Well, it was another good week here in San Diego...a little hot though, but still good.
Last tuesday we had a good lesson with Amelia. I had commented on her last supper tapestry and so during the week she had researched the significance and symbols in the painting and took the first 15 minutes or so of the lesson to explain that to us. It was interesting, but mostly a little too much speculation in my opinion. She was really excited about it though. Then we talked about the sacrament and how Christ instituted it in the americas also. It was a pretty good lesson. She told us she wants us to teach her kids, so that will be fun.
On Wednesday we went to see Linda, but she was just on her way out and so we set up a time to come back on monday. That fact will be significant in a moment. We tried to see several other people, including Norgia (who did not get baptized on sunday, but has a date for this sunday - pray for her). No one was home. As we were walking down the street I randomly thought of trying to see Olivia again. She is a potential we found knocking on her door looking for someone else, but when we went back a kid told us she wasn't there, but we were pretty sure she was. We went ahead and knocked on her door and she was there and let us in! She is way nice. She is probably 29 or so and she told us right away that she is having problems in her marriage. They were separated, but just got back together. We talked about how the gospel can help her and her family. We taught about prayer and she even prayed at the end of the lesson. We have an appointment to teach her this week, so hopefully it goes well.
After that we tried to see Hna German, but she wasn't there, but we ran into her neighbor doing laundry and she invited us over for this coming week, so that was exciting. We tried Melissa Garcia next and she was home, so we went in to talk with her. She asked if we had eaten and we said no, so she made her son go get us a pizza at a place down the street. SHe is so nice! She is a single mother who doesn't have a lot, but she is so giving. ALso, we learned from her that there is a cars 2 movie. She is taking her little boy to see it for his birthday.
That afternoon Hna Johnson was at the battalion visiting with her parents!!!!!! (She's the one who had my opposite dresses and we switched dresses one time and took a ton of pictures). I got to give her and her parents the tour, which was fun. I had discovered a coon skin cap in the outfitting room earlier that day, so when she dressed up as the soldier I made her wear it, but I started laughing really hard when she put it on. There were other people on the tour too, so I'm sure they thought that was strange. haha. It was fun to catch up with her though.
On Thursday morning we got to meet the new mission president, Pres. Clayton and his wife and two of his daughters. It seems like he is going to be a great mission president. I really liked him. He said he is not changing any rules or anything, just to stay the course, but do better.
Later that day we taught Norgia. Her kids were out of control as always, but Norgia was dong her best to discipline them. She is taking parenting classes, which hopefully will help. We taught her pretty much all the rest of the commandments so that she could get baptized on Sunday. She accepted all of them just fine, but then afterwards said she wasn't ready to get baptized and wanted to wait. We discussed it and eventually agreed to change the date for the 10th of july (sunday).
After that we were at the temple for the evening, but hardly anyone came, but we got a couple good pictures with the temple.
On Friday Hna De La Cruz came to visit at the battalion, so we went over to say hi to her in the morning. It was fun to see her in jeans. haha. She says she is enjoying life at home and everything.
At the battalion that afternoon we had a need for tons of spanish tours. I gave a tour to a bunch of people from my ward who came in, so that was fun. Right after that I came into teh front and there was a family from spain waiting for the tour, so I took that one too. They were the coolest family. They are catholic, but they LOVED the tour. After the tour we talked about the book of mormon and they asked what the difference was between the catholic church and the mormon church, so I explained about prophets. They were way excited about the bom. The son asked for a copy right then, so I got him one and then his mom wanted one too, so I gave them two copies. They gave me their phone number and told me to call if I ever went back to spain so I could visit them! haha. They were just awesome.
Saturday was a busy day at teh battalion with lots of spanish tours again. THere was a fun group from colombia who really liked the tour. That afternoon we dropped by the birthday party for the Tadeo kids: cesar and andrea. We ate dinner there and then headed off to an appointment. Unfortunately we had to miss the pinata. The appointment was with Alicia. We taught the restoration using some jenga blocks to show how Christ's church was restored. She seemed to mostly undersatnd. We invited her to be baptized and she kept going off about how bitter she is about her being fired and things like that. We kept inviting her and finally she said yes, which was surprising, so we thought maybe she didn't understand, so we invitd her for the 30 of July and she said yes, so she has a date. We'll see how things go with that though.
We had coordination that night. Hno Morales is still the best. He told us about his birthday party coming up and asked waht our schedule was with the battalion so that we could be there. So precious.
After that we went to find zeus, but he wasn't there, but we an into Cleo outside, so it was fun to see her again! She enjoyed her time in Tijuana, but is glad to be back she said. We tried to see a couple more people with no luck and then decided to just go by linda's to invite her to church. Good thing we did. We ran into Jazmine outside and she told us that linda and luis had MOVED! WHAT????? Remember how I mentioned before that we set up a time to see them on monday?? And they just didn't mention that they were moving. You may remember this same exact thing happened back in september. Luckily we were able to track down their address much more quickly this time.
Sunday wasn't super eventful. A lady in our area did bring a nonmember friend to church, which was way exciting. She also brought him to the battalion after church and I did their tour, so hopefully we will be able to teach him soon. It was fast sunday and for some reason (probably the heat) it was way hard at the end. We got to teh battalion at 4 and it was so crowded...4th of july weekend. So we were just giving tour after tour and had to just run back and eat a little bit and then give a tour. Not the greatest experience.
Monday...happy 4th of july!!!! Hna Stevens and I luckily were not working at the battalion. We heard it was way busy though. We started the morning with a ward breakfast at the battalion - not our ward, but one of the senior couple's wards so they invited us. Then we studied and headed out to our area. We had a lunch appointment with hna Tadeo, but she had to go somewhere so she just picked us up hamburgers and sent them with us, which was great. Then we went to see Norgia, but it turns out that she went to TJ for the weekend and wasn't back still. We tried going by Linda's and caught them as they were moving out the last of their things. We gave them elder oaks' talk about desire to read and invited them to come to church on sunday.
AFter that we taught Sis Veracruz. The lesson was ok, but not great. Hopefully she is inching her way to baptism, but she is just going so slowly!
Next we dropped by hna german's. We had a pretty hilarious time with her. IT turns out she was having a bbq with some friends/neigbors, but she invited us to eat some, so we did, hoping we could talk to her while we ate. All the people were eating outside, but she put us inside her living room to eat. Most of the people were drunk, and one younger guy kept popping in to ask if he could come to church with us. We actually ended up getting his number and address and will go by sometime when he is sober and see if he is still interested. The funniest part was when Hna German was dancing in the living room with one of her friends. I wish I had a video of it. Hilarious. I sometimes wonder if other missionaries have experiences like these. It was seriously hilarious. We finished our food quickly and headed out of there - but hey, no all her friends know that she is studying with the mormons.
As we were walking down he ally away from her apartment I heard "HERMANAS" in a low semi-creepy voice, which I quickly recognized as Luis Torres' voice. Sure enough they were at their new apartment, which is next door to hna german. Talk about a coincidence. haha.
After that we taught Alicia and we brought a member so that she would have to speak spanish. It went well for the most part until Alicia started talking about the virgin mary and hna zarate tried to explain why we dont worship the virgin mary. Overall it was good though. We read teh first chapter of the bom with her.
We had to be in by 6 that night, so we spent the evening updating our area book until 9 when we went over to the battalion to watch teh fireworks from teh tower. We also ate smores in the campfire room. IT was pretty excellent. All in all it was a good 4th of July. Hopefully yours was fun too!!!!
Well, I love you all!!!!!!! I hope you are having a fun summer!
love,
hna livingston
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