well another week has gone by and here i am again on the computer writing you an email! :) congrats on hasta la bye bye to the man van. that was quick.
as for this week. things have been slow. Hermana Layton has still been sick and that has really put a damper on our work. I feel so unsuccessful and i want to be working harder but i also want my companion better. but since we haven't really taught any lessons this week and cause of all the snow we have had to fill our day with trying to set up appts with people. I just want to be working so hard and i want to get the Spanish down which feels like its taking forever. I mean you know me if i cant get it perfect the first time i get frustrated, but I know that it is getting better and better little by little. I'm understanding pretty much everything that is going on its just the whole talking back thing. one day one day. :)
one cool story that happened though is that one of our investigators the one we found tracting in the parking lot before Christmas, where her husband was a member and was inactive for years and years and years...well after new years they kinds of dropped off. they stopped returning our calls, we would stop by there house and no one would be home, we would leave notes telling em to call us and just like poof disappeared. so on Monday, with our goal to lose ourselves in the work this week we decided that in the night we were gonna stop by her house and see if we could catch em. well that morning we went to the shelter and then after we had a voicemail. lo and behold you know who from?--yep Norma. who we haven't heard from in months! she actually called us! and I guess they've been going through some hard hard times but she wants to see us and meet with us. so we have an appt with her on Friday and I'm just really looking forward to that appt.
we taught a lesson to veronica yesterday and retaught her the plan of salvation which she didn't remember anything. so it was an awesome lesson. you could just see in her face the way things clicked and made sense and that we could live with our families forever. she just needs the courage to act and do the things she knows she needs to like go to church. once she goes there i know shes gonna be hooked. its just getting there that's been hard.
Jaime and Ethelvina. just love them. we stopped by their house yesterday and Jaime actually read and wants to read. and wants to learn. he was like I'm gonna read and he was writing down all his questions that he had thinking that oh man I'm gonna have so many questions for the hermanas their not gonna know what to do. this is gonna be great. and man it was just awesome! thinking soon their gonna have a bap date. praying for that!
and this week one of our ward missionaries and now the young men's president--hes 21 and a professional boxer trying to get out there on a mission himself--anyways hes been training us...aka we've been doing his boxing workouts in the morning all of us in the Rockford district. man oh man. i cannot move. i am so sore. my hamstrings and my back and just everywhere. but the things we do are pretty funny. they look like the one kid who always goes to the dance parties and thinks he can dance but in reality he cant and everyone secretly makes fun of him...well that's what the exercises look like. bad dance moves. so it makes for some good laughs as well.
and that's pretty much it that's happened this week. another game of extreme bowling is gonna take place here today for our zone activity. and then it ll probably be to the gym for some usual basketball if i can even move my body enough to shoot the ball! :)
i love you all! hope things are great!
cant wait to hear from you!
paz y amor hermana maughan
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