José, You Need to Pick It Up!

Hola Familia! Let me give you the low down on everything that happened this last week!  It was pretty normal. We did get to wash our clothes! It is super nice and I get super excited to wash my clothes now. It is awesome to have a way to clean these dirty things and I am already super bored of my clothes now!  But, está bien! My companion’s names are Hermana Harvey and Hermana Christensen. Hermana Harvey is serving in Houston, Texas and Hermana Christensen is serving in Cancun, Mexico. I’m hecka jealous. Harvey is from San Jose, Cali but recently moved to Utah and Hermana Christensen is from West Jordan!! I am the only person I have ever even heard of who is going to Iowa which means I am the only person COOL enough! It is so funny to see the faces of people when I tell them I am going to Iowa; the Mexicans are like, Donde?? Ha, it’s the bomb. Yes, I got the donuts that you guys had delivered and THEY WERE THE BOMB!!

Friday was a normal day: breakfast, lunch and dinner, learn some Spanish. You know, all the good stuff.  After gym every day, we take a blanket outside and lay down on the grass and stretch. I am positive that is the only thing saving my life right now! The CCM is honestly super boring ha-ha we do like the same thing every day. Spanish is coming along slowly but surely. I get super frustrated with myself and I compare myself with my freaking companions who are SO good which is MAL but está bien. I had a little break down the other day but then I remembered I don’t have feelings and snapped out of it. I have not yet even left the walls of the CCM and I think next Pday we get to go to the temple so that will be BALLIN!! So just know that I love you guys SO much and pray for you every day!! 

Saturday was sweet – we got some new investigators! One is named Jose Rodriguez and the other is named Janette Vasquez. So Jose was our first lesson this week (it is our teacher Hermano Medina) and so this is how it went down… We were talking about the restoration and the “character” that he was playing was acting super uninterested.  His eyes got glazed over and he was kind of not paying attention. We gave him this sick lesson about the restoration – all in Spanish, I read the First Vision to him, I showed him the pictures, my hermanas are fluent in Spanish and were telling him all kinds of stuff. And he was acting like he didn’t even care! And I will tell you that I was getting mad, like really ticked off!  My hermanas got done speaking and I just basically told him (and I like was nice about it), I said “ya know, we believe in this stuff! We wouldn’t be out here on our missions if we didn’t believe in this stuff, Jose! But we read the scriptures! And we pray! And we believe that Joseph Smith is a true prophet. But if you don’t have faith while you read the scriptures and while you pray, you are never going to receive the answers that you need in this life.” I was like literally “ Jose, you need to pick it up!” I said it all in Spanish and I stumbled a little or whatever- but it was intense!

And so ya know, I was just chilling and chatting with my gals afterwards and Hermano Medina came over and he said “You guys, that lesson was seriously perfect!  Perfecto! And we were like, “What?”! And I was like, “What?”! Because I felt like I was being evil because I was seriously mad, but I guess that was good! So I felt really cool and good afterwards – like I am a good missionary.

Sunday was cool. It was fast and testimony meeting.  I didn’t bear my testimony because I wasn’t feeling it.  Monday we had some random carbon monoxide alarms going off all day. It is really not very good because we could totally die, but also, it was like broken. So it was making me mad and I was just totally bugged because I was snuggled up in my bed trying to sleep, because we have to wake up at 6 in the morning!!!  We had to evacuate the building and either stand outside or go to reception to get some stuff. That happened 5 times in 2 days. My Spanish is pretty bad and it’s hard to teach lessons to our investigators.  After our lesson to Janette yesterday, I had a break down and started to cry. It’s all good now though –  I cried it all out. I guess life as a missionary is kind of like that!  The Spirit is super strong here, the Church is super true and the Book is super blue!  Love you guys!