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¡Hola!

I know I just got to talk to most of you on Mother's Day which was
such a blessing, but I don't think I actually told you too much about
our week, mostly just missionary life in general! So this week, well
mostly this weekend turned into crazy town...but before I get to our
crazy weekend I'll catch you up on some highlights of the week!

Thursday we got to see Iris whom I love and she fed us dinner, and
even went clear out of her way to get us lobster tails from Carlos
Bake shop. She is seriously is the nicest. I attached some pictures
for you to enjoy! :)

Friday we tracted into this guy named Nicholas and we were able to
talk to him for a while and even gave him a Book of Mormon! And he
sincerely said he would read it and ask God if it was true. I think it
was the first time I've ever had a Book of Mormon lesson while
tracking, and it went so well! Hopefully they'll be able to follow up
with him! Also Friday night Elder Shepherd (the deaf elder) did the
nightly calls via an interpretation service? It was hilarious because
the lady interpreting didn't know gospel lingo and was so confused the
whole time...hahaha

Well Saturday was the most amazing day for our mission because QUENTIN
L COOK came to talk to us! It was incredible. Words can't really
describe how amazing it was. He truly is a special witness of the
Savior and was able to leave us with an incredible blessing. Re
studying my notes from that day has really been so special and
amazing.

 

Also we had THREE people come to English class Saturday! And we
randomly got lost in an area we really shouldn't have gotten lost
in...AND THEN walking home we crossed the same cross walk at the EXACT
same time as Johanny! Such a little miracle, we definitely got lost on
purpose.

So Saturday night was transfer calls...and the crazy began!! So many
changes are happening with our mission starting to downsize AND sadly
they are replacing the Spanish sisters in south man with English
Elders and the ward is going to help teach our Spanish
investigators....super sad but I know that Heavenly Father has a
bigger picture plan. I got transferred to MONTICELLO. Which is pretty
far upstate, a pretty small town (= 2 transfer meetings and a long
drive hence no email time) BUT the call was so shocking and we were so
sad for all the people we have been finding that we didn't sleep at
all...and then Sunday was crazy from Mothers Day and calling home
etc...and so somewhere amidst it all we lost our keys. Yeah. We
searched the entire church building and couldn't find them. At this
point it was super late after our Mother's Day calls. We eventually
got a hold of the RS president and found out someone had found them
but we didn't know where so we waited at the church and planned...but
finally had to get home at like 10:20 and took a taxi via our ZLs
request. But we still didn't have keys so we spent the night at the
English sisters apartment, people sleeping on the floor, it was crazy
town. BUT we got a text at like 11:30 saying our keys were in the
clerks office!!! Ahhh. So close. Anywho we ended up looking like
homeless people the next day (same clothes, no makeup, etc) and We had
to go to district meeting, and correlation, and take zone pictures all
while we were these homeless looking missionaries hahaha so funny.
Memories for life.

Soup Kitchen, wow I love them!

 Anyway I'm really out of time for emailing - but the past two days

were crazy full of trying to say goodbye, and transfer over people,
and somehow pack and get our apartment ready for elders......yeah. We
were SO BLESSED to accomplish so much in so little time. We ran into
everyone we needed to, even in the most random places. It just all
worked out so perfectly. We even talked to this family from Mexico on
the train and somehow my Spanish was just flowing out...it was
incredible. Gift of tongues is real. I might even start teaching one
of them a little when we get FB back!!

Lots more things happened this week, but I'm sure y'all understand
that timing is crazy on transfer days. I hope y'all have great weeks!
I'm sure I'll have lots of awesome crazy stories about Monticello :)

Con Amor,
Hermana Smart