Tengo Ganas

Hola! 

Tengo ganas.. is like saying.. mm yeah I really want to.. but something is holding me back.. it doesn't really directly translate haha but it's what everyone is saying about coming to church. it should be "SI YO VOY A IR!" yes I'm going to go! COME ON PEOPLE! 

En todos modos, (anyways..)

We had a Church Tour! What up. new favorite thing. Yolani (found out we were calling Yolinda the wrong name.. #awk) and her daughter Jennifer and their huge fat baby Miller came on a church tour with Ana Mata (recent convert) and her daughter Andrea.. who was going to be baptized last week but.. didn't have tons of support from the other members of her family. crazy how much influence older siblings have. fo realz. But Andrea took charge of the whole thing haahha it was great! She even used her spanish which she doesn't do very much, totally befriended Jenifer and Yolani was BA DA BA BA BA lovin it.

But they didn't come to church. poop. Things happen. Next week though, she promised!

Lemme tell you about Jose and Gabriel. Gabriel was the miracle guy on the bike that we randomly invited to church and he was like "pues.. SIII!" then we lost him because he moved but then we found him agian! They live with like 50 of their cousins in this apartement and work in San Juan during the week so we always teach them on the weekends. 

Gabriel wanted to be baptized since the first time we met him. And Jose did too. They're incredible. They have such pure hearts. and we found out this week that Jose has a baby son and a wife that live in Mexico while he makes money here. They're like his pride and joy. He talks to them every day on the phone and has been sharing what he's learning about Jesus Christ and the Gospel. SO COOL! 

I was really worried about them having friends at church.. our congregation doesn't really have many 30 year old single or newly married hombres. PERO our ward mission leader, Alfonso is 24 (looks like he's 14) and he is now their friend (: they LOVE him. Last night we had the Chastity lesson.. BUM BUM BUM, clean thoughts, no sex before marriage, the works, and then talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ (faith, repentence, baptism, gift of holy

ghost, endure to the end) and the whole time they were like.. "Alfonso.. digame.. este.. digame eso.." Tell me this tell me that. hahah then they wanted him to say the closing prayer hahah. SO WOO they have a friend! 

It's crazy to me sometimes.. I sit back during a lesson and just look at where I am.. sitting on a side walk in a dingy apartment complex with 3 mexican men and a white girl at my side. we're all criss cross apple sauce talking about God.. LIKE WHAT!? If anyone would have told me that this is what I'd experience on a mission, never would have belived them. Never. 

It's incredible that we make the most random places (sidewalks, front porches, stair wells, laundry mats) into an environment where people feel the Spirit for the first time. For the first time these people realize their divinity. They feel the love their Father in Heaven has for them FOR THE FIRST TIME in the WEIRDEST places. I'm laughing to myself right now. 

I SIT ACROSS FROM 3 MEXICAN MEN ON A REGULAR BASIS, CHEESE GRADE A LANGUAGE I JUST LEARNED, and somehow.. these people are brought to the knowledge of their Savior and Redeemer. WHAT?! 

I guess not "somehow"..I know how all this is able to happen. It's all the Lord. I open my mouth, not sure what's gonna come out and with His help, it makes sense.. God could soooo accomplish this himself but how lucky are we to get to participate?

Don't forget to smile this week. Say hello to people. You never know what a difference you can make. Con Dios todo es posible. Todo. 

Yo voy a enviar fotos (: 

Con amor para siempre,

Hermana Skidmore

 

This Week

Sorry the title isn't more creative! 

Hi hi hi! 

SOOOOO This week! 

Zone Conference was on Friday. 4 Zones gathered at our Stake Center so we didn't have to travel far. It was like BAM BAM BAM so uplifting! One of the AP's left everyone a voicemail the night before and was like "Get pumped and ready to receive revelation!" hahahah #missionaryhumor

Random cool thing: I was about to sit down: ready to chow down on regular american food (kind of) Ravioli and salad that the Stake provided us for lunch.. when President comes over to me like.."Sister Skidmore, would you and Sister Thomas join us at the Table over there?" pointing across the room.. "Uh.. yeah!" 

