May 7th, 2012

Hola!

This week was fantastic.  Let me just say....my planner for this week is filled with funny quotes...but I'm going to translate them to English since not everyone who reads my blog knows Spanish so here we go:

1) We were talking about how Mexicans are EVERYWHERE. Then a less active (who is reactiving and preparing to go to the temple) says "yeah...there's even Mexican's in Africa....but Africa is poorer than Mexico...I don't know why they would go there."

2) Another less-active Yvette (she is HILARIOUS...she's the one who got beat up in an alley 2 months ago) was telling her story how she was a drug dealer/addict in New Mexico and how God wanted her to move to Colorado to be more active in the church and she had NOTHING...absolutely nothing but she still went. She then said "God wanted me to be close to the church cause He made it happen...God is probably Mormon"

3) We had a lesson with my recent convert Susana whos preparing to do baptisms for the dead.  We talked about how you have to be paying tithing and she said "Oh I did last week!  It was my first time...I asked the bishop if I could pay  by card....but he said no" and then later says "Well...if I behave really well ....they're gonna give me two recommends!" (as in temple recommends) love her.

4) We were with a member taking her to a lesson and the person cancelled last second so we decided to try to find another investigator at home so we were telling her how we found this investigator and it was by knocking and we try to knock in "hispanic" areas...and shes all "yeah mexicans gather like cucarachas"

5) Our investigator is a 13 year old and she was saying the opening prayer...during it, she says "please bless all the deceased people, that they may be healthy" Uhhh...

ok so if they aren't funny, it's probably cause you had to be there but whatever! They were hilarious to me.  Transfers are next week...this transfer went dangerously fast...but maybe that happens when you're gonna kill your companion, right? So Yesterday the elders in our ward had a baptism and he is a 10 year old kid.   We thought it'd be perfect to invite the Ortiz kids. Theres the twins Andrea and Luis who are 13 and Melissa who is 9. So we called them Saturday night and the mom said yes.  Well we texted them the next day and they didn't answer so we decided to stop by and the parents were sleeping cause they worked.  But the kids woke them up and invited them again to the baptism.  The parents said they'd take them but it ended up Melissa was the only one who got dressed cause the other ones didn't want to go.  Poor Melissa. So the dad dropped her off at the stake center to go and she was quiet at first since it was only us.  But she warmed up and ended up loving it and wants to get baptized.  Melissa is a rockstar...for only being 9 she always keeps our commitments...and she's an example to her older siblings. It's funny because we've read alot of Nephi stories with her and told her she's just like Nephi and she'll be blessed for her obedience.  So follow Nephi and Melissa's example. I love you all and have a great week.