Hermana Maxfield in South Carolina & Uruguay

T his week we had quite the adventure! To start off me and Hermana Hanson went to Colombia for exchanges on Wednesday and Thursday. It was so fun to see another area and learn from the sisters there, she gave us so many good ideas.  On Thursday (might have been Wednesday honestly can't remember) was Mexican Independence day, we were fed looooots of tacos that day, pretty much best day ever.  We had two awesome miracles this week.   The first one was a family we met at English class. About 20 minutes into our class my comp had the impression to go check the parking lot to see if anyone else was coming. Well turns out there was this family of 10 in one big ol' van who was waiting because they didn't know how to get in the building.  I'm just there teaching the alphabet in English and in waltzes this family and they were the sweetest EVER. I got to talk to them and turns out they had moved from Nicaragua 8 days ago. Literally 8 days. We ended up talking about the gospel an

Not a ton happened this week, but we did get some stellar food! Starting with pupusas that a blind lady made for us. She went completely blind a few years ago but has been making pupusas since she was 10. So, it's all muscle memory now. The pupusas were straight fire.  Then, last week a member heard me and Hanson talking about how much we love Cafe Rio, so she decided to invite us over for some homemade Cafe Rio. If you know me at all, you know this was the highlight of my week.   Lastly, the Mejias. They made us some fine Mexican cuisine, enchiladas and oh my they were delicious. The Mexican food is starting to grow on me, slowly but surely.  Last week we were able to have our fast and testimony meeting all in Spanish, which was sooo sweet for our Spanish members. About 4x more members show up when they know it's going to be in Spanish so that was awesome.  This week we knocked on quite a few doors, saw them open the curtains, peek to see it was the missionaries, and promptly

Wow what a week!!!!  This week has been so fun. We are trying super hard to build up our Spanish group, because there are currently only 6 members. And only half come, so that leaves us with a solid 3. This week we went around to all the less actives inviting them to church, so I hope they come!!!!  Our sweet friend Bella is having her baptism in three weeks, she is just the best and is progressing so awesome. Our other friend is progressing so awesomely, buttt we did just find out that apparently you can't be baptized if you're on parole, so that's a major rip. The elders in our ward had a baptism and I played the piano for it, and we were able invite some of our investigators to come watch.  It was such a cool experience for them.  We taught someone the best lesson about the restoration and the spirit was so strong. Then after he goes " so do you guys know the prayer for saving people, I just want to be saved."  Everyone here wants to be "saved", I don