Hola mi familia,
Well, as you can assume this has been the craziest week of my LIFE! I couldn't even BELIEVE the news that we heard on Monday. Ayy ayy ayy. It's been so weird this week as we have tried not to think much about it. I think I have experienced every singles emotion out there mixed in one, which leaves me thinking absolutely nothing. I still can't even comprehend that I'll be on the bottom half of the world in 3 days. Haha during weekly planning on Friday we got to the end where we plan for the next week. We both just started bawling and decided it would be best if we skip that for now. Hahaha It was so funny, but sad sad stuff. I'm going to MISS HER!!! She's so so good to me! She has been an amazinggg companion. I've been blessed with excellent companions here.
Anyway, now on to the rest of the week! It was EXCELLENT! My birthday was so so fun! We went to Hermana Mier's (President Mier's wife) house for lunch. We had the BEST burgers you will EVER eat. I'll send a picture of it after I finish the email. :) She's so so so darling! The rest of the day was excellent. We went to the church to practice a song that we are singing (yes I'm SINGING! I'm sure you are shocked. So am I! Haha) for the Mission Conference tomorrow, and after we were supposed to play soccer. President was there and ended up wanting to take us out for a little birthday treat. I was bummed that we didn't get to play soccer, but that was so sweet of him! We had an excellent day. Hermana Dangerfield LOVES birthday's so she was sure to make it a good one! I'm bummed to be missing hers now, but that's ok.
Saturday was Christmas/birthday for Hermana Dangerfield. It started off with Santa's visit.Then we had a birthday breakfast for Hermana Dangerfield. Thenn President Mier wanted to make us dinner for our birthday's so we had it on the 15th so it could be for both of us. It was excellent! I had my last dose of beans, rice, and tortillas. Ohhh he and his wife are both excellent cooks! We had cake that had our names on it and then a lady in our ward even got us gifts. Our branch is DARLING. I've been so so spoiled here!
Update on Maria. I just wish you guys knew Maria and Javier. Javier is the most humble person I have ever met! He has more desire and motivation than anyone I have ever met! Example for this week: He's working on getting the Priesthood and so he decided to do a special fast for a few different things. He told us that he didn't want to do it during the week. I was thinking probably because he wouldn't have energy to work or something, and then he proceeds to say "It wouldn't mean anything because I usually don't eat much while I'm at work anyway." He then continues to say that President told him he could start out with doing a 12 hour fast. He decided that wasn't hard enough and that he wanted to do a 24 hour fast. Sure enough, Sunday they come to church when of course we get Cinnamon Rolls in class. Maria had decided to join him. Ohhhh they are STUNNING!!! I can't even explain to you how stunning they really are! Maria talked to her mom about being baptized and her mom wants to be there! Her mom is in Guatemala for the month or else her baptism would have been last Saturday. You can tell she has a huge desire though, because her baptismal date is set for the day after her mom returns. I'm so so so excited for her!!!
We had a lesson with them Friday and Javier asked if we would be able to come back one more time before I left. He said "we need to start having our own Noche de Hogar's. We have them with other families all the time, but we need to have our own." He asked if we would be willing to teach them how to do it. We're super busy tonight so we did it last night. Ohhh it was so fun! We told him how the head of the house usually conducts it and so he did that. Hahaha he's so cute! "Bienvenidos hermanitas a la noche de hogar de la familia Marquez. Hahaha Oh they are just the greatest! We read Luke 2 and then talked about things that have drawn us closer to the Savior this year, and then goals for next year. You can only imagine the wonderful they had to share. So so fun! They want us to stop by one more time tonight, so we're going to go caroling to their house. I'm going to miss that family!!! What a blessing it has been to work with them :) They teach me more than I have taught them! Hahaha oh ya I forgot to say, in church they already welcomed Maria into the ward. Hahaha she's not even a member yet!
Ok, last but not least. Yesterday. What a DAY! It was sooo hectic! It was excellent though! It made me recognize really how wonderful this branch is. They have been an amazing
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