July 8, 2014 New area=LOST

Yeah. I got changed to San Rafael de Heredia. in San Jose. Where it's
FREEZING, and we are both lost, because we are opening a new area, so
we have NO idea where anything is at. We are gonna set fire here.
I can feel it.  have a new comp she goes home in August, she's from Guatamala, she's 3
feet tall and her name is Hermana Noj. like NOCHHH. She gets my sense
of humor already, so we will work really well together I think. We are
just in San Jose right now cause we had to go to the office and get
everything figured out. Because we have NOTHING not even a house.
hahahah but no, we actually talked to the branch president today, and
he is really excited to work. he just got called as president, and
they haven't had missionaries there since December!! so crazy,. IM SO
EXCITED.

Anyways. stuff about my last area. that I miss already.... for our
zone we had 35 baptisms. the highest in the mission. woot woot!!! we
won breakfast from presidents wife :) it was delish.

David Archuleta came to our branch meeting. Bore his testimony, his
spanish is great, and his testimony is AMAZING. No I didn't get a pic
cause I was respectful enough, because it was Sunday. hahah he didn't
want them either, he got out of there before they even said AMEN for
the closing prayer! hahaha.

WELP Holland won.... it's not fun to celebrate when no body else is....
I thought the people here were gonna kill me when I was skippin
around. hahaha

Lemme tell ya, the 4th of July was awesome here. We went and
celebrated with hamburgers. and I made my comp wear red white and
blue. she wasn't happy about it.

We visited a couple that are inactive, and they have been
together for 10 years, but not married cause they didn't have money,
and they told us that they finally decided that they are going to get
married in August so that they can enter the temple with their little
girls. AND they promised to come back to chuch, cause obviously they
have to so that they can go to the temple. They said they were just
uncomfortable there cause they couldn't take the sacrament and felt
like everybody was judging them, but like we tell almost everybody,
that it's like a hospital, we go because we are sick. We need the
church cause we aren't perfect.

So we were with a member working with the branch list of people, and
we were calling them to verify their direction and what not. The member
called a lady and asked for her, but the person that answered said no
she died, he said "oh wow, it's because we haven't had contact with a
lot of people so we just wanted to make sure". and she was like, "yeah
she died 10 years ago". HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA WE WERE DYING!!!!! welp, ok
thanks. bye. hahahaha

We were visiting an area, and every house that we passed by said, HI
HERMANAS. I was baptized in the mormon church, but we don't go anymore.
hahahahah that whole neighborhood is members but only 6 people
actually go. We were like, are you serious? thank you Elders....
welp. time to get to work and find some people to teach!!!
love ya all!!