Buenos Dias!
The email was all messed up yesterday and we weren't able to do anything.
Well, this week hasn't been terribly crazy and exciting but I do have good news. We finally got investigators to come to Church!! We've been really struggling with that the couple months, and it's a culture thing that we have to overcome. We're right on the border here, and almost everyone goes to Mexico on the weekends. That, and they're not used to going to Church. It's just something most don't normally do.
But it finally happened! We decided to do something a little different, since nothing we did in the past had worked. We have testified, promised blessings, passed by Sunday mornings, and nothing had worked. We took a little time to make some cookies last week (Elder Johnson has a super good recipe) and made some sweet thank you cards for all of our investigators. They all appreciated and loved it, and we saw a huge difference in the very first house we visited! The mom joined in on the lesson (she never had before) picked up a Book of Mormon, and it was just a complete turn-around. We got new investigators as more family members came in, and ultimately this all resulted in a family coming to church on Sunday! You can't imagine how happy we were and how much better church was with them there. It was amazing! What's also cool about that is that we're teaching another family that's related - the moms are sisters. And apparently one of the kids was all indignant that they didn't go, and got mad because they said we didn't invite them! So hopefully all of the family comes together and we said they can all come as one big happy family!
So other than that, there hasn't been all that much going on. We're still finding new people to teach, and we've been teaching the Wilson family a lot, which has been pretty cool. It's a family where the dad's less active (he's a fire fighter and can't make it to church most Sundays) and the mom is Mexican. They're awesome, and the mom and daughter have been reading in the Book of Mormon! That's another thing that's incredibly hard to get people to do. They're all about praying, but the reading is tough.
Other than that. the only really exciting thing is I learned how to make tomales! They're a pretty big deal here, and everyone talks about how long they take, but I totally learned so I'll be able to make them when I get back.We felt pretty legit, because we had sweet aprons and everything.
Anyway. that's it for the week!
By the way, I forgot to mention that Sunday i got to go to a camel farm, see all kinds of crazy animals, and pick some MASSIVE grapefruit things - like the size of basketballs.
Os amo! [I love you ](totally just used vosotros [yourselves] - something Mexicans never use - straight scripture language).
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