Christmas!

Christmas was great! I was able to talk to the fam for a while and loved every minute of it! We had 3 meals that day. It was pretty tough, but we made it through all the food. :) Our first one was at a members house who had just got out of the hospital. It was really fun. The family is really nice and really enjoys having us over. After that, we went straight to the church to eat with the spanish Sisters and our Zone Leaders. That was pretty fun. Then we watched the new 'Night at the Museum' movie. I enjoyed it. I'd reccomend it if you haven't already seen it. Then we went right to another members house for some more food. We had eaten at there house the night before as well. The food was great and after we played Disney's Scene It. It was a lot of fun.

Now, before Christmas, on either Wednesday or Thursday, we went with the spanish sisters to an investigators house to eat. It is known as 'La Casa.' And apparently there is always something interesting that happens there. But when we went, it was just a fairly normal visit. Except that I couldn't understand most of the conversation as it was in spanish. But then they brought out the food. It looked kinda strange so we asked what it was. They said it was beef. Then they added a spanish word, which being translated means tounge... So we were able to eat cow tounge the other day. Not too bad if mixed with rice and put on a tortilla. But it does have a pretty strange texture. But all in all, it wasn't too bad. I'd eat it again as long it was cooked well.

Yesterday, at church, a guy named Bryan Levi came for the first time to see what it was like. He has been talking with missionaries in Salt Lake for a while. He said the he grew up in a baptist home and only heard bad things about the church, but has seen members and they always seem to be happy. So he diecided to come and check it out for himself. We gave him a church tour before church and he liked it. Then in our gospel principles class they taught the plan of salvation. Which he really liked and said it answered a lot of his questions. Then in priesthood there wasn't really a lesson planned so we just talked. It ended up being him asking us questions and everyone answering the best they could. It was really cool and the Spirit was really strong. He said he really enjoyed it and looked forward to our next meeting. We set up a lesson with him then he left.

Then later that day, he gives us a call and said that he is not ready for this big of a life change right now and for us not to come by or to call him again. We were extremely bummed after this. We aren't sure what happened. But we are praying for him and asking the Lord to try to help him remember what he felt at church and all the things he said.