So we sat.. and the Mission President, his wife, the Stake President, and his wife, and our zone leaders ALL watched me eat.. hahhaa. Obiously we all ate together but you know how I feel about like eating in front of important people.. also it was SO AWKWARD! because no one wants to say anything that might be inappropriate.. it's hard to explain.. like everyone wanted to be proper.. 

yeah.. well I got over that real fast. Silence just won't do!

 I talked about the car wash we went through. and how some day Hermana THomas and I are going to go through a car was in the back of a pick up truck.. and then President was like "I like to bungee jump.." OKAY PRESIDENT. YEAH! and then the conversation picked up. Holler at your getting everyone to talk like normal people. Missionaries can be normal, too. Just so everyone knows (: 

The stake president's wife talked about her daughter and how she has 3 older brothers. We really connected on that topic over the dinner table. I basically just told the whole table that the boys (like Cameron and Mitchell) just to clarify, are my heroes. They made me tough. I was never allowed to be a sissy. and when I was a sissy, I wasn't allowed to play with them anymore so it was best just to not be a sissy (: hahahah I will be forever grateful for my homies. 

Then Juancarlos' baptism!!! 

YAYAY! He was so cute!!! ahhhh!!! I'll send pics!

His less active family members and non-member family members were all there and his less active brother Wilson, came to church the next day to see him get Confirmed in Sacrament meeting. We could just tell that Juancarlos was beaming. Hopefully this will spark something with the family. We wrote Juancarlos a note just to tell him how he is really setting such a great example for his family (: I can't wait to see that little guy serve a mission!

The reason I'm emailing on a tuesday!

We had a Spanish activity at the temple!! ahhhh! There's like a huge field around the Sac temple so 1,200 of the Spanish people around Sacramento gathered for the holiday. We ate carne asada and did zumba! Hermana Thomas and I were in charge of maning the door to Zumba haha it was SO HARD not to dance!! It was a great time. Lots of comradery (no idea how to spell that) among the people and my Spanish is slowly getting better! We even got to go INSIDE the temple waiting room with Ana Mata (recent convert) and her sister! The temple worker was like Yeah! Come look real fast! I felt so awkward.. but it was really special. I think Roxana realized that too.  

Spiritual thought:

Do you know the name of Beethoven's piano?

Exactly. No one knows the name of the instrument. But we know the artist.

As a missionary, I am an instrument of the Lord. This is His work. 

Preisdent Martinez (assistant to Mission Preisdent Lewis and over the Spanish) shared that at a Spanish missionaries meeting this week and it kind of blew my mind. it's so true! Hard to remember sometimes, because we want the people to remember our names haha but the big picture is whose work this actually is. 

Used Jacob 3:1 a lot this week. Did I already share that one? Sorry (: I just love it. 

Les amo para siempre y con todo mi corazon.

Hermana Skidmore

In the Land of Shake & Bake

This week was great!

Hermana Thomas and I turned in our numbers last night and the Zone Leaders said we're leading the Zone.. I don't know what that means but it sounds good! 

But it's not about numbers (: so let me tell you about the people! 

The Miller family!

We call them that beacuse we don't know their last name but the Dad's name is Miller haha. They're Spanish, obviously and they were a referral from the best ward member ever - Hermana Melix! She sees a spanish person in her car or while she's walking, goes up to them, asks their name and some information, and then sends us to them hahaha. 

This family is great! Jennifer is their little girl, Miller Jr. is a HUGE GORDO (fat) baby and then Yolinda is the mom. We taught them the restoration using this great object lesson we came up with in Companion Study, and the whole time Miller (the dad) kept saying "oh yeah. Yep. OHHH. Okay. Siiiiiii!" Like while we were teaching haha. We tried to have a church tour this week but no dice :( just gotta get em to church! He even said "so I should probably go to church to see if this is true huh..?" and we were like well..PRAY and yes! church! Iglesia! Woo. Yeah!

