Email 5/31/11

Good Morning:)

So I'm on 2 hours of sleep so if this email makes no sense, I'm sorry. We had the Hermanas at our house last night that are going home today. Hermana O is going home:( All of my previous companions are home now...weird.

Transfers are tomorrow. We aren't getting transferred, staying here. BUT the elders that we share our ward with are getting white washed (they are both leaving) and we are really sad about it. We thought they were messing with us when they said they got a white wash call so yesterday we were over at the mission office and we asked President and he said it was true and that I was going to have a lot of responsibility now. So that freaked me out that he's taking the Elders out all together and we will have this giant ward by ourselves...and if that is the case I will cry. He said there will still be Elders but it wont be their first priority. I can't handle this ward by myself, we need two other missionaries to cover the one side. We have all of Tempe and they have Phoenix. It's too big of an area for us to cover by ourselves!

I kind of hate transfers it always changes the zone too much. It wont be the same without all the pranks. We found our car covered in Vaseline yesterday...

Let's see...

This week was long because they cut our miles and so we were out by the end of the month and we had to BIKE:( it sucks. It really wouldn't be THAT bad if we didn't have the freaking helmet and skirt and if it wasn't 100 degrees outside. We had 4 people go to the hospital of dehydration last week in our zone...It's too hot.

We met this guy on the street and he told us he wanted us to come and teach him that he always wanted to learn more about God. He was really weird and we couldn't tell if he was drunk because he was overly excited about us coming over. So the next day he calls like 8 times. Left 3 voicemails. The first one he tries to pronounce my last name for a good minute refers to me as "princesa" and about every other sentence he repeated "SOY YO, SU "G"!" (It's me, your "G") and told us he loved us a few times. The best one came at 11 at night and he was whining about us not picking up the phone and how he missed us. Then he said "Te amo" (I love you)....."TE AMO TE AMO TE AMO TE AMO TE AMO" like 20 times.

SOO FUNNY. We will probably not be teaching him.

We always get weird stuff from the men..

We are SOO close to getting "B" on date. He said yes to baptism and that he would pray about a date..

"S"- He fasted on Sunday for an answer! He knows he wants to get baptized but he doesn't know if he should marry his girlfriend or move out. So sacrament was about marriage..Sunday school was about baptism..and priesthood/relief society was combined about how to strengthen the family. He was crying and said that fasting was excellent and he felt really good....BUT then when we asked if he got his answer he said he wasn't sure! We had a really good lesson yesterday and we told him to plan a date to work towards to have his mind made up by, we started going over the interview questions and he sure had a lot of questions. Why does this have to be so hard?

I feel like all last transfer I was learning patience. Some of our lessons have been almost 2 hours because we can't get them to stay on subject.

Especially "J". Yesterday when "S" was asking what were considered bigger sins "J" jumped in and went on and on about something...completely incorrect. When I tried to explain that wasn't true, he got defensive and kept saying that it was. He relates everything back to the priesthood. He also has told us that it's better if "Someone with the priesthood says the closing prayer because it's a stronger prayer" when we offered to say a prayer once. Yikes.

I love him, he's adorable and super excited about missionary work..but he can kill a lesson so fast that it makes me really not want to bring him..

I love these people though. Yesterday we got invited to like 4 parties, everything is a party all the time. They are all so close knit as families and will do anything for each other and give everything they have. We could learn a lot from their culture....and they could learn a lot from us lol...

Okay that's about it..

I LOVE YOU:)