Courtney's Week #58

 

¡HOLA!

 

Well, it was fantastic to be able to talk to you guys yesterday, although it was so frustrating that I can´t even talk English anymore. So it made me so happy that as soon as I signed on to the computer you guys were there and ready everybody all gathered together and everything, it just about broke my heart to tell you guys that we had to wait for my companion to go first. You guys are so awesome, I´m going to print off the picture I took of you guys and put it in my scriptures so that I can have an updated one of you guys.

 

So this week was my first week in San Francisco, when we got to the apartment it was absolutely covered in dust because no one had been living there for 5 months. But guess what, I finally figured out why in the pictures of the olden times and everything why they put sheets over all the furniture and stuff when they leave to go to a different house--everything totally gets stained by the dust. Our whole apartment is literally stained from all the dust that built up on it. During the time that no one lived there they had the windows open, and they are doing construction just in front of the house and so there was a lot of dirt and stuff that got let in.

 

It has been really nice to be in a ward that functions a little bit better. Our new ward has an average church attendance of about 120, which a whole lot bigger than the 50 that we had in Primer Crucero. Then again I guess it also helps that there are 7 missionaries in the ward, that will pop the church attendance up by seven, thats like the whole Evans Family!

 

So funny story, there is a new rule about how the Elders and the Hermanas can´t eat lunch together anymore because of some problems that came up recently in the mission. And so usually for lunch the 5 elders eat at the same house and then we will eat in a different house. But it is really funny because yesterday we were at the bishops house to call you guys and they were trying to figure out what they could have for dinner, the elders were there for lunch and ate pretty much everything in the house and so they didn´t have anything left for dinner. I think it is probably a lot easier to feed 2 sister missionaries than 5 Elders, hopefully we can use that to our advantage and get some super tasty meals.

 

So we have an investigator who we are teaching called Gustavo. He is a little boy of 10 years. His mom is an inactive member, but has got it stuck in her head that if her son doesn´t get baptized he is going to go to hell, which I guess is true more or less, but she gets really panicky about it and she has got her poor Gustavo scared into getting baptized. The worst part of the whole situation is that they are so focused on that part that is really hard to teach anything hopeful. We really want to make sure that he gets baptized to stay in the church not just to save his soul type thing, but it is really hard to keep his mom peaceful. But I will let you guys know how that goes.

 

Well, I love you all!

Hermana Evans