Hermana Jiminez - Ward member that sells tamales for a living! SHE IS GREAT! AHHH! We had dinner at her house and she had some chiles on the table. Okay.. for those of you that don't know.. if even a hispanic says that something is spicy.. IT'S SPICY! = picoso! 

Hermana Thomas dared me to try a red chile.. and Hermana Jiminez was like no!! and she was cracking up. 

Did I try it? CLARO QUE SI (of course!) 

I cheated a little though :) I ate it with a piece of tortilla so that it looked like I was chewing the chile but I wasn't, so i swallowed the bite of chile whole and the burning was minimal.. 

Hermana Jiminez was dying! She was laughing so hard that I didn't seem phased. 

So she made me take another bite.. 

Yep. FUEGO EN MI BOCA. Fire in my mouth. She laughed some more. haha. 

Then before we left we asked her her favorite hymn. We've discovered that Hispanics reallllly like it when we sing. She said "Jesus es mi Luz" I forgot what the quivalent is in ingles.. 

She said it's what her Mom used to sing to her. 

We started singing. She tried to sing with us.. and then the tears just rolled down her cheeks.. My heart was so full. 

To give you some background, this lady is pretty old and she works SO HARD to provide for the 2 boys that she adopted with her late husband. She said that by coming that night, we brought her a peace that she can't seem to find any other way. It made me so grateful to be a representative of Jesus Christ and to be able to offer that peace. . She said a prayer before we left and it was the most humble, full of gratitude prayer I've ever heard. Such a sweet experience.

We hopefully have 2 baptisms coming up this week! Friday - Andrea Mata (the daughter of Ana Mata - a recent convert that Hermana Thomas taught and baptized a few months ago) and Juancarlos on Saturday! His mom is making this a HUGE deal haha. and it's FINALLY HAPPENING! after having the date pushed back like 3 times. They're both 9 years old and so smart! 

We did an object lesson extravaganza with Andrea about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it turns out.. she already understands most of it because of going to primary only 3 times. CHURCH IS GREAT - whatupp! Shouts out to primary teachers all over the world! 

I guess her older sister told her that after she's baptized she can't have fun anymore.. and Andrea idolizes her older sister.. so we went over last night with our photo albums and literally showed Andrea how fun our lives have been since being baptized haha. Later in the lesson, randomly she was like "where were you when you almost fell off a mountain?" because I showed her the picture of Madisen and I on Angel's Landing. haha gotta love the attention span of the ninos. 

With Juancarlos we did an "Armor of God" lesson, I'll send a pic! And he passed his interveiw for baptism this sunday and he is READY! He was BEAMING when he came out of the interview. and I was like YEAH JUANCARLOS!!!! HIGH FIVES ALL AROUND!! haha. Some one should be as excited as him, am i right!?

Exchanges.

Oh boy. Remember how I have NO sense of direction? Taylor can attest to this.. and anyone who has ever had to drive with me without a GPS. So I got to stay in my area with another Hermana while Hermana Thomas went with the Sister Training Leader to another area. 

It was bad. I felt like the worst missionary on the planet. We drove so much. Then we finally got to a lesson and like halfway through he goes.. Me llamo.. GenARO.. no GenERO.. 

I've been using the wrong vowel in there for about 3 months.. HAHAHAHA. 

Then We had this rad lesson with some investigators that we nicknamed the Pirates. and we say "ARGHHH" but roll the "R" it's funny because you roll R's in spanish :) I'll see if I can send a picture and then you'll understand.

Their names are Pepe, Gabriel and Jose. Brothers. All have really good hearts and have a really good understanding of Diety. They seem "too cool for school." but really they're LOVING the Book of Mormon and they always say.."oh I'm not good at praying.." YEAH RIGHT. They like try to out do each other with how beautiful their prayers are haha. Love em. 

