The joys of being a sister missionary!

my dear family and friends-

well it has been a good week. we are finding families left and right. this transfer is going to be a little different because well after nov 28th we will have 1 night a week in our area...for those of you who have never served a mission that is pretty much impossible to get people ready for baptism when you never see them. so these next 3 weeks we are going to work our butts off to get people prepared. we figure if we do our best the Lord will do His part..He has to. so we are trying just that. no baptisms yet...getting close. lorena is having lots of money problems right now so we pray she will be able to stay in her house...the plan is to get them married nov 29th and lorena baptized that same day. i got to sit with lorena and her family in sacrament yesterday...what a mess!!! i was running up and down the chapel chasing after kids...after this i never want to be a mom (sorry Paul). all the other missionaries and people in the ward came up to me after and were like i am so sorry! you are so good to chase those kids....i was exhausted and needless to say i got nothing out of church. i hope lorena did though. everyday im coming to realize more and more howdifferent spanish and english missionary work is...its like night and day. we are trying to work with our bishopric and ward to improve it...patience is a virtue. luis is still reading the Book of Mormon he was in 2 nephi 9 yesterday and we did a fast with him as well yesterday. we just have to figure out how to help him recieve an answer. he's so good! xiomara well she wants to be baptized but her parents said no to her...we are hoping to talk to them and change their minds. the Lord will help us. so the funny story for the week is about a tti(teach, testify, invite) which is a street contact that i had. we were talking to this mexican guy while biking to like the end of our area...seriously! he like sqooze my hand really weird....so we talked to him for a minute and invited him to have missionaries and he accepted so we wrote down the info and shook his hand to say goodbye. well sis colon handed me her planner to put in my backpack and took off...so im standing here a blonde gringa with this mexican man, not a good combo. as im getting situated the man reachs out and caresses my arm. let me tell you i wanted to punch him and i probably would've if i wasnt wearing a missionary badge. i quickly took off. i wanted to take a bath and i was like screaming at sister colon after im like DONT LEAVE ME EVER AGAIN! so there we go nasty guy story for the week. im sure there will be more to come im a gringa they all love me...over all i am well here in arizona. the weather is perfect. its like 75 and sunny. at night you get a little chilly but its nothing like montana or rexburg.
i appreciate the letters, emails, and prayers. i love you all. have a great week!
hna smith