November 3, 2014

Fam, I am happy to say that I am still with Elder Villa and i hope we can stay together for a while because were having fun and flat out working hard. It was a good week and we are making progress in this area. We have become the contacting masters and this week we had 147 contacts which is super good and were talking to everyone about this super sweet gospel. The bad part is we have yet to find any one of our contacts to teach them haha because they all give us dirrections but they are either false or simply they are never home ha. But it's all good and I know that we are getting blessed in other ways. 

We were able to find four new investigators this week. One is the ex girlfriend or something of Roman and we've had two lessons with her and she even came to church yesterday so that was sweet. Another is the niece of Patricia. And we taught a reference yesterday form a member and it is a family of three of Jehovah Witnesses haha and let's just say it is flat out interesting. They just flat out confuse me, they are so firm in the bible and believe that it is the one and only but they  believe in some crazy stuff that is way contrary to the bible. Ha but its all good and good thing my comp knows how to answer their super hard questions that I have no clue.

It was kind of a difficult week for investigators and church  but that is all because of gosh dang Halloween. Halloween is weird down here and they celebrate it for five days. For five days children are just going crazy and they ask everyone for money, not for candy but for money and especially they like to ask the white American missionaries  so its a little strange but I always give them something better than money which is our missionary cards and I'm sure they love that just as much hahaha. We only had one member of the Rodriguez family at church because they were out til 6 in the morning going crazy about Halloween but at least Dulce attended  and she has a baptism date for the 22 of november and needs two more churches and same with her cousin Carla. They are 9 and 12 i think.

Patricia was not able to come to church because she had problems with the family but I'm not worried at all about her because she is a flat out rockstar!!! She has already read the whole Book of Mormon and already has such a sweet testimony about this church it is so awesome. Shes has only had a little bit more than 2 weeks with this gospel and we're already talking about missions and how she wants to serve one. It is way sweet. So all is well.

The members are starting to get better, they still never feed us and we only had one lunch this week and the rest money but they are starting to get more involved with the work. The stake has created this sweet plan and they pass out a list every sunday with things the members can do to help the missionaries and it is sweet and we usually have a person come with us every night of the week.

Funny story:  So since we are both really new to this area we don't know much about it and we thought we knew who the landlord was to our house. So this whole week we have called him like five times with questions like, where do we put our garbage, why isnt our key working and what is going on with the toilet. Yesterday at church we found out that it we have been calling the worng person haha and we were confused how he didnt know anything but he was super kind and even came and helped us with our problems. Im sure he was confused why the missionaries were always calling him about the problems they had with the house ha.

All is well here, im lovin it and the work is progressing. Mom i have yet to recieve your package but i am waiting anxiously. Dad, did the nba start???? How are my spurs doing haha Roo, write me a letter haha I love you guys and am so grateful for the awesome family i have.

 Elder Villa doing his morning serenade.  It's not good to listen to.

 Just on top of the roof.  And, I finally got pancake mix!