General Conference, Easter, and pigeons

¡Hola! ¿Cómo están ustedes?

So first off sorry if this email doesn't make sense and/or has a lot
of typos. The past couple of days I've been fighting getting sick...so
my mental capacity isn't fully 100%. AND we decided to stop in at the
natural history museum and email here and it's PACKED. Must be spring
break or something haha. Anyway this might be a little short and
crazy.

So Friday was the most crazy day I think I've had so far in this area.
It started out normal we did studies, even got to meet up with Daniel
for lunch....and then it kind of started going and going without a
break but we had so many miracles!! We went to Nellie's to drop off
some flowers and randomly the doorman just let us in without even
calling her (never happens) so we dropped them off at her door since
she wasn't home. And then we went and knocked on Jose's door...and he
answered!!! We hadn't been able to get a hold of him for a really long
time and his phone hasn't been working and it was just crazy. But we
saw him and were able to invite him to the Handel's Messiah sing-along
with the stake (spoiler alert: he came and LOVED it!). And then as we
were leaving the building Nellie was coming back with her home
attendant and we were able to say hi. Prayers are answered! We had
been needing to contact both of them without success and finally we
did! After that we went to meet with Alexandra....who happened to have
a pet PIGEON  there. Hahaha I guess a few years ago she picked it up
of the street as a baby and helped it survive? And now it's her
granddaughters pet (along with another pigeon from the street) and her
granddaughter happened to be visiting. But it was so hilarious it was
just flying around, and sitting on her back/shoulder, and pecking at
her wig. Too funny. We did have a really amazing spiritual lesson
amidst it all though so that's good. Then we got to go visit with
Minerva and she's always hilarious but awesome, and then ALSO friday
we got to go visit the Andrede Family again and her mom who's catholic
sat in on the whole lesson. Huge blessing. AND we got to go visit Iris
and that's always a treat I love her so much, and she bore her
testimony to us this week. It was SO POWERFUL. All in all we pretty
much ran all day and didn't eat much but we were spiritually fed so
much and had so many tender mercies and miracles. Such a good day.

The weekend to follow was also really good. We were able to watch all
4 sessions of general conference with the ASL branch which means it's
broadcast with interpretation which is exciting. Conference was SO
GOOD. I was able to receive so many answers that I had been needing
and it's just such a blessing to be able to listen to a living
prophet. Conference is just too amazing I don't even have words for
it, but I've just come to love and appreciate it even more as a
missionary, it truly is like Christmas for me. Add in that we also got
to celebrate Easter this weekend and it was a pretty fantastic
weekend! One of our members, Blanca, had all four sisters over for
dinner on Easter (same place we went for Valentine's Day) AND she
invited her sister-in-law Norma who wasn't a member. Not only did we
eat delicious Peruvian food, but We had an incredible lesson/ mini
testimony meeting, the spirit was so strong even Norma commented on
it!  Such a little miracle she was able to be there.

Funny stories for the week happened yesterday while we were tracting.
So we had many fun experiences but two doors in particular were
awesome. So first this adorable super happy Chinese man opens the
door. And then just smiles and stares. So we try to tell him who we
are, but he definitely doesn't speak English so we try to ask if he
would want the Chinese missionaries to stop by....no response, and we
try to back away....still just smiling. Hahaha luckily we finally got
him to understand and made it to the next door. Gotta love adorable
happy people :) THEN at another door this older Puerto Rican lady
answers, and we show her the Because He Lives video and she let's us
in after....but we're pretty sure she had Alzheimer's or something
because ever few minutes she would tell us we were so amazing, and ask
if we are catholic, and a few other repeat questions/statements...she
was definitely super confused haha. But hey at least she wanted us to
come back? :) could be fun.

Anyway I'm out of time for this week, we still have to go get some
groceries for the week. But I love you all so much and hope you have
an amazing week. I'm so grateful for each and every one of you! Keep
on smiling :)

Con Amor,
Hermana Smart