Week 3 of Transfer 2 in Leon 

 Hello. Quote of the week: "C'mon grampa, he worked really hard on this. Grandpa: So does a washing machine." Bet you can't get it.  Well this week has been excellent and super fast. We went to Astorga which is a pueblo about and hour from Leon. It is very quaint, and very european. I loved it. Not to mention, they have an awesome castle, and cathedral in the center. I looks a little bit like something from Lord of the rings, or a Knight's tale.

MONDAY:

Well.. Let me start off with, my companion collects snowglobes. She has +100 at home, and she has a couple from every area that she has served in. She had looked and looked for a "Leon" snowglobe many a P'day, but to no avail. So after emailing, we went on the hunt, for a snowglobe. We went to 10 diffrent places, and no one had a "Leon" snowglobe she had dreamed of, but then as we were about to turn back, we spotted one more store in the distance. We got inside and asked th clerk if they had the snowglobe in question, and he responded in th affirmative. We weren't sure whether to cry or do karate moves, so we ended up doing both. We found it. After our exodus, we made the trek out to our frineds Norberto and Nalda, and had an english class with them, as well as a lesson of the common ground that we share, ie; families, jesus christ, faith with works, etc. It was really awesome.

TUESDAY:

Ether 12: "6 And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."

I have been pondering, and thinking about this scripture a lot this week. I tried to put it in action, my faith I mean, and i definitley saw some miracles. Well for one, we vivsted our friends Horetensia, and had a great lesson with her, and then afterwards we did some carpeta (Area-book) work, and got a hold of a lot of people and set up some good appointments for this week and next week! THen we ran by our friend Maria Dolores's house. She is doing much better, and seems in high spirits. After that, while "contacting", (having akward conversations with people after you stopped them in the street, and try to get them to listen to you even though its real weird and uncomfortble for all parties involved) we were ble to find three people and get their numbers. THat is noramlly how many numbers we get in week here, so three in one day is pretty insane. Miracles... THen we had a really fun Noche de Jas. It's like a night for yound people to come and play games, and eat food with a lot of trans fat. IT's money. Well we definitely saw many miracles today, and everyday.

WEDNESDAY:

So we have district meetings on Wednesdays. We went to the meetng like normal, and our district leader ( Just a regular missionary like us) had asked us to prepare like a little tught on one of the attributs of Christ. Mine was la esperanza (hope). SO i shared mine and all was good, and then the other elder in our district got up, and siad that he had an object lesson, and that his topic was diligence. He got up, and grabbed a broom. He tried to balance the broom on his hand, and tried to balance it without looking. SO he is a really sweet elder, but honestly i  peed my pants laughing, watching him drop the broom. It wasn't like 2 or three times, but it was like 5 or 6.. His name is elder broadbent, but after that i accidenly calledd him elder broombent.  SO after that, we practiced knocking doors, which is not something we do here a lot because they have doormen, or they have a door on the outside that seperates us, from the apartements, but when the doorman is gone, or the portal door is open, we run in a knock as many doors as possible. Needless to say, we need some practice on not making people feel uncomfortable. SO we were practicing, and we were the people in the house and they were the missionaries, when all of the sudden the didrtict leader stops us, and asks, "Has this been a really akward district meeting, or is it just me. I just feel like i am really akward." It wasnt akward until he said that. It was just funny. Then elder broombent tore his pants. It was awesome. THen afterward we had this really awesome lesson set up with tis guy named yusu. He is from senegal, and we contacted him in th street, and called him and made an appointment with him, which never happens. THen we called our friend mosiah to come with us to the lesson so we would have a member present lesson. We got to his apartment, and are waiting for mosiah to arrive, when all of the sudden i realize that we need a another girl to come with us to the lesson. Well as missinaories we have certain rule for our protection, and one of those is if, since were girls, we are planning on meeting with a man, there needs to be another woman there, either a friend, or memeber, or his wife, or girlfriend or whatever.
So we played the blonde card, and called him and told him that we had this rule and would have to set something up a diffrent day. It truned out good though because he is still interested, and understood.

THURSDAY:

So today we had a great lesson with our friends Mariel, and her daughter Emily. We are working with her to help her to know what her testimony of the Book of Mormon really means. It's going well. Oh man, she gave us these like bran muffins that she made, and they were honestly the best thing that i had ever eaten. I'm not sure if i actually tasted it because it was gone in two bites. After that we went up by the cathedral, and talked to some people and passed by our friend Rosalva's house. SHe wasn't home, so on our way back we met this super sweet lady from Brazil named lidu. She told us that she worked at  a bakery, and showed us some of the cakes that she has made. Let me tell you, I cannot wait to meet with her, so I can eat some cake. We met with our Mission leader, Pedro, and had a meeting about the upcoming Noche de Halloween next friday. We planned everything, and I think that is going to be a success. WE planned on a lot of food, and a lot of candy, so there is really no way to mess tht up, right? I'm going to be a vampire, because I figure I am already really pale, and so I will jut have to buy the teeth, and a cape. 

FRIDAY:

!PUEBLO DAY!

SO today we went to astorga, and it was really Awesome. It is a little city of about 12,000 people, in the country side of Spain. SO if i was ever to move to spain, i would definilty live right outside of astorga, because especially now that it is fall, it is beautiful. We met a ton of really nice people, but we didnt find the success that we were lookinf for there. But we found a few intereste peple, an were able to get  refrence from some prents of thier kid, who lives in Leon, so that was way cool. Also, Astorga is know in spain for it's choclate. I can testify of that. Every street we walked was lined with choclate stores. We boght some right before we left, and it was amazing. I will never be ale to eat other kinds. Only astorga.  

SATURDAY:

Well we hd lots of plans, and things fail us but not big deal. So we pretty much passed by people, and contacted until 7 which is english class. Our frined Somiera came. SHe is a very practicing muslim, and is seriously the coolest person i know. She was telling us about mecca, and how that all worked, and also about how much our religions have in common. It's true. She speaks arabic, spanish, french, and english. I only speak english and redneck spanish, but i'm working on it. MY goal is to leanr spanish for now though. Afterwards, we went to a prak nearby, and waited to meet with our friend Khaled. He is from Sudan. He is super fly. We talked about hope, and how we can overcome all of our problems, and struggles through jesus christ. We felt the spirit really strongly. We invited im to come to the halloween party. 

SUNDAY:

Well we had church, which was really fun. After we had a realy great lesson with our member friend Rosbit, and gave her some animo (fire, or like confidence). THen we visited Maria dolores again, and she is still doing really good. She is amazing to me, because she still reads in the Book of Mormon every night, even though she is really old, and she can't see very well. She is awesome. My companion made some PB cookies that were delish. Then we met like 4 people in the street back to back that were just really awesome, and we were able to give out a book of mormon.

Thanks so much for the emails and the love that you send my way so often. Have a great week!