When your mission president does squats in a suit...

Panoramic picture of our whole mission with Elder Teixeira and Elder & Sister Ochoa! 

So to start off the week, we had zone conference and this time we got to wear service clothes! We met at the San Antonio Food Bank and all of us got to help make boxes for people in the community. It was so much fun! The first part of zone conference we still had some trainings, and one of the church members who is a counselor for the missionaries came and talked to us about how to overcome negative thoughts. He talked about different things we can do to help us face negative thoughts, including small exercises. So after his training, President Polley got up for his training and said "Let's do some squats!" It was one of the most hilarious things of my life, and to hear him also say "Do any of you know how to play Simon Says?" and we had to hold our squats with him. Oh it was killer, but it was so funny hahaha :) 

Things have been going good this past week. We had another lesson with Mitch which went well! We are taking things slow with him though, and he asked if we could wait a week for another lesson so that he can take things in. But he is doing so awesome though, and it has been so neat for his daughter to be able to Skype in to the lessons from her mission. 

We went up to Junction again and the guy that told us he is thinking of baptism... well we called the number he gave us and it doesn't work haha. We talked to some other sisters at zone conference who used to serve in this area, and they said that he's said that to each set of missionaries but that they could never meet with him haha :) It's all good though, we'll keep trying! We did meet with another non-member granddaughter of the family, and guess what she said? She wants to be a missionary!  She is seriously the cutest, she goes to university that's in Kerrville and she wants to move closer to the school, so we are going to meet with her on campus this week to talk with her more about what it's like to be a missionary :) 

On Saturday we were able to meet with one of our referrals! We had been texting Ramiro to see when would be a good time to meet, and he said we could come by on the weekend. So when we knocked on the door, he didn't answer. Which we didn't want to leave cause we were just talking with him on the phone! So right then the neighbors dog cage blew over from the wind. We knocked on her door and offered to help, and once we got it back up, Ramiro came out! Miracles:)  And we had such a good visit with him, his mom is a less active lady living in another area in our mission, and when the missionaries there contacted her she referred her son. So the missionaries sent his name to us and that's how we met him! He talked about how he briefly remembers going to church when he was young, but he was never baptized. And he has the desire to come to church with his family and give back to God. Such a good guy :) We're excited to meet with him again this week! 

Just want to share a quote from one of the talks I read this week by Elder Andersen back in April 2011 called "Preparing the World for the Second Coming":

"The blessing of bringing others into the gospel far outweighs anything you will ever sacrifice." I am SO SO grateful for this opportunity to share the gospel with others. It truly is such a gift to be able to enjoy the blessings that come from Christ's restored church and to teach others about the blessings they can enjoy as well. God lives, and He loves us so much!