Well, I feel like I just wrote yesterday. I am super excited for Mandy and her calling and that she finally made the decision to go. I got to (not had to) give a talk in church on sunday and of course it was about missionary work and so I got to tell everyone that my sister got her mission call to Germany and as a bonus I got to call home. Everyone was super excited for her too and thought that Germany is so exotic. We have had some great experiences this week and some funny ones too but I always have a hard time remembering what they were.
Claudia (I wrote about her last week) and Daniela (her 8 year old daughter) went to church last sunday and they enjoyed it. Claudia says that she considers this as a new beginning. The only problem we have right now is that she doesn´t understand our message about authority and so she still doesn´t feel the need to be baptized because she was already baptized once. But with time I hope that she can understand. She is going to Washington DC next week and to Baltimore next Saturday and so it would be so cool if she could meet my family. How weird is that? Last week we were teaching her the plan of salvation and Claudia was super interested. Hermana Clark started talking about the nature of our Heavenly Father and said ¨Nuestro Padre Celestial tiene un cuerpo...de carne y huevos¨. Everyone started laughing so hard. For those who don´t know, she said that our Heavenly Father has a body of flesh and eggs. Luckily Hermana Clark is a good sport and doesn´t mind making mistakes and doesn´t mind when we laugh.
We are also teaching a 16 year old girl named Laura. Her dad is inactive and the elders taught her before but dropped her because she didn´t want to go to church. But we have been going to visit her with people that she has really clicked with. With Laura we see that her needs are friendship before she will want to go to church. So she has been reading the Book of Mormon and has been making friends. When we asked her if she would go to church, she sat there and thought for a minute and then said yes! We were really excited and everything is set to go for this Sunday. Laura is a very awkward girl who is very shy and so she always tells us that people tell her she is weird and she has lived behind this shell for her whole life. But she is really cute and has started bonding with the young men and women from the ward. And she use to never pray but has started making a sincere effort to learn more.
This week was Halloween, Saints day and day of the dead and I saw absolutely nothing different! How boring. But the day after Halloween we went to visit an inactive woman and her kid. She went on and on about how we should visit this other member family because one of their kids dressed up for Halloween and how satanic that was. There are a ton of evangelical churches here and they are pretty radical about everything. The women have to wear a white hankerchief tied around their heads to cover their hair and they have to wear skirts always and they can´t dance. Some people here are surprised that we do dance, we wear makeup and we can celebrate Halloween. I wish that I could have seen the cemetaries on day of the dead because I imagine it as being very beautiful because the people decorate the grave stones with vibrant flowers.
Well, as always we are working hard. This is the last week of this transfer and so we are waiting in anticipation for who is going to leave. We will not be in a trio next week but we don´t know who will leave. I will keep you posted for next week! Thanks for every thing and I love you all!
Hermana Bush
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