One more thing, 

I just want to brag about my companion for a minute. 

Hermana Thomas is the best thing. She is an incredible missionary and I thank Heavenly Father every day that I was able to have her as my trainer. She is patient with me and has really helped me to grow as a person. I'm super confident with my Spanish when I'm with her. Like I'm not afraid to make mistakes. She is constantly thinking about others and the needs of our investigators.. she is prompt. Obedient. and we make an incredible team. She knows her purpose as a missionary... Every day we talk about how much it's going to suck that we are getting separated in month haha. I hope I get to serve with her again some day! 

I love you all so very much. I think about you all the time and the examples you have been to me. I LOVE YOU!!!

Jacob 3:1 - God keeps his promises, he'll never leave you hanging as long as we do our part to pray and have faith.

Paz y bendiciones.

Hermana Skidmaaaas. 

Hot Dogs & Cabbage

THIS WEEK!

WOWOWOW! 

I've realized I need to be so much more humble. The blessings are literally EVERYWHERE! I get to stay with my awesome trainer at Sister Schows house for the next 6 weeks. Our fridge is full of water bottles from random people. Our ward members give us referrals like the second coming is tomorrow, and we have really seen the hand of the Lord in our work!

Remember our "Primary class"? This group of kids that LOVES to talk about Jesus at this apartments complex? Well this week we had perfect timing and Diana (the main little girl that LOVES reading the Book of Mormon) was outside and her mom was on her way inside. We stopped her and said "Hi! We're the missionaries! We love your daughter, could we share a message with you real quick?" In Spanish obviously but yeah! She let us in! 

This little girl is literally changing the lives of those around her because of her Faith. Softening hearts & opening doors all over the place! Holler at your mini-missionary! She even asked us for homework!? So I gave her the first 5 verses of 1 Nephi to read and I made a little fill in the blank paper for her. And Wrote down some questions for her to answer! Then we we came back the next day.. 

She had it all written out with a note that said "Thank you Hermanas! I love the Book of Mormon and I love reading! and I love you!" LIKE WHAT!? We challenged her to be baptized and her mom gave her a death glare hahah. Because she raised her hand like ME ME YES ME BAPTIZE ME NOW! But then we challenged the Mom and she still wants to learn more so Diana changed her mind a little, too. We'll get there (:

OH! Last night we went to see them, all these little kids are outside and we're going to contact someone else at these apartments but the kids saw us.. they all screamed..

THE HERMANAAAAAAAS! hahah 

Hermana Thomas just looks at me.. "Do you want to talk to the contact or the kids?" I said Kids obviously! So I fell to my knees as they all ran to me screaming and gave me hugs! Gahhhhh AND I THOUGHT KIDS HATED ME! hahahah 

This week we have also done a lot of singing as missionaries. There are 9 of us in the Del Norte ward. CRAZY! 5 hermanas and 4 Elders. The Zone leaders are in our district and they're over the YSA singles ward so we are mainly just with the other 2 elders. We call our District Leader, Elder LaDuke, our Relif Society President haha. Because he's over 5 hermanas. #AgeChangeProbz am I right!?

Anyways.. We sang at a baptism and we sang the EFY medley in Church yesterday. It's so funny because everyone tells me I can sing.. I just laugh.. I guess that voice class did something for me? 

I can just picture dad banging on the bathroom door, "Morgan, your can you turn off your Broadway voice? We're going to bed!!!!!" hahahaha 

The congregation loved the song. Some even clapped ;) 

Cool Miracle:

We had to park down the street from our appointment because there were so many cars along the street already. While walking to the house, a guy stopped us and was like hey.. who are you? We explained that we're missionaries. His name is Anthony. He has had a really tough life but for some reason he has never given up his faith in God. He really wants to find a church and he saw and and for some reason he felt like he knew we could help him fill the holes in his heart. It was such a tender mercy. He spoke english though so we had to send him in as a referral. SORRY FOR ALL THE MISSION LINGO! Hopefully Mitchell can explain! 

