November 24th Letter

Hello Parents!

It has been getting warmer here.  I know that you check the weather here everyday, so I was imagining y'all laughing when you saw that the highs the other week were 20 or 30 degrees.  I have never been so cold in my life.  Lewie has some pictures of the fountain at the park next to our apartment turned into ice. I'll have to get them from her and send it to you. 

We go around offering service all the time.  I think about that too when we ask; that they think we are asking because their yard is messy, but we just really want to help :) we have been telling people here that we really want to rake their leaves because we are both from Arizona so we don't have leaves there.  That's good that your hours are going up :) Do you still see Selena there?  If you do, could you tell her to write me.  She hasn't yet.  We are going everywhere for Thanksgiving lol.  We are just going to be eating all day.  I'm pretty excited. 

lol Thanks for messing with the Elders dad.  That probably made their day.  It probably will make it into their letters home too.  Sorry no one is coming down for thanksgiving :/ you could have the Elders over to help you with some of that Turkey :) 

Things this week have been crazy, as always.  Lewie took me to one of her old areas for P-day.  We went to a member's there and milked her goats...well tried to.  I didn't even want to touch them.  Alabama has made me realize that I am a city girl.  Then Wednesday we taught Molli.  Molli is from California and is here for school.  She was taught all the lessons in California and was really close to being baptized, but she went to another church and felt the spirit there and got really confused.  After we met her here she really liked us and the member we fellowshipped her with, so she started praying about being baptized again.  This week we went to see her and she was so excited that she had gotten her answer.  She built up this whole big story about how she had gotten her answer and Lewie and I were sure that it was going to be that she needed to get baptized...it wasn't.  We were so frustrated. Its actually kind of funny lol.  She's all about signs and how if God wanted her to be a Mormon He would let her know somehow...We met her, her best friend is a Mormon, the lady that just hired her is a Mormon, she just got an offer to play softball for a school in Utah.  How many more signs do you need?! lol We love Molly though and we are not giving up on her.  I know that Heavenly Father answers prayers, and I really do think he answered hers. Maybe she just isn't ready now, but He loves her and so we will keep working with her.  Then there's the fam-bam...they stress me out so much.  I always think about all the things that can go wrong with an investigator, but Sister Lewis loves them so much and they are her family that she has been looking for her whole mission.  I really don't want to see her get hurt if something doesn't work out.  The whole family came to church and they really loved it, but I don't think the kids understand that being baptized means being a member of the church as they still want to go to their "home church."  If all goes according to plan though, they are getting married and baptized on the 6th.  Then the other day Mario, our little Spanish recent convert who we cant understand, wanted to take us to eat.  We cant say no to Mario so we followed him to go eat...we ended up at a quincenera.  They were playing banda music and I apparently looked really tired. Lewie asked me if I was tired and I said that banda put me to sleep because I used to fall asleep to my neighbors blasting it...small Yuma joke.  Then yesterday I had to talk in sacrament...you know your talks are successful when you make all the old ladies cry.  Anyways that's how things are going here.  Just learning how to have hope.  That's what my talk was on actually, I'll type it up sometime and send it.  I'll send some more pictures now too if I have time.  I love y'all and am praying for you everyday. LOVE YOU!