Atalaya Week 6!

Hola todos!

This week we saw miracles. On Monday we received three references from one person in about five minutes. We taught a lot of new people this week. We have 18 nuevos!!! Also we had an opportunity to do service twice! That's the first time in my six weeks that we've done service. No one accepts service from the missionaries here, they do want to help us and serve us (and feed us A LOT) though.

On Thursday the mother of the bishop passed away so Hermana Villanueva and I made the family a little thing with quotes from general authorities and pictures of Christ and scriptures and hung it up by their door to find when they got home that night. They really appreciated it.

Our other service opportunity came because the elders called the bishop while we were at his house to see how they were doing and he invited us all over for pizza at 8. It was around 7 at this point so we didn't want to go to far away to just return right back to the bishop's house. We had a less active that doesn't live too far away so we decided to see if we could find him. While we were walking down the street the were these two cute little old ladies sitting outside talking. We greeted them as we passed and then one of them called out to us and asked to help with something so we turned around and came back. Both of these women were in wheelchairs and they wanted to be closer to each other so she asked if we could push her friend closer to her. We did, then we sang them a hymn and taught them a lesson. They were very friendly and great. Then we had time to teach one more lesson before it was time to return to the bishop's house so we started heading for the less active once again. We only got about two houses down however because we found another lady to teach. By the time we were done with that it was about 8:05 so we headed back to Bishop's house (the whole two blocks away we had gotten in an hour).

Also yesterday Hermana Villanueva completed 9 months in the mission! To celebrate today we got ice cream on our way to the cyber to email.

On Sunday two hermanas in the ward accompanied us for a few hours in the afternoon/evening. The hermana I was with served a mission in Uruguay and she just returned 5 months ago so I was able to learn a lot.

Sorry there's no pictures this week, the computer messed up my memory card again.

I love you all! The gospel's true, God loves you!
-Hermana Cheever