Buenos días todos! It was zone conference week! Which is always the craziest week ever if you are in leadership and the most fun as well. Let's get right into it.
Monday: We had dinner with the Watsabaugh family who I love so much and discussed how they know a whole 5 generations of people who lived in Missouri before I came around! Pretty crazy right? Then we tried to get home but I don't know what happened every single road was closed, blocked off with flares, and the freeway was too! We wended up having to take 35 minutes minutes drive home instead of 7! That put us really behind, but we came home, planned our training for Zone Conference and it was super fun! More on that later.
Tuesday: Today was the last day of the PMG challenge on the mission and we loved blasting through the whole thing in 14 days! It showed me how much I still haven't utilized from that book! We did lots of meetings and studies today, but did manage to get out and knock a few doors as well. Sadly no one new to teach but we will get them soon. We both had really effective language studies and it was nice to really hone in on what I want to do with the time I have left involving my studies.
Wednesday: This morning we drove up to Canyon Springs and did a little comp study blitz exchange. We stayed for two hours and had an amazing comp study focused on feeling the spirit and then went out to lunch with the Sisters! Insert face palm emoji because we forgot to take a picture so sorry. We headed home after lunch hand got our car squeaky clean for zone conference. Then we did some language study, and headed off to Hand Up to teach English classes. I absolutely love teaching English, it is probably one of the highlights of my mission. Right now we have so many people in this big warehouse room that we are all teaching different classes by ourselves. I'm teaching the very beginners class and using my Spanish as much as I can! It has been fun to learn from the students and to let them know we are learning too. I love my class! We will have to tale a picture next week.
Thursday: Zone Conference day! We woke up, got ready and walked outside and a sprinkler had broke and our car was covered in hard water...... we were so sad because our squeaky clean car was ruined! We tried to clean it off the best we could with the few minutes we had and then rushed to Vegas Zone. Zone Conference was awesome the theme was more fit forth Kingdom. We had some fun team building games which really helped me get to know a few more people now that I'm the old grandma around here. Then we did our training which was all about area book basics and things you should know. We went with a scout camp theme and had a blast doing scout cheers and advancing over the bridge of accomplishment at the end of each training. Sister Tveten gave her departing testimony which was mega triste and I realized six weeks from now I will be doing the same thing....... AHHH! I'm super not ready for that. After zone conference we managed to squeeze in 4 appointments! We had an amazing lesson with Elisabeth and taught her the Restoration and she loved it. Her brother Abraham sat in and had lots of good questions. Together it was a super good day. Then we went from there to dinner with the Cahoon family and then off to HandUp to take pictures and videos for our upcoming self reliance kick off. We ended the day with tres leches and charlando with the Fuentes family and we had a normal conversation! I told stories, answered their questions, and understood everything they said. It was beautiful and a huge confidence builder in the Spanish department.
Friday: This morning we had a move for a non member friend of someone in our ward and they were so nice! We were able to help for a few hours and then we went to zone conference part 2 to watch the trainings. Honestly, I wish I could say I learned something, but I honestly did not.... sad..... I think it's because we already knew the topics and everything everyone was supposed to train on. After zone conference part two we did weekly planning and then had dinner with the Smith family. They took us to this fancy Mexican place in their Audi and it was kinda boujee. We were having so much fun. There was live mariachi and we left full and loving life. We came home and listened to a devotional in Spanish while cutting out so many bears for a service project the ward is doing. Somehow we got stuck finishing the rest of them? It was fun though! I'll send a picture of our room aka fabric store. Sister Susman was in heaven.
Saturday: The Stake women's conference was today and they did a fabulous job. The classes were amazing and I listened to the whole thing being translated into Spanish which was lots of fun. I think it helped the branch feel less awkward too so win win. We were talking to the translator after and she said she couldn't do it without the spirit and I don't blame her! Everyone talked so fast today. We also learned some awesome self defense moves and I am legitimately going to try Brazilian Jujitsu when I get home because it was so stinking fun. That, and it was a fabulous workout. Then we had 6 back to back appointments. We started with Sister Maynez and that was a blast! She is so kind and we enjoyed getting to know her better and making her feel loved. Then it was off to Luz Fatima and her kiddos! We did a little FHE with them, helped Emaunel with sight words because his poor momma can't read in English, then we jumped on the trampoline with them! Hopefully that isn't against the rules? I didn't recall trampoline in there and I've read it a couple hundred times. Anyway, after that cute family we headed to Leticia and brought her some left over flowers from the conference. She had friends over so we were able to share a quick scripture and say hi to Lauren and the baby! Lauren kept taking off her pants (she's 2) and flashing everyone which was quite hysterical and actually got Leticia to laugh and open up which we hadn't seen her do before. After her house we went to visit Beatrice who was making Mole, Chicken, and Arroz and mmmmm I love chicken and I have never had better, we had a dinner right after but in that moment it didn't matter because that chicken was sooooo yummy. Finally we ended the day at a dinner in English. They fed us these yummy almond croissants and it reminded me of the Arizona temple trip mornings with my mom and stopping at Kneaders after. Tender moments. We came home and tried to do a little language study before getting ready for bed, but both ended up falling asleep because it was a crazy day.
Sunday: Yet another jam packed day. Our friend Beatrice came to church and brought her two nietos and really enjoyed herself. The boys did too and were drawing the cutest pictures during sacrament. Sister Susman gave a talk and she did a great job! I was super proud of her because it was very last minute she only found out Saturday afternoon. I would have said no so I was proud of her for getting it done. After church take two we went and had a good lesson with Elisabeth and taught her all the commandments. She was so funny and kept saying DUH, OF COURSE to everything like silly Sisters why would I lie?! We were like ok sounds good you're already a pro! She's such a cutie and we are so excited for her baptism next week. After that we had dinner with the Ballard family and they fed us skirt steak and mmmm it was marinated in something yummy. We ended the night with a missionary meeting for all our new ward missionaries and did some training and got to know everyone which was super useful. We thought it was a great idea.
All in all a very busy week, sorry the email was so long, but we jam packed this week full I don't even think we had time to breathe. Here's some pictures!
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