Hispanic and Six Month Celebrations!

Another week down!

So it started off Monday evening when we had the celebration of the anniversary of the publication of the Book of Mormon. We were assigned the Grandin again and this time we got to dress as pioneers and take throngs of people through tours. Behind each station were characters from the stories we tell, such as Martin Harris, E.B Grandin, and Emma Smith. It love being a site sister, where we can

all join together in song and sing Happy Birthday to the Book of Mormon :)

We hosted a Spanish dinner! A week or so ago Sister Ewell and I were at the hospital trying to see an investigator we visit there named Virginia who just had leg surgery. As we got to her room we opened the door and find a completely different woman lying in her bed. Upon asking a lady at the desk where Virginia was she said she checked out the day before, which made no sense because we had called Virginia that morning and she said she was still in the same room. We called her again and she confirmed she had checked out, and thought she had let us know. So as Sister Ewell and I sit there trying to figure out what to do, out walks a couple speaking Spanish. I was ASTONISHED. Then I stopped them and asked where they were from. I get to talking about how my dad is from the Dominican Republic and they're from Puerto Rico. They're names are Ruth and Rafael. Soon enough were exchanging numbers and voila, Spanish dinner! We invited them over to the church where we got Francisco from the Rochester third ward to come down and Aaron and Christina as well, since Christina is Puerto Rican. We spent part of the day cooking (I made mangu, Papi would be proud. My hands got super dirty from peeling the platano, but I felt like a true Dominican.

Yummy Hispanic food!

There were lots of good Gate City Branch memories flooding back when we all showed up with our different dishes. Eventually Francisco got to talking about his conversion story, which is AMAZING. And completely what Ruth and Rafael needed to hear. It was such a good experience and something I will always remember.

I hit my six month mark this past week! All day I had completely forgotten about it until as Sister Ewell and I are sitting in bed and I write the date out for my journal. I made a comment like, "Oh, today was my six month mark." Sister Ewell was apalled and gasped, "We didn't celebrate!" She then made me get out of bed and take a celebratory picture.

General conference was absolutely fabulous! Sister Ewell sadly wasn't feeling the best so we went to the Hill on the Sunday sessions and sat in one of the teaching rooms (the same room that I was sick in) and watched both sessions on her iPad. Last general conference I had the privilege to hear from Elder Bednar not even a week later in the MTC where he urged us to make the conference talks

"our walk and talk for the next six months." I still stand in his desire, and invite you all to review the talks and see how you can walk and talk in General Conference even after it is finished. I love you all! You're always in my thoughts and prayers! Have a great week!

Hermana Abreu