#29 I met a man from where Jesus lived. * originally sent on 11/13

News: I'll be the first tell ya that before the mission I really didn't fancy any kind of olives that weren't black.

But now.......... I ate half of a jar of Aceitunas for breakfast. Aceitunas are olives that aren't black. 

I'm changed. 

This week was SOO LONG we did lots and lots of contacting and planning for our solid investigators who are gonna be baptized soon (fingers crossed) so I'll just start listing some things. 

Hermana Lighten just goes contact crazy and it it incredible. She seriously has no shame and stops everyone. Even the hombres. And the jovenes. And the hombre jovens. And we just have fun! We talked to some really nice people AND THE BEST NIGHT EVER WAS WHEN WE MET YAHYA (Which is like Johnny in Arabic, fun fact). We started speaking to him in spanish And we was like uuhhhhh English? And we were like YES! So he is from Jordan and I didn't even know that was a country. But he said it was like next to Israel and I was like, "Where Jesus  lives?" And he's like yeah it's close! I literally got so pumped I squealed with joy. I had just never net anyone from there and it was super cool. So we had a little geography lesson right there on the bridge to help hermana Rust because she doesn't know anything about countries. And we also talked about the Gospel and he was so nice! So we are gonna meet again, we decided. But seriously something that I thought was the coolest thing, I don't know about you. 

One cita I really enjoyed this week was with a woman named Magdalena. We were teaching her lesson 1 and We focused a lot on the priesthood. Hermana Lighten mentioned a blessing that she had gotten earlier from a member helping her realize what the priesthood was. She told us that she had been meaning to ask us how that man who gave her a blessing knew exactly what she was passing through in life and how he knew the words to say. We explained that it was the priesthood power. We told her that it was by that same power that we can be baptized. She said that is what she needed and committed to be baptized. I felt so much love for her when we were teaching her and it was the first time I had met her. She was so excited to be baptized but then called is two days later to tell us that she couldn't do it anymore. We were able to talk her through it and let her know that really she can do it.

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