March 24, 2014 (day 111)

Hola Hola!!!

I hope everybody had a great week!! My week was pretty good! I love every moment of the mission! Right now we are not having too much success, but I am still excited to be here and ready to go once we find some people to teach! This is what I did this week:

On Tuesday we woke up and made some german pancakes for breakfast. We just got a new oven and bought some cooking supplies last Monday. We made tons of german pancakes. They were wonderful, but it turned out that some of the eggs we use might have been a little old and we spent the day running back and forth between our apartment and the church to use the bathroom haha. Oh well. Unfortunately we did not get much done that day. Just knocked a bunch of doors with little success. 

Wednesday: We left the apartment and our zone leaders called and asked us if we could bring them the copies of the keys we were supposed to make for our apartment. Turns out we forgot to make the keys and we left the only key that exists in the apartment with the door locked behind it. We didn´t have time to go try and break in at the time so we went to our district meeting and then to lunch and made a few visits before returning home and trying to enter in a window. I think it was actually a blessing that we locked the keys inside because we found out how incredibly easy it is to break into our apartment through the window. We are now trying to figure out a way to secure that haha. Something cool that happened that day was that we were just walking and Elder Brown thought we should go contact this little street and so we decided to do it. The first house we knocked on, a lady came out and once we said that we were representatives of Jesus Christ, she let us in. It looks like there is a big family that hopefully we will be teaching this week. I´m really glad Elder Brown listened to that prompting he got to go contact that street.

Thursday:  We knocked tons of doors and didn´t seem to have much success at all. We still were happy and working hard, but we just didn´t get into any houses all day.

Friday: We received a reference from our zone leaders and this guy lived a little ways away, so we decided to call him and see if we could visit him in the morning. We knew the house was a little ways away, so we started walking. Turns out it was about an hour walk to his house. Luckily we got in and had a lesson. His name is Germán. He is very open to what we have to say. We had a great lesson, and then we got to walk home haha. We got to our lunch appointment an hour late, but it was ok because we called them. We spent the rest of the day knocking doors.

Saturday: We knocked doors. This was the most tired I have been in the whole mission. That was the first day I just wanted to go home and sleep haha. Luckily we made it through the day.

Sunday: I got to speak in church :) how fun is that? I gave a 15 minute talk about the Holy Ghost. I was really nervous because it was my first full length talk in Spanish, but I prayed that I would be calm and I got up there and was just fine! We went and visited some people after church and then guess what we did! We went and knocked more doors! We are trying to knock every door in our sector. I think it will take about 3 months to do it haha, but we are making some good progress. 

Even though this week we really didn´t see much success, I still am always excited to go work. I really love working. There were days in my last sector when we would have tons of stuff to do and just wouldn´t have that much time to go teach and knock on doors and stuff. But I love working! I am happier than ever when I am working! I love being a missionary :) 

Anyway, that was about what happened in my week! I love you tons! Have an amazing week!!! Oh ya I just remembered that we are going to start teaching piano lessons haha. The bishop wants us to teach lessons so that they can have people who will play the piano in church. That should be fun!!!

Elder Brown and Erik