T1W4 Being a Missionary is Awkward!

Dear Family,

How is everyone? Thank you for the valentines, letters, packages, etc. All of the candy is already gone I'm ashamed to say--but good thing we run every morning. I've lost some weight through all of it! This week has flown by.

Last p-day we played tennis with some elders that live in a really nice area. It made my month! I'm pretty rusty but it was ok because I think Ben is even better than these elders.

The highlight of the week was going to the temple. Once a transfer we have the chance to go with our zone to do a session. It was interesting this time because the sign-language elders are in our Zone. There is a deaf branch that meets in the same chapel as us. One of the sign-language elders is deaf. It's even more interesting that in his spare time he has learned quite a bit of Mexican sign language. That's when they get to work with us Spanish missionaries.

Anyway, back to the temple. We had a special session for the deaf elder. It was great to sit in the Celestial Room where the Spirit is so strong and receive revelation for specific people we are teaching.

One of the families we are teaching, Nacho and Alva, have to get married before they get baptized. I put their names on the prayer roll at the temple and the next Wednesday we found out that they had gotten their marriage license! They have a few things to work through before the wedding happens, but they have to do it within the next 30 days, so we are excited to be planning a wedding. They both want to get baptized and have two sons that are so cute!

We made 20 lessons again this week.

We taught a really nice family this week for the second time and we brought a member that was really excited to go with us, Hermano Robles. It turned out to be a very interesting lesson. He probably invited the family to church 20+ times and told them the church is true--double that. Even still, we are grateful.

I love the taco trucks down here. Every block there are these buses/trucks turned into a on-the-go taco stand. They sell all different kinds of meat and put this delicious meat with some fresh avacado on a warm tortilla- 2/$1.50. We like the fajita meat and the barbacoa (pork) the best. The also have these tortas which are like the same meat except on bread. Oh yeah and paletas- these ice cream type bars that everyone likes. I'm not too much of a fan.

This week I really learned what it was like to recognize the spirit leave. As we began teaching this one 20 year old boy he had already listened to the testigos de jehovah- or Jehovah's Witness. He asked us a lot of questions with his already preconceived notions. It was very clear when we would invite the Spirit back with a scripture or refusing to argue. Something I like that we do is sing at every lesson. We carry our hymn books and ask them to sing to. It is funny because for most of our investigators it is very awkward. Being a missionary is all about being awkward.

Anyways I hope all is well back home. And thank you for you love and support again. We have a Zone p-day up at a members house with food and pool so I'm excited.

Love Camille

Oh and p.s., my comp is beginning to see my loopy/crazy laughing attack side that you guys all love. Pray for her. Haha.