Chick-fil-a is the Lord's Calories

Hola a Everybody

So the subject line comes from our dear Zone Leader,  Elder Healey. I'm not sure why I thought it was so funny, but I did.  That's all :)

This week was good! Biking in 75 degrees in February seems to work really well by this hermana. Hna Dibble and I actually had a good time biking until her tire blew on Friday and we had to walk the next 3 days. No worries though. We still laughed and had a good time :)

We enjoyed biking in 75 degree weather this week (no coats needed until Sunday).

About our investigators:  Santos, so.... he's not really progressing.  We have a lesson with him this week and we're going to be very firm and if he won't commit to baptism, we will stop teaching him. Yep. I really don't like that. But when people who aren't progressing take time away from other people who need to hear the Gospel, then we need to change that. Sad day. 

FAM COLUMBIA!!! WOOT! I love them. They are Sandra, Martin, Daniella, and Natalia. They're from Columbia and therefore they ARE SO NICE. If it wasn't drug capital of the world, I would live there so fast. Every single person I've ever met from there is so nice. Bless them. This week I tried Columbian food for the first time!! Sandra made us Sudado de Pollo, literally interpreted meaning sweat of chicken. I have no idea why they call it that, but it was super delicious.  And we had guanavana agua which topped it off. I love this culture. Anyway, we haven't taught them much, but Sandra and Natalia both have some crazy deep questions that are super fun to answer in Spanish.  But they are awesome. We are going to visit them with Hna Caudillo this week, and we are going to offer them a softball baptism date :) Hermana Mattson (the older couple) told us that every investigator that she ate with was baptized on her mission. So now we have a goal to eat with one of our investigators every week. It'll be awesome. I love these Columbians. After we had dinner, we had an awesome lesson with Sandra and her step daughter, Natalia who is 17 and really has some deep questions about after this life. Wow. Her first one was why she had to be baptized as a baby. Hna Dibble and I got so excited to share about our knowledge about things like that. Sandra and Natalia drank it up. It was awesome. Natalia then asked where Satan is right now. We talked about the importance of listening to the good voices in the world. So good. Then they asked about if we have our memories after we die. I've thought a lot about that since we taught them. Some people really don't know these things, but when they hear the truth, they recognize it. Whether they choose to accept it or not is their choice. It was a really powerful lesson. I love teaching the Plan because they know it! We've all lived it since the beginning.  Its amazing:)

Those are the people we are focusing on hardest. we are hoping to find a lot more people soon so we can teach more. We have a new ward mission leader (Hno Martinez) and he is amazing. So hopefully the ward will be more involved. It'll be great. 

On Friday we were biking to an appointment with Christian 

(he didn't end up being home), and Hna Dibble's tire just blew. Kapoof. 

Good times. So we ended up walking on Sunday which was fine, just a little chilly ;)

Also, one day we got a referral for this guy named Mauricio. We were on bikes so we couldn't take him the Bible he wanted.  So we texted him and said if he wanted his bible, he could come get it from the church sometime. Honestly, we didn't expect to hear back from him. We were currently at the church, prepping for English class. He texts us, and he's literally in the parking lot of the church, here to get his Bible!! Haha so we walked out and gave it to him, invited him to church and English class, and he seemed so interested in it! Nothing has happened so far,  but he was interested enough to come get a Bible! It was pretty fun and just cool to know people really are interested in Heavenly Father and His ways in  their lives.

We ran every morning this week for exercise and it was awesome! 

That's where we saw that really beautiful sunrise :) Buenos días, Carolina del Norte! 

Another Food Update: Hna Belliston had Hispanic rice with bananas. It's a Mexican dish. Don't judge it until you've tried it. Its divine. The rice has to be made with tomatoes and garlic though or it isn't the same. 

 

Yesterday Hna Dibble and I were just greeting people at church, and both of us just look at each other and melted. We love these people so much together and we are so happy that we get to serve together in this place. The ward is awesome and we love them. It's a blessing:)

I love this Chica. We're best friends. We both love these people more than we can say 

and we have such a great time teaching and meeting people. Hispano tiendas love us ;)

Anyway, I sure love y'all :) thanks for everything. The mission's the best place ever. I love the people so much. There's nothing like it!!

Love y'all!

...and loving it
Hermana Belliston