Oh wow! What a head of hair! Soooo cute! I can't believe it! And her birthday's a day after her mommy's! How precious! I hope Marina's doing well. I know they will be fantastic parents.
General Conference was awesome! I watched it mostly in English. At the stake center they had it set up in both languages, so we went back and forth a few times. One of our investigators- well, our only investigator- watched it at home and we're excited to visit him again and see what he thought. He said he liked it over the phone. I really meant to write you last Monday, but never got the time. We actually did something really cool last Monday! It's called the Fremont Experience! The zone leaders put it together, but we told the members we live with about it and another family we visited, and they all freaked out and told us we CANNOT go to Fremont. Sister Franco got really worried because everyone was saying it was the closest thing to the strip and North Las Vegas in general is pretty shady. However, the zone leaders got permission from the president and so we went and it was amazing! It was next to the strip and was a pretty kickin' place, but we stood in front of this souviner shop and sang hymns and street contacted everyone who passed by. It was really cool! We came across this one man and I think he was trying to get the message across that he wasn't interested, but he was very hard to understand because he was drunk and messed up. Then this black man came over with alcohol in his hand and started yelling at us, "Are you serious?!" Like 5 times, and we're like, "yes, we're pretty serious." Then he paused and said, "wait...Jesus did the same thing! Jesus talked to the strippers and the prostitutes and the sinners, too!" It was the most hilarious thing. Him and the other man then started getting into a drunken argument about it. The black men thought we we awesome all of a sudden and when we offered him a card he screamed, "GIVE IT TO ME!"
Our district had a really awkward meeting with Hermano Potts, our ward mission leader, yesterday. Some of the elders are frustrated because we're not eating dinners with members everyday. However, Hermano Potts really is trying hard, I think. He put together calendars for us and my companion and I have a dinner almost every night. The problem is, in the Spanish wards, people don't just pop up ready to help out. Hermano Potts says he has to walk up personally to them and commit them to a time and date. He spends hours calling members (with a focus on inactives) to set up dinners. However, many of the elders, especially our district leader, is not happy with the situation and is determined we eat with a member every night. There was so much tension in the room yesterday as it was basically Hermano Potts and Elder Bradford, our district leader, going at it. Apparently a family got offended because 8 missionaries showed up at their house and they didn't expect so many and the ward is really pushing for dinners with inactives and only one set of missionaries. There are 8 of us serving in the Ensign Spanish ward. It was super awkward and at one point Hermano Potts said something like, "We can't have BS going on." Haha.
Oh, and the couple we live with are just like our parents! They're so great! We ate breakfast with them yesterday morning! Oh, speaking of Hershey's chocolate pies, we had some yesterday in between conference sessions! Haha. How did you like conference, by the way? A lot about marriage and chastity. Sister Hopkinsons said the issue of marriage equality is bigger now than ever, so maybe that's why. Jeffrey R. Holland blew my mind, as usual! He's always great. They're all great. Those checks aren't even Bank of America, but I will sign them and send them back to you. Well, I can't think of too much else that happened this week, except that I hit my 2 month mark the other day. I have 16 months left. That's really not long at all. Try not to change to much! And go see some great movies!
Love you lots!
P.S. - Sister Neider asked me if I would consider teaching a little martial arts class to the sister missionaries. We're going to have a sister brunch at the end of the month, and she wants to talk about it more there.
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