Week 31. If you read this you should send me an email👀

 This week has definitely been something. Really interesting and really good. And odd, for whatever reason they took the bike they gave me and replaced it with another one. Haven't tried it yet but knowing that it came from the mission it's probably old and something is wrong. But that just adds on to the fun. Here's the rest of the week:

Rob - he's one of our neighbors and is super awesome. He's got lots of faith, but doesn't like organized religions. But then we invited him to watch conference so we'll see how that goes

Khimani - we talked about scriptures with her and then Elder Albright just brings up baptism and if she has any reservations. She says no and then we set a date for the 30th! It also seems to be a trend, both of my trainees are more bold than me so I think my President is trying to get me to learn something 

Spider- it wasn't big but it was smart. Underneath one of the heaters was a spider. And because my mom raised me I am terrified of them. But this one looked dead. Sometimes it would move a bit but never when I was looking at it so I assumed it was the fan. Then 3 weeks after I first saw it, I saw it move, and it knew I saw because after that it stopped caring. It was super scary, and it escaped into the wall so now I'm scared this intelligent spider is waiting for a time to strike back. 

Spanish - let's start off with a story. Once upon a time there was a Puerto Rican mother and a father who served a mission in Chile. Both could speak Spanish and thought about teaching their kids as they grew up. But for some odd reason a 2 year old was more stubborn than they. And so they stopped. This is a true story. It's sad isn't it. Think of the blessings that 2 year old could have had if he knew English and Spanish. 

This week I met 3 Spanish speakers. My conversations with them were terrible. I've taken 3 years of Spanish in high school, memorized some scriptures in Spanish, and am doing doulingo. And the conversation ended up being very broken Spanish. But I tried. 

New foods - so the new foods this week was sushi, it's alright, but I definitely made sure the meat wasn't raw. And Cafe Rio. First time going there, I thought it would feel wrong (because I worked at Costa Vida) but here's a secret *there pretty much the same* it made me very nostalgic.

General conference - it was so fire! I loved all the talks and I wrote some good notes. I love how we can get answers from personal revelation while watching conference. The talks are the same but because of the Holy Ghost we can all get different things out of it. If you missed any I encourage you to read them once they come out, and if you watched all of them: share what you learned with someone! If someone asks you about your weekend tell them about conference and what you liked (that was from a talk). Saturday night I spent a while making cornbread and muddy buddies and I ate most of the cornbread and literally nobody else had the muddy buddies. So I might get a lot of cavities now from the amount of sugar I'm about to eat. 

For the spiritual thought I wanted to talk about a quote I loved. I don't have my notes with me now but it said "God's love for us is perfect, but our ability to feel it isn't." 

I love that because we all go through those times where we don't think God loves us or He isn't with us through our trials because we can't feel Him. But He is, He truly is. He never leaves your side and we can't feel Him because we aren't letting ourselves. 

I loved General Conference because it gave us some ideas on how we can feel His presence more. 

1. Focus on Christ 

2. Get rid of contention in our lives

3. Trust in God and His plan

4. Be patient 

5. Don't demand things from God

6. Read and study the scriptures

7. Pray always

These things really do work and so I would like to invite everyone who reads this to try these 7 things with me so we can all have that peace, that joy, and that great love which comes from our Heavenly Father. 

I love you all and hope you're all doing well. Until next week here's some pics.