Me, Mature?!?!?

FYI- Dave is our Uncle who was called as Bishop of his ward yesterday, and Jordan our cousin left for th eMTC in Provo Wednesday heading down to Paraguay. 

well this week was a crazy one!! my first transfer is almost up and it has flown by!!! this week a lot happened!!! so for tuesday we taught a bomb lesson with the Valdez family!!! i love them cause they speak english!!! so i can actually sound smart!!! haha but they are way cool and i love spending time over there! we also met another investigator from a referral from a ZL! she is boss!! we just talked to get to know her a bit she what she was looking for and everything but she has a true desire to learn the gospel! wednesdaywas new missionary training! and it was way sweet!! i spent the day with all the missionaries that came in with me and we got to do some from exercises with the president and the APs. President did saw some uneasy things to me though..... he would ask questions to all the new missionaries and no one would answer so i would, because we all know i love to talk, so i would tell him my opinion and talk about the experiences ive had so far and all that i have learn, and he said he was very impressed with how mature i was......ME? MATURE? i felt horrible hahahah but its all good! he also said that he sees leadership in me and likes how i get everyone involved and enjoying the work!! hahah the best part of the training was he asked me to bear testimony on our purpose, so i did and he said he was in awe of how i see our purpose. Everyone said that i remind them of Elder Walser who is one of the APs right now who have a weird but very powerful outlook on everything. so i guess that was a good thing, but its hard taking compliments when you feel so inadequate with the work. I have so much to learn and the spanish is killing me....i honestly think im getting worse at it hahah i was talking to a guy and he straight up told me my spanish was awful and he didnt understand anything i said hahaha it was rough! but the leadership training was awesome!!! President is such a stud hahaha and way to smart for his own good hahah he uses way to big of words! anyway thursday was a rough day nothing worked ourt so me and Elder Smith just had a game of who could pass out the most passalong cards....i lost...only because i dont know spanish though hahaha friday was i pretty good day we had some good lessons with some new investigators and we hope the go some where. one is a 19 year girl who just moved here from colombia to go to school! she was way cool!! we meet with her tonight!! Saturday i wanted to cry...haha we had exchanges and i had to run my area and the ZL that was with me is wayyyyyy trunky and didnt want to do anything. But i felt i made some really good plans and the day turned out really well with 4 lessons and 3 potentials. and i never had an oh crap moment trying to think what to do! which was really good, worst part is that he wouldnt speak to me in english so it was a whole lot of me sounding extremely stupid and pretending i knew what he said. haha there were a lot of laughs though so there was an up side!!! and we got some incredible food made by this Honduras family in the ward, it was bomb! haha sunday was a crazy day! first it started with me falling asleep in ward council meeting where the bishop made fun of me...but luckily he likes me cause im way close to his son who is hadicapped. so he let it slide hahaha but i definitely said sorry! we had a bunch of lessons with less active families which was way good. 

so here is some crazy knews!!!!!!!! do you remember matty baxter?? and how he got into the church and everything through his girlfriend and his best friend, who happened to be related??? well i was talking about how i play hockey and Elder Thomas comes up to me and asked who i played for and i said skyline, he told me that he played for cottonwood!! He was mattys best friend!!!!!!! and his sister was mattys girlfriend!!! And he told me that matty went on a mission and actually got home just last week from Oregon!!!!!! I couldnt believe it!!! hahah Elder Thomas let me write a note to him in his letter he was sending him telling him good job. It was such a cool experience and the spirit hit me so strong!! i was so happy to hear about matty!!!! 

Well only other news is that the weather sucks here hahaha the hurricane from mexico is affecting the weather here with intense rainstorms that just destroy houses here. We were worried that if the hurricane kept coming north that they were going to have to evacuate all the missionaries here. I dont think that will happen but the weather is awful here! It feels like a hurricane here. But we still go out and track and ride the bikes which is rough when your soaking wet but you just laugh about it and remember its worth it.

Well i hope all is well back in Utah! Big congrats to the old guy Dave for becoming top dog!!! ;) You enjoy the stand! And if i ever had to confess anything id turst the big guy hahaha He is a boss! Also congrats to Jordan for starting off the mission, crazy to think that he is already in the MTC, but i know he will do incredible things! I wish everyone the very best and hope everyone is staying busy! I love you all!!!

Love,

The Ginger Elder!