Goodnight, Sweet Dreams Babies

Hey guys!

Well it doesn't sound like the Reese home is better off without me. I remember when we put in the tile in our kitchen and I got to help. I am pretty sure that is where I learned to use a power drill because there are all these X´s on the floor and you have to put a screw in each one. 

I also remember I went in the kitchen barefoot and caught my foot on a screw and it ripped a huge chunk of skin off my foot. 

Sounds like Dad is getting a good calling (Bill is teaching High Priests once a month now). I have a very strong testimony about Preach my Gospel. If you ever want to learn how to teach someone there are SO many tips in there. 

More than anything it just asking people questions to keep them interested and then you slowly lead the questions to the point of your lesson. 

I had no idea that Dad baptized Todd. That is super cool. Sometimes as a missionary all you can do is hand someone a Book of Mormon and tell them that you know for a fact the things in that book can and will help them if they are willing to do what it says. I can promise that it is true and I hate to see so many people that don't want it. 

Duke seems to be doing better just looks like a dork. Everyone already made fun of him for having funny ears and now he is just like the Erkle of the dog world. 

 

We still have some baptismal dates but we haven't been able to visit two of them so far this week. I hope that tonight or tomorrow we will be able to. 

Yea I am getting a little higher up there in time! (Hunter has been out almost a year!) I don't know what the heck happened but here we are. 

I will come home and then leave to go figure out how to be independent in the real world and after I have that down I will come back! (I told him I was afraid he was going to come home from his mission, leave my house and never come back :))

Bishop and Sister Black send me an email about 3 times a month with a little scriptural thought and I always respond with my thoughts. He was the Bishop of my youth. I remember having my baptismal interview with him actually. Then those embarrassing tithing interviews where he would always ask me that if I made money would I pay tithing on it. 

Sister Whitesides insisted that we go out to lunch for Valentines day and they took us to this place called the Gringo. It was like a wing and burger place. I loved it! 

They got a bunch of appetizers and when I wasn't eating Sister Whitesides leaned over to me and said that I had to try something on the table. So I tried the onion rings because I was not about to eat a cheesy stuffed Jalapeño. It wasn't so bad but I needed more sauce. 

Then we had a zone conference which is a little different because I am in the office. We watch the AP´s prepare everything so we literally know the whole presentation before we get there. 

Granted, President and Sister Whitesides always have good new stuff to say to us. 

Last night me and Elder Eldredge were walking down the street and we always say ¨Buenas.¨ which is like saying hi.  As we were walking we said it to this lady and she looked at us and said ¨Goodnight, sweet dreams babies.¨ but she sounded like a man. She looked and sounded just like the Ugly Stepsister in Shrek. The one that works at the bar. It was frightening. 

Anyways, I will share anything else in my voice recording! Love you guys! 

Con amor,

I Accepted Juice That Was Made From Water Kept In a Gasoline Can

Hey guys,

                This week has been great! We had consejo which is when all the leaders in the mission get trained about what we need to do better.

The secretaries always give presentations and it is by far the best part because we always pimp out our presentations. The AP's give one too, but they choose not to be fun.

We got reference from the Zone Leaders this week. Her name is A and she attended church in their ward like 4 times and then she moved.

They didn’t have her address so we had to call them and ask. They didn’t quite know it either so they guided us while we were on the phone.

When we got to the house it ended up being two young girls and one of them, A, was pregnant and is about to have her baby at any moment.

The other is her friend, J, who I am pretty sure was only listening because we are two gringos that showed up at her door.

It was a super good first lesson though. She had attended church but never had time before then to listen to the missionaries.

We have started teaching this Mom and her daughter and they turned out to be Hindu. I don’t quite know how that works but we are teaching them anyways.

I am scared to go to their house because they are vegetarians and the mom is a Yoga instructor. That screams terrible taste in food.

They believe in God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. They have different names she said but we all know that is not true.

When we were talking about the Plan of Salvation they explained that they believe in reincarnation.

They believe that when we die, we will be judged according to our works here on the Earth. The big difference is that they think we have unlimited chances to live this life correctly. They think that until we follow God and his commandments we will be given an endless amount of lives. Wouldn’t that be nice to never have to do what is right?

I nicely explained that Jesus Christ died for us and that they were in agreement with that. They said yes. I then asked them how many lives he lived here on Earth. They responded one.

