 12, 2013

Companionless and Sleeping on the Floor!??

Hey mom! Haha I loved the pictures you sent of Nellie and of the day that everyone came to BYU. Good times. The one of Rustin sleeping in Sacrament meeting is classic, haha nice one Amanda. I think your hair looks awesome, the girls are locas! It's so weird to me that the kids are starting another year of school while I'm out here.. It feels like I'm in a strange alternate reality sometimes. But at least homework doesn't exist in this reality (; I'm glad you found the song I recorded a while ago but I can't believe you posted it on facebook, woman! Haha oh well.. 

So this week wasn't much less strange than the last one. Hermana Sidan and I did our best to knock doors and find new investigators, and we were able to find a few who have some potential. We visited Roxana two times and both times two different pastors from her church happened to show up to buy something and both tried to keep her from listening to us because "there words are the only ones she should listen to". They weren't too friendly for being supposed followers of Jesus Christ, but Roxanna decided that she would keep listening to us and investigating even though her pastors scold her for doing so.

We had some other interesting lessons with people who let us in but weren't really willing to find out the truth for themselves and  really just wanted to argue. But we also had a lesson with Mauricio that went really well- he's reading been reading the Book of Mormon and is really interested in the story of Lehi and his family. He's also been praying about whether Joseph Smith was a prophet and he feels good but still feels like he hasn't gotten his answer, but we watched the 20 min video of the Restoration and he loved it because he says that he feels a lot like Joseph felt when he was searching for the truth and wasn't sure where to find it. I'm positive that he's going to get his answer soon and that he'll find what he's been searching for for years. That lesson made all of the craziness that had happened earlier in the week worth it. Seeing him progressing and reading makes me extremely happy because I know what happiness he's going to find in the church. We still got lost quite a few times but it wasn't terrible and we had fun!

We tried to have the English class on Saturday but no one showed up.. It's all good though, cosas que pasan. The choir was a success though and we're going to be singing Mas Cerca Dios de Ti to Thee this Sunday! But anyways, as you know, Hermana Sidan left yesterday because she had to go vote and she also starts college today. T

he most stressful part of the week was that for the last few days I've been hearing a million different things about what's going to happen about my new comp. They still hadn't given me any sort of a solid answer about who was going to come and when yesterday, so when Hna Sidan left I was stuck in a trio with the other two Hermanas and I slept on their floor (as you could see in the picture I sent). This morning I finally was told that my comp is going to be Hermana Cheta, and that we have to go pick her up today at 4. I'm a little nervous because I've heard some interesting things about Hna. Cheta, but I'm going to form my own opinion of her and try not accept everything that I've heard as the truth. We'll see what happens..! That's all I've got this week. I hope the kids have a fun week in school and that you and dad enjoy having them out of the house for at least part of the day. I miss you and love you! Wish me luck with the new comp!

<3,
Hermana Crawfish

PS- The package you sent may or may not have finally arrived, I'll find out for sure on Thursday!



me in my temporary bed aka the floor

the Elders' attempt at making a pizza.. yeah, no.

enjoying the first p-day of the transfer. The elder on the left replaced the elder from Gilbert as a Zone Leader, and he's from Portland, Oregon (Elder Dowdle)

I pulled a Chloe and spilled an entire bottle of Diet Pepsi- it shot across the kitchen floor like a rocket, which was pretty entertaining (especially to missionaries who have few things to entertain ourselves with)

a lady from Vegas came and visited a family in our ward and brought things from the US for the American missionaries. Obviously it was the best peanut butter I've ever eaten.

the Maipu chapel

a pic of our zone from the meeting we had last week


to appropriately top-off this strange tiempito companionless, it decided to rain this morning

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