Helms Deep

Guys I had an amazing experience this last week.  We were walking and walking, taking fig off trees and eating it.  In the street in front of my a car starts backing out of their garage, first I see a black tire, then comes a bright, shiny, red four door Jeep with a black top.  It kind of made me really happy.

 

So we had an interesting trip to the clinic.  We have both been having problems with stuff and after they did some tests on us we found out why.  Hermana Routsong is pregnant with a little parasite that we have dubbed Smeagol, I have the battle of Helms Deep in my stomach with bacteria problems.  All is well though, we will live, we had to buy medicine though and we can´t eat cheese, which is sad because everything I want has cheese.  It is just frustrating because we do EVERYTHING to get our stuff clean and some gringos eat apples without peeling them and they are fine.  

 

This morning we hiked up to the Christus with lots of Hermanas and had our study time up there! It was fun! We will do that when y'all come down!

 

So two weeks ago we had our conference with presidente! I love that man.  He talked about how we can be more consecrated missionaries.  I have so many notes! After we watched Meet the Mormons, again, and ate popcorn and had homemade cookies.  Oh, it was wonderful!! 

 

Today I meant to buy one saltaña but they gave me two, that´s a blessing.  That is one thing we can eat haha.  Oh Hermana Routsong counts my sneezes.

 

So we found a way awesome investigator! Her name is Noelia and she is from Virginia, we speak in English with her! She has a lot of questions and loves to learn.  She keeps saying, wow they didn´t teach us this in the Catholic church.  Then on a whim I invited her older brother to join us for a movie.  After he bombarded us with questions, and was so interested.  Noelia said, I always want to tell you what they teach me and I try too but you never listen.  So that means she is interested! She just can´t read in Spanish that well and those elders haven´t given us our book in English yet.  

 

We are teaching our old pension family, the Familia Pary, and they don´t come to church for three hours because two of their kids never do.  So now we have to try and break all these family traditions they have.  They asked us to come back because they need help with their rent, yea the pensions don´t make money, all the money they get is for us, it´s a service.  That´s why we were eating so badly with them.  They were using all the money for themselves! Hermana Hansen always tells us when people ask us for money to say, I have something better to give.  Yes, I have used that!

 

So we have this less active, for years she was less active, and her visiting teacher came up to us, Ï can´t find her baptism date anywhere¨.  The other day when we had a lesson we asked to see pictures and she doesn´t have any.  So now she is an investigator?

 

Its always funny when we take members with us to lessons because they just give our people wasca, or discipline.  It makes it so we don´t have to be the bad cop so it's chill.  

 

Hermana Routsong is probably going to be leaving Mordor soon but it´s ok, she will always have Smegol to be with her! All missionaries get infection in the stomach so nothing to fret about, fret about me swallowing those giant pills!! 

 

Mom I just need those dresses and not even anytime soon.