To be spicy or not to be spicy?

Familias y Amigos!

This was a reallllly good week! We got a TON done! We met our goal for lessons and some of the people we've been working with came to an activity we had this week.

On Tuesday, we contacted a referral and it was this little couple. They're Mexican and they were making spicy food. Coincidentally, I started coughing and they started laughing at me. It wasn't actually because of the spice, but I just went with it and they invited us back to eat dinner on Saturday! Then when we went back, the husband was completely drunk. He pulled out and drank 5 beers while we were there... And his friend, Jack, came over. They started ranting back and forth about the problems in the world and about the government. We just sat back and watched. SO ENTERTAINING. Then the wife came back and started talking about how she found a girlfriend for her son--my companion! There was lots of eye communication with my companion and stifling laughs. The food we ended up eating wasn't even that spicy! But Hermana Poblete is from Argentina and their food is really not spicy. So she couldn't even handle it. It was really seasoned Mole (I'm not sure how to spell it). I really liked it and we ended up eating a lot.

But as for this week, I studied and learned a lot more about the gospel. Faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the holy ghost, and enduring to the end. I realized that I knew what it was, but not well enough to teach it or respond to questions. So I studied the importance of specifically baptism. We get baptized to make a covenant with Heavenly Father that if we keep the commandments and always remember him and try to be like him, he will bless us with the Holy Ghost to guide us and comfort us. So we are baptized as a representation of the covenant we make, but also because we want to follow the example of Christ. And one of the amazing blessings is that we get to be clean from our sins and have the gift of the Holy Ghost. That's amazing. And it takes all that guilt off our shoulders. All because of the Atonement.

Hope you all have an amazing week!

Con amor,

Hermanita Shirley

1) I got some new sunglasses. Classic me.

2) PUPPY! (We went to the YSA Bishop's house and he had a bunch of lab puppies. I'm not sure if I sent this picture before...)