July 10, 2017

i forgot to grab my journal today. it helps me remember what happened this week. but i have a crazy story so stay in tuned.

its been pretty toasty lately. lots of sweat. but not so much sunburns. knock on wood.

so last tuesday for the forth of july, we had to be home or in a church by 6:30. so we went to a church with our zone. we had a devotional and then we played some games. weve been playing a lot of speed/knock out/ whateveryouwanttocallit. i dont have much arm strength to shoot like normal bball players so i just chuck it. it goes towards the square. sometimes i actually make it. good fun.

we had an awesome miracle happen on wednesday. we found a teaching record for this one guy and his less active girlfriend (espovio) and it had been 6 years from contact. and so we drove over there and we met the less active "espovia" (when they call each other their husband or wife but they are actually still dating and living together for forever) and she was saying she was just thinking about how she needs to go back to church and then we showed up! she told her mother in law "maybe its a sign" when she saw us. im excited to work with her. she has a solid testimony of the church.

then we had a lesson with pancho our investigator. probably going to drop him. but he went to soccer so we were able to play! yay! more sweating! i stayed in a little square almost the whole time. they were pretty good and they guy in the yellow jersey would kick it so hard it could take someone's head off! but it was fun. i got competitive.

ok here comes the crazy story. so we went to visit some potentials and afterwards right  before dinner, we made some phone calls. it all of a sudden starts raining so i try to take some cute rain picutres. they didnt turn out good. and while hna corona is on the phone i see this white truck on the other side of the street. theres a shirtless man taking stuff out of the bed of the truck and a girl with crazy blonde hair walking around him. it looked like she was laughing. the guys gets in the truck and starts throwing books and papers out towards the lady she reaches in for stuff and then water starts flying and they start fighting and throwing stuff. all of a sudden he grabs her and drags her into the car and starts beating her! i tried telling hermana corona but words wouldnt come out. i open the car door and start yelling at him to stop. there was another woman in the apartments across the street yelling too. he pushes her out of the car and he peels out and drives away. we run over to her to see if shes okay. she has blood running out of her mouth and huge scratches under her arm. she smelled of beer and she was shaking and crying in shock. we end up calling her dad to come pick her up. she didnt let us call the police. she got our names and numbers down so when she did call them she would have witnesses. we havent got a call. im still safe. the guy didnt see us. dont worry too much. im just glad we were there to help her out and that she is okay. i still want to call her dad to see if she is okay.

this week went pretty fast! and the past 3 weeks we've had a goal for every companionship in our zone to hand out 15 BoM's. or a total of 165. and we did it! we only handed out 11 but we made the goal and so we are going to go celebrate now! yay!

go read the BoM. President Thomas S. Monson said so.

stay fresh friends. 

Fourth of July. I wore red and white and ate blue chips.

Moments before the accident.

the author had my name. 

our district