3/26/12

Well i know its been a while since i've sent out one of these emails, but the previous few weeks have been filled with illness and just a lot of uneventful things, but this week was a little better. We got new mission standards from our mission president last week, so me and my comp have been workin our butts off to try and achieve them. and we did pretty well if i do say so myself, preppin a few people for baptism, and havin a good time doin it, livin the good life! We had one cool/sad experience happen this week, so we baptized this guy named felipe a few weeks ago, and his mom is a member of the universal church(which basically worships the devil haha), and she is always just asking us a million questions, and is always telling us how her church is wrong, but she just cant seem to leave it. well earlier this week we were talking to felipe at seminary and he was like hey my mom said that she wants to talk to you guys, so we went over and she was sad because she said that her husband is leaving her, and her church wont help her, so we were finally able to have a good lesson with her, and she was crying by the end and accepted all the invites... but she still didnt go to church on sunday, and decided to go to another universal church in another area... which is really frustrating... but we're making some progress!! we found a bunch of new people to teach this week, so i'm hoping we can turn some of those into some baptisms! so this last saturday was my birthday...woo! not really diggin the whole 20 thing, i feel old haha. it didnt really feel too much like a birthday either, just because i had to work through it like normal day, luckily though i have an awesome companion and awesome ward members that threw me a little party with cake and balloon and some games, so i was super grateful to them, and it actually made it a memorable day. the part that made it most memorable though was the eggs. so in the states we have some weird tradition that you spank people for every year they have on their birthday... well here they do the same thing... but with eggs. so my loving companion bought 20 eggs, and everyone in my house took turns smashing them on my head haha, it kinda hurt, but its all on video, so its a good memory at least ha. well thats all this week!