Well, first full week of Somerton is done! Haha, it was so awesome!
Serving down here in the Yuma zone is a lot different than serving in the valley (aka Mesa, Tempe, Queen Creek....) basically everyone here is Hispanic (yes!) and instead of teaching a lot of formal lessons in peoples houses, we teach a lot of more informal lessons on the street, which is super duper cool. This week was a record for lessons taught for me on my mission, 30! woohoo. Found 12 investigators....well some of them already told us they didn't want us to come by anymore, but when one door closes another one opens (true story). I have had some really memorable things happen this week too!
While we were biking we stopped to talk to this guy named V. He asked me what part of Mexico I was from!!!!! haha. That says too things....1. he was probably not in his right mind and 2. he thinks I have a Mexican accent, which I will take as a compliment :D
At one of the dinners we had with a member, and don't get me wrong, I was so grateful, BUT...for dessert she gave us chocolate pie. Yum right ????? negative. It had mold all over it!!! I took one bite and I almost died (should have noticed the mold before, haha) I just kindly said I was full and asked if I could take it home. She was not offended by it (thank goodness) and got me a to go plate. haha.
Also we learned that we will be moving to Somerton either the last week in May or the first week in June...just to give you all a heads up. It will be exciting to live in Somerton and not to have to spend so much in the car.....that means we can talk to more people! :D I will give ya the knew address as soon as I can :D
The trickiest thing about serving here is that everyone goes to Mexico on the weekends, meaning it will be harder to get our investigators there (but of course not impossible). Well the first thing is that we have to find interested people to teach, haha. Basicamente every one is Catholic and not interested in learning too much. The funniest rejection I have heard is that someone didn't want a Book of Mormon because they didn't want to confuse themselves, ha. Little do they know that they are a little confused right now and the Libro will help with that, haha. It was really cool though. On Sunday there was a record of people at church, 132! woohoo. If that keeps up who knows, maybe the Spanish branch will be a ward :D but sometimes they say there is only like 15 people there.......we will have to wait and see!
We are working with a guy named F. He is an investigator in the English ward and he is so awesome. He has been investigating the church for about 3 months. He is SOOO prepared. He has read the book of 1 Nephi and he is so good at really applying the scriptures to himself. He was telling us about how he was reading about Nephi wanting to see the dream that Lehi saw and how the angel said, "What desirest thou." He said that he felt like the Lord was asking him that very question. It was neat to hear that because he hasn't prayed about if the Book of Mormon is true or if Joseph Smith was a prophet, and hopefully with that discovery he will really see that our prayers can't be answered if we don't actually pray and ask a question. Well, F is a very wise person, because really, that is the question that Heavenly Father is asking us all the time. What desirest thou. He can only help and answer if we are humble enough to ask him in our time of need.
I love and miss ya! Hope all is well and that you are enjoying each and every day!!!!!! MUAH!
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