No, I'm not going to return the dresses. They fit pretty well, I just want to lose a little weight before I wear the retro looking one. The red one I wear a lot, although apparently it makes me look like a seductress and maybe that's not a good thing...but I don't think it's inappropriate and neither does my comp, so I'm pretty sure i'm good. (don't worry, I never push the modesty rules) The other day I wore it and we went to a members house for dinner, and these members actually have a really sad story. The daughter, Lissette, has 3 kids and they all have a mental disorder because their father abused them when they were super little, they weren't born with problems, though. Lissestte lives with her mother and sister. They are super good people and Lissette is going to be so blessed for her saint like nature. Seriously. anyway, so the kids are like 10, 4 and 5...and not sure the exact ages, but if I had to guess. The 10 year old, Carlos, told me my dress was pretty. That was cute. :) And the youngest one went up behind me and smacked my butt really hard with both hands. Right in front of the elders.. it was super awkward, but super funny. Those kids are cute. I don't know why I told you that story, but anywhoo... Oh, I can't find my other memory card, which is kind of a problem and is kind of why I'm not sure when you'll get pictures, because I don't want to send the one I have now without a back up one.
Oh, snap...or teaching pool is pretty huge right now. We have a baptism on Thursday and 6 on the 26th of October. Yep. We had set a woman named Benita and her 12 year old daughter, Claudette for baptism on the 26th, and they are good friends with another investigator named Zaida and her family. Zaida has two sons, Alex and Henry, and they have been coming to the youth activities for a while, even went to camp. One day the RS prez called us and told us that Henry and Alex want to get baptized and so we called them and they said they want to get baptized on the 26th as well. Just out of the blue, and they've never even taken any of the lessons before. And so we talked to them and we set them and their parents for baptism on the same day. It's funny, too, because Benita and Zaida are best friends and we've been trying to teach them separately even though they are always attached at the hip. The other day Zaida and her kids were at Benita's house and we had a lesson with Benita and Claudette at 6 and a lesson with Zaida and her family at 7, we had two different members set up and everything. So since Benita is like super successful and has her own big office, we took turns and Zaida and Benita waited while the other was having the lesson in the office. It was super legit, we felt like total bosses with our own office. ;) Zaida's husband, Hugo, came to church for the first time tambien! And when I asked him about it he said he called in sick at work to be there. LEGIT! I'm super impressed with the youth in this branch. They are super strong and a lot of our investigators are youth and they are so in tune with the spirit, recognize their answers right away and act on it right away. It's crazy cool. I've never seen anything like it.
What's also funny is that since I've been here in this area, the teaching pool completely changed. Investigators became antiguos and we've been finding like crazy. And the people we've set together are like the elect of the elect. All the new people are like super legit, too. Success is overflowing here in desert bloom! We were teaching this new family the restoration the other day and the mother, Ana Maria, was like super into it and then we soft set them for baptism and she jumped up and was like, "SI! Yo si! Yo no se con ellos, pero yo si!" It was super funny. The other day we were teaching a new investigator named Rosie and brought along a very recent convert of two weeks with us to fellowship her. As it turns out, the two of them are basically best friends now, it's insane and Rosie was sad when we had to go. This was the RC's first time going out with missionaries and she had such a good experience. She and her family are recent converts of the elders and the elders we are serving with now in DB, well... they're not the most into the whole "team work with the sisters" thing (there's only 4 of us in DB) and so they like to keep their RCs to themselves most of the time, and so this was our first time really getting to know her, Hermana Acosta, and the next day at church her children randomly ran up to us and gave us hugs and her husband shook our hands and was like, "ella estaba bien contento" . It was cool to see that we could help lift her up.
On Friday during weekly planning, Sister Webb and I made the companionship goal to eat healthier and that the only day we would eat sweets is on Fridays as a weekly planning tradition. So that very next day, EVERYONE we visited fed us. We went to go see a brand new investigator form Chile and she had a whole lunch prepared for us. Then we went to our next appointment and she fed us cookies and chips, then we ate dinner at 4, and then our next Investigator fed us the most delicious turn overs I've ever tasted in my life. It was insane. A blessing, because our investigators love us, but wow... I'm never going to lose weight...
I can't believe it's almost October...General Conference again! It will be a year since the big announcement that changed my life. Wow, I can't believe that was like a year ago. Then on Nov. 6th is my 9 month/half mark. Time is going by super fast. It's slightly disturbing.
Les Quiero mucho!
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