Hola Familia!
This week has been good. Finally on Saturday the weather decided to warm up a little bit. It's been around 40-45 degrees. Its such a big difference that we were thinking it would be a nice to go find a beach and get some tanning in. But we are missionaries. And theres still snow everywhere...so no. Haha. On Monday we went over to a members house to eat and she gave us something called shrimp cocktail. Its like a cold soup, It wouldn't be so bad if it really had only shrimp..but there were a bunch of different unidentified objects/creatures from the sea. I was fine until I noticed that there was a little octopus on my spoon - legs and all. It took me a few moments to recover and but I was able to eat it all. A little slimy and fishy for my taste but it didn't taste tooo bad.
Me and Hermana Rojas are still trying to stay positive even though every meeting the ward has with the missionaries is turning into a "what can we chastise the missionaries on this week" session. The past few weeks a few of the leaders in the ward have been upset at us for not doing "our part" with the less active members in the ward. "Our part" being visiting some less-active single sisters in the Elders area (which we aren't supposed to do)...we're still trying to work that one out. The ward mission leader is good though. He's usually on our side.
This week was harder to find lessons than usual but we finally had more people at church! And we set a baptismal date with Evila. Every time in the past when we would ask Evila about baptism she would always say some excuse, finally last week we felt that she was finally ready to accept a date and we asked her, at first she said no again saying she wanted to learn more first but we told her that if we put a date it would add motivation to be ready by that time and she accepted the 26th of march! We were worried that she got scared though because she wasn't there at sacrament meeting when it started, but partway through the meeting she walked in with her husband Jesus- That was a surprise. He never really wants to listen to us when we teach her and he has a crazy work schedule but we are starting to see his heart soften- he was even participating in gospel principles. We are thinking we will ask him to be baptized as well the next time we find him.
Humberto is still making progress quitting smoking. We started him on the 15 step program we got from the mission office and when we got to the part where it tells us to have the person crush their cigarrettes he was like "I don't have any". He had already been a few days without smoking. So I think he is finally ready and I've never seen him so determined the whole time I've been here.
Well I hope everyone has a great week! I've got to get going we're going to the Temple today! Oh and Happy Birthday to Barry!
Love, Hermana West
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