I then asked them if they thought God would create a plan where everyone got unlimited opportunities to live this life except for His only begotten son Jesus Christ. They didn’t want to respond to that one very much.

If you want someone to learn something new that goes against their own beliefs you don’t teach it to them. You make them teach themselves through questions like that. If you can lead someone to answer the logical questions that are involved with the Gospel of Jesus Christ it is impossible to deny. 

Also, yesterday between us 4 we put three baptismal dates for this upcoming month. 

Two of them are a couple that don't live together that have a little 11 month old baby together and the other is an amazing woman that lost two of her children to gang violence within a year of each other. 

I just really hope we can make all these good things happen that are starting to happen in our area. 

I have started to get better at my job in the office which allows me to do it faster than before which allows to get out to our area sooner everyday. 

Anyways, that was basically my week in a nutshell. I will let you guys know more in detail in my voice recording because it is easier. 

As for my blanket I love it so much that it is all sprawled out on my bed and I use it when I sleep. Sister Whitesides saw it when she came to the house the other day and she loved it. 

It sounds like Duke is all better apart from the lack of hair. 

Yes Grandpa did call me and it was very unexpected. He called me during transfers which was a very busy time. When I saw the international number on my cell phone I thought that one of the missionaries I had sent home the day before had a problem or didnt make it home or something but when I answered it some latina lady answered it in English with an accent asking for Hunter. 

I almost said no but then I remembered that that was actually my name so I said yes and she said okay your Grandpa is here on the line. Then I talked to Grandpa and he just made small talk and we talked a little bit and he asked how long I think it would take to get from Cartagena to Cali.

This week I accepted juice that was made from water that is kept in a gasoline can. (I'm not sure what that has to do with anything!)

Anyways, love you all tons have a great week! 

Con amor,

I Was Like Dead

Hey guys!

So this week was absolutely exhausting. 

This week was transfer week and of course I didn't get transferred. For the whole mission, transfers mean that it is one day every 6 weeks in the mission and sometimes you go and sometimes you stay. For the office crew it is a little different. 

Monday is the day when every one does the traveling and the day that the missionaries going home do a training and spend the day with President and Sister Whitesides. It pretty much means that we have to babysit them for a day. 

The next morning (Tuesday) all the missionaries that finished go home and the new missionaries get here. Also if there are any missionaries that live in the mission boundaries that are from district I do all their travel stuff as well. 

The Tuesday morning started at 1:15am. I had to take two missionaries to the airport. I got them through to their planes and then had to be back to the house to be ready to leave by 5am. We got home at 4am and slept on the couch for like 30 minutes and then had to take a sister and an Elder to the airport. 

We sent them off at around 5:45 and I was waiting for a sister that was leaving on a mission that I had met the day before when she got set apart. She is from Palmira which is the zone I started the mission in. 

She got there and she only had one bag and I had told them that they were allowed two bags that both could weigh 23 kilos each. While we were waiting in line I asked them how much it weighed and they said they didn't know but that it shouldn't be that much. I asked if I could try lifting it and I almost threw out my back. It definitely didn't weigh 23 kilos (50 lbs.) 

When we weighed it, it weighed 35 kilos (almost 80 lbs.) and they definitely couldn't pay the overweight fee so we started unpacking things to take out. I even took all the things out of my bag so that she could take it but there was still no way. I got a prompting to call Elder Wright who was bringing the rest of the missionaries to the airport. 

As I called they were picking up the sisters. I told him to ask Sister Hernandez if they had an extra luggage bag. They happened to have one. 

We waited for the group and when they got there I ran through the airport to get the bag and we rushed her through the line. 

We said good bye to her and to all the other missionaries and ate some breakfast. 

This was about 8:10am. 

The new missionaries got there at about 9. I took them to the notary and we did some stuff there. 

I didn't start to feel super tired until about 5pm. I was like dead. My presentation made no sense because I couldn't speak either one of the languages I thought I knew. 

I still had to do a format for them to go to immigration the next day and was at the office until 9pm doing that. It was terrible. 

We got everything done on Wednesday and it all worked out but boy was I tired.

Yesterday I had to take a missionary to the airport that I had just barely received last transfer. It was a sad day. 

Anyways, other than that the week has gone by pretty quick.

My companion and me were crawling into bed and he asked me ¨Elder Reese how does nothing ever bother you?¨ 

I had no idea how to respond. I remember when I was little it drove me nuts to watch someone laugh at me or make fun of me about anything. 

