Week 17: A very normal week

Oct 9, 2017 Hola hola hola!

Well, like the title says... this has been a very average, normal week. Nothing too crazy happened besides the fact that we walked about 56 miles this week.

We didn't end up getting to meet with Andrea, since she's living in a different city for a few weeks while her piso is being renovated. We're going to see if we can get something to work out in a week or two. We met with Amparo and Fátima. They both like meeting with us, and they're both reading the Book of Mormon and really like it, but neither of them is willing to make the sacrifice to come to church, which is a little frustrating. We also met with Lidia, a less-active member, who actually DOES want to come to church but got in some sort of accident so now she has foot problems and can't for a while.

I sliced my finger open with a knife! This sounds a lot more exciting than it actually is. It was a butter knife, and the cut was more like a really long, deep paper cut. I didn't even know you could cut yourself with a butter knife. The more you know! It happened when we were cutting up squares of chocolate to put on some peanut butter cookies that we made on Monday night. We brought them to district meeting and everyone was WAY excited because peanut butter is hard to find here and when you do find it, it's really expensive. But we made the sacrifice, splurged on the tiny jar of peanut butter at mercadona, and WOW it was worth it. Fact: we're making them again tonight at 10:15 so we can take them to district meeting again for Elder Stratford's birthday.

We went to visit one future investigator this week named Angeles, and she let us into the building, but then when we knocked on her door this adorable little 3-year-old boy opened it. Apparently, his mom went "shopping." When we asked him when she would get back, he said, "Um... 9:30." He was totally lying and his mom was definitely there, but he was super cute so it was okay.

Transfers will be on Wednesday the 18th, so this coming Sunday we'll get transfer calls! (We'll be told who's going, who's staying, who's coming for the next six weeks.) What's most likely to happen is that Hermana Johnson will leave and go to another city, I'll stay here for at least 1 more transfer (6 weeks), and someone else will come in to be my new companion. BUT, we really won't know until Sunday. So I'll let you know next Monday what's going to happen!

Sunday was fast Sunday, and I went into church determined to get something out of every class and every speaker. It's just extra easy to get unfocused at church when you only understand about 80% of what people are saying. But I tried really hard to take notes during testimony meeting and actually got a lot out of it, which was really cool! Also, when I was leading the music (for some reason, whenever it's my turn to lead the music, we end up singing songs that are either really obscure from the English hymnbook or not even in the English hymnbook, which is fun), I looked around and realized that I recognized the vast majority of people in the ward! I've been here a long time haha.

One thing I loved that someone said (I might have written it down wrong) in their testimony was, "El Señor no quiere que corramos más que podemos, pero que sí, corramos." "The Lord doesn't want us to run more than we can, but that yes, we run." He doesn't expect anything more than our all, but He DOES expect our all.

Have a great week and give it your all!

Love, Hermana Walker

We went to IKEA on preparation day.  Ikea is close to our apartment and it has good Wi-Fi and food so I'll definitely be going there again.

We also got to see the city garbage being collected.  We always wondered how that was done since the garbage cans can't be opened up.  It turns out they are raised into the air and the dumpsters underneath them are dumped.  Mystery Solved!