We get up at 6:30 every day and we say our prayers and then we shower and then we eat cereal and then we study, and then we study, and then we study, and then we go to lunch, and then we teach, and then we teach, and then we teach, and then we teach, and then we get caught in the rain, and then we teach, and then we go home, and then we pray, and then we plan, and then we eat dinner, and then we fill out papers, and then we write, and then we read, and then we pray, and then we sleep….And we don’t get tired of it.

Every day there is something new. Every day is the same but also so different. Each person we talk to is a child of God and they are in need of something. They are looking for that missing piece and we have it. 

This week had a slightly different schedule. We had the multi-zona this week with President and Hermana Vasquez which was really good. They talked about diligencia and how we can progress more investigators toward baptism. Everyone had cool experiences and it was really great! 

Then on Friday we had intercambios with the Hermanas Lideres. Hna Argumedo con su abuela y yo con Hermana Lopez. I went to La Union which was actually really pretty!  They have the ocean right there that they can see every day and the cool breezes too.  A veces, (sometimes), it smells like fish, but really it was so picturesque with the water and the boats. I learned a lot from Hermana Lopez about how we can contact more people. 

In other news, we are not in a trio. I am not really sure what will happen, but probably we will be normal for the rest of this cambio (tramsfer period). 

On Saturday we were walking to some of our appointments and we kept seeing pupusa stands with our stomachs growling but we were lejos de la casa y del tiempo cuando podemos entrar, (away from the house and it wasn’t  time for us to go home), so we were thinking, if we find a pupusa stand by the house at this time of night, we are going to conseguirles (get them).  So we continued with our appointments. It started raining… Noah and the Arc style, so we decided to go to one of our investigators nearby. They had a food stand but we had only ever seen them with platanos y frijoles (bananas and beans), so we sat there under their stand and in the end, we asked with hope in our hearts if they ever sold pupusas. As it turned out, they only make pupusas on Saturdays. We were so happy and we took our pupusas home and enjoyed them thoroughly. 

We were also walking this week, searching for a reference we received, at the very edge of our gigantic area. In this area we haven’t gone there for a while because it is so far away and the nights come so much faster now, but we decided that we would go. We were looking for our reference and had to ask a lot of people for help and we had to go to an appointment pretty far away after that, but we were walking and started talking to a girl and we introduced ourselves and she said, I know who you are, you are missionaries. I’m baptized in the church."  We were shocked! We continued and it turned out that when the wards got split, she and her sisters stopped going! But we found them and we are going to reactivate them with fire! 

We have a lot of hope and faith that this week we will see a lot of Milagros (miracles). 

Oh, also we have been able to see how, even if we as missionaries are not baptizing this instant, there will be other missionaries to come. We have found a lot of people who talked with the missionaries before but didn’t want them, and now, they are looking for us.  It is really interesting how the seeds get sown and reaped. If not now, some day. 

I love this gospel. I am so grateful for the atonement of Jesus Christ. I have a testimony of it and I know that He loves us and wants us to be happy. The atonement is the key. 

I love you all so much and I hope that you have an awesome week. 

Love, Hermana Ashton