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hola!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason I was super excited to email this week, even though I don't have much to say

SO CHURCH YESTERDAY WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J came!!!!! He is this super cool kid. I've been teaching him my whole time here, off and on. He lives really far away and so It's hard to teach him and his fam consistently. All his uncles, aunts, and grandmas are less active members of the church, and he is 17 from el Salvador and wants to learn more. we've been trying for, well, about 5 months to get him to church and he came yesterday! He loved priests quorum. G wasn't able to come, but he called us Saturday night really late and told us that he can come next sunday! WOOOOOO! To celebrate he is going to make us some Mexican food this week, I can't complain about that! Maybe he will make Guatemalan food too

Speaking of food, it's one of the things I love most about the mission. Yesterday we ate dinner with C and Z, and they made us enchiladas and gorditas and jugo de Jamaica and jugo de pina and it was all so yummy! They showed us how to make it and everything. They just keep putting more and more and more on our plates and I felt like I was going to explode. Then afterwards we had to go home for a few minutes to take some pepto because our stomachs hurt so bad haha, but vale la pena.

We have been finding a lot more Mexicans around town lately, it's awesome. We taught a lot of Spanish restorations this week. As much as white people scare me, I like teaching in English as well.

Our car was grounded again this week, so we walked outside all day in a snow storm, and it was really fun! We were soaking wet all day, but it didn't stop us. It snowed like 16 inches that day! Then that night, the wind picked up. Hno C called us and was like freaking out that we were outside, and then he told everyone in the ward that we were outside that night and they got all mad at us and we were like "why are you getting mad at us for doing our job?" we were still working really hard. Apparently Hno C thought that we were walking on the freeway and was afraid we would get hit by a car, haha but we would never do that.

The Mankato ward is super awesome. A family was talking to us about how they have kind of gotten out of the missionary grove this last month and want to get back into it, and they said they made a list of people to share the gospel with. Then he asked us if we were teaching  a single mom with 3 kids because the spirit told them that there was someone in st peter who they needed to help that fit that description. oddly enough, we are teaching a single mom with 3 kids! it will be awesome to get them involved more! The ward is seriously so awesome.

One of the elders had a baptism this Saturday, a mom and her 2 daughters. It got me really excited for our next baptism, G!

I love my comp. She reminds me SO much of Hanny V haha. long hair, skinny little thing, cheerleader, and yeah they are basically the same person!

Pres and Sister C are in Utah right now for business purposes, and so the 1st counselor in the mission presidency, President E, is filling in for him for a few weeks. We miss him a lot!

hasta luego!

hna jones