Mayra and David are doing pretty good! Hopefully things will work out for their baptism on Sunday alright! Less than a week! I'll let you know how things go! And I'll take lots of pictures. :)
It's so funny how California people act with "cold" weather. They freak out! It was like 70 degrees the other day and they were all praying for the weather and everyone we went by mentioned something about it. It's pretty funny. :)
That's so cool about the tender mercy. :) And also thanks so much for the letter! That was a tender mercy for sure. It's nice when those come when we need them most... It sounds way fun to do the Oquhirr mountain temple stuff! I'm so excited to be able to do those things when I get home. :) That's probably one of the things I'm most excited for but I love it here so much. Things have been so good and I am just having the time of my life right now. :) I expect things to get flipped upside down soon because everything is going good and they haven't gone this good for ever.
As far as things are going, it's just been a crazy fast week. It seriously flew by. I'm loving it so much though which is probably why. The weirdest thing that happened this week by far though was ironically eating with this English family. First of all they're super rich so that was interesting. Then the food wasn't Hispanic food! It was roast! I was seriously in a culture shock just by going to that dinner. It was all quiet and we were all polite and stuff. It was so weird... It felt strangely like eating at the Zimmerman's which makes me wonder how bad of culture shock I'm going to get when I get home. :) It's going to be interesting. It was just so uncomfortable though! Man I don't know. I had to say the dinner prayer in English and I had to translate it over from Spanish. Weirdest experience of my life not knowing how to speak what I want to say in English instead of Spanish.
It's so fun to talk to the crazies on the streets. :) At least once a week we seem to run into someone who is completely nuts. We ran into a couple this week. I got hit on by a 50 year old lady who said that she liked my eyes. It was weird. She didn't even have teeth. And there was another guy who said he was on speed and he was all over the place. He talked non stop for 45 minutes just saying stuff! I can't remember very much of what he said but he liked talking about obscure weird religion things that probably aren't true. And telling us his dreams about God and Satan and stuff. He was so crazy on his drugs that he was holding this Sunny D 2 liter bottle and he just threw it while he was talking because he couldn't hold still and it was an accident but it exploded when it hit the ground. He without talking this whole time picked up the sunny d and just went on as normal. The first thing he said to us is that he's died 3 times. And it always seems with the crazies that they've had a dream where God has given them a calling to preach the gospel. Weird. He was talking about how the spear the roman soldier stabbed Jesus with is now a talisman because all the angels good and bad were looking at it. And he knew the name of the roman soldier apparently. He was pretty disgusted when we didn't have any idea what he was talking about when he asked if we knew any of the things he was talking about. Fun stuff!
Also I finished Jesus the Christ the other day! It is such a good book! Holy cow! I'm so glad I got to read it. I'll read it again for sure but I need to give it some time. It's really really long... I also finished Our Pursuit For Happiness in Spanish by M Russel Ballard. Fun stuff. :)
As far as what I'm studying right now, I'm reading D+C and around like section 65 or so. It goes by fast. And I'm also reading in the Book of Mormon 10 pages a day. Right now I'm on page like 180 or so. And in Spanish Libro de Mormon I'm reading 2 chapters a day so yeah that's what's up with studying! It's pretty much the same every day with that just trying to get as much progress as I can in the short amount of time.
Oh also I just remembered that the power went out the other day in the house we were in! It was so funny! They've never experienced anything like it and it was super cool to see what they were like! They freaked out!!!! I though one was going to start crying. It was out for like 20 mintues and then when it came back on everyone in all the houses started cheering and yeah. :) It was super funny to see what people are just not used to.
So yeah that's the update here! Things are going well! I'm loving it here! Thanks for all the emails and the letter and stuff! I love you guys! Have a great week. :)
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