last Monday was way cool, we made tie dye shirts with all the sisters in our zone, and all of our shirts turned out really cool. then that night we had a lesson with one of our new friends Vicky she is so cool. she works making movies, she is like the detail person for making movies, and right now she is working on a movie called la expiacion which is atonement in English, so we were like we know a lot about this word and the event that took place, and she is so excited and wants to learn all that she can about the atonement of Jesus Christ. then we had another lesson with a girl name paullet she just moved here, and she is one of the sweetest people i have ever met, she is 14 and is starting high school soon. She reminds me a lot of Fabi the girl we taught in south sac.
on Tuesday we felt promoted to go visit a friend so went to visit them. so we parked our car and i saw the cutest lil puppy in the world, we get out and the puppy runs to us, so the owner comes and we start talking to him, Jose Daniel. he was so interested by what we had to say about happiness he said that he has been looking for something like this and that he wanted to come to church. we didn't even end up talking to the people we originally planned to see we were just there because we needed to meet him.
then on Wednesday we served at St. Marys the soup kitchen it was so much fun again i saw a lot of my friends, its staring to become so much more fun because i actually know people now and i remember their names and their life stories. St. Marys is like the highlight of my week i love it. then we had a lesson with manny, things aren't looking to good with his dad saying yes which made us really sad because we he is so read and he wants to be baptized so bad, he has so many reason why he wants to. but it has been the coolest thing ever to see him be able to change and want to be better. then we had another lesson with Vicky, it was an amazing lesson. we taught her so much about the book og Mormon and she was like i know its true, we read so many scripture with her about the atonement and she loved it. then we talked about Joseph smith and who he was and what he suffered and we were like he was a prophet of god and she was pretty much like well duh. it was an amazing lesson.
then Thursday was one of the best days ever, i just got to walk all around Stockton. first in the morning i got to go with sister Stephens for a minute (i live with her) we just walked around on the bike trail where a lot of homeless people live and we got to talk to a few of them and it was way cool. then we got to go knock doors for a minute which was way fun. theeeeennnnnnn that night we went to the Mexico of Stockton! we went street contacting my favorite thing in the world.
1. we met a lady named Martha Rosa she was siting outside talking to herself, and we were like we have to talk to her, she was so fun. she was like DOG is GOD spelt backwards and i was liking in my head like yeah god is like our best friend, then she was like which means he created dogs, she loved dogs she is like that means they are our best friends and they are equal to us humans, she was very passionate about how dogs should be treated. that is one thing i really respect is homeless people LOOOOVVVVEEEE dogs! then when we were walking away she was like you girls are beautiful go find yourself a good man and we just died laughing it was so funny.
2. we met DERCE he told us his name like 12 times, he was smoking the smallest joint in the world he was holding it with a paper clip it was so funny. we talked to him about how he could find real lasting happiness not short happiness. he was really in to it. now for the strange things of Stockton. this lady walks up to him and whispers something to him, we thought he was asking for a hit of his joint but then she was like do you have a quarter and he reaches in to his pocket and hands her one and goes its your lucky day. she mumbles something and then walks away. we were both like okayyyyyyyy!
3. then we met our friend Jim, okay back story we are not the smartest and chose not to bring water with us and after walking like non stop for 3 hours you kind get thirsty so we stopped at a place and we got 2 Arizonans and a pack of sour patch kids. we started drinking our Arizonans but we both unspokenly decided we were going to save the sour patch kids. so we walked for like 2 more miles, it was like dusk so we had to go back to our car because scary people start coming out at night. okay so now i see a man and i was like we have to talk to him. we were like how are you doing he said not good. then he told us a big part of his life story. he said him and his sister were arrested for something the didn't do. and she confessed to be guilty and she is not locked up but he said he wasn't guilty and now he is on the street with no family or home. we gave him both of our half drinkin Arizonans, then a book of Mormon we told him how his life would Change if he read this book and followed what it teaches. before we left we were like do you like sour patch kids and he said yes they are my favorite. so we gave them to him he was so happy. when we were walking away he said "go out and find other people and help them like you helped me" it was the happiest thing!
we got to meet a few other and a few different experience down there but it was the coolest thing ever. for hna valdespinos last day we are going back there!
have a happy week looovvvee youuu
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