HOT DAWGZ AND CABBAGE! 

Had dinner at a members home. Hermana Melix. She's a little off her rocker but BOY is she just a bundle of love. She had all 5 of us hermanas over but she wasn't ready.. so she collected what she had in her fridge. Hot dogs and cabbage.. put em together in a pot and TA DA! DINNER! hahah 

I've realized that I'm really not a picky eater.. I know how much they sacrifice for us so I was totes fine with the fake meat and vegetable mixture. The other Hermanas kind freaked a little. We also had pupusas (poo-poo-sahs) like pancakes except sometimes filled with meat or cheese. Those were good with Salsa.. lots of salsa.. to cover up any suspicious flavors.. :) 

Then there was this Philipino dessert.. All the other Hermanas were like ew.. but Hermana Melix offered it to us so I felt obligated to try it.. NOT TOO SHABBY! Obviously not Cheesecake factory.. but I ate it.. and so Hermana Melix let me take the whole thing home.. and this sunday she brought me ingredients so she can teach me how to make it.. hahahah. I just kills me how much they love us (: I'm so grateful to be here. 

WE FOUND GABRIEL THIS WEEK! He was the random guy on the street we picked up one sunday and then lost him because his phone didn't work and he moved or something? 

WE FOUND HIM! So we call him and his brothers the 3 mexicans pirates.. and they all showed up at church! We gave Gabriel and one brother Jose, a baptismal date yesterday! So cool! 

Now Francisco.. He was at church yesterday and pulled us aside.. He dropped us. He said there are some things in his life that he's not willing to change.. and he doesn't want to come to church anymore. We love him so much. It was rough. But agency is a funny thing. Yeah that's all I'll say about that.

I love being a missionary. Yes, the days are hard. You never know what people are going to do. As soon as someone opens the door, I look in their eyes and I am immediately attached. It's hard when they aren't interested because I know I have what they need they just don't know it. I love these people so much and I am so grateful for everything that has gotten me to where I am today. How great is my calling. It's not a question. It's a statement. It's not open ended. Being a missionary is great. Great reponsibility, great blessings, great trials, and great triumphs. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father that loves me enough to give me the chance to participate, if only for a small moment, in the lives of his precious sons and daughters. I know my Savior lives. I know he not only died but LIVES for each of us and that through him we can find the strength to move forward when it seems impossible.

Matthew 5:45 - Rains & shines on the good and the bad. So it is with Life. Just keep on moving foward (: 

Con todo mi corazon - Hermana Skidmore

Pistol Packin' Grandma

The title of this email was the quote from Sister Schow. I asked her if she would come to my wedding. and she said if it was in KC, no. Because she hates air planes. what do they think, I'm a pistol packin grandma? hahah  

The title of this email was the quote from Sister Schow. I asked her if she would come to my wedding. and she said if it was in KC, no. Because she hates air planes. what do they think, I'm a pistol packin grandma? hahah 

So this week was kinda hard. I don't know. I need to be grateful for the miracles that happen every day. That sometimes things fall apart so that other things can fall together but I can't help but feeling like I could be doing something more.. Like it's my fault..? Hard to explain. 

PITY PARTY OVER.

Francisco was not baptized this week.. He is 60 years old and when we went to fill out his baptism paper work, He explained that he wants to talk to someone his own age about this comittment before he makes this life changing step. I totally understood. He's been interviewed and taught by people that could be his grandkids! haha. 

he did say something funny though, when we were asking him about his baptism jump suit.. he was like "make sure it's big because I don't want anyone to see my tacos.. ya know my fat rolls..?" hahah it was so funny! 

I'm sure he'll be fine after he talks to the Bishop. He has such a strong testimony and I can see him being an incredible priesthood holder and really blessing his family in the days to come. 

