Week 66

This has been the most action packed week ever. Lots of fun things going on- I always love the last week of the transfer! So I forgot to mention that last weekend we had a wedding of a less active and we helped with all the decorations and it was fun. This week on pday we went to swap meet where I bought some earrings then went to play volleyball at the church with a bunch of missionaries- super fun. This week the big event was Alexis baby shower!!! It was a ultimate successss. Ive never thrown a baby shower before and I didnt think the first time would be on my mission, but hey! I loved it. We used our lunch and dinner times Tuesday through Thursday to do all the decorations and cake etc. We picked her up Friday night and she thought she was coming on a lesson with us. When she walked in the door she was shocked then hugged me and just started crying. It was precious. Saturday night was transfer calls- we ended up singing karaoke cuz a member threw a good bye party for Elder Rust and there were a ton of missionaries there, it was pretty crazy but super fun. Then we headed home and got our transfer call at 10:25- so I guesss we were like the last ones called- typical! I thought I would stay in chino, but... drum rollll.... I am whitewashing an area called Rimgrove South and training again! woot woooot. Sooo basically we are going to laugh at how lost and confused I am like this whole week bahaha. Im super stoked though. Today I get to spend the day with Sister Olson who is suppper legit and we are gunna go find my new area tonight. I am taking over from elders... I dont think anything bad happened there I just think that they needed more sisters Spanish areas. I will find out when I get there. Im ready to do work though, I am feeling super pumped! I am gunna send pics, I just wrote my presidents letter and I pressed send and it deleted it all haha not cool.

Week 65

So this week flewwwww by! Its crazy! I dont even know what we did! haha. So Monday we went to Chinatown and Little Mexico, I was pleased just because I bought some cool stuff in China town! That night we had FHE with the Ramirez family which was awesome because they ordered Churchs chicken (comparable to KFC but a lot more delicious). On Wednesdays we always volunteer at the local adults school and help with the English class, since it was the end of the semester they surprised us and all brought food and we had a pot luck, its so diverse here so you can imagine that there were all types of different things- some looking more appetizing then others! I have become good friends with a lady named Debra and she is from China, I mentioned to her that I would love to go and teach English there and she got so excited and wrote down all of her information for me and told me that she would take me everywhere (she is moving back to mainland china at the end of the year). So thats cool! Another thing came up- there is a Mormon grade school down in Mexico City and I got talking to a member about it who went there for school and she was saying that you can go there and you are assigned as the mom of a group of kids and its a job that apparently pays pretty well, the catch is you have to be married haha, but yeah, lots of cool things catching my attention, making me think that I just want to be a gypsy for the rest of my life! How does that sound!? So Elder Rust leaves at the end of this week, so that will be tragic, he is my district leader. He keeps being like, Sister Christian- what am I going to do with myself after the mission!? haha apparently he is having some kind of inner crisis, I am not much help obviously because I dont even know what I am going to do with myself, let alone give someone else advice! haha. This week I have planned a surprise baby shower for Alexi, she is my favorite person of my whole mission, its cool because Ive been with her foreverrrr. So yesterday we were sitting in Relief society and she is now 7 months along and her baby started kicking in her belly and she grabbed my hand and put it on her stomach and it like karate chopped me, not sure why but it was the coolest thing ever and I may have shed a tear or two haha. Alexi is super emotional and her excitement about being pregnant is contagious and thats why I am so happy and excited for her. Soooo this email is random because missionaries keep coming over and talking to me ahhh- distracted! I wrote my presidents letter in Spanish so I am not copying it on here haha, this week we have a language conference- first time Ive ever heard of such a thing so I wrote it in Spanish. Learning a language in the states is tough, only the diligent missionaries reallllly speak it. Sam is diligent luckily so he will have it under control in no time. Life is good, Im feeling healthy, happy and anxious for transfers! Saturday night is the call. Today we are going to swap meet and then playing volleyball at the church. I tried to instill in my companion that P-day is a holy sacred day... but she is now taking it further than me and when I planned to eat lunch today around 1 she said, we cant waste valuable pday time eating! hahahah. I am excited for a change because home girl Mulitalo is fattening me up! Too much food!!!! haha. I didnt think that statement would ever come from my lips but yeaaah Imma be starting the 6 week weight loss plan next Monday hahaha. jk, I look the same, blessed with a fast metabolism! haha.

