Wed. Aug 5, 2009

Hello everyone! I have gotten all kinds of good reports of this last weekend how Gabi's baby blessing was really sweet! I hope you all didn't spend the whole time sitting around moping about how much you missed me... its OK though, I know it must be hard!!

Welp this last week we have been working HARD!! And the unfortunate thing about that is, there are no instant results in this kind of work! Its going slowly, but when you drop like more than 20 investigators, you just know its gonna be hard work!! Yesterday we decided to head over to an area we had never worked in (even Hna Ladd who has been here for like 9 months) Well we can see why, nothing happened! But we did walk like A MILLION MILES!! OK maybe not that much, but almost I'm sure!! But its a good thing we get a long so well, the time passes faster. But maybe that is a bad thing because the time is passing WAY TOO FAST!! Next week is transfers and I will be saying goodbye to Hermana Ladd and hello to a new companion, whoever that may be... I hope she is fun and a hard worker!!
So a cool thing that happened this last week is we went the the house of a member knowing that 2 new families had just moved to her house (she rents out rooms of her house) and we got there and she was like hey can you wait for a few min. so we sat down and waited and a few minutes later she came out with 3 people and they all sat down and were waiting for us to teach them!!! 2 of them are a couple (I hope they are married) and they have 3 kids, ages 10,7,5 we are so excited to keep teaching them, we have an appointment with them tonight!!
Also one more thing, this last week as we all know it was Fast Sunday. This Sunday we have decided to put our faith to the test, we promised the Lord that we will obey with 100% exactness and work as hard as we can. We are looking to have a baptism this weekend... we still don't know who it will be! Pray for us to not loose faith! I know that the Lord will follow through, we just need to do our part!! Its kind of scary being its Wed. and still not knowing, but I'm not losing faith!!

So I don't have a lot of funny stories to tell, we have a lot I'm sure, because we are laughing a little too much sometimes I think! Our zone leader called us gigglers... we weren't to happy about that... we are def not gigglers... but whatever what does he know??

My one funny story for the week... So we decided we wanted to make zuchinni bread, Hermana Ladd's mom sent her a recipe... our only problem is neither of us knew how to say it in spanish, or even how to describe it (its a vegetable, and green?) I actually to be honest didn't even know what a zuchinni looked like!! So we consulted our trusty dictionary, and it said calabacita, so we went on over to the vege and fruit stand and asked for one of those... the lady looked at us like we were crazy, and held up a pumpkin, we were like no its a vegetable and its green... really specific right? well she ended up giving us something green, I didn't know what a zuchinni looked like so it seemed good to me, and Hermana Ladd was like I don't think this is it. So we go home and look up what we had just bought... apparently we bought acorn squash... whatever THAT is!! Well we had that instead of zuchinni, we decided to make the bread anyways just to see how it would turn out... and to our surprise, it was really good!! So we took it to our branch presidents wife the next day because she just had a baby and we were telling her about what happened, and she thought it was funny and she was like what kind of vegetable were you looking for, and we were like well we don't know what it is called in spanish still, but in english it is zuchinni... she just started to laugh... apparently its the same word in spanish too!!! We feel like such idiots... oh well I guess that's what you get when you put to yankees together!!

Welp that's about all I think... I hope all is well for everyone back home! Love you all and cant wait to hear from you all next week!!

Hermana Gosnell

PS a shout out to bro Ramirez, that's for the note... I'll just leave you in charge of negotiating with the gypsie... I like your prices!!