This week has been good. I am learning that missionary work is a lot more than just teaching lessons. We study and have training and plan for so long sometimes. We usually don't get out to teach until around 1 or so. But this is the Lord's work....so I will do it His way....sometimes it is just so much studying, haha.
Because we have 2 wards, every 2 weeks we switch where we have dinner appointments. So far they have been in the spanish ward...and I finally had my first experience where I couldn't eat something. Haha it was so funny! Every one is convinced to the fact that members will loose respect for you if you don't eat all of what they give you. If you eat it too fast they end up just giving you more, and if you eat to slow they think you hate it.....it is a very VERY fine line, haha. So on Friday we had dinner at this family. Don't get me wrong, I am so grateful for the food that they cook for us. But have you ever had something called mole before? (hint....its not the little critter that digs in the dirt) it is some sort of sauce that has chocolate and tons of spices. Well they dished up a whole plate full of the sauce mixed up with some shredded chicken. I tried to eat it....but after the 5th or 6th bite I literally almost shared it with every one else at the table. Haha. It was so funny! Thankfully the family didn't hate me and they were really nice to me at church still :) But my companion said that that was some of the best mole she has had on her mission.....I think that I might be in trouble, haha :D
In our english ward we just got a new ward mission leader, his name is Brother Keesler and his wife is a ward missionary too. They are so great! We ate dinner over there last night and talked about the missionary work in the ward and he is on fire. He is just what the ward needs to get them all fired up. So hopefully we will get more and more teaching opportunities in our english ward. The only trouble with that is that it is super tricky to learn spanish. My companion is good at spanish, but she only speaks it during lessons, and everything we do pretty much is in english.....so I guess I am just supposed to learn it in the 2 or 3 hours we teach in spanish for the day? I just don't know......there has got to be an easier way, and I hope we figure it out fast or else I am going to forget everything I learned in the MTC. But I really am loving everything going on out here :)
One neat thing that happened this week is that we got a referral from someone in another ward to go talk to a guy named Grant. The friend said he is super interested in the church and wants to learn more. We went to visit him on friday and this guy is awesome! He already went out and bought his own Book of Mormon and started reading it. We have high hopes for Grant:) I am learning more and more that it is all about desire. If someone doesn't want to change their life and find out for themselves that the Book of Mormon is true, they will not care about it. It is funny, when we are walking down a street sometimes people will see us coming and all of a sudden we will see 6 or 7 grage doors go down at the same time. It is just a funny thing to me that something so good can be rejected so fast. But anyway. It is a fun experience. I love you all and hope all is well.
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