October 14th Update!

Quick update on our week.  We had an awesome week.  We worked a ton and taught a lot of people a lot of lessons.  We tracted for 7 hours! (For those of you who served missions back in the day, you may be appalled that I tract 7 or less hours, but we are productive all day without tracting!) 7 is the mission goal and for the first time in my mission, I reached it!  It was just awful and we literally found no one who was interested, but I see the blessings for my obedience in other ways.

Melissa Yates is our investigator on the air force base.  She is progressing beautifully.  She loves everything we share with her and is so kind and willing to learn.

We had a funny experience with Lilly and Carlos.  First of all, they set a wedding date for December 17, so that was progress! and they agreed to come to the Spanish branch on Sunday night because it was after Lilly got off work.  We texted and called her Saturday and Sunday and got no response.  So we showed up at her house at 6:15 (the branch starts at 6:30) and they were walking toward their car getting ready to go to walmart.  We innocently said "oh! We thought you said you would come to church with us tonight!" and then they argued for a minute because Lilly wanted to go to Church and Carlos didn't want to.  Finally Carlos gave in and they got in their car.  We got in our car and waited for about 10 minutes until they pulled out and we drove behind them all the way to the church.  We were about 15 minutes late to church, but it was 100% worth it! Everything was in Spanish, so I'm not sure how much Lilly understood, but they loved it! Carlos even thanked us afterward for pressuring him to go.  The elders quorum president invited them over for dinner and FHE tonight and hopefully they'll come to the branch next week! Especially since I will be giving a talk IN SPANISH.  I'm so nervous! But secretly excited.

Anyway, I need to go.  But I love everyone.  I got some mail this week! It was awesome!

Love,

Sister McElderry