Week 49

Man! It's been a fun spiritual roller coaster week! :) we had some cool activities. First of all spiring is finally here! This morning I packed up some winter stuff that I won't be needing on my mission anymore. I have been looking forward to that because my suitcases have gotten excessively large this year. I remember I used to make fun of my trainer because of all the stuff she carried along with her and now I understand! Human-beings are hoarders... Some more than others, but still. 

So on Wednesday we got to go to the temple. We only get to go about every six months. This time it was a bit different... First of all I panicked a little because my recommend got a little damaged in my bag and they couldn't read the bar code numbers so I had to talk to one of the members of the temple presidency so that they would let me in. It wasn't hard but it took a little while and I sweated quite a bit during those couple of minutes. It made me really grateful to be able to go inside the temple when I did. Also during this trip I had more questions then I have ever had before and I only came out with a couple of answers the rest of the answers came later in the week or will probably get answered at some other point. Ether way, I learned that I still have a lot to learn and that the temple will be the place to go for assistance. 

On Friday we got new iPads! They are way legit! Pretty much the only difference is that they are faster and have more memory capacity which I am very thankful for. So this week we spent it trying to put all our personal stuff back on the new iPads. For the next two months we will be re trained on how to better use our technology resources.... :D

We also had stake conference this weekend. It was quite good:) we had a cool experience on Saturday night. So first off some background; we live about five min away from the stake center, walking. Our meeting had ended and we were casually walking back to our apartment complex when we noticed that there were a couple of cars on the side of the road. The people had skirts on so we assumed that they had just come out of the meeting as well. I debate in my head for a couple seconds whether we should even ask if they needed help, seeing as there were already multiple people there and my lack of car fixin skills. Well I rapidly decide to just ask anyways and in reply we got, "no we are okay, but hey are y'all walking? Let me give y'all a ride. Get in my minivan." So we say, "no, that's okay we literally live across the street" and they say, "it looks sketchy. Just get in my car anyways. Do y'all want a Wendy's frosty? It's not pumpkin time and y'all look like you could go for a frosty." We hesitate because it was literally the strangest request we had had all day. And someone goes, "they hesitated, that means yes!" So we cautiously get in her car and this random member turns out to be the coolest woman I have ever met! Until this point of my life I have never had such a strong desire to be like anyone else (except Jesus of course) in my life. She was hilarious/crazy/supper spiritual and crazy fun! She said the most outrageous things and I was laughing the whole time! It's difficult to describe her, but let's just say she was a riotous angel! So fun!

And last but not least:) My compa and I got the opportunity to go to the cultural festival on Saturday. We got to help one of our members and in the process we got to pass out the word about the gospel and ran into some awesome new investigators! We bought some cool new toys and I took some videos of the different dances:) enjoy!

-Hermana Orellana

-a man who had a pet squirrel! His name was Rockie (the squirrel) :D

-my new $3 shoes! Also notice my tan line from last year is still there!

-our temple pics:)