Hump Day

Dang its been a fast 9 months! but Glad yalls are enjoying my tornado videos and all! ;-) 

this past week!

Monday: had sports at the church, ate at campos, and I think we did some late night knocking (best time to do so for spanishland!) 

Tuesday: visited our inv. Maria Sanchez to have a church lesson, but she friend was there and she gave us a Blessing. as different as that experience was, I am good to never do that again. she was yelling and shaking us and I was scared she was trying to cast a demon out of me or something.. haha!

wed: we saw Jose, and he played the guitar for us and we just had a jam session in his doorway cause we cant go inside cause we didnt have a woman with us, so he just played all the Jesus songs he wrote and it was so funny! ive got a video that ill send in like 6 months haha!

thursday: red cross service, and we celabrated my hump day by trying a hole in the wall Dinner "the Hungry Frog" best place I have ever eaten my whole mission!

Friday: went to the Alonso familys home and ate arepas! my favorite food in the entire world! ill make em when I get home, cause hna. Alonso lets me cook with her so I was stoked!

Saturday: we went to the Red cross "volunteer carnival" they were saying thank you to us and we got to kareoke some of our christan spanish music and it was so funny! of course I have video of that also.. 

Sunday: Maria Mendez came to church! so we were stoked! and we had an orcestre (spanish or ingles I dont know?!) but it was cool to just listen to music and sit and not be runing around all sunday night!

Spiritual: this week we decided none of our inv. were really progressing, so we went to the lord in fasting and prayer and decided who ever did NOT come to church we were dropping, aside from part memberfamily and those we had found just this past week. It was so scary, but we decided if the lord wanted them to progress, he would have them at church. The lord knows exactly what he wants, we just needed to do what he wanted! and we felt we needed to do a lot of evaluating and dropping and cleaning up completely the area. its gonna be a LOT of work, but we know how to have fun also! 

So now we are gladly teaching Maria M. Genoveva our 9 yrld. And Amparo! we went from 12 unprogressing inv. to 3 progressing inv!

Something I learned in church this week: we arnt striving for perfection, but for salvation. Even the little things count, to receive salvation we need to be perfect. But lucky for us we have help from a savior and our loving Father in heaven! 

p.s. if you ever have missionaries eat at your home, feed them cold cereal. I want nothing more!

Funny Story: E. Steed had to give a talk on sunday, so that ment I got to translate sacrement for an old english man who always comes to spanish branch. Bro. Barney. so I had to translate and I hate translating... haha but thats all good cause you kinda just make it up anyways. thats the secret to translating, youll never be 100% so hopefully you are a good teacher! haha

good long email for mi mama feliz cumpleanos a ti! la amo mucho mama!

love yall! 

-Sid