Drats!

What a week. My feet are so exhausted. Lots of walking. I kinda forgot what it was like to not have a car... but we had an alright week.

This was one of those weeks where we felt like worked hard and took preparations and did our best, but things didn't work out. Which is ok! One of the big life lessons I've learned here is that if you do everything on your part, you don't need to beat yourself up for other people's agency. :) So Although we had a lot of lessons fall through, and not too much luck tracting, we feel like we had a pretty good week.

Why? We had a different member come out with us almost every day, we practiced our lesson plans super well during our studies, we arrived on time to the appointment we had set, so kept in contact with our leaders, and we relied on the Lord to help us.

And yeah, this week, we didn't see too much progress with investigators, and we didn't find anyone new to teach. But Elder Struve and I are SET for the next time we are blessed with an investigator to teach. :)

Little update, we had to drop Raul Arteaga (our baptismal date) as an investigator. He's interested, but his "wife" isn't willing to marry him, and he's not willing to move out of the house. So until he makes some sort of change, he won't be able to be baptized.. Ana looks good for it though so far...? the only thing keeping her is her church attendance. She's doing everything right, but if she doesn't get work off on Sundays, we'll have to push back her date. We're aware of that and working with her pretty close to motivate her to do it. :)

Elder Struve is doing great. He's pretty timid and quiet, but he's got the doctrine DOWN!

I wrote a song about him this week! Some of you might be able to understand this....

En la calle yo anduve.

un bonito dia fue.

un cierto Elder Struve

es lo que encontre.

Pense que fue un arbol

o un nopal de gran altura.

Me di cuenta que fue el,

me mando a mi sepultura.

Cuan largos son sus brazos?

Son dedos o serpientes?

y que peculiar

que el no muestra sus dientes...

su voz es algo suave

como si fuera un flor.

Cuando hable, el convence

a los a su alrededor.

Aunque me da miedo

estar en su proximidad,

es dificil no amarlo

porque yo soy his dad.

If you Google translate that, it's not going to rhyme or be nearly as clever... so... sorry if you don't understand Spanish...

Love you all! Thanks for the emails and the support! (and the valentines day stuff!) 😁