I think that one day I just realized how much easier life was when I just laughed at things and pretended like they don't really bother me until they really don't. 

I just told him that he needed to just find his own way to vent things. His own way to brush things off until they are forgotten about. 

I love you guys and I will send a voice recording to go along with this email for more details!! 

Con amor,

Hey guys!

So this week was absolutely exhausting. 

This week was transfer week and of course I didn't get transferred. For the whole mission, transfers mean that it is one day every 6 weeks in the mission and sometimes you go and sometimes you stay. For the office crew it is a little different. 

Monday is the day when every one does the traveling and the day that the missionaries going home do a training and spend the day with President and Sister Whitesides. It pretty much means that we have to babysit them for a day. 

The next morning (Tuesday) all the missionaries that finished go home and the new missionaries get here. Also if there are any missionaries that live in the mission boundaries that are from district I do all their travel stuff as well. 

The Tuesday morning started at 1:15am. I had to take two missionaries to the airport. I got them through to their planes and then had to be back to the house to be ready to leave by 5am. We got home at 4am and slept on the couch for like 30 minutes and then had to take a sister and an Elder to the airport. 

We sent them off at around 5:45 and I was waiting for a sister that was leaving on a mission that I had met the day before when she got set apart. She is from Palmira which is the zone I started the mission in. 

She got there and she only had one bag and I had told them that they were allowed two bags that both could weigh 23 kilos each. While we were waiting in line I asked them how much it weighed and they said they didn't know but that it shouldn't be that much. I asked if I could try lifting it and I almost threw out my back. It definitely didn't weigh 23 kilos (50 lbs.) 

When we weighed it, it weighed 35 kilos (almost 80 lbs.) and they definitely couldn't pay the overweight fee so we started unpacking things to take out. I even took all the things out of my bag so that she could take it but there was still no way. I got a prompting to call Elder Wright who was bringing the rest of the missionaries to the airport. 

As I called they were picking up the sisters. I told him to ask Sister Hernandez if they had an extra luggage bag. They happened to have one. 

We waited for the group and when they got there I ran through the airport to get the bag and we rushed her through the line. 

We said good bye to her and to all the other missionaries and ate some breakfast. 

This was about 8:10am. 

The new missionaries got there at about 9. I took them to the notary and we did some stuff there. 

I didn't start to feel super tired until about 5pm. I was like dead. My presentation made no sense because I couldn't speak either one of the languages I thought I knew. 

I still had to do a format for them to go to immigration the next day and was at the office until 9pm doing that. It was terrible. 

We got everything done on Wednesday and it all worked out but boy was I tired.

Yesterday I had to take a missionary to the airport that I had just barely received last transfer. It was a sad day. 

Anyways, other than that the week has gone by pretty quick.

My companion and me were crawling into bed and he asked me ¨Elder Reese how does nothing ever bother you?¨ 

I had no idea how to respond. I remember when I was little it drove me nuts to watch someone laugh at me or make fun of me about anything. 

I think that one day I just realized how much easier life was when I just laughed at things and pretended like they don't really bother me until they really don't. 

I just told him that he needed to just find his own way to vent things. His own way to brush things off until they are forgotten about. 

I love you guys and I will send a voice recording to go along with this email for more details!! 

Con amor,

 

Elder Reese

The Pressure

Hey guys,

So this week was good. As most of you know I share my area with my companion and 2 other Elders. They happen to the be the APs and I love them to death. The problem is that planning for two groups every day and working with other missionaries every night is kind of difficult. 

One thing you learn as a missionary is how to work with a companion. Usually after every transfer when you get a new companion it takes a week or so to tune in your teaching skills so you can support each other where it is needed. 

Here, we are always changing so it feels almost like every night you have to change the way you teach so that you support each other and compliment each other well. 

The other part is the APs leave a lot for things with President and it is just us two which has its pros but the cons is a lot of times we have a lot more appointments than we can handle. We have all been trying really hard to make the most of the time that we have. 

As a missionary I have learned a lot about pressure. In life people always feel pressured for some reason. Whether it is to be a good parent or look nice or be fit or do something well it is all around us. As a missionary it is not much different except for there aren't very many variations. 

Sometimes you teach someone and they are so ready and willing to change and then for some reason they stop wanting to listen or they start breaking a certain commandment or don't want to come to church anymore. And you feel bad sometimes. You ask yourself whether or not there was something that you could have said or done to allow them to make other decisions. 

