He asked us for a BoM (imagine that!)

Beautiful Temecula!!!

For the ward newsletter.... I would like to say thanks to all my leaders from over the years who have taught me so much! Como Dad, Todd, Cody, Bro McGowan, Aaron, Jo, Eric, Jacob, Dan etc don't have time to think too deeply, but try to include all of them. It is extremely important for our ward to work with the local missionaries! The biggest thing that you can do to help them is to honestly ponder on who you could give as references to the missionaries! I know that it is difficult but the amount of baptisms that come from member referrals is on average 1 in 4 while through other means was something to the effect of 1 in 100. If the ward thinks of anyone who they could invite to dinners with the missionaries or even could just use their help with service or something it really helps the work progress!

As far as the guy we taught last week in his garage, we haven't been able to go back and visit him yet :( but we are trying to set up a time with him. His son was either in the hospital or algo asi I can't remember exactly and he works a ton. But right now we have another investigator who I might have forgot to mention before who is progressing really well! His name is G. G was the first person to go on mormon.org and then talk to us about it. He then asked us for a BoM (imagine that!) He has been reading the BoM and this last week he came to Conference and was asking a lot of questions about it. He came for the first session on Sunday and said he had to leave an hour in. He loved it so much that he ended up staying an hour and a half but his wife needed him back so he reluctantly left with as it turns out President Monson being the last speaker. We were sad that he had to miss that but he told us that he really liked the messages from conference and has been texting us all the time! It is so awesome to have an investigator like this!

Before I continue any more I have to share something awesome that happened! You will be very surprised, I was, ha-ha but this last Sunday between sessions of conference there were two baptisms. It was some investigators of the Hermanas in our area. These investigators didn't have any family in the church so we were asked to do the baptisms! Elder Fe and Elder Herrera both baptized the mom who had back problems and I baptized the son named Oscar who is 10. It was so cool! I didn't think that I would have any baptisms soon, especially not one I had never taught! It gets a little crazier too, ha-ha so that morning I realized I have never said the baptism prayer in Spanish so I had to learn it fast but that wasn't a big deal, but what was crazy was President came to the baptism! I guess he comes to baptisms here and there, ha-ha. So President came to the first baptism I had ever done and I ended up going first for some reason, ha-ha I was really nervous but it went well!! It was such an amazing experience!

As far as weird food I haven't really eaten anything besides the pigs ear I mentioned... yet, ha-ha. Although the other day Elder Fe lied to me. We were over at Hno Arena's house having dinner. He is older and sometimes I have a hard time understanding him. Right before we started eating he said something about menudo (that is cow stomach and we aren't allowed to eat it because it makes us really sick). So when we sit down Elder Fe said don't eat the meat. So my plate had a bunch of meat on it and so I was piling the meat up in a corner and trying to cover it with rice to not make it too obvious. Then when we left Elder Fe told me that the meat wasn't menudo but beef and he had been eating the meat when I wasn't looking. So there was that, ha-ha. We usually eat things like pollo, frijoles, tortillas, arroz, taquitos, etc. Also a soup pasole that has bean things and chicken that is also pretty good. There are a few families that will make more American foods too, ha-ha. We usually end up eating with about three families multiple times each week and the others every now and then.

I didn't know the missionaries who got their visas last week, did they get to the MTC at the same time as me? The only news I have heard was this week was that I got a letter in my email entitled visa and when I opened it, it said we haven't received your visa yet but we'll let your mission president know when we do..... I was rather angry with that letter, ha-ha.

Transfers are today and I am still staying here in Temecula with the same companions. We have heard rumors that we might get two new missionaries in our apartment this transfer (We really hope not!!!) One thing that makes me wonder about the progress of Visas though is that Hermana Ruiz (one of the two companions of Hermana Jones who is also going to Argentina) is being transferred and Hermana Jones and Escalante are going to remain with only those two. This means that if she were to get her visa there would have to be some changing done instead of just leaving. That makes me wonder if they are expecting that we won't receive our visas this transfer.. pero no se

Conference was awesome!!! I loved the talks by President Monson, President Uchtdorf, Elder Cook.... All of them, ha-ha. We are supposed to listen to conference in our native language, and I am glad I probably wouldn't have been able to understand it in Spanish after all they seem to use larger words in conference, ha-ha. I think that my favorite talk from this one was the one about peace by Elder Cook!

In drop box there is pictures of our Easter egg hunt (Elder Herrera's first one!) Also there is a picture of when we went to the pizza factory (this was the rest of the Easter funds) and Elder Fe thanked you in the prayer right before we ate! Thanks so much for the Easter stuff! It was a lot of fun!  

Elder Herrera's first Easter egg hunt :)

I haven't got the package yet, but I will probably get it right after emailing right now, that is when we get mail/packages each week!

I love you guys soo much and miss you!!