Peace Up! A town down

This week was long and fast at the same time! I don't even remember anything past saturday it seems haha. We did alot of stuff this wek. Thursday was what is called a "car fast" we don't drive our car in hopes to get out and meet more people on the streets, this did not work for us haha we walked 2 miles to Nora's house our investigator for a lesson at 11 am. She was not home so we walked two miles so we could walk 4 more miles to a lunch appointment, when we got there the lady said "did president Gonzalez not call you and give oyu my message?, I didnt have your phone number so i asked him to call you and tell you that i couldnt do lunch today" so we walked 4 miles back home to do weekly planning, 12 miles 0 hispanics on the streets, 0 empanadas, 4 sore legs and 2 gas station gaterades later we made it home haha.

E and her two kids A (14) M11) accepted a baptismal date for September 10th so 3 weeks, a and m came to church, thier mom had to work but they had a really good time. not much else happened this week. we went to a birthday party on saturday for A she just turned 5, hispanos love to party, I got talked into jumping in th bounce house, it had just stopped raining so i got soaked but it was fun. the pinata was bigger than she was it was a giant cinderella. I'll send pictures later and a coupel videos, they love to put giant pieces of pig skin in the baked beans its so good ( sacastic) complete with hair even sometimes hahaha just so appetizing! good thing I like hispanic food or this would be so hard haha, we eat so much, they are trying to fatten me up! still not gaining weight so atleast i'm not getting a belly and my pants still fit. Tonight we are going to teacch a recent convert how to drive stick shift, she got a nice jetta with turbo, but does not know how to drive stick and wants to learn before she turns 16, Its gonna be fun! much cooler than the stupid corolla we drive around that has not guts and can hardly make it up hills some days haha.

did the boys make any money at the fair? how is guppy liking school? remind me again what grade everyone is in? Kim good luck at utah state, don't get stupid freshman syndrom and go crazy and start doing stupid things haha.

Love tanner

Same Syrmna New companion

Well my new companion is Elder Reese, He is a straight up boss man. We get along so good! he is prom Idaho Springs but grew up mostly in Dever his dad was in the NSA so thats pretty cool. He only has 3 months left so this transfer and one more after that.

Elder Gay and Elder Ballard Spoke to us on Saturday. They threw down hard core, all the stake and branch leaders were invited as well Elder gay said that there is a Temple here and the Lord has prepared 100,00's of people to go there we need to find them, they should be going by the 1000's. He told the Wards and Branches they are not working well enough with the Missionaries and told us we need to work harder.

Elder Reese and I had a super great weekend! We found two new families to teach one lives ini our same complex. We are Teaching this Lady E we helped moved a coulple weeks ago. She is seperated from her husband right now and is having trouble with her oldest kid. She kept the commitment to pray. we had a really good lesson on the restoration. Right as elder Reese started the first vision the baby who had been sleeping the entire time suddenly woke up and started to cry, just goes to show how hard satan tries to stop the spirit, after she came back with a bottle I started it over there was no way i was going to let satan take the spirit from the one of the best tools we have to bring it in. This time it worked, we read from the bible and from the book of mormon. She asked me last time what we could do to help her with her husband, so she asked again this time all i could tell her was that through the lord and the gospel  all things can be fixed and that the gospel heals the wounded soul, but the lord knows what he has planned for us, it was her job to do everything she can to fix her marriage but if it does not work out the lord has a better plan for her. I think that really helped, elder reese asked her when she finds out these things are true will she follow the example of christ and be baptized her response was "Claro" which means of coarse, clearly or certainly... we asked her to say the closign prayer, I literally have never felt the spirit so strong during a prayer, she was genuinly asking for help and what she should do and so greatful for all that she has, she started crying during the prayer because the spirit was so strong, we left her with a scripture to helo with her son and have a nother appointment on wednesday.

There use to be 6 elders in our branch now there are only 4 elder reese and I elder anderson from canada and elder Celis from mexico city. and they ot rid of our spanish zone and now we are in the english zone and we have eglish elders in our district, its been a crazy week. there was a lot of seperation between spanish and eglish and alot of pride on both sides. I came at a really wierd time. technically they were not planning on new spanish elders for a couple more months even after i came I was just a random solo one haha, but its been fun.

These Past few days have been the best of my mission so far. It really has been so fantastic!

Love tanner