July 18, 2011 - Letter to Family

Picture of Cáceres

Haha so I had a pretty eventful week this week.

First off a funny story that is pretty cool actually.  So this last Thursday my companion and I decide to make a Spanish meal called tortilla de patata and it requires a lot of oil to cook it all.  So we cook all the onions and potatoes (is that how you spell it? I don´t remember it in English anymore).  So yeah after that we have a whole bunch of hot oil we don´t need; so my companion grabs this big glass pitcher we have.  Puts the oil in the pitcher scalding hot and 20 seconds later as I am standing right next to the pitcher it sounds like a bomb blew up!!! The pitcher blew up and shot shards of glass at high speed everywhere including hot oil.  So you are probably wondering what happened to me because I should have glass shards stuck in my body and my skin should be burnt off.  But no the Lord loves me!!  Nothing happened to me besides a piece of glass shot and hit my ear and cut it and my finger!!  Somehow nothing else happened to me.  I have a picture of our kitchen.  I really felt the spirit not gonna lie I should have gotten hurt I was right in front of the pitcher when it blew up!  By the way that was the worst mess in the world to clean up.  Oil and shards of glass everywhere!  I would rather go back to foothill and clean up poop off the floor.  Good times I miss foothill haha.



The remains of the blown up picture

So also this week our Zone leaders came and visited us and stayed the night with us Tuesday night and we had companion exchanges.  I got to serve with one of the zone leaders all day and lead all the lessons and talk and all that by myself for once!  It was awesome and I did a good job speaking the language and teaching!  It is probably one of the best times I have ever taught in my entire life along with last week in Badajoz with Elder Manning.  I learned a lot with the zone leader and he said I am a good missionary! haha

President Clegg and Elder Shaver

 Next thing that happened this week that was really cool is Friday morning President and Hermana Clegg came to our piso and we taught them a lesson.  The lesson is called lesson 0 and we teach a review of all the lessons we teach as missionaries!  They said we taught the best restoration they have heard in the WHOLE mission!!! So that is the picture of us with President Clegg.  I love them so much they are the best people I have met!  Hermana Clegg treats us like her sons she actually feels like a mom kinda!!  So that was good to hear and they are proud of us and said our piso is super clean.  Oh piso is apartment, and Hermana means sister.

Second thing so this girl of a recent convert said she wants to be baptized before we leave and she is the sweetest girl I have ever met!!  Her name is Sofia and she said we are her missionaries and she wants to be baptized before we leave Cáceres!!!! 

So Liliana couldn´t baptize this week because the lady that was covering for her this Sunday quit!!! But she will have someone cover for her some Sunday this month! She had her interview and everything and they said she is super ready!!  So we are excited; keep praying for her please!!

So the mom and the boys are not progressing.  But the one boy that likes me a lot he is 13 or 14 just showed up to church and he says he reads all the time.  But the mom, we can tell doesn´t really want anything to do with us.  We know that the boys think it´s true but the mom we can´t break her.  We have tried everything we can think of!!

Receiving another box of Books of Mormon

So a couple of things I need mother.  More tooth paste and things to burn my wart off my arm.  It´s getting big and that cream doesn´t do jack crap!  So could you send a mini package to me with that stuff and pictures of me playing soccer and swimming???  Please I love you!!!!!!  Oh a couple of fast breaks wouldn’t hurt and a love note.

So this morning I finished the BOOK OF MORMON holy crap that book is true it’s my favorite!  I love it with a passion I want to read it 5 times on my mission.

So that was my week a lot of stuff I am doing good and the time is flying by!!

Cody