Doing the work of the lord. :)

hey hey the bam awesome fam! :)

so a bit weird that youre hearing from me again on a thursday instead of a wednesday huh?? well all the libraries in chicago were closed yesterday for some training thing so we got the permiso to write emails today. so big cool thing is that i get to talk to you all on sunday!!!!!! YAAAAYYYY!!! :) and we can do a skype thing or a face time thing because the peoples house we are going over to have both :) so elder beck (the senior couple missionaries) said that the face time is better quality than the skuype. so which ever you wanna do! :) 

But this week has been good. me and hrma heor have done a lot of bike riding this past week and i didnt think my legs could possible be sorer than they were the first week i was here but they are. so now i look like a soaking, homeless girl who stole a bike and walks like shes been horse back riding for 5 days straight. pleasent sight right? yesterday we did like 20miles on the bike. and today its gonna be right up there too...

this week has been hard. we are both trying to learn the area and find new investigators. marcelino has dropped off the face of the earth and we cant contact him. he wont answer or return our phone calls and never answers the door. and he didnt come to church on sunday. i sure hope hes ok. and then the same with some of the other families that we were teaching here. they are just not progressing. so we are now on the hunt for some newbies who have been waiting. Hermana Hoer is awesome though, we have set our vision of what we want to see happen and what we see ourselves becoming (the good energy and attracting what we think thing)  and we are really very excited for the work we are preparing for.  the directions and riding the bike is actually going pretty well. we have only got lost a couple of times :) and its all a part of it thought right?

but my spanish--man i really do feel the lord helping me so much to be able to understand and speak as much i do now., I mean I have to be the one to call and confirm appts and we have english classes starting up today and the elders who made the ads were so nice to put our phone number on the ads so to say in the most simplest terms our phone is blowing up with spanish phone calls! and let me tell you something talking in spanish is hard enough and then talking spanish over the phone is even harder but im makin it through. and i know its all the lord. only through him am i being helped. :) thank good ness for miracles!

This monday I got invited to go to mission counsel which happens the first monday of every month and all the zone leaders meet with president and the assistants to discuss about how the zone is going and also about what is going to be focused on in the zone meetings for that month. so it was really cool to be able to be a part of that this month. only like 4-6 sisters get asked to come. we had a really awesome discussion on the doctrine of chirst which is 2 nephi 31. and its just amazing how kids our age can be talking like this about spiritual things and just doing the work of the lord. :) 

we dont have very many members feeding us here because we dont have very many members that live in our area so some recipes would be greatly appreciated :) I just have no idea what to cook... i know i dont want rice or beans.

oh and everywhere i seem to go seems to be at the time where our lease expires so guess what we get to look for again? yep a new apt! hahaha in the city man its hard to do it with a budget :) but this gives us a chance not to have slanted floors and dog poop ordors in our apt right? :)

I hope that everything is going good over there I miss you all tons and hope you have a great week! Talk to you on sunday family!!

Paz y amor,

Hermana Maughan