Si Dios Quiere

 How we doing peeps. This week was excitingly slow but diverse with fun yet amusing opportunity's! (I just said that be cause I have no clue what else to say) 

One phrase that I have heard about 30 times a day is "Sí dios quiere". The direct translation from Spanish to English is "if God wants". What they really mean is "if God wants me too". The reason I mention this phrase is everybody uses it when talking to us. We will invite them to do something and they will answer "Sí Dios quiere". Well I got news for you amigo, HE DOES! HE REALLY WANTS YOU TOO! Sadly I can't scream at them that phrase because it's in English. So I'll lean forward, look them in the eye, and tell them " Sí, Él Quiere!" Which means, "yes he does". The funniest part is they don't even do it, after everything we taught them, they just won't do it.

We also got the cops called on us twice this week. The first time, we were knocking doors, and we found this road with some houses on it. We decoded to walk to knock them. Turns out it was a driveway without a private property sign. A guy pulled up and started yelling at us then called the cops. Turns put the Private Property sign was hidden underneath a massive bush. The secound time, we were also knocking a house. We knocked it at lunch and they weren't home, so we decided to knock it again at night. Turns out somebody thought that we were robbing that house so they called the cops. When we pulled up at night, the cop showed up right after. Luckily we knew the comp and knew we just preach. So he understood the story we told and he left!

Time for the week!

Monday: Same as always. Sleep, call parents, go shopping. Working that night was pretty chill. Found a few new people, told a guy that Google is the worst spot to find information about out church. It was also freaking toasty.

Tuesday: Started the day off with it pouring rain. This place is flat, so when it rains it just floods the streets. Half the streets were up to my ankle. But we worked anyway, because missionarys work through every weather. At night we had a Noche de Hogar (family night). We played games and focused our lesson on family, and the importance of it. The people we invited were struggling familys. Familys struggling with being together, and working together.

Wednesday: Had district council with the squad. Then out of the blue, the ZLs told us that we are running intercambios with them. I was pumped because I was with Elder Jackson, and he is an absolute stud! We started the day by knocking doors. A few hours later, it started pouring, worse then before. We decided to use this opportunity to get into somebody's house and teach them. Out of the 15 doors we knocked, nobody let us in. We got absolutly soaked. We finally knocked on a door of one of out amigos, they let us in and gave us Matte cosido! We taught them and invited them to church!

Thursday: Was the worst day of the week by far. Absolutly nothing happened, we had little to no success, but the member lunch went hard

Friday: We ran intercambios again, except for this time I finally got to leave Santa Ana! I worked with Elder Edward's in Alta Gracia! Alta Gracia has just as many hills as my last area, Bialet Massé. Luckily I already had legs built for that kind of stuff. The first contact if the day we put a Fecha! We had the opportunity to put a lot more fechas. All of our plans fell crashing down, but we ended the night on a good note with icecream

Saturday: Busiest day of them all. The reason why is because we have to contact every single one of our friends and recent converts to make plans for them to show up to church on Sunday. The funny part is half the people arnt even home. After we make these super long plans, that have back up plans they still don't show up. So we spent the whole day running around finding our friends. We did end the night off with an old friend who's not baptized, took us put to eat for dinner. It was a vibe, because we were the only people in the eating place. The workers saw that there is 2 Gringos, so they started playing whole girl music instead of spanish music! We were singing our hearts out.

Sunday: we had 0 friends pull up to church, and 5 recent converts. It was fast and testimony meeting, and one lady spent 30 minutes on her testimony. She left no time for the rest of us. After church we had a baptism, with our boy Abel! His brother baptized him, And he got baptized twice. He kept his entire head out of the water. 

Spiritual Thought!

Doctorine and Covenants 84

88: And whoso receiveth you, there I will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.

He is on our right side and our left side always, we always have his help when we need it.

That's my week, we have transfers next week so that means my Pday is on Tuesday. This week was enjoyable. I've also hit 6 months in the mission, but I still got a while. Here's my email, you know the deal.