PJ's

?qué tal mis amigos mejores?

hi again!!! Another week has come and gone and here i am again with pday. crazy huh? time is seriously just flying on by. This week nothing to much exciting has taken place but it has been a good week none the less :)

so it has snowed again :/ again on us. the weather likes to play games and right when you think its getting warmer and nice and springy...boom nope. think again. but what happened was that it rained alllllllll day on Sunday and they were also like freezing rain. so it comes down as rain and freezes on the way down...and then in the night alllll the water froze so it was soooooooo icy and then on top of it all was a nice dump of snow to just add to the enjoyment of everything.

but thanks to the lovely package i got from Lil this week. we've been able to survive our little "fishing trip." She sent a fishing care package, with all the things needed when you go on a fishing trip. the essentials you know... hot chocolate, marshmallows, Hershey's bars, graham crackers (all to make smores with. smore a what? how can i have smore if i haven't even had anything? Your killin me smalls!) and then of course, a FISH! :) and she gave instructions how to make em in the microwave BUT we were able to have a fire and actually roast them...you know why? cause we have a fireplace! so after our daily planning sessions we have been sitting and talking and roasting mallows to put on the graham. quite fun. so thank you Lil! :) loved it. very delicious!

other cool things that have happened this week, we went over to Laura's house and she and her 14 yr old boy both were baptized like a year ago and her husband Lucio was going to get baptized and then the day of he bailed out and since then its been really hard to teach him. he got heavy into drinking again and was just super hard hearted towards the gospel. well he ended up being court ordered to go to a like an AA program. so since the new year hes been coming to church with his esposa like off and on but still whenever we go to see her hes never home or hasn't wanted to talk about the gospel. but last Thursday we went over and were visiting with Laura and her husband comes downstairs and is like really happy. small talking to us a bit about the weather and stuff and then i just kept having this thought to ask him this question. so i finally did...i said so Lucio are you preparing for your baptism? then he started asking questions about all the things he needed to do to get baptized and that he had all these questions so we set up an appt and have now met with him a couple times. he already knows its true just needs some pushing and hes had some pretty soft missionaries before and Ive had to be super blunt with a couple of times about living prophets and reading the bom and some other things but i know that this is exactly what he needs. someone who is a bit harder on him about keeping his commitments and not to procrastinate the day of his repentance any longer. and he even that. he came to church last week and we get to meet with him again this week so it should be good! :)  god sure has a plan for things he sure knows what hes doing.

Another thing that was kind of funny happened this week. its about 8:30 and so not quite time to head home yet but yet in order to get anywhere its like not enough time to have a lesson and its super cold so contacting equals no fun. I had the impression that we should go and see this couple that we have also been trying to see forever...Wendy and Jose. Wendy is a really inactive member and Jose her husband isn't one. and so we went over there and Jose answered the door. he speaks Spanish and English like so fluently combined together that its hilarious.  so he answers the door and tells us that his wife isn't home cause shes at school. so he invites us in (and we can't come in cause there is not another female in the house) so we go oh Jose you know the rules. and he goes ya ya...picks up his dog and says well shes a girl. we laugh and then he goes actually shes a he so that doesn't really work. and so were like trying to figure out a day we can come by this week and he knows its cold outside and so he invites us in again in Spanish and then in English he goes "its OK I'm gay anyways" and oh gee I was laughing so hard. cause here hes just told us about his wife...anyways I'm sure its one of those you had to be there kind of things but it was pretty funny all the same. so we will be meeting with them this week :)

last Friday we went over to zayras house and shes a single mom with six kids. all girls and one boy who is 1 year old. so we went over there and helped her and her oldest daughter April clean out there garage and basement which flooded and it was pretty fun getting to know them a little more and just having some good laughs. we then went to some other appts and then had a lot of other appts cancel that night and even our backup plans fell through so the only person i thought about going and seeing it was zayra again and all her little girls cause they were all home from school then. but when we had been working with zayra in the morning we were talking about footie PJ's and having sleepovers. so me and Hna Layton rushed home, grabbed the essentials: hot chocolate, popcorn and our PJ's! we headed over there and had a really fun time teaching and talking and eating our popcorn at our "stay up late pretend sleepover" it was pretty fun and we had an awesome dance concert from little 4 year old daisy which definitely gave some fun entertainment. it was pretty much a lot of fun. :)

so that's just a bit of whats been going on here in my neck of the woods. what about with you guys? Nana your package did come, its in the mission office so i actually don't have it in my possession but it is in the mission office. I guess the mission office forwarded it to me and it got sent back to them so they don't know why and don't want to risk sending it again in the event that it gets lost. but its here! :) and I'm hoping ill get it soon! thanks so much Nana! you re awesome!

sure love you all so much! and I hope that everything goes great this week!

Stay good! Paz y amor!

Hermana Maughan

p.s. I got a letter from the prophet today saying that those who write me get extra blessings so send me some letters! my mail box is lonely!