Hola familia!
Wow I can't believe it's the last week of the transfer already! Both me and Hna. Rojas hope we can stay together in carpentersville. We'll find out on tuesday. Oh so after thursday or friday you probably wont want to send anything directly to my apartment just in case. It got really cold this week - down to like 3 degrees. As in 3, without another number in front of it. Though I suspect it was even colder because the temperature detector in the car is a little off sometimes. The person next to me is listening to David Archuleta really loud through his headphones and it's annoying but oh well.
So last week we did end up going to Chicago! It was pretty fun, and also, because we didn't have full access to modern technology such as google maps (or even an old fashioned map), it was very adventurous. The first adventure was trying to figure out where the metra stop was. The gps lied to us and took us to a random crossing of the road and the train tracks about 10 minutes away from the actual stop. After a few phone calls and some aimless driving we finally found it. And after another 10 or 15 minutes we found a place to park. Since we didn't know the times for the trains we were joking the whole time that the train would probably come like right when we were parking or walking and then we'd have to chase it. But then thats actually what happened. Though luckily we made it on before it started moving. We were like running though haha. The train took about an hour to get there (including some delay from construction) We're like the farthest stop from the city on that line. After we got there it took us another half an hour to find the other Hermanas in our zone that we were meeting there (Hna Mackley and Summers) because none of us knew the streets. By the time we found each other we gave up on the idea to go to the science and industry museum because we figured that by the time we figured out which busses to take we'd only have like an hour or less before the museum closed. So naturally, being women in our early 20's, we started asking people how to get to the water tower mall. After walking for forever and a half we finally got there and were so frozen that we really just wanted a place inside to sit down and thaw out. So we did. Then about 20 or 30 minutes later it was time to head back. We were laughing at ourselves because we went all the way to Chicago to sit down in some chairs in the mall. BUT it was still fun just walking around the city and seeing everything. On the way back we didn't feel like walking all the way so we found the L-train underground. I also grabbed a map of the busses and l-train lines so next time we will be more organized (smart huh?). I hope that sometime in my mission I'll be able to serve in the Chicago zone so I'll be able to go to the city more often.
This week has been a little bit slower because almost everyone missed their appointments and they never answer their phones either. Also we haven't been able to find Marisol since we set the date for her baptism 2 weeks ago. So we had to drop it. We finally found her at her house again yesterday. She had a look on her face of "oh no they found me!" but she still insists that she's interested and told us to come back Monday...really it would be easier if she just said no. But we'll see maybe she will actually be there this time. Though we were still able to have some really good lessons and find a few new investigators so that was good! Well I'm still doing great here! My spanish is coming along but I still have a lot to improve. I'm learning a lot in general, it's great. One thing that I've been thinking a lot about this week is just how important the members are in the missionary work. The missionaries can only do so much by themselves. The majority of the members in the branch here live in Elgin (the Elder's area) which makes it even harder for us because we never get any referals and it's harder for our investigators to get to know members so they'll feel more comfortable at church. The Elder's have some really good investigators who come and they ALL have relatives in the branch. So our goal now is to get the members more involved in the missionary work. I think a lot of times the members can do a lot more for the work that the missionaries can.
Thats so crazy that Kellian and Derick got married! They weren't even dating when I left. Tell them congrats for me! Also Kevin's ice cave adventure looked way fun (and cold) I hope it was a blast!
Well, until next week!
Love,
Hermana West
(oh I didn't take any pictures at the city...woops. I'll be better next time :) )
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