There is so much more I want to tell you but I need to write president. I love each of you so so much. Please know that I love being a missionary. It's an incredible opportuinity to just barely dabble in the difficuilties the Savior experienced. What an honor to wear his name over my heart every day. 

Mosiah 7:33. 

Les quiero muchisismo,

Hermana Skidmore

Attended my first Quincinera!!! it was insane!!! 

I made pancakes with a recent convert family. 

Some of the little kids that LOVE US!

CUTIES!

Puedo Hacerlo!

There's this less active family, remember the picture with the little girls? The Aleman family? Well I was on exchanges with Hermana White in my area and we visited them. The mom was in a really bad mood and stuff but we colored a sun moon and stars with the girls and talked about reinos de gloria. Their Dad is trying to stop drinking so before we left we asked him how it was going.. HE SAID HE HASN'T IN 4 DAYS! Granted, we haven't been able to check up since then but that's a good start! I was super excited, didn't have the words in spanish to say so.. so I just gave him a high-5 and he pointed to the fridge.. 

On a sticky note I had left him a note (the previous visit) that said "YO PUEDO HACERLO!" to help him remember not to drink. He had put it on the fridge and that's what helped him! It felt so good to know that even though I can hardly understand him.. his spanish is really mumbled, I was able to help him somehow. tender mercy. 

Check this.

For some reason, I've been chillin with all the widows lately, I totally relate to President Monson - the widows are my lady jam! - they're great! For some reason we've been meeting a lot lately, and I live with one so I just ADORE them! 

This week we met Gladys, it was a miracle, timing was everything. We were trying to contact someone else but ran into her instead and were able to really do some meaningful service for her. 

She's from El Salvador, and GET THIS, Brad Wilcox.. ya know THE brad wilcox, well his son, baptized Gladys into the Church, #MINDBLOWN. 

Gladys has lots of health problems so we just sat with her in her backyard while she told us her life story. Sidenote: her garden is her favorite thing and it's legit like the Garden of Eden. She has cockatiel birds and 2 cute dogs,, a nice looking water fall and the "Tree" with the fruit on it.. if ya know what i mean. It's actually an orange tree but for the sake of the comparison to the Garden of Eden, work with me people. 

Then we went inside, and she has been asking her daughter to put up this curtain in her kitchen for like months, so she asked us if we'd do that before we leave. No problem! She was SO GRATEFUL, it felt so good to do something so simple but we could tell she really enjoyed the company. Then she showed us her scrabble room and asked us to play the piano for her, we tried to turn on the lamp above the paino but Hermana Thomas broke the knob off.. so I'm like trying to fix it and taking it apart while she's playing and were hoping that Gladys isn't seeing any of this ( her chair was facing the other direction) and I ELECTRICUTED MYSELF! hahaha this ZAAAPPP went all the way though my body.. ouch. I didn't manage to fix the lamp either.. 

She was so so so grateful that we came. and she speaks english and spanish so she was really helpful to talk to. 

3 minutes left ahh!!!

We have 2 baptisms coming up (: 

Francisco - 57 year old ADORABLE man that is a chef in a hospital cafeteria, is getting baptized this saturday! 

and Juan Carlos, he's the cutest 9 year old I've ever seen and this week we creatively made a paper chain with a scripture for every day until his baptism on the 24th! like rip one link off a day and read the scripture - what up! sign me up for teaching primary! 

2 mintues ahhh!!

We were doing service for a member family this week and the little boy took a bite out of my chapstick and spit his chicken out on my plate.. I was just like.. hm, okay.. and kept on talking - WHAT UP - ready for motherhood! haha #not

Scrpture: 

Omni 1:26 - Gospel in a nutshell. 

LES AMO MUCHO! 

- hermana Skidmore

Tengo GOZO en mi alma hoyyyyy (I have sunshine in my soul today!)

Okay this week!!!

WOWOWOW

Let's talk about prayer. 

I feel like a lot of people are intimidated to prayer. Like God is so great that like "why would he want me to talk to Him?"

