Buenas!

Feliz dia,

There have been 3 cakes (postres) sitting in our fridge this week from Sis. Clark's birthday! If any Latinos start changing "mordida!" at your birthday, you should probably expect your face to be pushed into a cake, because that was what happened to Sis. Clark! She wasn't expecting it at all from our ward missionary! It was hilarious and we caught it on film and showed it to some of the other missionaries and Sis. Jeppson this week.

There was a frantic moment this week that led to some miracles... We were meeting a member sister to visit a less-active member clear at the edge of our area when we realized we hadn't written down the exact address of her house. We called the lady we were to visit but neither of us could understand the other on the phone (language/ she is also about 90 years old) and it was cold and windy outside! The sister we were going with doesn't have a cell phone, and we were feeling bad for being late! Then, I realized I had a ward list in my bag and when I took it out the wind whipped the pages right out of my had and Sis. Clark screamed and we ran after them!

After we finally figured it all out, we stopped to eat at a Latino restaurant called Pollo Campero to warm up before we were going to go home and make some phone calls. That's when I realized I'd lost our mission cell phone. When we left the restaurant, we spotted a sister member at a bus stop and talked to her for a minute. Then Sis. Clark said, "elders!" and I saw the four elders in our ward driving right by us in their van. We ran up to them and told them about the phone and they stopped to help. A few seconds later, another member turned the corner holding two coats that were her daughters and she had previously told Sis. Clark and I that we could have. They had already been washed, but she felt like she should  take them to get washed for us or something at that moment. We bundled up in those coats, the elders miraculously got a hold of a man who had picked up our phone (it was on the grass where we had been chasing the ward list in the wind, apparently) and they went and rescued it for us. We have decided that, like babies and puppies, God and people have mercy on poor, helpless things like missionaries and we get taken care of.

 

I love you all! We are switching into FINDING mode now. Our investigators, Monica and Israel, still haven't kept their commitment to come to church. But Monica said she feels the Holy Ghost in her home more since we've been visiting and notices a difference in her family when we don't visit for a few days. She has been teaching her little girls to pray. We are focusing on prayer this month in the mission and it has definitely helped me to keep going. Life is good, but hard sometimes. I love you all!

Love, 

Hermana Martin

Pictures of my district and zone last transfer. My district was all sisters and our District Leader, Elder Cuevas, and his companion! Sister Blair (on the left of my companion), was waiting for her visa to go to Brazil and now she is there. We have some pretty goofy, fun, spiritually-strong missionaries here in our districts and zones! Sis. Clark and I are the only Spanish-speaking sisters in Zone 1!