Gas Leak

Hey there!  
It was so good to hear from you all!  It sounds like things are going great up there! I'm so glad!  

Well we've had quite the week!  It's funny how things can happen so much on missions. Sometimes it seems like that since we're only out for such a short amount of time we have to have all of life crunched into 18 months.  This week was no different.  

After Dad wrote me about those missionaries who died I decided that we needed to have our house checked to see if it had a gas leak.  Since we moved there I could smell something and have just been putting it off because we had so much stuff going on. Well, Tuesday afternoon the Texas gas people came and sure enough we had a few leaks. Well, he fixed one on the stove and there is another on the furnace.  He shut that off until someone comes to fix it.  

Well, I called and told President Walker about it and he said that there was no way that we could stay there even though the gas man told me that it would be fine.  So we have left our beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath house for the one bedroom 1 bathroom apartment that the English sisters live in.  That's right, there are 4 of us living there.  And that's not all, it has mice!  Don't worry, we caught a mouse.  It was pretty disgusting.  We had to call a recent convert to come take care of it because it was on a sticky trap and was still alive.  The first night Sister Maher and I slept on the lazy boys but we've since got cot's.  It's actually tons of fun.  We love it!  It's way funny because just the week before the English sisters asked President if we could have a sleep over and he said absolutely not.  Well, we've now been having a sleep over on his orders for about a week.  There's never a dull moment.  

The owner of the house is coming tonight to look at it.  She lives in Mexico and this is the first chance that she's had to come over so the sleep over will probably end soon unfortunately.  But it will be nice to be back in the house where there is more than an inch between the beds.  So crazy.

President asked us to do an exchange this past week and he wanted Sister Maher to come out with me.  It was way fun!  It was my first time that I was the person who knew the most Spanish.  Sister Maher understands a lot of Spanish but can't really say anything.  It was such a great experience!  I was really surprised because everything went really well.  We taught lots of lessons and it was completely fine.  The Lord really blessed us.  It was amazing because I often rely on others Spanish but my mouth was filled and I understood.  It was such a blessing.  It really helped me gain confidence that I can do anything with the Lord.  Confidence is probably the thing that I lack the most with Spanish but slowly but surely its getting better.  

We had some great lessons this week.  We're teaching these women from Peru named Ana and Flor.  They're SO funny!  Ana is in her 60s and is Flor's mom.  Well, she is always saying such funny things.  She calls me her angel and they just love us.  She keeps saying "baptize me" but wont really accept a date.  We're praying that they'll be baptized this month.

We've found a few more investigators that are great.  We're just trying to find find find.  

Anyway, I hope that you all have a great week!  Have fun and do good!  Remember who you are and act accordingly :).  Trust in the Lord and take those steps of faith.  After we show our faith miracles happen.  It's true, I know it.  The Church is definately true!  Love you lots!

Love, Hermana Anderson