so something so funny about this place, is there are squirrels EVERYWHERE. hahaha. and they run on the telephone lines... hahahaha. it kills me one of these days ill get a picture.

Also, I've seen 2 hit and runs on the same street corner in St. Helena since I got here. people are terrible drivers.

I ran for a full 30 minutes this morning! Holla back!!! It was gr8.

We tried to contact a man, and he knew that we were missionaries, and he was like "Im good!! I feel like a record and God is the pin, and he is just diggin on me!! and it feels good!!" hahaha he was drunk.

I got hugged by a drunk man the other night. It was very accaawkward.

Conference was amazing. Holland threw down like always. I loved them all!!!! M Russell Ballard was the one that talked about Following up, Dad!! We got fed everyday last week, and we are going to be fed everyday this week as well!! haha our members are the best. We watched all 4 sessions at members homes, and they all fed us. They are the best. I had the best mexican food I have ever had on saturday. They were called Sopas. I will make them for you when I get home. Ahhh. it was celestial. 

the rain stopped, and it got really hot. its like 80 degrees now. its toasty. but its better than being cold.... Its probably about the same there as it is here, but its prettty humid here! 

So this week has been pretty wild. We had an amazing Zone meeting on Tuesday! I got blessed with the best zone!! I love them all! The spirit was so strong and I learned so much. we had a fast on Tuesday and it was so amazing and we saw an AMAZING miracle from it. On Wednesday, Sister Decker and I went to see a referral, Seamus, at an apartment complex. When we were walking through the parking lot, we 3 guys (not going to lie, they were hoodlums) standing in the back of the parking lot. Sister Decker (being a great example) said, "We should go talk to them!" So We went over and started talking with them, and got to know them a little more, and found out one of them was Seamus!! So that was amazing, because if we would have gone and knocked on his door, he wouldn't have been home. As we started talking with them we got to know them a little bit more and one of the men, Luis, said we had talked with him before.
We had contacted him the night we had met with the Bible basher, Paul. We were walking through a trailer park, and he was in the middle of a drug exchange... haha it was super awkward, but Sister Decker told him, "You don't need whatever he is giving you. Your body is a temple!" So that was a miracle that we had met him again! So Seamus, Luis, and Christian (the last guy) were asking us questions about the church and we were helping them to understand a little bit more. We invited them to pray with us right then and there, and Sister Decker offered the prayer. She prayed for all of them individually and the spirit was so strong. After the prayer, Sister Decker was talking with Luis and Seamus, and I was talking with Christian because they were asking too many questions for us to answer together. Christian was really interested in learning more about God. I shared a Book of Mormon with him, and showed him the Introduction. He was really interested in reading it! It was amazing. Sister Decker, was talking with Luis, and found out that the night that we contacted him he was getting the drugs so he could overdose and kill himself. Sister Decker had said, "Your body is a temple" and that stuck in his mind. He said all that night the words were in his head. It was amazing that we were guided to be able to help someone not take their own life from this earth. The spirit is amazing. That miracle was so incredible.

I have grown so so much since I came out here, and I just keep gaining a bigger and bigger testimony of this gospel. I love it, and I'm so grateful for your prayers! Keep em comin. haha. I love you all so much! Keep being the best!!! Send me more pictures!!

We got to go on a hike this morning! It was beautiful!!

oh and I have actually been translated and resurrected so yeah. #missionarylife