2 Weeks in 1!

(Week 1) Oh man is it May already! Time just flies when you are on a mission! I am done with training this week! I am no longer green! We get to go to the Temple again because Sister Sheedy, a Recent convert, is going to get her endowments! We are so excited for her and that we get to be with her! We have a new investigator, her name is Louis and she is so awesome and so ready to hear the gospel! She accepted the invitation to be baptized! She doesn't have a date because she didn't let me finish the whole question but the important thing is that she said yes! Whooooo! This week was just so good we felt so good and motivated we had zone training meeting this week and it was so good they talked about our purpose, the restoration and the doctrine of Jesus Christ and how they are all tied together; it was so awesome. I love zone training meeting! They also talked about how if our investigators aren't keeping commitments it's because we aren't helping them enough; that was so powerful and eye opening.

Also this whole no bread and no sugar challenge is so hard! I have done really well in the no bread department but the sugar is so hard! Sister Rios started to cry and was really upset so we went and got ice cream. Then at this family's house we had cookies, and yesterday I had pie. So you see I am not doing very well with the sugar and once you fall off the bandwagon it is easy to stay off. So it has been such an eye opener for me about how hard it must be to give up addictive substances and live the word of wisdom and how easy it is to fall. But this week no sugar! Also we got on the bikes this week and it was fun but it is also so scary! I am so happy and I am doing well! I hope every one has a good week I love you and i pray for you!

Love sister Gonzalez 

P.S. I got English tags! So now very one will stop thinking Hermana is my first name! (Week 2) Also, Louis set a date for her baptism! July 5th! The day before my birthday!!! We are just so excited and happy to be teaching her, she is truly ready for the gospel! Last week Loretta was M.I.A. Well, on Tuesday she called us and asked for scriptures to read and to set up a time to see her! It was so great, we saw her on Thursday at Kelly's house. It was his birthday so we sang happy birthday to him and Sister Rios gave him some chocolates. He looked really sad but I think we helped cheer him up.

Carrot Cake

This week was really good. We had exchanges on Monday and on Tuesday and we visited old Montreal, which was fun! Sister Cutler (my grandma;) and I came back to Cornwall and Sister Rios and Sister Sherwood went to Lasalle. Sister Cutler and I are like the same person, it is crazy! She went into the MTC in February last year, was in the two week program, had the same teacher as me, AND her district leader and mine were brothers! How crazy is that?! Oh, and she was studying English and French to be a professor so that is pretty cool. We had fun on exchanges, I l learned a lot form her, and her French is so good! Exchanges are like vacations on the mission.

We exchanged back on Tuesday night and that night Sister Rios and I made a carrot cake for Elder Coulmbe since it was his birthday on Wednesday and it was his last birthday before he goes home. He "dies" at the end of this transfer. The carrot cake turned out so good! every one loved it. The zone leaders were there and last time they were there Elder Rangle made cheese cake so I was like, "you always come on the right days to get fed"! Elder Coulmbe was really happy with his cake since it was his favorite. Sister Rios and I tried really hard to make it a surprise and we succeeded!

We did a lot of service this week. We helped the Theodors again to finish cleaning out their basement and we helped Taylor pack up some stuff so she can move back to Kingston. That was on Friday and that day we did not eat at home once! The Merpaws took us out to breakfast because they are going on vacation and wanted to say bye, the Theodors gave us lunch, and we had dinner with the Hynes.  The Hynes are so good to us they always come out to lessons and feed us and they give us rides. On Saturday we went to volunteer for the race to find a cure for MS but it was raining like hard core and sister Rios is sick so sister Mcintyre made a mothers call and took us home. I told sister Rios to take a hot bath because she was cold and I made platanos fritos and aroz con leche. It turned out really well!

We have a new investigator! Her name is Louis she is a referral from another investigator, Anne-Marie. The lesson was super awesome! She is so ready for the gospel! This is why referrals are so important because these people are more accepting to the gospel and they have that support. Mom, do you remember how you told me to look for Hispanic people? I was thinking about that and that they would not put two Spanish speaking sisters together for no reason, when I remembered this story I heard about these missionaries that went through the phone book to find people of certain trades so they could become a ward and get a chapel. I went through the phone book to find some Hispanic names and I found some! Sister Rios and I went to go contact them. One of them wasn't home and the other one said no, but we still have more names to contact so pray that these people will receive us and want to hear about the Gospel! That is basically all that happened this week. It was a pretty good one. I love being a missionary and I love being here in Cornwall!

 

Love, Sister Gonzalez