YAY!!!!! FAMILY HOW I LOVE YOU. its incredible. also. just so you know. you all sent me the most wonderful spiritual thoughts... answers to my prayers because WOW has it been just one of those weeks ya know? but i loved hearing about all your fun adventures and parties and wheelchairs and beautiful lives. you're just my favorite humans. thank you for your shining examples.
soooo for new years we couldn't really do anything because well...we are missionaries. so we worked like normal... hahaha no one was in their house. spent a LONG time just knocking and knocking..... but when we got home my comp and i decided to treat ourselves to a face mask that my comp had gotten from her parents and glow sticks. so we cracked some glow sticks and sat with face masks. woo hooo living the crazy life. the good news is that i slept through all the fireworks. my comp said that she was up all night but i slept like a baby... hahaha maybe because i'm just dead tired when we come home. but during the nightly planning our neighbors were BLASTING a bunch of american music and so i think i officially got educated on all the music i have missed. yikes. but during the new years day we met a guy that lived in the states for a few years and he was talking to us and we set up an appointment with him and the next thing i know i look over and he is planting a big old kiss on the cheek of my companion and then he comes towards me and i just stick out my hand like hermano no... no... and he tried but i pushed him off and we ran away. but hey... my comp got her new years kiss so that's great. haha she was absolutely mortified.
We were teaching people about the prayer and comparing it to that God doesn't have a phone that we can call so we need to pray and then the investigator says... i actually have God's number!! i can call his phone whenever i want. oh perfect.
the weather here is nuts. during the day its soo hot that it burns our backpacks and we cant even reach back to get anything or else we burn our hands.. and then at night its so cold that we buy hot tortillas and put them in our shirts so that we can stay warm. haha
our church time has changed to 8 in the morning and you would think it was the hardest thing that's happened to everyone in the ward and all our investigators.
hey my first convert stopped going to church and has been a stink for like three months but she finally came back this week and when i saw her in church i jumped up and down for joy. just thought you all should know. i love that girl.
people we are teaching
roni- boyfriend of one of the members. we thought he was just coming to church for his girlfriend and then after he came three times we were like oh... maybe we should take this guy seriously
juan-speaks english, stinking hilarious, was in jail for five years. i used to talk to him every day in the street and finally he was like hey!! come teach us. the lesson was crazy they gave us puke sick tamales and kept swearing the whole lesson. but hey... he said he wants to change his life.
victor and martha-also speak english. just the best family ever
brandon-reference from a member. one time we were over at this members house and they were like hey i think our backdoor neighbor should listen and then they went and got him and he is really interested in it all
pray for them!!!!!
Hey family. the church is so true. i want you to know that i know its all true. I know God always always fulfills his word. he has promised us angels and i know that God always keeps his promises. i am completely one hundred percent so totally know that God loves us. that he will never leave us. that we can have joy even in the hardest of trials. that we can be clean again. We can purify ourselves. this week i am going to make a list of all the things that keep me from having the spirit with me and then i'm going to make a covenant with God and leave all those things behind me. want to do it with me?
i know that Christ lives. that he is the healer of us all.
good luck with starting life back up!!! i love you all soooo incredibly much. thank you for all the love and suppport. love you to Utah and back
love,
hermana kap