Well, well, well. Here we are again :) Lots of fun exciting things happened this week....
So in our Spanish ward there is sisters (us) and a set of Elders....and by the way, it is so fun to have 2 sets of missionaries in a ward, FYI. Anyway, the Spanish ward area is pretty big, like 30 miles across so we just split it in half. Well we recently moved the boundary so we have half of our old area and then a good chunk that is new. It is pretty exciting....except we gave 6 of our investigators to the elders and they didn't give us any. Haha. So this week we didn't have many teaching opportunities, which is super sad because that is what missionaries do! But hopefully we will get to know the area better and find more people :) Most of our area covers Gilbert and Queen Creek right now, love it! But it is still exciting to get knew ground to cover. We still are teaching Edelmira and she is learning more and more. We have been focusing a lot lately on the Spirit and how it feels to get answers to prayers. She keeps saying the she likes coming to church and she likes reading because she feels good, but she hasn't got an answer yet. Well she has got her answer, she just needs to realize it. So things are going good :)
Next is Halloween! Happy day. Did you know that Hispanics know how to throw an AWESOME party?! Well its true. We had a party in our Spanish ward one night and then the next night was the party for our English ward. Both were lots of fun and super great. Both of the parties had lots of nonmembers and less actives so it was a super good thing that we went and met lots of new people. I got to practice my Spanish a lot that night and realized that I knew more Spanish than I thought....but that I need to study a lot more too.
At the beginning of the transfer we got 2 new roommates. They are English sisters and are so much fun. All of our studies have been less effective since they came just because there are more people in the same place, but it is really fun and it is fun to share the days experiences with someone at the end of the day.
Speaking of experiences. Here is a funny one for you. Well it was dark outside and we were trying to get to a former investigator named J** that lived on a dirt road, called Happy Road. It is the worst road I have ever been on! It is super small and full of so many bumps. And it turns out there is a huge ditch that you can't get across at one point and you have to turn around. Well we turned and tried to get to the road from the other side, but that road was closed for construction....at 8:30 at night...lame. Anyway, so we decided to try another small dirt road that would hopefully get us back to Happy road and that would hopefully be past the big ditch. We started going down this one lane dirt road--it had walls about 1.5 feet deep in both sides of dirt. So we were going and it turns out that the road was getting narrower and narrower......it got to narrow for the car and so we had to back the whole way out, but it was super tricky because it was dark and because it was super narrow. She we were backing out slow and watching the sides and we looked up all of a sudden and there was this guy on his horse running towards us going faster than we were. It had potential to be super awkward. Haha. So he caught up to us and asked us what we were doing and we said we were missionaries and the whole bit. Well he has a super strong testimony of Christ and loved talking to us. At one point he asked it we wanted to ride his horse to the end of the road and back and then he started asking us about all of the rules and such and things that we couldn't do. Well, it was a really random conversation...and he was hitting on my companion a little too much, but it was SO funny!! Anyway.... because he was English we got his info and told him we would send missionaries by to talk with him some more. As we were saying good bye he said that he just felt like he needed to come talk to us. Neat huh? Well, even when we turn down funny dirt roads and get stuck, Heavenly Father knows who he wants us to talk to. Ha ha, it was a funny experience, but a good one.
