Hola amigos! This is your good friend Hermana Krummenacher who is now fluent in Espanol!
This week we went on exchanges with Hermanas Jensen and Pirir. I went with Hermana Pirir to the Spanish area in Burlington which was pretty weird to be honest. I just kinda sat in lessons and had no clue what was going on but whatevs. I felt the spirit I guess. Hermana Pirir also had me say a prayer in Spanish at one of the lessons. It was a lot of fun! Lets hope it made sense.. I don't know if I would want to be a Spanish missionary here though because they never get dinners and they don't have like any members to help out with things. Hispanic people are a lot more friendly though so that's a plus.
During exchanges it was a crazy stormy day and I wondered how Arlington was taking it because the last time it was super windy and stormy, all the trees were in the streets and it was nuts. We got back to Arlington that night and, sure enough, the whole place looked like a straight apocalypse was happening. Sister Thompson told me that while they were trying to get to one of our lessons, a huge tree had fallen across the only road in and out of where the house was. She said that trees were on fire and when we got home, the power was out. We put our refrigerated food outside our door to keep it cold and the next morning we woke up to snow. haha It wasn't really snow though.. I guess it was just hail or something but still. it looked like snow to me. What do I know about snow though?
This week we tried to see the Alpaca farm people again. Still not home but.....
LOOK AT ALL THOTHSE CHICKENTHS!
Remember Roxy? She was so excited to see us again and can't wait for her baptism! She even gave us a referral!
Rivers is Roxy's "neigh"bor. She referred us to him and he was quite surprised to see us at his door that morning.
We shared a message with him and he too accepted the invitation for baptism. Very exciting.
We taught Brother Carter again this week who is my favorite because we read the Book of Mormon with him and he makes us and himself laugh so hard over the dumbest things. He doesn't like how there are weird words in there and we came across the word "methought". He paused after reading it and just looked up and said "Methought I thaw a puddy cat!" haha Good ole Brother Carter. He is learning to love the Book of Mormon though and we are excited about that.
We also have been teaching an older woman named Renee. She is so so sweet and is really soaking in the gospel like crazy! When we started teaching her, she was a little stand-offish and now after she has been reading her scriptures and praying and following through on the commitments we leave her, she has grown so much. We invited her to baptism and she said yes! Sadly, she will be out of town next week but she promised to read her scriptures and pray every night while she is gone. We are excited about her.
As of right now we have about 10 investigators. 4 of them are on date for baptism but I just really wish people could understand that they cannot receive the blessings and answers of the gospel without working for them. I hope you all understand the importance of reading your scriptures, saying your prayers, and being a disciple of Jesus Christ at all times. Those things that you hear people to tell you to do are so so essential to your faith and testimony. Yesterday at church the lesson in relief society was about the talk that President Uchtdorf (not sure if that's spelled correctly) gave about simplicity in the gospel. The woman giving the lesson said that often times we have these big trials and burdens that we expect a big solution to. the solution in whatever problem we have is always to pray and study. I love how simple our gospel really is. It has given me the greatest road map in my life and I love giving this map to others. It will help them navigate through every bump in the road. Maybe even help them know how to get around a tree in the middle of the street :)
I hope you are all feeling very grateful this time of year. I sure am! I love the gospel, I love my Father in Heaven, and I love you! Have a great Thanksgiving!!
Love, Sister K
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