Creepers

Hola mi familia!

so this morning we woke up to a HUGE thunderstorm! :) my life is so happy right now, i´ve missed thunderstorms with all my heart.  It may rain practically everyday for 10 months of the year but rarely is it accompanied by a thunderstorm. i couln´t even study this morning, i was just staring out the window for an hour straight :)

We had zone conference this week with President Obeso and 3 other zones. I love zone conference, we got to have lunch with all the missionaries and our animo is back up.  My zone leaders had a part in the conference and they surprised me by calling me up to give my testimony.  they would do that to me. gracias elderes. but it was actually great to be able to share my testimony with all the missionaries and presidente.

So latest news....our creeper now wants to be baptized.  it literally is always the last person that you think that ends up progressing.  So we had this creeper about a month ago that i didn´t tell you guys about cuz i didn´t want to worry you. but now that the situation´s dramatically changed i guess its alright.  so Hna palma and I contacted this guy a while ago and taught him just once, he started coming to english class and was a bit strange. he asked me for my address in Utah and i tried explaining i couldn´t give it to him but he doesn´t understand the word no, so i gave him a fake address just to please him.  the when we sang at the plaza for christmas he randomly shows up, telling us that we need to go with him to the registro civil (i don´t know why.. but one of the only things you do there is get a license to be married......)  so the elders then interfered luckily and got him to leave. so we were a bit freaked out.  Then that sunday he stocked us to church, we avoided him like the plague.  So to make a really long story a little shorter, he continued to stock us to church but for the past 3 sundays he hasn´t even tried to talk to us. so the elders talked to him and he´s interested in the church and wants to be baptized.  So basically the mission is very unpredictable.  who knew.  stocker becomes convert, thats one for the books.  

and now the elders are telling me that i need to find more stockers so we can get more baptisms.  well, i might just be completing that goal.  yesterday i had the most awkward lesson of my life.  some 70yr-old man wants to be my boyfriend. so maybe if i invite him to church he´ll come... he asked us about the church so as i start teaching him every 2 seconds he´d throw in random questions or comments so here´s our conversation in a nutshell:

¨We believe that God has restored the true church on the earth¨

¨do you have a boyfriend?¨

¨no, we don´t have boyfriends for this time so we can completely focus on our mission¨

¨so you don´t have a boyfriend?¨

¨no¨

¨Because you´re a missionary that means you´re perfect right?¨

¨no, no one´s perfect¨

¨no, you´re perfect¨

¨no, i´m definitely not perfect, but i´m trying every day to become more like Christ and follow his example¨

¨but you´re a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ, you´re perfect¨

¨no one is perfect, but with the atonement of Christ we can be clean from our sins and strive everyday to become better¨

¨Your eyes are so beautiful, they´re almost green¨

¨can we leave with a card, this has a internet site where you can find more info about our church, but it was good to meet you bye!¨

So yup, I ended that one suddenly, i was so done it wasn´t even worth trying to teach him. hahaha, just another typical day on the job.  (please family don´t worry, we´re perfectly safe here) however, i am considering dying my hair black and getting brown-colored contacts.....

so yup, my week was quite interesting.  mom, i love those scriptures thanks!  well dad, yes sadly ground-hog´s day doesn´t exist here but if it did, the groundhog definitely wouldn´t have seen his shadow cuz of this huge storm we had, so maybe this signifies only 2 weeks left of summer.....hopefully not.

Curtis and Mindy, Addie is adorable!!!! there aren´t even words to describe!

Andrew and Jenny, i got your package and it is long gone! thanks a ton, those cookies are to die for! just send me a pack of those every week and i´ll be happy :) 

well i love you all! have a great week!

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