Tuesday- we had MLC and it was really good. Elder Meredith, an Area Seventy, gave an awesome training on leadership skills. I took a ton of notes and got some of Elder Meredith's notes too so I can show them to you dad :) It was awesome to see a lot of my past companions at MLC and to say goodbye to a lot of people #sadday
Wednesday- we did a lot of tracking and teaching.
Thursday- Exchanges with the Clarksville YSA sisters, Sister LaFever and Rokovitz. It was really fun to teach in a YSA area, I love getting to teach people our same age because it is very easy to connect with them and to teach them how the gospel applies to their life :)
Friday- The 4th of July!!!! When Hermana Reed and I switched back from exchanges we thought it would be a sweet idea to treat ourselves to a nice Waffle House Breakfast haha. I had some nasty hash browns with jalapenos, cheese and gravy on them.... it was quite the southern experience. Along with some biscuits and gravy too. We found a sweet tobacco farm with truck load of men to teach. Tabacco season is starting up so tons of workers from Mexico are starting to arrive :) I don't know how to really describe the place where they live so I will just send some pics. But we go up to this "house" and there are 13 or plus men straight from Mexico cooking some tortillas and beans. They invite us in and we teach them all the restoration. Some of them are receptive and others are not. One of the men told us that we are Catholics, but we just change the name haha. We left them with some pamphlets and a Book of Mormon. We don't really know how to continue to teach them because none of them have cars to get to church or anything... the only transportation they have is when the boss will take them all to Walmart in a bus on Saturday night and then bring them back home to work for the rest of the week. The men that come out here will go back to Mexico at the end of November because they are only here with a working visa. They usually come back every year from July to November.
Saturday- We had a really good lesson with one of our investigators Fermin. We taught him about Fasting and keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. At the end of the lesson he opened up and told us that he is probably going back to Mexico this next week because his mom is dying. It was a really sad lesson, he was super sad because he knows that he will probably never make it back to America again, and all of his life dreams have come to an end. Fermin has been in the US for 4 years and he has his own painting company. All the money he makes he sends back to his family in Mexico to pay for his mom's medical bills... At the end of the lesson we committed Fermin to fast with us the next day. On Sunday we all broke our fast together and he made us some tacos.
Sunday- We had a few investigators at church. We had a great lesson with Eliceo and Alejandro. We also had an awesome talk with our next-door neighbor Nick. Nick and his girl friend Andrea have been our friends for awhile and we have tried teaching them on several occasions and it just has not gone very well. As we were coming back from church Nick stopped us and talked with us for awhile about what we do as missionaries. He told us that he has been watching us missionaries for the last 5 or so months and he opened up about how impressed he is with us and what our beliefs are. At the end of the talk with him he told us that he wanted to make a nice dinner for us to thank us for being good people... it was so cute and nice of him. He and Andrea get deployed this next Friday, so it will be the last time we see them :(
I am doing great. I hope that all yall are having a good summer and I can't wait to see you in a few weeks :)
Love,
Hermanita Ayre
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