Week 42

Hello!  Christmas greetings!! it is December! woo hoo!

Thank you so much for the birthday wishes. they were totally awesome.  This was probably my most interesting birthday in my life.  I will tell you all about it.  later. haha! This week was super interesting. we taught a record number of lessons.  We are handing out invitations for a choir christmas devotional in the temple, so it is super easy to start up conversations with everyone in the street.  and then we end up teaching them the gospel too. .. muahahah!  So there are a lot of street guards or watches in our area and we pretty much teach all of them because they cant escape from us.  but we were super surprised that one of them actually is interested in listening to us. haha! he had a lot of questions and we tried to answer all of them.  his name is Luis and he now has a baptismal date.  We also found a young couple named Luis and Jessica.  they have a 4 month old baby and are super interested in the gospel. they are like the ideal family that we could teach.  i will let you know how it all works out.  we gave them some mormon messages to watch and they are super interested.  they live like 2 blocks away from our house... sweeet! 

One day we ran out of breakfast food, so my companion and I decided to eat CocaCola and chocolate for breakfast... hahaha o man.  big mistake.  we were so hackin hyper allll day long.  We ended up line dancing in the street for awhile (dont worry no one was around) and bouncing off the walls in lunch.  But ya, it was a ton of fun!  haha!  i dont know if we will do it again though... because we totally crashed at night.

Okay so my birthday... let me just start from the beginning.  First of all it was fast sunday. so we didnt eat in the morning.  and it was dia de peaton.  which means that no cars are allowed in the street. everyone has to walk, to save the environment or something... so we had to walk all the way to church, which is like a good 35 or 40 minutes. o hackin.  we tried to pick up some investigators, but they couldnt come last minute.  so we just headed to church.  my comp was a little sick during church so we headed home. but we had to climb the gigantic hill back up to the house.  she almost died, ugh. but then we had a delicious lunch with the members slash landlords of our house.  they even made cake.. yum!!  Then I went out with the ward to hand out more invitations all day long. we did divisions, so my companion stayed with a member at home and i left with other sister missionaries.  But unfortunately, i was a little sick too.  3 and a half hours knocking doors in the hot sun... o man i wasnt feeling good.  we finally came back to the house and my comp was a little better, but i was worse.  One of the elders gave me a blessing and afterwards i felt completely fine!  wow, Priesthood works!  I know that the men in the church have the power and authority of God. We just need to have the faith and strength to press forward.  Then we had my  birthday party with my pensionista and 6 other missionaries.  They smashed my face in the cake because that is the tradition here and we sang and i introduced them to m&m sniffing... yes! awesome.  Then we headed home cuz my comp was still feeling a little down.  I am sending you some pictures from my bday and also from our jungle trip last week.   I hope everyone is doing well. and good luck this week!

Godspeed

Hermana Milne