Tuesday, October 15, 2013

COLUMBUS DAY

They moved our pday to today because they thought that it would be a good idea to be out on the holiday so that we could talk to people when they were with their family. Hahahaha I was expecting that I was going to get a call from president saying your mom called me and told me you didn't write her yesterday, will you tell her to wait just a little and be patient tomorrow, but I am glad I didn't get that call!

On p-day - this is what the streets all look like in our neighborhood.
At Church on Fast Sunday -- wearing my Fast Sunday tie matching Brad's tie. 

But to answer your questions, yes I am in Logan Square. Our church building is the Logan Square building! Our ward is the Chicago 3 ward but the english ward in our building is the Logan Square somethingth ward. But we haven't ridden the bus or metro yet because it is still warm enough to ride our bikes. When it gets really cold or starts to snow we get bus passes so that should be in a few weeks. It is starting to get pretty cold here though, not freezing yet but in the afternoons if we don't have jackets we get freezing so I am just starting to bring my black rain jacket with me everywhere now. But yeah I see the mission president, we saw him at a zone conference and we had interviews with him a little while ago but it isn't like I see him everyday. We do send letters to him every week though and he
reads and basically studies every single one. We eat at members houses about every other day but it depends on the week. Like this week we ate with one member and had some snacks with another, but the week before we had like 5 dinner appointments so it just depends. Yesterday we also had a member buy us McDonalds which was so nice! But no I haven't had to speak yet and I think I will most likely be here with Elder Gomez this next transfer but I am not 100% sure! Hahahaha no I don't need you to send me protein! But if you could send me some good vitamins to take that would be very helpful!

Things are going great this week! I thought that this would never be my home but it is starting to feel like it, just in a different way then the home in Salt Lake.  I am comfortable here and I love it here. I think I was expecting to feel like oh for this to be home it will feel exactly how the house did in Salt Lake, it definitely doesn't feel like that but it is home for me now! 

A cool experience was a few weeks ago on a day when I just wanted to sit down and just relax for 15 minutes before this appointment with a member, my companion said lets go walk and see if we can find anyone to talk to.  We ended up finding this woman named Socorro. She was just so happy to see us and we talked to her and got her information.  We had been trying to go back to her house, but we could just never reach her because she wasn't home.  This week we have found her twice(Twice other than the initial contact)! We happened to find her when she was returning from her walk, like it was honestly the perfect timing that we would be able to find her(both times we found her at that time) But the first time we taught her, second time talking in total, we just gave her a restoration pamphlet and a Bookof Mormon and just getting to know her more. The next time we saw her, third in total, we were teaching her about the restoration and it was so easy because she had already read the pamphlet and loved it! We told her to pray about it after we were done teaching the lesson and she was just like, oh I already know it is true. This was such a miracle! I love teaching her and she always brightens my day! We always teach her on days when I am super tired and everything and after the lesson I always am energetic and love the work! When she smiles I can't help but smile, I just love her so much! 

Last pday we went downtown and we went to Navy Pier and everything! It was so sweet and the city is amazing! We also went to a pizza place called Giordanos, it is one of the famous pizza places with like 5 inch deep pizzas and it was amazing, best pizza ever! But I have been trying so many different restaurants here and they are all so delicious! I will send pictures of everything in a second! 

Love you so much and miss you all! Have a great week and keep staying healthy!



 Deep dish (5 inch) pizzas at Giordanos.
It is one of the famous pizza places -  best pizza ever!!
Navy Pier on P-day

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