ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Happy St Patrick’s Day to you too! But I am happy you talked to Dan! I haven't heard anything from him but I think I will email him soon! And the baseball stuff seems fun - I miss it so much! We walked into sports authority last week and I saw all of the baseball stuff and I am not going to lie it was kind of hard to see. How is the team doing and everything then? Have they played any games yet? But we have a lot of places around here to eat and everything so that is good but we don't really have a ton of money to eat there so most of the time it is just at home or with the members.  I love the picture with Dad and Debbie though! I love their whole family so much and I love the picture with Austin too! How has he been doing lately? I love him and miss him so much too! But we live on the second floor so I think you can just put #2 on it.  But thank you for sending me the package! I loved it and Elder Martinez and I are wearing the green ties right now!

But this week has been great but it has been pretty hard. The missionary who was with Elder Martinez before had been here for almost 8 months so last transfer he was just sick of working and wouldn't do that much, so these last two weeks we have been contacting a lot trying to find new people because we don't have any investigators. We have been working some miracles though! Last Monday we were going to make one last visit to try and see someone and while we were there these two girls and one of their boyfriends and yelled at us and asked if we were Mormons so we started talking to them a little bit more about what we do and then we told them a little about the restoration and we got their numbers to come back.  We ended up taking the bus with them because we were contacting them but the bus came and after we got off we met the other girl’s boyfriend and they were all interested! So we went back and taught them on Saturday and we had a great lesson with them and we invited them to be baptized after and almost all of them said yes! The girls also had two little sisters there in the lesson! We are so excited and they are so legit but the only problem is they speak English.  Their mom speaks Spanish and so we are hoping we can still teach them but we will most likely have to give them up.  It was such a miracle because they were so willing to listen! Also, we had a less active member, Linda, come to church yesterday and when she walked in it was one of the happiest moments of my life! She is so funny and she is the one that yelled we scared her last week and always calls me baby face, but she came!! I honestly was so happy and had the biggest smile on my face! This area is hard because we have to find everyone but I love it more than anything!

Oh and another funny story is that we have one kind of half investigator who Elder Martinez has met like 3 times and every time this man will let them in but would never let them teach or anything but we went and visited him and he was giving us food and everything and then he went to the door and we knew he wouldn't let us teach him right away but they had never gotten him to do anything and he came back and I bore testimony just about prayer and how it could help him he agreed right away. They never could get him to but I got him to so easily! I feel like that is one of the reasons why I am in this area because it was just like things clicked in his mind! I also have seen a few people that I met in my last area that were referrals from out of the ward and I swear they all live in my new area! It is truly amazing and I know that The Lord was the one who is working in this mission because President Woodbury is so in tune with the Spirit! My testimony is growing so much and I really love this gospel! I love you so much though and I hope everything keeps going great!