March 3, 2014

Dear Family,

The rain finally came! This past 3 days it has been rainy cats and dogs! Thankfully we have a car this transfer:) I felt so bad for the elders that have been on bikes.

Yesterday, after sacrament meeting Hna. Galindo(young womens leader) came up to me all frantically and asked if we could teach the combined young womens lesson later that day. I was super grateful that the members know they can come to us if they need any help! We taught about the atonement, and the spirit was so strong....well at least I thought it was:) Sometimes I can't ell if the youth can feel the spirit or they are just completely oblivious to it:) Before we started the class I told all of them to put their phones and tablets under the chairs because we wanted them fully engaged in the lesson...and I didn't want to get frustrated, and it helped invite the spirit so much! Sometimes it just blows my minds how people let their kids just have their phone out in the open on church, but their not my family so I guess I can't judge:) As we were driving home I just thought about how we had just taught a 30 minute lesson on the atonement with no preparation and I think about how that would have taken so much time to prepare and would have made me so nervous, but we just taught like it was no big deal at all! Welcome to the life of a missionary:) 

So in this mission a lot of the stakes here have mini-missions where the youth get to be paired up with some missionaries for the weekend and be a "missionary" and we had one this week! It was such a little tender mercy because it was with the LA stake so I was able to see a lot of people from 4th ward(my first area:)) 

Ok, so super funny story! Sometimes little kids don't realize that ALL missionaries are Elders, and for some reason this week I was referred to as Elder Ford:) haha

This week we started teaching a couple named Rufy and Lucio. Lucio is a funny one and Rufy is always really engaged in the lessons and excited. We invited her to baptism and the spirit was so strong and she just sat there thinking for a super long time. I think she would have said yes, but then her husband interrupted, so then we talked a little more and then I invited Lucio to be baptized because he was acting like this was just for her, but he has decided that he doesn't understand me....like at all. I know my accent is bad, but come on! He just looked at me then looked at Sister Shepherd and asked her to "translate". So did that mean he didn't hear half of the restoration!? I think he just turns his ears off when I start to talk which is a little frustrating. ok, actually super frustrating, but as our lebonese neighbor would say "whatcha gonna do"(haha if only you could hear how they say it:))

I hope you all have a great week!

Love you!

Hermana Ford