HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY!

Thank you for wishing me a happy birthday!!  Our address is 2535 w 46 pl Chicago IL, I dont know what the zip code is though! We live in a house on the first floor, it is pretty gross on the inside but we have cleaned it up a ton so it is much better to live in now! It feels like home now although it isn't the nicest place! We do not live with members, though there are just a few men that live in the basement.  I would just send stuff to the mission office though because I am not sure it is too safe outside.  Please don't send too much though because I only have so little time I can use it.

My companion's name is Elder Nunez though! He is so sweet and we are having so much fun together! He is from Los Angeles CA but his family is from Honduras! We already know each other really well because our areas have always been overlapping.  Last time when I was in Midway, he started to cover the Hyde Park YSA so that is the ysa down south here.  Then we both flipped up to the north side and I was in the Lake Shore YSA so I covered his area in Chi 3 and now we are together! For all of the 9 months that he has been out on a mission we have covered the same places! He also has had a lot of the same companions as me, he was trained by Elder Martinez so now I have hit their whole family line of trainers with the Abuelo (Elder Perez), Elder Martinez (Dad) and Elder Nunez (son).  We are having a great time together and we are working really hard, he is the district leader here in Midway! He is hilarious!

Aly's baptism was amazing though! It was definitely the highlight of my week! It was so sweet because it was at the Wilmette Stake Center and the font there is huge! I loved getting to go there and watch it! It was great as well because her parents came down from Milwaukee to see it and it was their first time they had come to the church! Aly had talked to her parents and there were some mixed feelings about everything so it was so great that they came and they were very supportive of her! Drew was able to baptize her and they confirmed her right on the spot because she wasn't going to be able to go to church that Sunday! She was a golden investigator for sure.  Right after I left that area Elder Zacher and Elder Potter taught her in a member's home with Elder Martino who is in the 70 and also President Woodbury.   Elder Martino just talked about how prepared and how solid she was! She is amazing!

James is also going to be baptized this Friday so I am excited for that!

My stomach is feeling good though, no problems!   And I think my flight should be at like 8 am here time but I don't know the exact time, that is when it normally goes.  They will probably send it out soon though.

Other than that it was just a pretty normal and great week overall.  Many small miracles that just make every day better!