Good Things are happening.

  

Dearest friends and family,

I feel really bad because I read Jeff's emails and they are so exciting and full of details. And then I reread mine and feel bad for you guys that are reading. I'm not very good at writing great stories. Good things are happening. I promise; I'm just a bad writer. 

Anyways...here we go.

Monday. We just had one lesson with an investigator named Evangelina. She is working really hard to quit smoking so we visit her every day. She has progressed a lot. I love working with her.

Tuesday was our District meeting. The first meeting with the new DL. he was really nervous because it is his first time being a DL, but he did well. We ate in the capilla because the hermana brought us the comida. She had to leave her house and wasn-t going to be able to recieve us. So we ate cold spagetti and who knows what kind of meat in the baptismal room

Wednesday...normal day. Except we had to go to the bank to pay the rent. So that was an adventure. I taught Hna hatch how to do that. It's not hard. Just wastes time because the bank is a little lejos.

Goofing around with Hna Hatch

Thursday we had our planning for like 8 hours...but not really. Only 3...It just feels like a long time. Then we had some good lessons with Menos activos and investigadores. We had Ward Council..which wasn't super productive. It's kinda annoying when you wait for the bus 20 minutes, ride the bus 20 minutes and sit in Ward council 20 minutes and then they tell you "Well.. that's all for the missionaries. You can go back to work.." But it's alright. More time for lessons.

Friday. One of the worst days I've had for a while. We had 10 lessons planned for the day and were able to have 5. We walked a lot.. a lot of people forgot our appointments. A lot of people we planned on seeing were busy. It was really hard. And Hna Hatch feels like she still doesn't know the area very well..so can-t really help with ideas when we run out of plans. It was a really frustrating day.

That's a 10 if you can't tell.

Mac and Cheese and Chicken Nuggets

Celebratory Cinnamon Roll 

Saturday. Saturday was good. We worked a lot with MA (less actives) and Miembros. We didn't find very many new investigators this week. I also completed 10 months on Saturday. So that was fun. We celebrated Sunday night though. With mac n cheese, chicken nuggets, and cinamon rolls...good times. And we took lots of pictures...We found some cool new settings on the cameras and played with them for a while.

Sunday. Sunday was HOT!!!! The weather was supposed to start cooling down and raining. Instead it got cloudy, muggy, and REALLY REALLY HOT! Saturday, we had 6 people very firmly committed to coming to church.. Sunday we had 1. That's one really hard thing about being a missionary. Its hard not to get really discouraged when your investigators are following through on their commitments. And thats one really hard thing about Mexico..No one follows through...That's not racist. Its something they say all the time.

Today we went to walmart to buy rain boots because they keep telling us its gonna rain...we got distracted and bought other stuff. (pictures to come next week.... ;) ) The rainboots were really expensive. Looks like we are gonna have wet feet. Should be fun. 

Things are going well. I'm working hard with Hna hatch. We are working on her Spanish a lot. Having an American Companion is awesome. The only hard thing is focusing on the work. Because if something reminds you of a song or a movie, you really want to quote it because she can understand. We are working hard, but struggling a little with the "focus" thing. Hmm..what else? Happy birthday to my awesome missionary brother! So proud of him. He is doing so awesome. Can't believe he has already been gone 1 month!

Guess that's all. Love you all!

Hermana Nielsen