Goodbye November

Hi family!!  How was your Thanksgiving?  I haven't had time to read the email yet so I don't know!  haha They don't celebrate Thanksgiving here so we didn't do anything special!  But that's okay!  I can't believe November is almost over! T hat means Christmas is almost here and even worse that means that the year is almost over!!  Crazy how fast time flys!  3 Elders are going home next week; both of the district leaders and a zone leader.  I'm sad!  They become like brothers and it's sad to see someone go!  And that means there are going to be a ton of changes in the zone!  Elder Rodriguez, an elder in the zone hurt his knee a couple weeks ago and got sent home to have a surgery but they said he can come back next change.  That was sad too! 

Guadalupe is doing so well!!  She seems so happy I love it!  And I love her mom!!  She makes me laugh!  We went to visit Guadalupe this week and her mom was awake so she was in the lesson with us and she can't hear anything so she was just sitting there.  Well about every 3 minutes she would say ¨It's cold!¨ Or ¨I've lived in this house for 20 years.  My son lives downstairs.¨  Or ¨My husband drank a lot and one day drank too much and was gone.¨  And again ¨It´s cold!¨  haha it was funny.  And in Relief Society there weren't enough chairs left for us all to sit together so I sat in front with her mom and she would ask over and over again Where's Guadalupe?  And I would tell her she's behind us don't worry!  And then she would say oh I thought she abandoned me!  haha The same thing every 5 minutes it was fun!  haha  

We still don't have any progressing investigators right now..  A couple weeks ago and Elder taught in district meeting about antiguo investigators- I don't know what they are called in english... Old?  anyway we decided to call all of the antiguos and futures and we made an appointment with the Cajas family!  The mom Silvia and 2 kids Edison and Irene!  They hadn't been visited for about a year so we went to see them and when we got there they were so nice and friendly!  They told us that that week they had been thinking about the missionaries and everything they had learned and they pulled out the Book of Mormon again and then we showed up!!  They had a baptism date but the day the kids were going to get baptized the dad said no.  Siliva told her mom that she wanted to get baptized and her mom got mad and stopped talking to her for a few weeks so she feels like she can't get baptized because of her mom.  Anyway I think that they might be ready this time!  I am praying for that!  Edison said he was thinking if he would have gotten baptized he would be on a mission right now!  He really wants to serve a mission!  They didn't come to church though.  He feels like everyone is going to say something to them because they haven't been in so long.  But hopefully they will be able to make the change!  They really want to and know they need to they just need a little more faith to do it!  So keep them in your prayers please!! 

Well that's about all that's going on right now.. Things are kinda slow.  Hopefully we can pick it up!  It is always darkest right before dawn!!  I love you all and am so grateful for all that you are doing for me!!  Keep on keepin´ on!!!  Love you!  Have a good week and have fun in Utah!!!  Tell Porter I am praying for him and know he will make it through!  Stay strong!!  xoxoxXo

Love forever and always,

Hermana Nelson