Well the truth is. BECAUSE YOU'RE HIS CHILD! He is your best friend in the whole world. God wants to hear from you desperately. 

We were visiting some potential investigators this week in an apartment complex and this little girl Stephanie was following us around and telling us where all the spanish people live. Little kids are seriously the BEST for referrals! haha. She's 4 years old. Wearing this bright yellow tank top (mom if you remember I was obsessed with yellow before i left haha). She went with us to every door and just watched us talk to people. Then we had to leave for another appointment somewhere else and so we were like.. okay... bye... 

and she just stood there.. staring at us as we walked away... 

the thought popped into my head, as cliche as it sounds... "What would Jesus do?"

I turned around to look at her again, and I yelled, "Stephanie, do you want to say a prayer with us?" 

She just nodded. It was the cutest thing. 

So we sat on the steps of this random apartment and had the most spiritual experience of my mission so far. There were people walking by and what not but Stephine was completely focused, whcih is a lot for a 4 year old. 

We taught her how to start.. dear heavenely father.. give thanks for blessings, and ask for the things she needs, then end in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 

She speaks mainly english so we helped her pray. i said the words and she repeated after me. 

Her voice was clear. She enunciated very well. In that moment, I felt the love of the Savior beaming from this little Spanish girl in a yellow tank top. I felt the love that our Heavenely Father has for us and the joy that comes when we just talk to him. 

It was incredible. "Amen." and Stephanie just sat there. Smiling. And then we left. and she sat there on those steps as content as could be... and you guessed it.. I cried... 

Haha. It's amazing the Spirit that little kids have. They recognize us as servants of the Lord. as representatives of Him. Holy cow I love wearing my name tag. What an honor. 

I don't have much time for my other prayer stories. but I'll tell you a few quick funny things.

We are in District meeting and we get a text from this 15 year old, Jose, that we had met tracting and just given him our number in case he needed anything. 

"Hey Hermanas I need your help with a problem." 

I freak out... 

"Hey Jose! What's up? Are you okay?"

"Yeah I need help."

"What kind of problem?"

"A decision."

We call him. He says he "Won't be here after 1PM" 

My heart jumps to suicide. Blood is rushing through my veins. We have to save this kids life. 

We drive to his apartment and the car is silent. Hermana Thomas thinks that he's like planning our demise and all his friends are gonna jump us. 

We say a fervant prayer before getting out of the car.

We knock on the door. 

Jose - "hey Hermanas..."

"hey..Jose! What's up..."

Jose - "So I can't decide between these two girls.. like which one I want to be my girl friend.." 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!? It took everything I had not to laugh. I knew Heavenly Father was probably busting up because our prayer was like "please keep us safe and help Jose not be dying.." hahah LADY PROBZ!

It was the sweetest thing. At first we thought that he was talking about US and we're like.. uh missionaries can't date.. hahaha but it wasn't us. :(

We told him to pray. & Read his scriptures.. SO CLICHE! but i mean that's how i make decisions.. 

I was just flattered that he knew we'd come running if he needed anything.. he knew he could trust us. AND WE ONLY MET HIM FOR LIKE 5 minutes? hahah  oh.. missionary work.. 

Quote of the week: 

A crazy man giving us crap about Mormons and Provo Utah blah blah blah.. while we were tracting.. he says..

" DID YOU KNOW 8/10 WOMEN IN PROVO ARE BEAUTIFUL!?!" Hermana Thomas is from Orem so she was like YEAH! hahah The mormons are beautiful. Can't deny it ;)

Mitch has a lot to look forward to (: hahah 

Okay - scriptures. This week I found a new favorite person in the Book of Mormon. Enos. He has one chapter but IT IS SO GOOD. He talks about repentence and prayer and bears his testimony. Short and sweet. Love it. Love Him. The Church is true. The Book of Mormon is the word of God. 

Les quiero muchisimo y siempre.  

- Hermana Skidmore