Hola Madre!!!
The house looks amazing!!!!! The floors are way lighter than I thought they'd be, but I love it. Geez you saw a lot of friends this week...Fun for you :-) Funny you should mention the rain...haha So on Saturday, was the first day I actually felt like a missionary. We started in the morning, and it seemed like a pretty nice day, so we decided to ride our bikes. While in transit to the apartment complex we were going to, it started to sprinkle. That should've been my first sign that it was going to be a long day. We get to the complex and our first appointment fell through. But we have a lot of people that we are teaching there, so we decided to try and see if anyone else was home. They weren't. And it started to pour down rain. And then, my tire on my bike popped. So, we had one other scheduled appointment with that family that I told you about, so we went and taught them, and it was way good. We had another appointment with a lady and her daughter, and they only live like a few minutes away, or so we thought, so we decided to start walking. And guess what? It started to rain harder. And we were walking, and it started flooding. So, we are walking through ankle deep water to get to this appointment, only to find out that they weren't even there. Awesome. (And even though this story sound really negative, we were laughing the whole time. And there's a happy ending, just wait) So, fortunatlely we have another set of Hermanas in our district who have a car, so we called them and they were able to come pick us up. We get home, and we had about an hour to change out of our sopping wet clothes grab dinner and get our car and go to our last appointment of the day. We get there, and he lives by himself, but we had a member come, and he just happened to bring his wife (thank goodness, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to go inside, and it was still pouring...tender mercies!!) So we had the lesson, it was amazing!! And we committed him to be baptized. And he said yes!!! We have a baptism date set for June 2nd. We were so beside ourselves. Such an amazing feeling. Going through the rest of the day was so worth it because of that lesson. Love it.
Anyways. Also this past Tuesday, we got to go to the temple with our zone. Super fun. The rooms are just way smaller there...so it was funny trying to get like 50+ people in there. But it worked :-) And then, I got to the veil, and who was there to bring me through? President Crawford!! It was a really cool experience to see them there. Then afterwards we went to a mormon book store that I remembered that my friend Caitlin used to work at. I asked the lady working there if she knew her, and she told me that on facebook it said that she was engaged!! So that was really exciting to hear about.
Nothing else too terribly exciting happened this week...we have a lot of investigators, which is great, but not all of them are good at keeping commitments, so that's something that we need to work on.
Something I wanted to ask for...CD's are awesome. We drive a little bit more than I thought we would, and it's always nice to have something to listen to while in transit, instead of listening to the same thing every time...just saying :-)
Anyways, I gotta run, but I love you mucho!!! I hope you have an awesome week, and have fun moving in!!
Hermana Bowerman