Week 64

This week I am gunna send a bunch of pix because those are more exciting than my explanations on the week! haha. It was a good week though. The Buddhist temple on Monday was fun, then we went to the driving range where I got my golfff on hahaha. not really- I found out that the skills I once had from the 'discovery canyon' days are long gone hahah. Not surprising though since that was so long ago! After that my comp and I had to wait for the elders to play basketball and luckily someone brought a volleyball and she played in high school so we got super into it and I dont think Ive ever sweat so much hahaha. We loved it and are planning on buying a ball for morning exercises since running is suppper not fun haha. So today was interesting as we went with other sisters downtown to plazita olvera and china town- we just got back to our area and p-day is supposed to be over at 6 and we have done nothing. I dont want to be rude but sisters are soooo hard to be with sometimes haha. They all want to do different things and all catty. There were some really contentious remarks made today (there were some sisters there that were in a trio and did not get along) so that made it a lot less fun. Patience is something I always thought I lacked but in comparison to what I saw today I guess I am doing great! haha. That MUST be something acquired in the mission because I am aware that I was not so patient before haha. But dont expect too much of a difference when I come home! haha I dont want you to have any expectations!!!

President Becerra, The most exciting thing in our area is that Lucy and Claudia came to church, they are our most exciting investigators right now! We gave them tour and we could not set them for a baptismal date but I just know that they will be in the water some time in the very near future. Especially with a son on the mission- its just a miracle waiting to happen as they told us they have been pretty anti church right un till the week he reported to the MTC a few weeks ago. They drove him to the MTC and felt a peaceful spirit about everything and now want to find out more about the church. So cool! We found a less active knocking doors this week and we had a really great lesson with her, she said she is ready to come back to church and has been praying that someone would come and help her! Yayyy for being an answer to someones prayers! We gave a tour to 3 formers (all from same house) this week and they really liked it but then didnt come to church on Sunday when they said they would so that was quite a let down. Our turn over rate seems exceptionally high, I feel that we are doing everything we can and we are finding new people to teach but they dont seem to be ready because we have had a lot of people come and go. Interesting, but we are working with what we've got and we are having a great time doing it. My companion and I just crack each other up and we are loving our time spent together. Overall great week, excited for these next 2 weeks of the transfer! Thanks for all you do. -Sister Christian.

Week 63

This week has been a blasttt. The time is just flying by, I love it! I cant even think of what happened... urr, oh yeah, so Monday we went to Covina to play soccer and I have been soar for like the rest of the week because I ran until I was physically exhausted haha, so that was dumb of me, but it was super fun cuz all my homies were there. Tuesday I got to catch up with Elder Smith and Kohler because we had a pass off lesson with them because our golden family turned out to live in Covina- soo tragic! But it was fun to see them, they are like my best friends in the mission so its hilarious when the three of us get together because we just laugh. I feel so blessed to be here and loving life as a missionary, Sunday morning we met up with our district for breakfast at the church where we made crapes... yummm. Loved them! I am addicted! Then Sunday night we had a really exciting awesome lesson with a new family we are gunna teach- I talked about them in my president letter.

Today is going to be awesome, we are going to this big buddhist temple then going golfing. I guess we are going to a driving range bahaha should be funny. This week we have zone conference which should be fun, president Becerra is a super dynamic teacher so it will be awesome. and free lucnh! hollla. Jessica thanks for your letter this week. Thanks for all the love- everyone is amazzzzed at how long my emails are, they all get a paragraph and I always roll out of the library with like 5 pages on emails to read ahaha, I feel so lovvvveddd! I love you guys a lottttt.- Hermana Christian.
President, This week we got dropped by multiple investigators which was really tragic, but the Lord answers prayers and something really cool happened! There was a name from our ward list that I have had in my agenda since the beginning of last transfer but we never got around to going. Saturday I felt like it was a good time to go figure out who this less active, Mauricio was. When we knocked on the door a lady answered and said, "hermanas, we just dropped off my son for his mission this week!" I was confused but we soon found out that this lady, Lucy, is not a member and nor is her daughter, Mauricio is the daughters husband (he was the one we were looking for) and that her son had joined the church a little over a year ago and they had just drove up to Utah to drop him off at the MTC. We had a lesson with her and the daughter and they appear to know literally nothing about the church but were very open and curious now that their son/brother has left to be a missionary! We are soooo excited! We had a member with us who was spectacular as she knows the son that has left for a mission and they got along so well. yayyyy! Either than that this week has been full of finding, the field really is white and ready to harvest! We havent had much success thusfar this transfer but I am determined to get some people in the water before the transfer ends! I am feeling great health wise and my companion is doing really well. She is a pleasure to be around and always making me laugh and being positive. Thanks for all you do! -Hermana Christian.

