Do you speak Spanish? Do you like Jazz??

What a week of service and lessons. Here are some highlights of this week:

Aaron--after p-day our investigator Aaron called us. We had been trying to get in contact with him for a bit. We had a pretty great lesson with him and we asked him to be baptized. HE SAID YES. Aaron's going to be baptized on the 19th of July!! We're super excited for him. He wanted it to be this Saturday but he needs to come to church and he didn't so...we're working on him haha. We ended up having an awesome in person lesson and he got a blessing from the elders. Woohoo! 

Biking against the wind--It sucks don't do it. Everytime we bike to the church or the library we always get the wind going against us on the way home. Our legs definitely feel amazing after that. :) 

Prossing out in the streets...with puppies--So we're like technically allowed to go out on the streets and talk to people outside, before we're not allowed to anymore. But it's been pretty fun getting back in the groove of first contacts. We're a little rusty after 3 months of staying inside. But our first contact of the street and we see this like 25 year old sitting on his car and the first thing that comes out of H'Morgan's mouth is...Do you speak Spanish?? Hahaha. I just looked at her like...out of everything she possible could've said and she choose that? It was super funny. But we actually got his Facebook and we're teaching him. So I guess it works. When we were walking down the streets this cute little puppy came out of no where and was so excited to play with us. Ahhhhh I wanted to take him home so bad. He was so cutttteeee.

District councils with prez--Our president misses being able to see us so this week he scheduled a time for every district to be able to have district council with him. It was pretty awesome. We also got cookies out of it so score! 

Bathroom renovation--This was probably one of the most amazing service projects I have done since being out on my mission. This lady asked us if we knew how to put up sheet rock...like kind of... Haha. So we showed up with the elders to her house. She had this little chicitito apartamento that was vacant. The bathroom needed insulation and sheet rock. She showed us the tools and basically left us alone to figure it out. We'll luckily I knew a thing or two about insulation and sheet rock so I felt like a general contractor during this whole project because they always turned to me if they had questions. Thank goodness I know how to some what build a house...so it kind of felt like second nature. But get this. IT TOOK US 6 HOURS. We were all completely exhausted, hot, sweaty, and stinky. There wasn't any AC and it was like over 100 degrees inside this little room with all four of us.
But she gave us ice cream, mangonitas, chimichangas, and so many snacks. But we finished and it looked pretty decent for our first time. She loved it. So yeah...we renovated a bathroom. Hahaha. I think she also wants us to tape and plaster it next week...so stay tuned until next week for more of your bathroom renovation project here in the south tip of Texas. I could totally work for HGTV.

Call me Joanna Gaines ;) 

Flat tires--so right after working like non stop on the bathroom renovation Javier a recent convert called and told us he has some apples with chamoy. Long story short he left to bring them to us and his tire was flat. So we ended up driving to his house and helped him change his flat. We also got to say hi to his parents. We were exhausted and smelled horrible. So then we finally went home and changed. That felt way better. 

Backyard service--So the next day after the renovation we were able to do some more service for another nonmember. We help pick up her garbage all around her house and weed whack her backyard area. It was pretty hot out like always so I made sure to put sunscreen on haha but it was definitely an experience at her house...that's all I'm going to say. Haha

But at one point she gave me a machete to use to help cut part of the yard. That was pretty fun.

 

Do you like Jazz?--okay so we drove to the sisters apartment this week and wanted to celebrate with them because one of them had hit their year mark. Anyway we drove there and they were at a service project. So we sat outside their door and used the good service and wifi to call some people. Then this random guy comes up to us and asks if we like Jazz?? We told him sure. He ends up sitting down by us and we had an awesome like 45 minute conversation about life, missionaries, the book of Mormon, YSA, etc. He was pretty cool. It was a pretty awesome contact too. 

1 year in Texas--last week I officially hit one year in the south tip of Texas. It honestly doesn't feel real. It feels like I've been out for only like 6 months. But I'm so grateful for all the experiences I have had up to this point. And I'm excited to see what else is in store for the next few months. 

Church!!-- we showed up to our investigators house (Irene and her family) pretty early to have them follow us to church because her Google maps doesn't work. We actually ended up waking them up so they could come to church. They got ready really fast and followed us to church. We were like 15 minutes late. But they came!!! Irene, Regina, and Dante. The other two kids both have severe autism so Irene wanted them to stay home. But the ones that came were super peaceful and paid attention the whole time. We were so happy. They seemed to like it too.

Yayayay!!!

Miracles are happening down here in Pharr. And the weather is only getting hotter too. Over 100 everyday seems like normal now haha.

I'm so happy to be serving a mission at this time. I know our generation was saved for this period of quarantine. I'm grateful for so many people that I have met and will continue to meet.

I love you guys!
Stay 2 legit 2 quit
Con todo mi amor,
Hermana Darling


Pictures
Kind of before and after pics of Beth room reno and our team
Me and the cutest puppy ever
Machete
Our gift for the sister who hit her year mark
I tried cooking an egg outside haha it didn't work out super well

We found a dead fish on the side of the canal...but it didn't make sense because it's like a cliff... Anyway it was like solid hard for some reason, so we took a Pic