Hola familia!

Okay, so I made up this really great joke last week. My companion didn't get it, but that's okay...."Que es el resulto de una vaca frances y un toro de Argentina?" Okay, you'll get the answer at the bottom, like a popsicle stick. :-) I told a member this and got a better one back, "Que es la diferencia de una pera y una chica?...Una pera es pera, pero una chica no espera." hehe, pobre elderes.

Quiz question for Mom when she gets back..what's an Ojota? Elder Alvarez from Peru gave me one on a lil keychain.

So we had an exchange yesterday and it was really great. Sister Cornell got to go to an Indiafest and teach an Indian lady in Topeka, which was cool because her grandparents are Indian. I got to meet the other Sister R. and confuse a lot of people at church. Sister T. R. speaks Spanish as well and had not gotten to teach any Spanish lessons on her mission so far. All the Spanish wards have elders assigned to them. So we taught a second discussion to Elsira and it went really well. I really like teaching in Spanish. It's too bad all of our Spanish investigators fly home for the winter. I'll get all their Chihuahuan addresses before they go. It doesn't matter where they learn the gospel.

One of our ward missionaries invited us over to eat with his parents this week. They're not LDS and it was great talking to them, and sharing a scripture, even if there wasn't time to teach. Then he told us we should go visit some people in his neighborhood. They weren't very interested. Then he gave a Libro de Mormon to a man at work. I had written his testimony in Spanish in the back for him, no interest. I was feeling bad for this ward missionary. He was baptized himself about 4 years ago and married in the temple with his wife. It's hard to see members get rejected, especially those that are pretty shy. But he went and bore his testimony on Sunday about each of these things that had happened. About how he had felt touched by his first priesthood session ever. He started talking about how great the missionaries are and I was amazed at how much faith he had in us. I mean I was feeling bad, because there were all these things I wish we'd said to the neighbors we hadn't. Like maybe if they were more veteran missionaries, they would be teaching them right now.

But I realized the promise had been fulfilled that we left with him. We never commit anyone to do anything, or ask anyone to do anything without promising the blessings that will come. I told him the blessing that comes with sharing the gospel it a greater testimony of it and more opportunities to come. And the first part at least, was obvious last Sunday. From when Ifirst met him til now. he has an amazing testimony of it. I believe the second part will come. outta time. Church is true.

Love you.
Hna Deb

Answer: Le Che! hahaha!

[Note from Lisa: The joke is "What do you get when you cross a French cow with an Argentine bull? "Le Che!" Then Spanish word for "milk" is "leche." Argentinians call each other "Che" all of the time. Like, "What's up, man?" is "Que pasa, Che?" ... It loses something in the translation. The other joke is a pun that isn't going to translate at all: "What's the difference between a pear and a girl? A pear is a pear ("es pera"), but a girl isn't a pear ("no es pera") / A pear waits ("espera") but a girl doesn't wait ("no espera').]