As I was thinking about some of these things (not in a depressed sense more of like what can I do better type of thing) I ran into a scripture that I had not read in a while. It is in Alma 26:27. It talks about how their hearts were depressed and they were about to turn back and the Lord comforted them and said go back to your brethren that are in the land of Nephi and BEAR WITH PATIENCE THINE AFFLICTIONS I will give unto you success. 

I hope that you can remember those comforting words. When life has come back around kicked you in the head or knocked you down and you just wanna throw your hands up and give up remember: God promises you success if you just go and try again and the punches arent gonna hurt anymore. You will be able to turn everything around and make it a success. This is not only a promise from me but it is a promise from  God and Heavenly Father. Please remember these things. 

Anyways, that is a message I just felt prompted to give. Because in reality this week a lot of good things happened in our area. 

D is no longer on our radar. He cant stop drinking. He literally cannot leave it behind. That makes me sad but his time will come. 

J and S- They are a couple that live together that aren't married but J was an investigator a long time ago and now he wants to be baptized and this week we set a marriage date for them! 

LD - She is a younger girl that lives in a part member family. She is really starting to progress and her mom is a member which is really nice. 

M E - She is a lady that we taught about 1 1/2 months ago and she pretty much just gave us a big no. But I got a call on my phone Tuesday morning and there was a lady asking me if I knew a M E. I replied yes but wanted to know why. She explained that she had found a Cedula (it is like the Colombian equivalent of a drivers license but they use them a lit more here) and that the only form of contact she had found with these things was a little card with my number on it. 

I had given her a light the world card in December and put my number on it in case she changed her mind about listening to us. Apparently she had put it with her cedula. 

We stopped by her house later that night and explained what had happened and why and she was very grateful and we asked if we could share a quick message with her. She let us in and then we had a very spiritual lesson where she explained all her family issues and how she felt far away from God. Since then we have taught her 2 more times and she is just loving it. All because a silly little piece of paper that we decided to give to her. 

Na - Her best friend is a member and the daughter of a very great member couple and she already expressed to us her desire to get baptized and now it is just a wait to give her the lessons. 

So that is the progress with my investigators. I am some what ready for transfers. Buying these plane tickets was terrible because there were a couple missionaries that live in the middle of no where. Hermana Huayta lives in a legit village in Bolivia. Hermana Diaz lives on an island in Chile. I just hope it all works out. 

I have not gotten Grandmas package yet. I am very ready for it though! 

I hope Ty and Dyl are happy. I saw a lot of pictures and videos and it makes me happy to see them happy!

By the way Alex is the kid that came to our house a couple of times that didn't go to Middleton that was really good. 

Anyways that is what I have! I love you guys a ton! Be safe! 

Con amor,

I Taught Them Black Magic

Hey Family and Friends,

                Weeks are just flying by! You always hear missionaries talking about how the time just flies while you're on a mission and then you get there and you feel very deceived. Then you start feeling it a bit too and you realize that time does go by super fast.

         

       We had our interviews this week with President and Sister Whitesides. It is different in the office. We are around each other all the time so they know everything that goes on.

                The interview is more like just getting to know each other better and making sure we don’t have any issues. We usually laugh a lot in my interview and just take a couple minutes to relax.

                I had to ask if there was a way that I could do my job better and he said no and said that he feels bad because when there is a problem that comes up it always lands in my hands. I get phone calls all the time from people that say they just talked to President about something and that he gave them my number to call.

                I have been reading a lot in Heleman lately. Heleman is all about the changes in the judgement seat and the Gadianton robbers. It is also the book where the Nephites start to be really wicked. One thing I noticed was that it mentions how God blessed them with all their riches and they still became prideful and turned away from him.

                Never think that you ever earned anything alone. Nothing we have in life is ONLY through our own merits. God helps us in every step we take but he never makes us take the first one he just is always there to help up us with the last one.

                We had 2 family home evenings this week. The first was great. We taught at a members house and they invited some neighbors over. It was a total of 3 neighbors and one was from Venezuela which is always a good sign.

                We shared a quick message about the importance of always moving forward (2 Nephi 31:20) If you are moving forward then Christ is with you. If you aren’t doing anything with your life he is not. It is that simple. We played a game called white magic that I will show you guys when I get home. They all loved it.  Then we had English classes and that was good. Only 2 people came this week.

