The Ginger Sister

Confernece was awesome…..yes, I watched it in English. It says somewhere that we should all listen to the prophets voice in our own native tounge....  but dang, wasn't that such a good weekend? And how the prophet was like, yeah we just had the most inspired conference in 50 years. That's what's up. The power went out during Elder Hollands talk, sooooo tell me what happened. haha freakin satan.

Monday after internet we went and ate with some elders, and just chilled and played games and stuff, it was so nice to just like, do nothing and have fun while doin it. Except we played monopoly and I was crying cause I was so bored... sorrry, I still hate it. Then we went and bought clorox for some reason, and the lid broke,,, on my shoe... MY BLUE TOM IS NOW BROWN. gross.

Tuesday, of course our district meeting, we did practice lessons, while recording ourselves, and Elder Taylor and I taught each other, it was so funny, I started talking in English, and was like, OH MY GOSH WHATS GOING ON! hahah and he just died. and he talks A WHOLE LOT with his hands, and was like, dude I gotta stop movin my hands like a mad man. yeah, he calls me dude. or Jocelyn... stupid zone leaders know our names. haha 

So we have a golden investigator named Angie, her boyfriend is a member, and we got a reference for her from like the entire country. she has such a strong testimony, and was like I wanna learn and I wanna be baptized really soon, I am doing this for me as well, not for my boyfriend, he doesn't even know I am taking the lessons. WHAT?? yeah she has a date for the 19. woot woot. and one day last week my comp was like, can we walk to her house, and its like 3 miles away and I was like sure, and we walked forever, in the dark. we were scared.... but then we found an inactive and he gave us 3 references. yeah he is golden. and we went to find another inactive, and come to find out,,,, HE MOVED. 

Elder Ellsworth called us Wednesday morning at like 6 and was like, yeah I have emergency transferrs. and we were like, uhhh you are joking. But no, our awesome district leader left us to be zone leader somewhere else. We were sooo bummed. he almost cried. we almost cried, and my comp goes to her bed, and was like, I AM DEPRESSED. and then Juan was like  yeah, we are waiting for the chapel to be finished so I can be baptized. STOP PROCRASTINATING YOUR SALVATION. he makes me mad sometimes....and Juan Carlos is having doubts cause his mom lives in Nicaragua and she was like, the only thing I don't want you do do is become mormon... so he doesn't know if its better to disobey his mom, or God... hmmm. think about it....

I had Hna Quiroz sing to Elder Taylor for his birthday. "happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too". hahaha he was like wow your english is really good. thanks, but you don't know what any of that means!! and she was like, yeah I know. hahaha

This black kid, he's like 4, anyways, we went to their house, and he put baby powder on him, so he could be white like me. hahaha seriously, he is in love with me. I want to take him home.

OK CONFERENCE!! WHAT WAS EVERYBODYS FAVORITE TALK!!! gosh, it wassooooooooooo good. Elder Utchdorf was like, doubt your doubts, not your faith., its like, don't be dumb and wear pants to church, or try and enter the priesthood session, ladies... Elder Scott speaks spanish, so he recorded his talk before, oh my gosh, his spanish accent is the same. ahh I love his voice. and I loved Elder Adrian Ochoa. Don't forget to look up when something questions your testimony. and Elder Dervence m Vinson, how he was like, the more we think about HIM, the less we will want to leave Him. it was all sooooooooo good. I can't pick and choose if I had to. But I liked how Elder Hales was like, you will get something out of it, even if it wasn't what we said. so I hoped you all listened to the spirit, and learned a whole lot. cause I sure did!!! 

We went to lunch with the Hnas in Tres Rios on Sunday after the first session, and one of the members of the family sings. like I'm not kidding, he speaks spanish ,but sings in english, perfectly. and he is doing like an american idol type of thing here. he is 18. and I sang with him. We sang the hallelujah song from shrek, and I'm yours by Jason Miraz, and a song from the fray. so once he is famous, I'll be like, yup, I sang with him while he played the guitar. I almost fell in love for a second. but my heart is locked, so it didn't happen. but it was SO FUN. Hna Salas was like, she can sing, sing together, so we did. hahaha

Today we went and played paintball with the zone! gosh dang it was so fun. it was underground. and super sketchy. and throughout the whole week I was like, I'm gonna take you all down, and they were like bring it... and THEY brought it instead. haha I have 3 shots that bled, and I fell in something... I want to say paint but it was either crap, or mold. hahah it was awful! like 4 of us fell in it. but it was so intense,  Elder Taylor got nailed in the face, and has 2 chins now, his face is huge haha and Elder Lundburg just shot 50 all at me so I did the same. hahah it was fun. Hna Olgletree and I teamed up and took down those latino youth that came with us. 

welllll we are gonna go visit Angie tonight! Love you all!!! can't wait to hear about your weekend, and all the things you learned from conference!!! 

you are all the best!
xoxoxox