Spring Time

We have three baptisms coming up this Sunday. Stephanie Mendoza's cousins who are two girls kind of in the same situation as her with a member mom and a non-member dad, and who have been taught on and off for a while, have decided to get baptized. So we're teaching them and preparing them for that. And because they're doing it, Stephanie (and her mom) has finally decided she needs to get baptized, and she's actually going to stand up to her dad about it because the last thing we heard was he didn't want her baptized until she's 18. But if her mom will support her, then she can do it. So yeah! After personally teaching her for almost 7 months, I'm so glad she's going to do it! They're all living like members, just not getting the blessings from being baptized. So this is fantastic. In the mission the goal for every companionship is to have a baptism every transfer; that's the standard and the goal of faith is 2. So we're good to go; any other baptisms are just bonuses. And we plan on having a couple more. We had zone conference this week, and the president always gives us a topic to prepare a talk for and someone's name is randomly picked to talk. That was me. Yeah. “Seeking charity by first loving your companion.” I'm loving, right?

Sister Fatkin took off to her new area last week with her new companion and so we've been a twosome for almost a week now. It's working out really well. Training in a threesome was sort of hard for a while with too many people saying too many things. Sister Lewis and I get along really well and have a lot of fun. She's from Sandy, and has never lived away from home, but she's doing great; I know she misses her family, and that's okay. I'm just trying to keep us teaching. She has a really strong testimony and really cares about people, especially wants to help teenagers. That's probably good, because I guess I feel like I understand the teenagers, or maybe feel like I am one, so I end up being pretty straight forward with them. Sister Lewis is more compassionate. We're a good combination that way I think. Our mission goal is basically to teach 20 lessons a week: 10 other lessons, 5 with a member, and 5 to recent convert/less actives. I love teaching the RCLA probably the most. These are people who either have the fire, or once had it. It's like a little challenge trying to get them to keep or get that fire again. This week we had a lot of those lessons and 5 member lessons and only 6 other lessons. When we don't have someone to teach, or everything is falling through, we try to teach members. We just show up at their house and teach them the lessons. We hope that if they see us teaching them all the time, they'll say to themselves that we should be teaching other people, not them, and then they'll help us find new people. We're working on it. Things are going really well though. It's crazy that general conference is only in 2 weeks. Another conference in Spanish-ah! At least this time I will understand it more. I think my Spanish is still improving. Probably not as rapidly as I want it to, and I still don't sound like a Mexican, but I'm trying. Who knows how long I'll be in a Spanish area;I just want to keep speaking the language and eating their rice and salsa and tortillas. Which by the way dad, I will be able to make you some fantastic salsa that you will love when I get home. I just need some tomatillos-do you think you can grow those? How are all the baby mommas doing? I hope there's a new baby this week! I will celebrate baby Sally's birthday all week, just in case. Take some good pictures for me and send them soon! Oh yeah, and Sprouts, have fun on your cruise!!! Enjoy Mexico---land of my people! Things are going fantastically and I am doing super duper! Love you all!