I Dont have the Energy to be Negative

     Ok, so this has been a pretty great week! I don't know if I told you that the man's name that we are teaching right now is Alejandro. He has committed to be baptized on June 22, so keep praying! I am so excited! Ah! This church is true...the book is blue :) Anyway, Hna Toro did an exchange this week so on Tuesday I spent the day with Hna Maroquin. She is super funny! Sh'es been out for over a year now so I was glad that I had her with me. We tracted into a lady named Lupe and she was studying with the JW's but she took a break to have her baby. We have taught her twice and have another appointment this week. Woo! Funny story about our exchange, since our car (Carmen) is assigned to our area, I had to get permission to drive it. President Lewis has a policy that missionaries shouldn't drive unless they have been out 6 weeks or more. Well, I am getting special permission to drive during all of our exchanges and I didn't want to pull an Elder Johansen and wreck it ;) so I was being super careful. We decided to tract to save on miles and realized after 45 minutes of walking around in 101 degree heat that we couldn't remember where we had parked it. We did eventually find it, but I unofficially lost Carmen while I was in charge of her...figures :)

     On Monday we decided to tract a little and we had a man and his wife pull us into their house. They were super nice at first (so we were a little nervous) and then they went into this huge Bible bash! Like, we were getting slammed. We didn't want to argue so all we could really do was sit there and listen. I couldn't understand everything, but Hna Toro said that it didn't make sense even in Spanish. I felt so bad I couldn't back her up. All we could do was testify to them that the church is true and yeah...so I survived my first Bible bash...not fun.

     The weather is pretty fantastic here. Though, we decided we need to add more investigators so when it is 109 degrees we don't have to be out tracting :) It was 70 degrees yesterday and I needed a jacket! Hna Toro and I were out on Saturday night and we were talking to a lady that pointed to me and asked Hna Toro, "Ella esta su hija?" My first thought was, "Really? Does Hna Toro look that old or do I really look that young?" I just laughed because some people really don't think before they open their mouths. She thought I was 17ish and Hna Toro was 24-25. Obviously that math doesn't really work :)

     So yesterday after church I was delightfully surprised to see Nana and Papa in the hallway! It was way nice to see them, though I was only able to talk to them for 10-15 minutes. I also got to meet more cousins that I've never met before-but with a family like ours I should be used to it :) I was really excited to see them again!

     So I found this really good quote while I was reading in the January 2012 Ensign. It says, 

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than … the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing that we can do it play on the one string that we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10 percent of what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." Charles Swindoll

     I love this quote because a mission is just like this. We have to choose every morning to wake up and have a positive attitude about missionary work. I told Hna Toro that we are working so hard every day and that I don't have the energy to be negative. So we both work super hard and just sometimes have to laugh when things don't work out. It is better than being negative all of the time. Well, I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Love always, Hermana Freestone