Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Hey!
This past week has been awesome. After the baptism on Wednesday, there was a family that showed up looking for the church. The husband is super cool, about 25, and is a member, and the family is super cool as well and not members. Come to find out where they live, we had just knocked those houses the week before, and the only go-back we got on that street was in their same house, just on a different floor. So I guess we needed to find them. It will be great to teach them. We had one spirit-filled lesson already and they came to one session of General Conference. We were able to guide Elias, the less active, to Conference for one session as well. Got to listen to Elder Christofferson's translation and his Spanish is amazing! Then for the Sunday morning session, Rogelio and his Family came! It was awesome and an awesome session. FREAK Elder Holland is good! Then for the last session our other big family came! With half of their family, 4 little boys each wearing a suit. It was pretty cool. We also got Cesar to go to a member’s home to watch it. So we had some good success this past Sunday. Next Sunday we are having a special stake conference which is going to be another broadcast from Salt Lake to all the stakes in Illinois. I can't wait. We taught a humble little family on Monday who just had their first baby a couple of weeks ago. They are awesome. A guy just sat next to me here and was talking on his phone in Spanish and it wasn't even until after his conversation that I stopped and said to myself "I understood that conversation". It is so weird! Also after the conferences they have those news things, well many were of people from Spanish speaking places and me and my companion looked at each other when they were talking cause we understood perfectly and didn't even look at the subtitles. Then we realized that everybody else in the room had no idea what they were saying. We also realized how the people from Spain have the best Spanish. We decided that we were probably going to marry someone from Spain cause they look more American but speak great Spanish. It's cool because we realized that from some spots in our area we can see the Chicago sky-line with the big towers. I love the restaurants here as well. SO GOOD! I think I am just rambling on now about lame stuff to make up for last week but now I can't remember anything. Take care! Later!

"El que dice que permanece en el, dede andar como el anduvo." -1 John
2:6