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I cut my hair!!

Haha made you look. I really did get my hair cut though. But just two inches. 

Well. This week we sucked flan, made Nutella and jelly sandwiches with our feet and stuffed 20 olives in our mouth three times. We also are now teaching Spanish to a couple Arabic people and it is a party they're hilarious.

On Thursday we had a ward activity about family history and we learned that when a Spanish last name ends in -ez, -az, or -iz it means "hijo de" or son of. It's like Johnson in English- son of John. But instead of the son of John it's the son of Hernando :) fun stuff! 

We put a couple on fecha for January 11 so we're really excited to keep working with them! They're also very excited and they have the cutest little family! We also had a cita with our friend Mirna and she is sooo cute. Missionaries visited her mom when she was little and so she remembers quite a bit and she has so much motivation to learn! She even set up the next cita with us. Nobody does that haha.

We also had a hilarious cita with our friend Maura. We had planned to teach the restoration and watch the Joseph Smith movie. It went just a liiiitle bit of track. We were with her and 5 other members in a noche de hogar and let's just say they all wanted so much to help answer her questions that we ended up nowhere close to where we started. But two hours later, we gave her a book of mormon and invited her to read and pray about it and she was very excited about it. So all's well that ends well :)

Also this week it rained sooooo much. And our water heater stopped working for a day. But we're still here surviving and thriving. We've been having a lot more success in our street contacting and we found a couple new friends who we'll be meeting with this weekend so I'll let you know how it goes.

This week I've been thinking a lot about how much I love the scriptures. They are such a treasure and a gift that we have been given and we can learn so much every single day. I came across the following verses: 

"And upon these I write the things of my soul, and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass. For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children." 

"Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I have seen and heard."

As I read those verses, it really hit home. I love the book of Mormon so much. That is something that has really grown during the mission. I can really feel my soul delighting in the things I'm learning and feeling every day. I LOVE THE SCRIPTURES! I hope you all do too. And I invite you to find a new favorite scripture this week. Celebrate Thanksgiving for me by studying the scriptures a little more :)

I love you all! Count your many blessings tomorrow and every day!

Hermana Pendleton 




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