Feb 20

Hola Familila,

Pues, esta semana fue fantastico!  Tuve mi primero bautismo!  Well I like to count it as my first... it was amazing!! She was so ready to get baptized AND her boyfriend and son came (pictures included) and they said they want to get baptized too!  Awesome.  So does our other investigator Susana (from Argentina) who also went.  We've been so blessed, we don't even deserve it.  It was hard to hold back tears because the service was incredible.  Seriously the talks were awesome and tons of the members came to support! Even better.  Teresa truly loves us...I always dreamed of having a convert like her!  I was blessed to have her as my first.  So we had dinner with her two nights ago and as she was giving the closing prayer she said " and I hope they give recieve my good news well....that I'll be getting married in the next week or two.."  WHAT?! Who does that during a prayer?? Well I guess it's a good way...so now she's getting married!  They're totally going to get sealed. Woo!  It would be a great way to end my mission in a year, right??  P.s kinda freaks me out that I've been out for 5 months....ugggh. I hate it. Time really doesn't wait for anyone...ok enough with the cliches.  We helped this less active move....let's just say I was scarred.  There were bugs EVERYWHERE...I couldn't even touch anything....Hna. Coughlen was the one folding the clothes and I was just holding the bag open...that's how pathetic I was.  I'm pretty sure I had a disgusted look on my face too.  I told Hna. Coughlen that I would eat 10 of her dinners (she eats like a bird so she hates that the members feed us a ton).  But the number went up everytime we saw bugs so I'm up to 30.  I'm ok with it...I rather eat nasty amounts of food then touch any bug.  Oh! So tomorrow is transfers.  We're both staying here so that means I'll be "killing" Hna. Coughlen!  We already made our goals so we're super pumped.  It's going to be her wonder transfer!  She deserves to go out with a bang and I'm gonna make sure that she does!  Ok that's all I have for this week.  One more funny story.  So Hermana Coughlen and I made it a goal to OYM (open your month) more people and we promised that the next people we'd see, we would talk to them about mormon.org.  So of course it happens to be a couple of teenage lil gangster kids.... conversation as follows:

Us: "Hi how are you?"

Lil black gangster kid: "oh we'z good"

Us: "What's your name?"

Lil black gangster kid: "Caine!"

Us: "Kay or Caine?"

Caine: "Caine! like Caine and Abel..."

Us: "Oh that's sick"

Caine: " Yea, most people ask me why I wasn't named after Abel since he was the righteous one, but I like to say I was named after the first murderer! The orginal OG (original gangster)!

They then proceeded to ask us awkward questions like "Am I going to hell if I had sex before marriage?"

Uhh..... "Go visit mormon.org!"

So yup...those are the kinds of people we talk to on the streets.  As we were walking back, they asked "do you have a facebook??"  and Caine said "probably not.." and we turned around and said "yes we do!".  "What's your first name?!"  Hna Coughlen: "look up "las hermanas!"" then they say "yea, ok.  We'll just look up Hna. Ruiz"
....great...freakin nametags!

Well I hope you all have a great week...I love you, stay safe, choose the right.