Someone thought I was from Spain. How fancy is that?

Hola Amigos!

This week flew by! Transfers happened. A super long meeting happened.

We were visited by Brother Gonzalez and Brother Cates who trained us
on the basics of missionary work: planning. It was a long, detailed
meeting on how to plan effectively, find, teach the doctrine of
Christ, and baptize converts. Something I really liked was the
application of vision-goals-plans type of planning. We typically
follow that pattern when helping bishops create ward mission plans,
but it works well when planning, too.

My new little trainee is ready to do work! It's refreshing to be in a
new area with new people, and I'm excited to see how the rest of the
transfer goes!

Some fun things happened this week:

Someone thought I was from Spain. How fancy is that?

Someone else thought I was from Italy. I think that was mostly because
of the name, but she said that people from Italy speak Spanish the way
I do. Weird.

We are teaching a family who has been reading the Book of Mormon, but
they haven't accepted a baptismal date. We asked them if they have
even prayed about the Book of Mormon, but they said no! So we set them
straight, and tomorrow we will see how their prayers went. I know that
if do the basics, reading and asking if the book is true with the
intention of acting on that answer, they will receive an answer.

One lady answered the door, stared at us, and closed the door.

Someone invited us the the fish fry at a Catholic Church.

Hasta luego!

Hermana Valentine