I think I am finally used to the cold. It is to the point now where I want it to snow everyday because at least the temperature will be in the teens! Today we got stuck on a hill in the snow, and it took us awhile to get down the hill haha but good times. I seriously think the Lord is blessing me to be fearless at snow driving, because it utah i was terrified but here it is so fun for some reason!!!
G wasn't able to come to church this sunday:(:(:(:( i was soooooooooooooo sad! We fasted with him saturday, and he talked to his boss but he still said no. They just don't have enough workers. Blah!!!!!! It was so cute though, we told him that we wanted to fast with him and hna P asked him if he knew what fasting was and he was all "yeah I am fasting right now, i fast all the time" haha so it was no biggie for him. We are really praying hard that he will be able to come. He is one of the most sincere, faith filled people I have ever met. Just talking to him brings the spirit. He has such good values and morals and he will be a great addition to the church, he just needs to come first!
Happy/sad story. So we taught this guy named G and he told us to go talk to his friends in casa 25 so we went there and there were SO many mexican men who lived there, so we taught a few of them the restoration, and it was late and they didn't seem too interested, but we went back another day and taught one of the guys again, A, and he was actually super interested! He said that he was happy in his life, but that something was missing, So we invited him to come to church to see what was missing, and he wouldn't come, even though we pushed it more than we normally do. Then, 20 mins later, he calls us up and tells us that he changed his mind and wanted to come to church!!!!!!! it made me so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So he came yesterday, and really loved it. But it is sad because he says that he doesn't want to join the church for the wrong reasons, and that my companera calls his attention, so he asked us to not come back. I wish we could teach more women because this is a problem we run into all the time!!!!!!!!!!! President likes the elders to teach young single men and vice versa for the sisters, but with the language barrier, it's hard to do that. Blah. I guess I wish we were more ugly?
Wednesday we had a zone conference, and it was super awesome and much needed! We learned a lot about repentance and working with members. i love president and sister C so much! i am convinced they are the best mission president couple in the world!!!!!!!! I am going to miss them dearly. the new mission president ( I heard his name is president F?) will come in july, so it will be an interesting switch. After the zone conference, we went on a blitz in Lakeville with the Lakeville sisters! It was basically an exchange where we worked in the same area during the day as the other sisters. I went with the one and only sister T. She is a convert to the church and super funny. I had a blast, and i learned a lot from it!
Then we came home Thursday and got lost. Oh my goodness our gps is the worst gps in the world, never ever get a Magellan, always get a garmin. So the Magellan took us this super weird way and we were out in the middle of nowhere, and we finally find a gas station and found out that we were way off track. So we take this freeway going the complete opposite direction of our house and somehow ended up back in St. Peter that night on time! It was super stressful because we have to go to the cities a lot this month, and we are already super low on miles, and that didn't help us to be lost in the middle of nowhere!!!!!!!
We had a really bad lesson with D this week. We had a joint teacher, hno O with us and D was not respecting us at all. He interrupted like every 5 seconds and was talking about super unimportant things and hno O basically just told him to pay attention really boldly, and it worked! We have decided to take it a lot slower with D, because he can't read and no one has been able to read the book of Mormon with him, he hasn't been progressing and we know he won't with the book of Mormon. We are trying to get it on cds so that he can listen to it, and then gain a testimony. We are just praying that he will be able to understand it!!!!
But yeah, a year from tomorrow is my release date and I'm 6 months in this Friday......craziness!!!!!
Training is really fun. Really hard, but really fun. It's crazy how much my spanish has improved over the last 2 weeks. Like from not fluent, to fluent. It's crazy how the Lord gives you the extra measure of what you need to do his work!!! I don't know if i would love my mission as much if I didn't speak spanish or work with the latin people, because it has made me so happy! i am really grateful that I was able to pick up the language so fast and that I get to do this everyday!!!
That's all, now ya'll keep it real in the real world for me! (we teach a lot of black people from chicago, so picture me saying this like they would haha)
Hermana Jones
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