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So this week was a pretty good week. I was feeling a little discouraged and on Thursday until we had interviews with president. That man is a mind reader! He told me everything I needed to hear. EVERYTHING! It’s like I just said a few words to him and he knew exactly what I needed to hear. Truth be told this area is super hard because of the members are very gossipy and make up a lot of rumors and it has been frustrating to deal with. But it’s fine because I only have three weeks left to deal with them. And it’s been helping me learn a lot and trust in the Lord. He knows our hearts and he knows the work my companion and I are doing. But seriously I was so amazed by my interview with the president. He is the best. 

So Halloween was a really fun day! Halloween really doesn’t exist here but it was a good day. There is a convert that took us to where her family lives. Her uncle one day was taking water out of his well and found a huge tooth in it. Turns out there were fossils of mammoths there. So we went to go see the remains and as well visit her family. We went with our bishop and his wife, but the family of the convert Hna Aura wasn’t home, so we went to explore the grounds a little bit. Then later we met her uncle. Every other Friday we eat with the bishop and his family, but because it was late we went to eat at a restaurant and we happened to run into the brother of Aura who was eating at the same restaurant, which was pretty sweet because we went to go visit him. But the ground where the mammoth was at was gorgeous! Also they sell the best cheese there. They call it mammoth cheese and its super famous here because its soooooo good!! 

Later that day we did a favor to help the bishops wife make tamales. Can I tell you, I never want to eat another tamale again in my life, they are disgusting. But afterwards we went and visited some more. The lights went out that day and a couple that are less active and lives together where going to get married on Friday. We got permission to go to their wedding. But when we got to the church building (that isn’t in our area) they weren’t there and the bishop of that ward told us they weren’t going to get married until 7:30 and the last bus to get back to our area is at 7pm so we had to go back which was kind of a bummer. That night there wasn’t much to do because our neighborhood threw a huge party. That night my companion and I made cookies in the microwave that turned out pretty good. It was a good day. 

The 1st of Nov is the day of the dead and hardly anyone is in their houses. But we had almuerzo with a sister named Evelyn. We are teaching her mom and her mom invited us to come and eat and she make cuchitos. I usually don’t like chuchitos but these were soooooooooooo good! And during this week we met the cutest old man. And on Saturday we ran into him and his son.  His daughter in law dyed his hair what was supposed to be black. But it didn’t turn out good so it ended being blue. Greatest ever. We took a pic with him. 

Sunday was fast and testimony meeting. I got up and bore my testimony and kind of gave the members a good one. I wanted to say more but the spirit was like noooo…Hna Anderson that’s not ok. But another member got up and machete the crap out of the ward. The ward planned a temple trip on the day of the dead and nobody went but him and some other ppl. He was like what are you guys doing in the cemetery? What is a bunch of flowers going to do for your dead? The best thing you can do is go to the temple on the day of the dead. Giving them flowers isn’t going to save them. But going to the temple will. It was sweet! I loved his testimony. That’s about it folks. Sorry for my rants about random stuff. My companion and I are working the best we can and we are always trying to help the other not feel discouraged. We will see what this week has in store for us. 

Thank you all for your love and support! Love you all 

Hna Anderson