Sept 30

What a week!!! Its been awesome though! I have become a Green chile fan my favorites are chicken enchiladas with green chile and pepperoni pizza with green chile its the best thing in the world.

Monday-  We tried to see a less active and she forgot that we were coming and we couldn't find anyone to go out with us so we stayed home and did weekly planning... :(

Tuesday- We got a phone call from our investigator Erin the one that was going to be baptized she told us she didn't want to get baptized anymore and that she doesn't want the missionary disscussions anymore :( ive never been so sad. She had no reason the only thing I could think of is that satan got to her. We tried a bunch of people and no one was home. But we finally were able to see a less active named Leah shes really awesome. Shes a convert of 3 years and we taught her about tithing she said shes been lacking faith about tithing so we helped her with that.

Wednesday- A member picked us up and we got straight to work. We first saw a lady whose less active and when she opened the door and saw us she told us to go away and not to come back. The member we were with got really scared and didn't want to see anyone else but we reassured her that its ok and that it happens so we saw another less active and she let us in and we were able to share a message with her. after that we got dropped off and got picked up by another member and we saw Silvia whose my absolute favorite. Shes a convert from Germany shes really funny and crazy but shes improved soooo much. She brings up the prayer now and we are able to teach the lesson without a disruption its amazing how the gospel changes people. Afterwards we tried to see more people sadly no luck :(. That night we went to a less actives house where she has a neice that's not a member so we went over and talked about god. The nonmember Debbie said that she felt disappointed in her parents for not teaching her more about god so we askd her if we could help her come closer to god and she accepted. Afterwards we went and tried a few people but no such luck.

Thursday- Back to weekly planning... icky and we now started a new way of weekly planning that we write down their commitment to follow up on, their next commitment, what were going to teach them, and how were going to get them to church. It takes FOREVER but it will be worth it in the end. That night we had the scariest dinner ever and im serious!!!!!! Shes this 90 year old lady who has completely lost her taste buds and has lost her mind. First she has this really scary dog that has sharp teeth and really scary eyes and it bites you every time you walk. Then for dinner it was this soggy broccoli and this really cold lasanaga and this jello with mustard on it. but I ate it all regardless of how scary it was. afterwards her dog was biting my companion and my companion started to kick it and the member couldn't see it and was telling us not to be scared of her dog that it only bites boys we both looked at each other and finally got out. We both felt sick after dinner but we went and saw a less active named Laura. Laura hasn't been active for 15 years. One excuse is that she doesn't have a dress to wear and the member with us said she would wear pants with her to church, so then she brought up that shes too tired to come to church so we told her about the later church but she still rejects them all its really annoying and we cant figure out the real reason. We then saw a lady named Laurinda shes less active and she comes to church every week but she struggles behind the scenes so we are helping her as much as we can.

Friday- We had district meeting and it was really good. One of the elders has a really rare disease called snails fever that he got from the Philippines so we said our goodbyes to him cause he went to slc to university of Utah to help treat it. so his companion is in a trio now so theres only 5 of us in our district but its really fun. Afterwards our district and the other district went to panda express for district lunch and this member that none of us knew paid for ALL of our meals it amazed us all. The total at the end was about 84.00 dollars!!! Afterwards we continued with weekly planning. That night we visited a referrel and she was really sweet she let us in and we talked for like an hour and she told me how much she loved Boise it really made my night she said that she might move there and I told her she should lol then afterwards we went and saw Debbie our new investigator we taught her the restoration and it was a very good powerful lesson overall.

Saturday-  We continued with weekly planning most of the day but saw people in between time. We saw an investigator named Robert hes a black guy from texas and hes seriously the coolest guy I have ever met. We answered a lot of questions about the blacks not having the priesthood, the role of a women in the church and more it was really tough but we made it through and we survived. Later we saw Silvia and we taught her the plan of salvation she couldn't remember what it was and it went really well. We then saw the relief society broadcast which was very very good. Silvia came and our investigator Debbie came and she cried the whole time and said she loved it :). Afterwards we went to a fireside of a man that is apart of the preach my gospel committee and turned out it was one of the assistants grandpa. To start out we sang called to serve and we were partially into the song he stopped us and told us we could do loads better so he had us stand up and sing as loud as we could. His talk really touched us all. It was a very strong talk that we all truly felt changed us all. Afterwards we sang Army of helamn which I absolutely love. We sing instead of we will be its we are NOW the lords missionaries. Afterwards I saw my mtc companion sister karl we both jumped up and down and cried and hugged each other. its been 6 months since I last saw her it was the best thing in the world to see her again. afterwards the sister got us home ass they were leaving we heard this skidding and we looked to see if they were ok. They luckily were we ran to see what was wrong. They ran over a milk carton and it got stuck. My companion craweled under the car and got it. I was pretty terrified for her to do that but shes ok. So something to laugh about. Oh also if any of you remember Debra that I use to teach that said yes to baptism but moved. I met the elders that are teaching her and they said shes getting baptized THIS SATURDAY!!!! I jumped up and down im seriously so happy to hear of one person that I have found is getting baptized.

Sunday- We went to church and it was good.  We continued with our weekly planning that night we tried a bunch of people we tried a potential investigator his mom answered the door and told us that their not Mormon and we told her we were looking for her son so her son came to the door looking terrified and he said one moment and closed the door and afterwards another girl came to the door and asked us to leave it was pretty akward.... Afterwards we saw a guy named Eugene. Eugene use to be a temple worker but he got married to a nonmember who is a pastor at an anti Mormon church. She stood at the door the whole time we were talking to him and she looked ticked but we continued on. Its really depressing to see him now. We tried others but no such luck.

Monday- this morning at the laundry mat there was this ugly bug and one of the sisters killed it with her shoe but for some reason it flew right towards me. It gave me quite the scare but a good laugh too.

This week will be awesome. Its hot air balloon season for Albuqurque so theres hot air balloons flying all over its really cool. And this weekend is general conference and my companion and I were chosen to clean the temple Saturday night which were both very excited for. And next Monday I get to go to the temple sooooooo excited. I hope all is well and love you all. oh heres a pic of my companion and I and sister mcshane and sister Rager at zone conference 2 weeks ago