6/2/14 Week 12

Super super great week!!!!  Not to brag or anything but guess who made it in the top 8 companionships in the mission for this week?  Yep, US!   But even though numbers are just numbers we still had 6 people at church on Sunday, which is SOOO awesome because for the past 4 weeks we've only had 1 person come.   But anyways, this week the whole M.. family (including the dad which is a really big deal), and this guy we found named Fabian who is this 23 year old ambulance driver who was baptized in Ecuador when he was little, but then hasn't been to church in like 10 years.  He is super awesome!  He just found us and said that he wants to come back to church, and relearn all of the lessons!  And then an older guy, who only likes to talk about his kidney stones also came.

View out of our back window

 This week we were pretty 

 much sick of everyone telling us that they were going to do things and then not doing them, so Sister Black found this awesome scripture (Col 3:23-24) that basically says "Don't do these things because we are telling you to.  Do it for God!", and it worked!   We seriously saw so much progress in ALL of our investigators this week.  Sometimes being bold is scary..especially in Spanish, when I don't even know how to be polite yet...but it works.

Funny story:  Last week it was the end of the month so we had basically 0 miles left on our car, so we figured that now would be a good time to put our bikes together...Dad I seriously took you for granted!  I don't even know if I deserve to call myself your daughter anymore!  It took us like 40 minutes just to figure out how screw on the wheels and hook up the chain, and then just when we thought we were done we remembered about the brakes.  They were beyond both of us!  So we decided to take an adventure through da hood and take them to an awesome less active family, the H.. family, because the dad is a super "fix it" type.  He kind of reminds me of you dad, except he's Mexican and has way more swag;)  Basically just picture the 2 of us white girls walking our bikes that both have flat tires, in our skirts, weaving though like 3 different gangs who were all out jumping around with their pants falling off their butts! I don't get why that's fun..?  We looked a little out of place.  So then we finally get there and he fixes our brakes in like 2 seconds..embarrassing.  But then he says we has an air compressor so we can pump up our tires in like 2 seconds.  The next thing we hear is a huge BOOM  (it was Sis Black's tire if you didn't catch that).   I've never seen a Mexican turn red in the face before, but it was sooo funny!  So then while he went in and tried to find something to replace it, we invented a really fun game with the kids where you put bike helmets on your face and then punch each other as hard as you can!  I would definitely recommend it:)

Don't ever tell me you get tired of these Bonny/Black selfies!

 Well that's basically it! I love y'all sooooo much!!!  keep me updated on your lives!:)  

THE CHURCH IS TRUE!     - Hermanita Bonny

5/26/14 Week 11

Hmm where to start....Monday we went to the Fort Worth Stockyards! So cool, it’s a crazy historic, very Texan-cowboy section of town! Yeeehaw!

We watched them heard cattle down the street and ate some good ole Texas bbq.  The Elders each ate 14 ribs!  Ahh puke! I had 4 and I felt like my skirt was going to rip!  Then we took some pictures with the cowboys and rode a longhorn…in a dress!  I've never felt so much like a true Texan!
 

Tuesday the investigators we met with happened to be all of our flaky ones.  I don't know why they all like us to come on the same day...so the morning was forgettable, but that night we had noche de hogar (FHE) with our ward.  It was so fun!  We had a few less actives come which was sweet!  We played "te amo a su vesino? (Do you love your neighbor?)  haha yaa....we maybe should have thought of a more calm game to play with our ward....

Wednesday I had to give my first training at district meeting! Gulp…in Spanish... double gulp.  If I already wasn't nervous enough, guess who decides to show up and listen to our meeting? Just my luck - the President's Assistants!  I had the nervous rash to the max, but I think I pulled it out OK.  At least that's what Hermana Black said, but she's always nice to me so who knows. 

District Meeting with the Assistants

Thursday was planning. Ugg.  But afterwards we had a Relief Society activity where we learned how to make Mexican food, and they gave us a ward recipe cookbook! So get ready family for when I come home, cuz I'm gonna have to put that thing to use! I hope y'all like chili and beans.

Saturday! Cool missionary story -  Saturdays are usually our contacting days because everyone is just hanging out outside.  So we drove to this neighborhood thinking it would be good, but we walked around for a little bit and nobody was really outside and it smelled like poop, so we both just wanted to leave.  We walked back to the car and started to drive away but then it was the weirdest thing; I just felt like we shouldn't leave yet.  I had no idea why.  So I turned to Hermana Black, but before I could even say anything she said "Hna I think we should knock a few doors here before we leave".  Sweet, comp telepathy!  Then she drove around the block and parked in front of a random house, and knocked a few doors with no luck.  Then we headed back to the car and decided to at least knock the door of the house we parked in front of because why not?  So we did and guess what?!  Yep! I'm guessing you guessed it because this story is pretty predictable.  This lady was SUPER interested!  We taught a porch lesson, gave her a book of Mormon and we have a cita (appt) with her tonight!  And that is why you follow the spirit:)

Sunday was a bummer day, because the M.. family just decided not to show up to dinner with the Condes.  That is super sad because they didn't come to church either and they are supposed to get baptized in 3 weeks.  But the Condes are awesome! They made sure we got fed and then Bro Conde made us his famous hot chocolate and we drank it outside on their porch during a lightning storm.  It was weird because for a second I felt like I was with my family again!  But don't worry guys they could never replace you;)

Yesterday we went shopping with our 17 year old recent convert. So fun!  We saw one of our investigators at the mall and she pulled Erika in for a kiss on the cheek (which is what Latinos always do), but Erika is not Hispanic and her face was priceless! Then we went to a pool bbq with a bunch of members.  Its just swimming...its not that fun…thinks Missionary Bonny...ha ....ha........
Anyways that's my week in a nutshell! Love all of you! :)  

 Hermanita Bonny