Please Bless Me With Skrenth

Hello Friends and Family!

This week was a good week! It's the first week of the new transfer. Elder Bissereth and I are getting along great, he's a lot of fun. Elder Duvinston (I spelled his name wrong last week) is really cool and fun too. 

The other day Elder Bissereth and I were invited to go with the Spanish Elders to a meal appointment. We got there and they were playing the inauguration live on tv (dubbed in Spanish of course) and we got to watch MoTab [Mormon Tabernacle Choir] perform! That was cool. I had completely forgotten that was happening that day so it was a cool surprise that I got to watch it.

We had a really good day this Saturday! It was probably the Best Day(TM) I've had so far. It was weird, because we were so happy and having so much fun together, and yet we were able to teach a recent convert, wash her car, deliver 2 Bibles, and got 3 new investigators who all said they'd be willing to be baptized if they knew it was true! It was by far the most "missionary work" I've done in a day but also the most fun day.

Two of those new investigators were a newly married couple that are very "Miami". One of the most prominent slang terms here is when people replace "str-" with "skr-" (i.e. skrenth for strength) and they were doing it so much it was hard not to laugh. The husband also has all gold teeth and showed us a video of him reciting a poem he wrote from the perspective of AIDS. It was interesting, but they both said they want to get closer to God and would be baptized, so we're going back later today!

We were also able to bring Brother and Sister Murray to our lesson with the Cruz family and they got along super well! Hopefully that will give them a little more push to come back to church. It worked out well too because they didn't know we were bringing them with us. I'm glad they didn't get upset about it or anything haha.

That's pretty much it. Keep me updated on how everything is going, I love getting your emails!

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My new district.

From front to back: Elder Blood, Me, Elder Bissereth (right), Elder Duvinston (left), Elder Mears (new ZL), Elder Riggs, Elder Widney, Elder Taylor (brand new, Elder Widney's "son")

Lanmou,

Eldè Stevenson