My sweet friends!! I was so happy to hear from you!:D I have this one day to look at my emails and to my surprise there multiple emails from friends and family! I think about you all them time. I am officially starting to get in the groove of missionary work. Like my companion says you can feel a tons of emotions in only one day. I can feel happy and exited and then calm and thoughtful and somewhere in the middle of the day we will feel disappointed and sad. No matter what I do though I don't forget that I am where I need to be. Oh my goodness conference was a blast! I cant even count how many times I have sat and watched conference all my life and I have never gotten so much out of it as I did this last time. The spirit is truly a blessing. I know that because of it was able to absorb so much out of conference. I felt truly sad that it had ended only to think of how many new talks my companion and I will have to listen to and to study for another 6 months.
We had some wonderful experienced with investigators coming to see conference with us. One of them was a sweet girl named Ella she is a wonderful girl who has been taking the discussions from the sister missionaries Sister Stucki and Sister Tenni. I had the chance to meet her for the first time at a Noche de Hogar that Hermana Garlitz and I organized on Monday. We invited the members to come and meet our investigator and to fellowship. Hna. Garlitz gave a wonderful little lesson about Christ like attributes and then we played a supper fun game of charades. Everyone had tons of fun and really bonded with our investigators. Ella is a wonderful sweet girl with supper colorful hair haha. She works at the mall in Clare's and the sisters have been working hard with her to be able to get her to church. Ella has a hard time getting work off to come on Sundays but she was able to attend the first session of conference on Saturday. The first session on Saturday was my favorite, I mean they started with Elder Holland! Right off the bat I knew that it would be awesome. It was so powerful and Elder Eyering spoke directly to Ella and it was amazing after the session she told us that she was so exited to get baptized! The sisters hadn't even discussed that yet and there she was telling us that she was ready! We were so exited but we told her that we needed to wait for her to attend church first. All of a sudden she became supper happy and she said that her boss had given her two Sundays off in a row! It was perfect! So now we are so exited for dear Ella to be baptized in a couple of weeks. Today as Sister Stucki was writing to her Ella said, "I know that this is right and I am so happy". Like Ella I know that this is right and I am so happy.
Another exiting miracle for conference is that the investigator who had dropped us last week, Alejandro, came! He actually took my challenge and came to both sessions of conference on Sunday with Hermano Zaragoza. We can tell that he is still having a difficult time but I have faith that his heart will soften. He is still willing to let us in and talk in fact we went over to his house Friday night and he gave Hna Garlitz and I two big bowls of aroz con leche (rise pudding) and it was so good! I have so much love for Alejandro and even though he doesn't understand the importance of our message, I do and I know what it will mean to him and how happy he will some day. I know the priceless blessings that await him. Humberto also came to conference he stayed for the first Saturday session and then Ana Pastor got baptized in-between sessions on Sunday! Haha Anita turned eight years old last week. She is the youngest daughter of recent converts Domingo and Santa. They are a wonderful family and it was supper exiting to see Anita get baptized by her dad. Bishop gifted her with her own pair of English scriptures and a huge teddy bear. Funny story, I asked Anita if she had named her bear and she decided at that moment to name her Orellana Garlitz:D haha she is super cute.
Along with conference some of the highlights of this week was the amazing food that I got to eat. On Thursday night an investigator named Guadalupe invited us to eat dinner at her house. We helped her prepare a delicious ceviche and had tostadas de ceviche! yum:) We went out to eat the other day and I had Salmon and then just yesterday we had tamales that Santa had made for Anita's baptism. The other night we also got to eat at a Mexican restaurant! That is a whole other story haha so being Spanish speaking missionaries in a small town in Kentucky there are not a lot of Hispanics! The toughest part about being here is that it is hard to find people to teach so one night after much frustration trying to find Hispanic looking people at the mall we decided to YOLO it and go to a Mexican restaurant and just try to talk to the people there! HAHAHA honestly I don't know why we didn't do this before it was a great hit! Everyone was supper exited that a dressed up Hispanic girl was walking into their small town restaurant to try out the food. The funny thing was that we weren't actually planning to eat just pass around pamphlets and Books of Mormon and see if we could get some addresses and phone numbers. We obviously didn't think this through very well so when we got there it got supper awkward cuz they were all working. So I asked for a menu and started looking at it as if I was trying to decide if they had good food or not. I noticed the deserts and invited Hna Garlitz to some flan. We sat down and immediately they brought us chips and salsa and when they brought our flans out they also brought some new bread that they wanted me to try so that I could tell them if I like it:) It was pretty good actually. In the end we got to talk to our waiter who actually turned out to be from San Luis Potosi my home town! how crazy huh?! We gave him a pamphlet and he gave us his number to call him so that we could talk about our church. Right before leaving he took the receipt and bought our food! hahaha supper crazy.
I love you all, and I love your emails!:) Thank you so much for your support and your prayers.
Hermana Orellana
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