Week 22: I´m getting less and less creative with titles....Just Be Happy :)

We meet once again, my beloved family and friends,

Things are good. Life is great. I´m happy. My companion is happy. Our zone is great. Costa Rica is wet. The work of the Lord moves forward. I tried to take more pictures this week...but I failed once again to take at least 1 photo every day....once again I will attempt..haha

Wow. Things are going great here in Coronado. We had a great week and learned a lot from the especialistas. They did divisions with us and I learned better ways to do LPEs.  My companion, hermana Canales learned a lot too from Hermana Cobourn, because when she came back she started to be a lot better at LPEs and initiating contacts in the street or in buses. We are working more as a team now and have better attitudes. Hermana Canales has faith that we can be successful and that numbers are not a bad thing. When we are focused on improving our goals, and the weekly numbers in the key indicators, we´re really showing that we trust the prophet, apostles, and all other leaders of the church who were inspired with Preach my Gospel and missionary work as we know it today.

Humberto will likely be our next baptism. He is novio (boyfriend) de Veronica, a young woman in the ward. He came last Sunday, and then went to the temple and accepted a fecha bautisimal, but the date fell through when he didn´t come this sunday because he went to visit his uncle. But he is great and we are going to work hard to help him have spiritual experiences and to come to know that this is Christ´s church here on the earth. He shared with us how he has changed so much since knowing Veronica, but that she doesn´t want him to be baptized for her. He wants to do it only if he feels that this is where he should be, and not because his novia is part of it.

Well, I really love this ward and am impressed at how many activities they put together and are always thinking about how they can help less actives, as well as investigators. We still have a ton of work to do and will always have a ton of work to do, but I feel like we are finally getting the hang of working together and improving each week. This next week will be the best ever and will be better than the last week.

Two funny experiences that happened recently. We were knocking a few doors the other week at like 7pm at night, because our district leader promised us that if we did, we would witness miracles. Well, we were being rejected left and right, until the last house on the street....the guy answered and started speaking english....very slow and choppy english....so my poor comp just sat there because she doesn´t understand english....and this guy was basically cortando mi jupa (literally means ^cutting my head¨^ but it´s like chastising) for knocking on their door on a sunday night....but eventually I asked him how long he´s lived in Costa Rica (because I figured that he didn´t know spanish, that he was from Germany or some other country) and he said that he has lived in Costa Rica all his life! so i asked if he speaks spanish....and he does! I don´t know why, but he figured that we didn´t know spanish so began to speak his choppy englsih with me.....hahaha we laughed about that for quite a while, because hermana canales was just listening wondering what in the world he was saying....haha.

The other one we were doing kiosco in the park with our distict. Kiosco is basically when we run people down , haha, no we calmly walk up to them and start introducing ourselves or asking them if they´ve ever met with missionaries and then giving them pamphlets and taking their numbers. one lady starting practically yelling at me telling me that all churches are terrible and only want our money. I hardly got a word out and she was practically watering at the eyes because she felt so strongly about this. haha. part of being a missionary.

Well, things are good. Life is great.

Con mucho amor,
Hermana Flake