Week of the Awesome Worstness

Soo this week was good. It got pretty rough, but there were some
really good parts. Church was good, we got a new branch mission leader
and so he's cool, I like him.

Okay, I don't know if this is in order but this is what I remember. Hahaha

Pdays always good because we play soccer, so that's good. Soccer
always helps. So does Bob Dylan. We left the apartment and it had been
whatever, and I was kind of singing "How does it feel??!!" Pretty loud
and some awesome black guy in his car was like "sing it to me!" And my
comp got in the car and left me in that awkward situation by myself
hahaha but it was cool, we're  friends now, he was changing his tire,
he woke up with a flat tire. And he was in such a good mood
#inspiration, I'll have to baptize him. He was awesome, we had a good
chat.

Um, so wednesday? Arandi is getting baptized saturday, and I was like
freak man, I texted you last week and you said you would let me know,
so I texted Elder Silva again and he said no, they actually dropped
her. So wow. Dagger to the heart. That really sucked. She's just
another one of the people I super loved that I had on date who was all
ready to go, got transferred, and the next missionaries dropped them.
Yeah sure, they receive revelation for that area now, but it really
sucks leaving people that you've helped grow and change, and then the
next ones come in and are like ehhh, no, never mind. Marcos and
Ivet-dropped, all the Maldonados Family members-dropped, Jose
Villa-dropped, and now Arandi-dropped. Ugh. Just really hard to trust
sometimes.

So that day started that way, plus we were sick-ish, I actually hurt
my foot on pday hahah so I was like hobbling around, And it's end of
the month, watching miles and trying to walk more, so yeah. Basically
I was really mad/sad. How could someome who had come to church twice,
come to baptism, read the whole Book of Mormon be Dropped??!!!!

So we drove to our lesson, I had a nice cry in the car. Got out.
Walked to go meet our sort of investigator who works with the ehhh
overly nice member who gave us watermelon last week. And our
investigator -bless him-the first thing he does is ask if I'm okay,
why I had been crying, who had done it, (looks at my companion
hahaha), he called me "mi hija" which like almost made me cry again
hahaha, it just means my daughter, but he said it so nice, and I was
already a wreck hahaha, and so then I kind of explained the situation
and I think the whole thing went really well to strengthening our
relationship with him, and although we didn't really teach anything,
it was pretty awesome.

Then we found Jose!!!! Yay!!! We were walking down the street, decided
to walk to see someone, got to their door, changed our mind, walked
back down the street, went to try Jose ans he was there!! With two of
his friends from work!! So we totally taught all three of them! It was
way cool!! They were all drinking, but hey, haha, we'll take it. We
all talked, and then they were like alright, it's your turn to talk,
so I asked them if they knew what a prophet was, so we had a nice talk
about prophets, then they told my comp it was her turn, she asked them
if they knew what their life purpose was. It was so legit. This is all
outside at like 8:30 at night in the dark drinking mexican soda-or
beer in their case hahah-and it was just so cool. And we have a return
appointment so hopefully that works out. So that was Wednesday.

Thursday we had an awesome district meeting on being grateful and it was
really cool. I love district meetings. I also love my district.
Districts are the bomb. Zones are cool and stuff, but Districts are
where it's at.

Friday we had return appointments with Gilberto(lunch break
investigator who called me mi hija) and he stood us up. We waited for a
half hour. That sucked. Had a member present planned at 7 with Jose
who we'd talked to and called to double check. Stood up us and our
member.

But then we went to correlacion and our new leader is cool, the Elders
were coming late from an appointment, and they came in wicked happy
because they'd just gotten someone on date!!! It's another Jose haha
but all his friends are members-really well fellowshipped, amd he
accepted a date in 2 weeks!!!! This branch hasn't had a baptism in like
9 months? I don't know. It's awesome. They're so pumped. Elder
Ortega's first baptism in the mission, and Elder Jensen has been here
for these like 9 months or whatever, so that's awesome. Baptisms get
everyone excited in the ward. And we also had a branch bbq, but it
turned out to be like 2 families hahaha, the kid getting baptized, his
sister and her friend and we all played volleyball. It was cool. I
hate pros clothes. But whatever, We played hardcore, my comp dived for
the ball in a dress hahaha.

Sunday was good, everyone received the counsel to show more
affection to your spouse in public? And how we all need to get married
stat? Haha cool cool. That was sacrament meeting and combined third
hour. Us poor missionaries. Hahaha, we were all like uhhh can we
leave? And then Hermano Hernandez was like hey Hermanas, you look for
your princes among the browns too, not just the whites hahahahha.

And now it's pday again, and I tried to make arroz con leche but I
think I need to practice my skills. Life is good, we have two families
we have pass off lessons with from the elders this week so that's WAY
exciting. Families!! One is a part member, and the other is just
investigating. I won't drop them, that's for sure. Gotta go. LOVE YOU
ALL!!!!

This is Adan and he loves me. He doesn't love mycompanion. Hahahaha


Hermana McCloud