March 9, 2015

HOLA!!!!

This week was way awesome!! My Companion Elder Andrews and I are working in two areas which means that we have been SUPER busy the whole week!! We will usually spend half the day in one area and then the other half of the day in the other area. We are walking a lot and the weather here is really heating up. The hottest week of the year here is called the "Semana Santa" Which is like holy week. Im still not sure what it is or what everyone will do that week, but it is always the hottest week of the year and i is the first week of April. I would choose hot weather over cold weather any day of the week though so i am happy here. haha

Elder Andrews is from San Diego California and he is super awesome!! We get along really well and he is a hard worker. Its funny sometimes because everyone looks at us so weird here. Seeing two Gringos walking down the street here isn't very common so the people are usually pretty surprised when they see us. A lot of peole will try to speak English to us too and we will usually just tell them we don't speak english and when people ask where we are from we say south africa. Many people believe us too its funny.

So we are still teaching the Gallardo family who we have been teaching for over 2 months. We have challenged them to baptism like 5 times and they tell us they need more time every time we ask. But they really have changed in the past couple of weeks and they are reading all the assignments we give them and they have come to church 4 weeks in a row. I think they are almost there. Since we are covering two areas we have twice as many people to teach. Its alot of work, but it is good to always be busy. 

Love this work and I know that this is where i am supposed to be. Putting aside everything and dedicating ALL of my time to Missionary work has been such a blessing already in the 4 months i have been out. My knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ grows more and more every day and it is so awesome to see other people's lives be blessed by it. Love each and every one of you and hope you all have a great week!!

Here is a picture of the baptism we had on Saturday!! The one in the middle was our investigator and the little boy on the outside is a boy who just turned 8 in the branch! But our converts name is Erlin and he is 14!! I was only a part of teaching two lessons to him, but it was great to get to know him better and help him arrive to this part in his life! He is a great kid and is super smart!