Semana 3

SEMANA 3: Taco count for the week - 15

Total for time in Mexico - 29

You know that phrase...

¨Days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days…¨

SOO true!!!

What a great week though!! :)

I am in Mazatlan and I haven´t even sent any pictures of the sea! 

Well... here they are!

We went and walked the coast today:) It was so peaceful to just listen to the waves and smell the fresh sea water!

Mazatlan is gorgeous. Sometimes not. Let´s be honest.

But I love it here :)

I forgot sunscreen today.  So for the three hours we spent walking around... I´m feelin’ a little burned.  Just a little. ha

Being next to the water made me miss Lake Powell :(

There are a lot of things that I miss...

There are two things that I LOVE!!!

Sunsets and Storms.

I get plenty of both here! Every single night the sunset just takes my breath away!

Last night we had a HUGE storm!!

Down pour of rain.

Thunder.

Lightning.

The whole works!!!

We saw a tree get struck by lightning... SO cool!!!

We could actually smell the electricity in the air.

My head hurt after a while because it felt like looking into a strobe light!

The thunder was super LOUD.

Another random story...

It´s about bugs, aaaaaand blood.

Fair warning:

One of the members has a dog... My companion has some weird bond with it. We finished eating and went to go play with her.

Her back was covered in clumps of mud. Nothing unusual for a dog in Mexico.

H. Ramirez kneeled down and starting petting her.

We soon realized that those clumps of dirt on her back were ticks.

THEN... because H. Ramirez felt so bad for her she sat there and picked them off of her!!

The SMALLEST ones were probably about the size of a tic tac.

They just got bigger from there!

I just stood there holding a bag for her to put them in.

Occasionally one would explode and blood would squirt everywhere. 

Her hands were covered in blood once she was done.....

Ugh.

I don´t how she did it!!

My mom sent me a flea collar and this ointment stuff to use on my bed.

Well…..Sorry mom.

I gave it to little Monina.  J

I wouldn´t really consider myself a SHY person.

But HERE........

I couldn´t be MORE shy!!

It´s hard to walk up to a stranger and ask them about their beliefs...

Who God is to them...

If they believe in Jesus Christ...

I have been working on this a lot this week!

Sometimes it’s GREAT!!!

Other times....... crashes, and burns.

I am adjusting to a completely different life.

It can be sucky at times.

But I´ve never been happier :)

Last week after I finished writing we had Family Home Evening with one of the members.

She is older and since school is out right now her 14 year old grandson is staying with her.  He gets to spend a month at her house every year during the summer!

We gave the lesson... answered questions that they had... Then played a game.

Great night!

We started talking to the grandson a little about what he believed.

He told us both his parents were SUPER religious!!

He liked the church and liked going, but he explained he has always felt like there is...

 “something missing.”

He wondered why there were so many different churches and how he could know for himself which one is true.

UHHHH.... Sound familiar?!

We started the lesson of the restoration.

He was so focused on EVERY single word we were saying!

Right before we told him the first vision, we stopped.

We had him close his eyes.

We gave the first vision.

Then, once he opened his eyes we asked him to describe to us what he saw...

While he was talking I had chills the whole time, the spirit was SOOO strong!!

After he finished describing everything.... I opened my book to the picture of Joseph Smith in the grove.

He FREAKED out!!!! hahahaha

“THAT´S WHAT I SAW!! THAT´S WHAT I SAW!!”

The next night he came with his grandma to accompany us on a lesson.  

He was testifying.  

He said he couldn´t say for sure that everything was true... but he could feel the truthfulness in his heart!

Every time we saw him after he was reading from his Book of Mormon, or a pamphlet.  He was asking us for more things that he could read!

We met with him again.

Set a baptism date.

He was SOO excited!!!

We went over there on Saturday....

He wasn´t there.

The grandma explained to us that his mother had found out that he had been talking to us and he was reading from the Book of Mormon.  She came and got him and took him home.

On the table we could see his pamphlets and Book of Mormon with all his notes and a piece of paper of all the questions he had while he was reading.

Every day I wake up I have no idea what to expect.

It´s almost crazy to me how I can go from the highest high to the lowest low in a single moment.

I know it´s because I feel the truthfulness of this gospel.  I am seeing people feel God´s love for the first time in their lives.  I love these people, and I know this work is important.

I thank you all for the LOVE, SUPPORT, and most of all the PRAYERS:)

Con Amor,

Hermana Robinson

Editor’s Note (aka what Mom wants to add).  We finally have an address for Hermana Robinson!  It is:
Rio Choix 888
Col. Rosales
80230 Culiacan, Sinaloa
MEXICO

Here are a few more pictures of Paige.  Not sure the significance of the frog.  But you’ve got to admit…he IS cute.

Rough translation:  “Daddy if you believe that I can then if I can!”