                Then we had another family home evening with the Bishop and his family. No investigators came but it was a good chance to get to know the members and gain their trust. They knew the white magic game, so I showed them our black magic game. They loved it a ton. They had never seen it before so they were super frustrated they couldn’t figure it out.

                So Tyson is coming home on Monday? I didn’t know the date had come up so 

soon. That is really crazy.

                As for my companions and the office staff we are all still the same. There is a chance that one of them might leave at transfers though but we won't know until then. I had to deal with a huge itinerary problem this week. A sister wanted to go home to a country she didn’t have documents to because her parents are there but I am not allowed to send a missionary I am in charge of to a country that they can't stay in so her family is like super stressing and talking to me every five minutes. 

                Anyways that was my week. Love you guys!

Con Amor,

I Am Not Going Anywhere

Well hi family,

This week has been interesting!

Sunday night we found a couple walking uphill very slowly and we stopped and talked to them. The husband had an accident about 6 months ago when he fell off a 3 story building doing construction. He is now able to walk very slowly but with breaks as he does so.

As we walked with them we learned that they were moving the next day just down the road from where they currently lived.

Before even thinking I offered to help them move. They declined at first saying that it embarrassed them to have us help them. I continued insisting on it and they accepted. We walked them back to their house to know where it was and wrote down their information for the next day.

The problem was that every Monday we have an office meeting to talk about what we are going to do that week and what needs to get done and Presidente and Sister Whitesides always set special time aside.

I called the Bishop to help me and he never got back to me so the next morning I called my district leader and he went to help them on his Pday which was very nice of him. So far we have not gotten a visit with them but we will soon.

This week was a little crazy. One Elder from El Salvador went home on Thursday but with honor. I prepared all of his things to leave and he had all of his stuff ready Wednesday night.

When missionaries go home they are given an envelope which contains certain things about their mission and what not for their stake president. It is basically how they are released as missionaries.

We had to be at the airport at 2:30am. His flight left at 5:30 and it was international.

I always make a smaller envelope for them to use with their identification and health papers while they are traveling.

After we checked his bag we were walking to the door and I handed him that envelope. Upon seeing that smaller envelope his eyes got big and he said ¨Elder Reese I have bad news.¨

I asked him what he forgot. He said he had forgotten the other envelope which I had given him the night before for his checked baggage.

At this point it was 3am and the gate to his flight closed at 4:25. We were about 40 minutes away from the house one way. There was no way we could go get it. We ended up calling other missionaries to bring it from the house. He made it home but it was not what I wanted to be doing at 3am.

A couple hours later that same day I had to send off an Elder that was going home early. It was the first one I have home like that. It was hard to watch a good missionary get on his plane before time was up. I don’t want to do that again.

Needless to say Thursday made me tired for the rest of the week. I try to go to bed early but it never works.

Dario is really progressing again. He has a new baptismal date for February 17^th. I really hope the Lord shows us what we need to do better this time to help him. 

I got my glasses. I will try and take a picture if I can. It was cool to see better. It was a bit tiring on my eyes the first couple of days.

I hope Duke is getting better. I hope that dork learned a lesson.It sounds like grandma got to spend time at our house. Remember that Mom. When I ask you to come help me when I don’t have time to like watch my dog or my kids you gotta come swooping in like Grandma Wanda.

I did get to watch President Monson´s funeral. We watched it together here in the office. It was a very good ceremony. His daughter is an interesting speaker. I noticed that every speaker gave thanks to everyone before they started their talk. They all thanked anyone and everyone that they felt they need to before doing anything else. I thought that was really cool.

My Pdays have been like this for a while though mom. I don’t know how much longer you are going to need to get used to it but it is going to be like this for a while.  (I told him that I was having a hard time getting used to his Pday on Saturday)

As for transfers, they are on the 28^th of January. I have to prepare lots of stuff. It will be boring for everyone if I explained it all but just know I have stuff to do.

Elder Alcorta will be leaving the office this transfer. He is the Elder from Argentina. Elder Stucki as well. I don’t know yet if my companion will be leaving but there is a chance. I know for a fact that I am not going anywhere though so that is news.

Anyways, have a good week everybody!! Love you all!

Con amor,

I Love Going to English Class

Hey family,

So this week has been going good so far. I am writing this on Tuesday night. 

So we had no money in the office for the last like 2 weeks because it is the end of the year and we have to close the accounts. Needless to say it is hard to run an office without money. We have all been avoiding doing any errands and it is really slowing things down.We have money now though so it is all turning around. 

