December 12

We have two baptisms coming up this week. Lucas who is 15 is getting baptized. He wants to serve a mission one day . He is a super great kid. He comes to church every Sunday. And a little girl who is nine is getting baptized. Her parents are members but they want us to teach her and baptize her. I 'm really excited! I love teaching kids the spirit is so strong and sweet they understand things so quickly. Aida didn't come to church this Sunday but she says she'll Come next Sunday. I'm feeling the end of my mission is coming quickly and it makes me really happy and sad at the same time. I had a dream that I was home and we were shopping and Hayley told me that I wasn't a missionary any more and that I needed to take my plaque off. In my dream I started to cry, my comp told me that in the night was whimpering haha. How sad Huh!Oh well life will be so good at home I can't wait to be with you all again. We went teaching with a nineteen year old who is from Brazil she is great! She wants to serve a mission so bad its fun to be around her and remember how much I wanted to serve a mission. I don't know when I'm going home yet but my mission president said he'd let me know. I hope he doesn't forget to tell me. I don't want to ask him too much because I don't want him to think I don't want to be here. I hope you have a really good week.

December 5

One thing I really love about Christmas here is that its so hot that I forget about whats going on at home. And they don't play any Christmas music on the radio. Honestly, it makes me sad at the same time though. Last Monday we played volleyball for an hour and a half on the day it reached 40 degrees Celsius so I don't even know what that would be in Fahrenheit but it was so hot! I got a bad sunburn on my face and arms so did hermana cruz. Bit it was so fun. One of the photos is of Elder Boyd he's really funny and quotes movies while we play any sport. But he put a ginormous bug on his tongue! it was dead but still I had to take a picture of his craziness. There is a picture of our cat Snickers too. It's the neighbor's cat but I love it. She always hangs out with us. My companion cut my hair one night when I was feeling sad about my imperfections as a missionary. I like my hair like this. She's such a great companion. We have two new investigators who are great. They are an old couple, about 70 years old. The wife is mute. She showed us xrays of her lungs and pictures of her brain and she explained that the doctors can't figure out why she can't talk. But we think she had a stroke because she was found passed out on the ground and when she came to, she couldn't move her arms or legs very well and couldn't feel one side of her body. She inspires me so much because she tries with all her might to communicate and she has such a good attitude. she broke down yesterday though, because she was trying to tell us something and we tried guessing but we couldn't figure it out and she cried so we both hugged her and held her hands and told her if she was faith in Jesus Christ He can heal her and give her back her voice if it is Heavenly Fathers will. She told us she prays and as lots of faith so we offered to have someone come and give her a blessing. She wants one really bad. I can't wait to see what happens. I love teaching her. She is so funny and light hearted even though she has gone through so much. Her husband drinks and yesterday we basically dragged him to church with us for stake conference. I personally didn't want him to come because he was still drunk from the other night. And while we were the convincing him to come with us he told us he had a dream that his wife sent him to buy manzanilla and a nail. Manzanilla is chamomile tea. And he said when he saw us for the first time he knew his dream meant that we were coming because I am the manzanilla and hermana Cruz is the nail. So he told me over and over that I'm his manzanilla. It was funny at first then it made me uncomfortable when I was sitting next to him in the chapel so I asked hermana Cruz to sit by him and she started coughing and gagging because his breath smelled like the cocaine leaves they chew here and beer. She can't stand that smell. It was so sad, I felt really bad for asking her to trade me places. But finally she asked Aida, his wife, if she wanted to sit by her husband. She did so Hermana Cruz was saved. It was such an interesting experience. But I am determined to help her husband Alfredo quit chewing and drinking. They both really are receptive to what we teach. I can see them getting baptized. We have had so many beautiful experiences lately. I feel so blessed. A gecko almost ran up my leg during stake conference. It's not fun imagining something crawling on you, it gives me the heebee geebees, haha. Today we are going to lunch and haircuts with the mission presidents wife. I'm so excited! I hope you have a great week. I will write soon.