Well this week was a pretty good one. I am having a blast with Hermana Morales, seriously! We get along so great and my Spanish is getting good (I think!) Mostly cuz I have to speak it ALL the time! Haha but it´s fun. We have a lot of fun together. She still says random things in english and I just love it. She also knows like a ton of songs in english so sometimes we will hear them together somewhere or she will start singing one.... It´s so funny! But yeah, things are great with her!
So this week we had a fun activity at the church for all the moms (for Dia de la Madre--which was on Thursday). The elders cooked good food for them in the kitchen while we (the hermanas) did their hair and makeup. It was like a ´´Pampering Day´´ type thing. They LOVED it. So that went really good, especially cuz about 50 moms, or so, showed up! So we were super impressed with that. Then for the rest of the week, we just have been working with some kids. Haha sounds funny, but all of our investigators that are progressing are under the age of 13! Seriously! Right before Hermana B left, we met a kid named Angel. He is 13 now (just had his birthday) and he is super interested in the church. He has a baptismal date for the 24th! (The same day as Jill´s birthday and Jade´s wedding.... Everything is that day! ;) But he really loves the church and reads the Book of Mormon and everything. It´s really cool. Plus, his sister is now interested, too. Her named is Belen and she is like 11. She went to church for the first time yesterday and absolutely loved it. She wants to get baptized as well. The only thing is, since they are underage, we had to ask their parents for permission to teach and if they want, to be baptized. We talked with their mom and she was totally cool with it! Also, I think... I KNOW that Angel and Belen will be great examples to their parents and this is the door for them as well. Their mom actually came to the Mother´s Day activity that we had and really liked it. She says she wants to come to church to see what it is like and stuff. Also, we ended up talking to their dad as well. It is hard to cuz he hasn´t been home in like a month. The thing is that he works super far in constuction and has to go different places for like a month at a time. But this weekend he was home and he was fine with us teaching his kids, too. Also, he said that if they feel like this is the right thing, he wants to go to the church, too. So that´s really awesome! It´s hard, with his job and all (in fact he just left again yesterday for another month or so...) but, I know that this is just the beginning for their family! I am so excited for them.
Through all of this, I have gained a stronger testimony of working with the members in the ward. If it weren´t for the familia Portillo (they are next-door-neighbors with this family) we wouldn´t have been able to find and teach these awesome kids. It´s really good, too, cuz I am seeing a chain reaction. Angel is best friends with some kids who are less actives and now they are coming to church again! It´s just really cool. We have Noche de Hogares (family home evenings) with the familia Portillo and all these kids like at least once a week. They love it! Also, it is stregthening our relationship with the familia Portillo. They are seriously like our best friends now. We ate lunch with them on Friday and we helped them make ñoquis (this weird noodle type thing made out of potatoes). That was fun! They put the pictures on facebook... They showed us ;) But anyways... We visit them about everyday. In fact, today for P-day, we went to their house in our REGULAR CLOTHES (jeans!) to play volleyball with all of them. It was super fun. Now there´s something hard to do... Play volleyball in Spanish. I kept saying everything in English cuz it is just easier! You don´t realize how hard it is to yell things (nice and appropriate things) in a language that isn´t your native. If that makes any sense... Hahaha so I would say things like ´´out!´´ and ´´go!´´ and stuff and all the kids were copying me... So now they know a bit more english ;) So that was super fun.
That´s it for this week! I am looking forward to the next... This Wednesday we have interviews with President McMullin. My first one since I got here! So that should be fun. Also, I will be getting my new mission credit card this week, so no worries! ;) So yep! Things are good! LOVE YOU GUYS ALL SO MUCH! Have a grand week... Also I wanna say....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILLY! Saturday is your birthday and I can´t believe that you are going to turn 10 years old! Wow! Where did the time go?! I hope you have the greatest day ever and always be a great example to everyone. All your friends, all your schoolmates... Everyone! I love you so much and I miss you! I will see you soon, though. We only have 13 1/2 more months left till I see you again! ;P LOVE YOU JILLIAN!!!
LOVE, HERMANA WHITTAKER
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