I still have some hot cheetos and some gardettos and the littler snacks Santa gave me. 

Me and Elder Wright went out on Monday and all of our appointments fell through by like 7 o{clock. It also just so happened to be pouring rain. Which is perfect for contacting. When you are all wet from the rain it is a lot easier to get sympathy points. 

We contacted a whole bunch of people and Elder Wright had just turned to me and said his is some of the best contacting that I have ever done, right as we knocked on a door. The guy came up to the window and asked us who we were and I went to shake his hand and he just laughed and said "No les creo," which means I don't believe you. He then proceeded to walk away and ignore us. Elder Wright really jinxed us.

We have hit week 3 of this transfer which means that I am about to be calling families again. It got a little hectic trying to request flights and get them at the times we want. 

These last couple of days I have really seen how God chooses his leaders. 

President Whitesides never forgets ANYTHING. There are 4 secretaries in the office and he reminds all of us of things we had forgotten about in our one and only job. I don't believe there is any other way for someone to do that unless it be through God.  

 

This morning President Whitesides sent us a text to let us know that our beloved Prophet Thomas Spencer Monson had passed away the night before at 10 PM in his home.  I remember very little of President Gordon B. Hinkley and a little about the day he died. With President Monson it is different. He was the prophet that signed my mission call to send me here.  Do you guys remember the last words he personally gave to us in April?  It was about the Book of Mormon. That the time for strong testimonies in the Book of Mormon is now. If you don't have a strong testimony in the Book of Mormon now is the time to get one. 

God preserves his leaders until they can fulfill the divine nature of their calling. It is a sad day to see him go but it is also a sign that Thomas S. Monson served the Lord with everything he had and he gave us everything the Lord needed him to. There is no doubt in my mind that he is somewhere with his wife that he loved so much in a much better place.

Hey fun fact. I need glasses. I took an eye exam for free because Elder Pizarro had to go and do  some stuff so I went with him. After the test the dude explained to me that my eye sight is good but it is still failing me. He said that glasses will definitely make me see better and they will start to balance out my bad eyesight and make it perfect so that I wont need glasses when I am older. The mission doesn't cover that though so that is something we need to talk about.

We found drunk D again but this time he told us that he had a dream that God told him he needed to learn more about the Book of Mormon. He was drunk though so I don't know how much we can weigh on that. 

We had record attendance to our English classes though. There were 11 people. Elder Whiting had the class this time and he is a funny guy. He was from the first group I received at the office which means he has like less than 2 transfers in the mission. He is super happy and a good teacher he just lacked a little confidence that I made up for.  There is this little boy and his sister that always come to classes and their dad owns a pizza place and after the class he always gives us a free big pizza! I love going to English classes. 

Also, this week I have used a lot of taxis because I did a lot of errands this week.  I had a great experience though. Me and Elder Pizarro were in a taxi coming back from somewhere and he started talking to the taxi driver but he wasn't very talkative. He just answered questions very briefly. I figured I might as well make him laugh and get to know him so I started to talk to him and he started to open up a little bit more.  It turns out he is from Venezuela. He has been here a little over a year but his family is still in Venezuela. His two daughters and his wife. There are a lot of Venezuelan immigrants here in Colombia and they are usually some of the best investigators. 

We were getting close to the office so Elder Pizarro asked him a question. He said ¨If God and Christ were right in front of you here on the Earth and you had one question to ask what would it be?¨ He thought about it and replied ¨Why is there so many bad things in this world and why does he let it happen?¨ 

Immediately I thought of a scripture in Alma 14 when Alma and Amulek couldn't save all the people from being killed because it wasn't Gods will. I pulled out a Book of Mormon that I had ironically placed in my bag right before leaving for this errand. It was actually the first time I had taken my bag with us. 

As we pulled up to the office I gave it to him explaining what it was just a little and he seemed somewhat interested but then I told him that it was a gift and it was free. I will never forget the way his face lit up as I said that. He just couldn't stop looking through his new gift. He thanked us so sincerely. As we entered our building he was already reading the chapter I had left for him.

I don't know what has happened with him or what will but I know God put us in that taxi. 

So we went to the zoo today and I didn't take my camera so oops. Elder Sarnowski did though so I will send from his camera. 

Anyways that was my week! I love you guys! 

Con Amor,