Week 12--October 20, 2014

Week 12--October 20, 2014

fun to hear from everyone :) sounds like all is well and everyone is busy and having fun..also cant wait to see pictures from halloween from everyone! :)

my week was good, we had the change meeting today (every 6 weeks) so it was a marking point for me. i made it through my first change and my companion is on her last! haha its kind of hard to not think about home and normal life thought when she is on her way out...oh well

our water heater broke this week so we have been taking ice cold showers every morning..part of the adventure i guesss :P

we found some new investigators this week but we have been having trouble holding onto them, they keep disappearing. we will see what happens though...we had a ward talent show sat night and Sara (the investigator who is basically a member but needs to marry her ¨husband¨first lol) brought Omar (her partner who has never really been interested but is now listening in on some of our lessons with her and has come to a few activities!) and this guy we found knocking doors showed up and i ended up talking deep doctrine and teaching the entire first lesson and discussing all his questions (he has read a TON about religion and had a bad experience with the church before but told us we were the answer to his prayer the day we stopped by and has been happy to talk with us so far) while we waited for the activity to start..haha kinda crazy. we sang a few hymns in the show and it went pretty well! sorry my emails are crazy scattered..it all just comes out stream-of-consciousness style and sometimes its all over the place, also i forget what ive said in past emails :P

but ya so saturday night was good. also jocelyn is our investigator who came with Ornella, the daughter of the menos activo family to church when Ornella brought her pelolo and she has a son who is about 4 but she didnt really like church cuz it was so long and she has problems with depression so it was really hard to track her down and help her and teach her last week and we almost lost her i think but this week we stopped by and she was so much better! we invited her to baptism again and she said no right now but maybe later on and she wants us to keep visiting :)

we also found a lady this week that was super interesting..her name is pamela and she basically told us her house is haunted and she is very sensitive to spiritual things, such as the bad energy in her house and she has had some crazy spiritual experiences in the past. she was pretty receptive and we are hoping she will be able to feel the power of the book of mormon and start praying again (she is scared to becasue in the past when she prayed scary things would happen to her daughter). it made me think about how one time dad and i discussed how Satans tactics have changed since the time of Christ and how now he mostly just tries to convince us that there is no devil and therefore no God and that is why there arent possesed people anymore or something..but i guess people like Pamela are common here and i realized its probably different here since everyone already believes in God. Satans tactics can be different. its a little scary to realize how real the power of evil is..but we are excited to see what happens with Pamela´s family.

the family that came to the english class was the one who said they arent really interested (at least the mom who has family that are members), but maybe the husband and daughters (the ones that dont know english and are in our class) will become interested. the daughter is the one who gave me the bracelet she made...they are so sweet. i really want something to happen with them...

also i dont know if i already told you but we have 6 missionaries in our ward, 4 elders and us. its crazy to be in a ward with so many missionaries and the members know the missionaries well since there are so many, not like our ward where there are only two..

ok im going to finish reading emails now and such but im glad everyone is doing well :) love and miss you all!

ashley

ps...i lost my camera cord but took more pictures this week..will try to get a new one or find it and send some next week,..it just takes like 10 min to upload them on this comp, so i might just print some and send them...