Dear Family and Friends,
This week has been a blur. I'll try to just give some highlights though.
Hermana Leyva and I were able to find a family that was being taught before. It is a husband and wife (well I hope they're married, though there is no guarantee...) and their two kids. One has down syndrome and is in 8th grade and the other is 3 and has autism. They are both so loving and patient with their kids and they both seem to have a sincere desire to know the truth. I really look forward to sharing the gospel with them and hopefully watching them progress.
I had exchanges
yesterday and was in Basin City and stayed in the home of Brother and Sister Empy who said Reid (a friend of my sister) is their nephew. It's a small world, right Alicia?
Yesterday may have been one of the best days of my mission so far. The Hermana I was with gave me so many oppurtunities to teach and bear testimony. I got to lead teaching the Restoration, and although it wasn't easy, I felt it went really well. I also got to invite someone to be baptized. He didn't exactly say yes but he didn't say no. I also got to rake leaves
yesterday. We stoped by to teach a woman and she was out working and we volunteered to help. I loved just being able to serve like that. She seemed surprised but very grateful.
The other day it snowed further out of the city and later that evening while driving I experienced for the first time sliding. It was pretty scary because I had to swerve out and around someone so I didn't slide into them and hit them. I definitely had unseen help when this happened and all is well. Luckily it was out in the country and there was no one else around besides the person in front of me who I was actually following to an appointment. I shook me up a bit but all is okay and I just have to remember to be super careful when braking when there is snow or ice. When I was on exchanges my companion took the car to the shop and they said the front tires needed to be changed so that could have been part of the problem.
