Monday Hermana Broadbent got 4 packages from her family and one of them had everything you need for a thanksgiving feast! A no bake/instant one at least! We invited some of the other Hermanas in our zone and had a full on Thanksgiving meal! We had turkey (canned), stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, apple cider, eggnog, and chocolate pudding pie! I know it was nothing compared to your food mom haha but it still made me happy (and a little bit sick...).
She also got a cd from her mom called Popcorn Bopping. Its all these primary songs made to sound kinda like popular music on the radio. It's horrible, but it's been a lot of fun! I hope they call me on a mission is a gangster rap song! Sofie, Ian and Chase would looove that cd! You should check it out for them! Yeah, I think we've been starved for music haha! I'm not gonna lie, it's hard being in this country when they're blasting reggaetone (hardcore latin rap music) out of every tienda and in all the microbusses and not being able to bust a move in the street. We also may or may not have been ¨inspired¨ to go ¨contacting¨ down certain streets where houses or tiendas happen to be blasting good music.... :)
Monday morning we got a call from a family in another ward that said they'd like us to have an FHE with a family that lives in our area that went to the temple open house. It was the only time they could so we cancelled our other citas and went to that because they sounded super positive. We went that night and met up with this girl Grecia who's 19 and she and her family (the members) took us to meet Luis and Lorena Aguilar and their 2 kids, Marcos who's 10 and sofie whos 8. We taught them the plan of salvation and answered their questions about the temple. It went really well, especially since it was mine and Hermana Broadbents first official lesson together! Luis said he's way interested in the church and they committed to reading the proclamation to the family and praying about it. They didn't seem to have any problems with the church or our beliefs and they accepted pretty much everything we told them really openly! Then they fed us Pizza Hut! Yeah, it's definitely different here from my old area haha. We were so stoked about that lesson when we left! A way super positive, married, entire family!! Little did we know that that was only the beginning...
Tuesday we spent the day contacting references to try to set citas (appointments) with them. We walked all our area a couple times over and nearly got eaten by dogs! One seriously almost attacked my companion as it came at her teeth bared and snapping when she walked around the back of a car. Luckily some guy ran over and saved her while I just chilled there and watched (I'm such a good companion). Then we had a cita with this girl Carmen who was one of our temple referrals. She lives right by that dog haha. So we get there and had a lesson with her and her mom, also Carmen. We taught them the restoration and I think it was the best lesson that I have ever had. They just sat there open-mouthed and soaked in every word. The spirit was seriously so strong and they were so prepared. Plus Hermana Broadbent and me are really good at teaching super simply because of the whole language barrier so I feel like everything really hit home. We gave them each a Boof of Mormon and committed them to read a chapter and pray about it. After the lesson the mom told us that she had met with missionaries a long time ago and received the 7 lessons and that she had learned about Joseph Smith but also some other man, Kimball! She still remembered the name of the prophet 30 years later... it was insane. They asked us to come back and teach their whole family so that they could all make the change together, implying that they were planning on changing. We left that lesson seriously in shock and ran home because we were late and nearly got attacked by that one dog again.
When we got home, our apartment door was just chilling open (our apartment is inside a building with some offices in it, but ours is the only apartment. the main door to the outside was closed but still! creeeepyyyy) So after a minute or so of us just kinda staring at the door, I busted out my pepper spray and kicked open the door and inspected every corner SWAT style. All clear! Our cameras and everything were all still there! I think the lock just didn't catch but we've been kinda paranoid about it since then.
Wednesday we contacted and then had another cita with familia Aguilar! We taught the restoration and talked about baptism! They said that's what they want to work towards but they want to wait till they understand things a bit better and get an answer before they set a date. But I know they're going to do it and I'm way way stoked!
Thursday we had a cita with this girl named Nivia. We almost got attacked by another dog outside her house... we had to throw rocks at it! Nivia is 25 and a doctor and she is so ready for the gospel. Before the lesson even started she was asking when and where church was and what she should wear to go. We explained the restoration and all that and she was soaking it all in. When we gave her the Book of Mormon she immediately started reading it. It was awesome! She said she grew up Evangelical but feels like something is missing and she wants to know about what she felt inside the temple... yeah i know golden right? As we left her house, again just shocked at another amazing lesson, another dog came after us! I'm really starting to hate dogs! We decided that Satan is trying to get back at us by possessing dogs. Then, because of several random events and appointments that fell, we happened to stop by another referrals house, and, long story short, another incredible lesson and she has a baptismal date for the end of the month!!!!! This time we left the house with the pepper spray in hand, certain that this time the dogs would be coming for blood.
Friday we had some great lessons with some old investigators who I think are finally starting to make some progress... we'll see what happens with them!
Saturday was a little bit harder, we contacted referrals all day long because all our citas fell through. As we were walking down one street I was looking at our page of references when this car passed by and some guy stuck his arm out the window and grabbed my butt. Damn dogs! Pardon my french... we're being double wary of cars, dogs, and men now (i don't think there's much difference here between the last two).
And finally, Sunday! Somehow none of our positive investigators could come to church this week and the temple dedication is next week so we won't have any baptism's for a couple of weeks at best. We have gotten really good at teaching the 1st lesson this week and Hermana Broadbent's Spanish is doing much better. We don't know who the senior companion is but we fight over that sometimes (I've been in the field 3 weeks longer, she knows the area, I know the language haha) but it's been great with her! We have a ton of fun and I feel like we teach really well together. We are both horribly messy and disorganized though... and not very good with schedules. We're working on it though haha.
I can't wait to talk to you all in a few weeks! I love you all so much! Have a great week!
kailey
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