Week 45 5/4/15

5/4/15

Hey Everyone! 

Happy early cinco de mayo!!! So fun fact, cinco de mayo is actually not a very popular holiday in mexico haha, they really celebrate their independance day which is september 15 i beleive. So.... cinco de mayo is an americanized holiday, you learn lots of fun stuff when serving with spanish people!

So, I better get on to my week!

Its been a good one over all! pretty busy as well! To start off, we are now working with this Lady named Dora and her Kids Karla and Diego! Thay are super super nice! everytime we come over the kids just love us and we help them with their HW, they even have been reading the BOM, litterally Dora reads it to her children! (They are like 8 and 6) Its so awesome! you can really see the lords blessings that come when you work hard. Litterally that same day we biked for hours in the rain, i have never been so wet in my life, but its awesome! Ill never forget the tuesday night that me and elder bott biked five miles back home in the dark and rain from doras house. It was a blast! crazy, but we had a good time haha.

Anyways, Later this week we had the awesome opportunity to have a party for Maria! she is the sisters investigator but me and elder bott have been working with her for 3 transfers now as well haha. she really wants to be baptized but unfortunately is kind of stuck in a bad situation. She cant leave her BF because she doesnt have any money, at the same time she cant go back home to california because she cant afford it.... so we are praying and fasting for her! Recently she was able to find  job and wants to save up and hopefully move out! She has such a strong testimony of the gospel, pays her tithing, comes to church, bears her testimony on fast sunday, its awesome! She asked me to give her a blessing to help her get over feelings of exauhstion from working 60+ hours a week on friday and on sunday bore her testimony of the power of blessings. It was amazing! One day she'll come into the church, just a matter of time :)

We also celebrated Elder Kelloggs 20th birthday this saturday! We went to this awesome Restaurant called "La Bamba" then later a few of the members of our branch threw him and a woman named tania (whos birthday was the next day) a party! it was great! we got to talk to a cool potential investigator (boyfriend of a member) and we had a pinata and cake and all sorts of food. I think it was a blast for kellogg, definitely a birthday to remember! Later that night we went of splits with the zone leaders. Me and Elder Morely went to try and see some peeps with a young man in the branch named irvin. No one was home though so we went tracting and ended up finding this awesome guy named Jose who wants to come to church! he told us he is searching for a church in fact!

The other Highlight of this week was the CES Devotional for the young single adults! That happened this sunday evening and i loved it! The speaker talked about how to increase our faith and that we might be a little bit farther on the "faith scale" then we think! one quote he said was "calm waters dont make skilled sailors" Sometimes we need to go through the hard times to appreciate the good. the hard times help us build our faith, so what doesnt kill you makes you stronger! i can say i know thats true for 100%. I hope all of you can remember that when times get hard, to use them to build you! I love you all so much! have a great week!