Tuesday afternoon we went to the Independence visitor center with Marina and Mayra and Rosario. Marina is Rosario's sister and Mayra is Marina's daughter. They loved the VC! They cried when they watched the Joseph Smith movie. It was great!
Wednesday was zone conference. That was great as well. It's always a spiritual booster. They talked about a lot of different things. I don't think I could pick out one main theme. It was just very good. So, I cut my hair Monday morning because it was getting way too long. I've gotten a lot of compliments on my work! Haha! I haven't set photos in a while. I need to do that. I will do that!
So this past Sunday night we had dinner at the Ponder's home. They are a very cool family here. Anyway, the daughter, Katie, has a friend whose name is Kristen. Kristen's mom is a member of the ward here that is just coming back from inactivity. Kristen is a non-member, but was taught by the missionaries about 2 years ago. She has kinda been going through a rebellious stage in life, but she was just accepted to BYU Idaho so she can be with her friend Katie. She has come to church many times and even girls' camp. So she knows a lot of people in the ward and knows a lot about the church. Since she's going to go to BYU-I she will have to make some changes in her life. So Sunday night Katie asked us how long we will be in this area for. We said at least another 4 weeks. (And because the Ponders like us so much) She said that we should have a goal to baptize Kristen before then! So I told her to set up a time that we could come teach her in their home. She told us she'd do that. So she calls us the next morning and told us that Kristen could come to dinner that night and was willing to be taught after! We cancelled our regular dinner that night so we could go teach Kristen. We went and it went really well! We committed her to pray about baptism. I think we'll baptize her! We are going back to the Ponder's Sunday morning before church for breakfast and another lesson! I'm excited!
So I think I know why I've been taking so long with the Spanish language . . . I remember my mom telling me that it took me a long time to speak English! I would just grunt and point at what I wanted instead of verbalize my thoughts. I wish I could just do that for the spanish language . . . *Grunt* *points at investigator* *points at baptismal font* *grunt grunt!* I'm sure that would work great! Haha! Anyway . . . the point is that I'm just slow at learning languages and I've accepted that. Although, I'm working harder than ever to improve my language skills! I was proud of myself yesterday! We were teaching a lesson in english and I couldn't think of a word so it took me a bit of thinking to get it, but when it came to my mind, it came as the spanish word instead of the english one. So I had to translate my vocabulary from spanish to english to talk! I think that's a good sign! Hahaha!
Well, I believe that's about it for this week. It took me until Wednesday night to finish this letter, and that's even with the time I took on Monday to write. Thank you for being so patient with my crazy busy schedule! It's Wednesday and we've already gotten 5 new investigators for the week! Haha!
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