Week 62

So this week has been super fun. We celebrated Elder Rusts birthday and gave him a bunch of random junk we found in our apartment for a birthday present hahaha, it was pretty funny. We gave him a water gun which was a bad idea because I ended up getting soaaaaked, haha. On Saturday the elders told us that we were gunna go do service for the Sazo family so we go thinking that we were going to help them do yard work... we soon found out that it was not for service at all. So hermano sazo has this tradition of getting missionaries "baptized by the Sazo-docio" (sacerdocio in spanish is Priesthood)... so basically what that means is... he pushed us all into the pool! Not good! The work is really coming along, we have a GOLDEN new family that we are teaching... oh my gosh they are so cool! I wrote about them in my presidents letter. Sadly this week I found out that Miguel, 26, that we have been teaching for a while, has like a major crush on me... he called at like 10 the other night and hermana mulitalo answered and he asked to talk to me and he was like, "urr... I want to tell you something but I dont think I should" and I said, "well them probably you shouldn't" (not really knowing what he might say) and then he talked for like 10 minutes about how he has been praying for a good woman to come into his life etc etc... I had to nicely shut him down.. I was so sad though, you really become invested in your investigators and it just really took me by surprise.. gaaaa. Boys are so dumb. Then he came to church yesterday and I had to give a talk so I felt all weird up on the stand and after he gave me a present... oh deary me. Its all good though, obviously we are done teaching him. weirdddd. We had interviews with president, me and president Becerra talked for about 10 minutes, the more time I spend with him the more I like him. And guess what!? He goes, I promise I dont say this to everyone.. you are Sister Becerra and I's favorite! But dont tell anyone because I dont think we are supposed to have favorites! haha. Maybe he does say that to other people too but regardless it was nice. So life is good, sending some pix your way. Me and my comp are good, a few quirks are taking some patience. haha, she is super nice and cool but really slow moving, and she is always talking about what we are going to eat, its cute because she wants to make us meals but not cool because a lot of the time I dont want such big thought-out meals... not trying to put on weight right before I come home! haha. She is great though, I just like when people do things by their own initiative not just because I am making them/asking them to do stuff. But its hard to be a new missionary so its all good and I am happy with her. Today we are going to go play soccer in Covina with my crewwww. haha. We have kind of a click in the mission hahaha. It will be super fun though because I get to see Elder Kohler and Smith de Covina, they are still together so we will playyyy. Presidents letter... President! This was a really great week for us because we were able to have some really promising new investigators. After visiting the Nestor family sooo many times (part member family) we finally got to meet and teach their 2 sons that are not baptized. We were so sure they were going to come to church, we even took them bagels on Saturday night so they could have a quick breakfast, but they didnt come, disappointing because it is just the mom who needs to decide to get them up and off to church and she says they will come then they dont. We also received an awesome member referral, Hermano Montanez called us and said, "I have an awesome family for you to give tour to!" We were excited and now that we have met them we are even more stoked, they are golden! We set them for the 21st of August for their baptismal date and I am excited to see them progress towards that goal. They couldnt come to church because they had a family obligation but we were able to meet with them last night and watch the restoration DVD and I asked them if they thought Joseph Smith was a prophet and they both said yes but that they need to study more, they are awesome! They have 2 young kids, ages 6 and 5 you have to come to their baptism! Sadly this week our investigator Miguel that we have been teaching for about 2 months confessed his love to me! yikes! So he came to church on Sunday but I didnt make it awkward but we are dropping him or possibly passing him over to the elders depending on whether or not he gets a hold of us this week. I was pretty upset but it will all blow over. Overall I am loving my area, excited to see what comes of these new investigators and to continue to find new people this week, we have some promising potentials. Hermano Mulitalo is doing really well, she struggles with being self-motivated which is a little bit of a trial, I am trying to help her love tracting but I am not really succeeding. It will all come with time though and we are in high spirits and excited for the new week. Thank you for interviews this week, thanks for all you do! Hermana Christian