I ate dinner with a Jehova's Witness

Alright y'all, I'm gonna tell you about this week, but specifically, Friday :)

After studying we headed to the church before lunch. Our ward is starting something new where we have a Family Home Evening with all of the ward every week so we can invite our investigators. Jairo, the second counselor of the bishopric (who also lives underneath us)  is in charge of missionary work and was super stoked. Since this was the first time, he said we had to make it really good so every organization from then on will feel obligated to do the same or make it better! 

So we got to the church and cleaned it and set up all the chairs so it would look good. Jairo, who is about 30 was running around like a niño taking a bunch of pictures and just going crazy. It was awesome :) Then we ordered pizza and ate it in the bishop's office since it's the only room at the church with AC. 

Then we went to Lila. Oscar's aunt had recently died so they were kind of distracted but we brought over a Liahona so she could see that prophets really do speak to us! When we visited her yesterday she looked me in the eye and said that she knows that this is what God's wants, but she doesn't feel prepared.... haha sounds like Jose again. Which is good that she's taking it so seriously- a good sign she won't go inactive. So we invited her to pray again and ask if she needs to be baptized. We'll see :)

Kenia is still so great. She didn't go to church on Sunday (because there was no water to bath. No water- it's a huge problem. I'm just waiting for rainy season- they'll have no excuse!) 

We visited some other less actives and stopped by every member we could so we could have a good amount of assistance at the activity. We had a half hour before the activity started so we went to visit Karol, who works in an internet cafe. It's kind of hard to visit her because if there's a lot of people it's loud and we can't talk to her. Well we went and they told us to go back to the kitchen where she was cooking dinner. She was frying a banana and we didn't get to start with a hymn, but do you what you can.

We talked about our purpose as missionaries- lots of people think we get paid and are always surprised and confused why we would sacrifice so much, when in their eyes we receive so little. The guy she was cooking dinner for- Dennis who owns the house went and sat down to eat, then she said, "want a tortialla and cheese?"

 so we ended up staying for dinner too. We invited Dennis to go to the activity and he said,

 "I told you already, I'm a Jehova's witness"

but then we were talking more and found out he is a member! What started out as dinner with a Jehova's witness turned into dinner with a member. 

We were late to the activity and there were already about 25 people in the church- I was stoked! Carmen came- she comes to every activity but not to church on Sunday... we're going to go over and talk about that with her tomorrow. And Luis, a dad of 3 who is 30 came too. He has some word of wisdom problems but wants to change. His progress is slow, but it's huge that he came to the church!

The lesson was about 10 minutes long then we went outside to play which was crazy and hilarious and so much fun. There ended up being about 50 people and everyone was laughing and running around and it was a ton of fun :)

There is so much to be done- I just hope I can do it all! I love my calling, I love this work, and I love YOU! Have a great week!

Oh, and....

I recently bought a hammock and nearly died to put it up in my bedroom. I plan on sleeping in it during Spring Break- the hottest week here :)