mi corazon es tuyo!

Life is good! We had a pretty good week with the exception of lots and lots of biking through the snow.... Yes people do bike in the snow... and when I say people I mean me and my companion. And yes you do fall, and yes you do laugh at your companion when he falls! So this week was pretty terrible weather but hey... it’s part of the experience right?! so it was a good week.

We had 3 amazing lessons with Laura and Louis and their family... They are the ones who are headed out to LA actually they are on their way right now! Soooo they will call us when they have an address and we will send the missionaries to see them there. I have never met people who just "understand" what we teach them like they do. They are such good people; I was bummed to see them leave.

In other news, a lady (Beverly Heath) who we found while on the bus and taught like 7 months ago (my first day with Calzadillas) is getting baptized! That is an exciting thing because I just had a feeling she was ready when we first met her! She is a great African American lady and her dad was a Methodist preacher. They missionaries finally met with her dad (something we had been trying to do) and taught him and he said she had his blessing in getting baptized... COOL HUH?! She has almost read the whole Book of Mormon.

We also had interviews this week. They went pretty good. President is a working on how to make us more effective teachers and tweaking things to make us explain things more clearly.

Soooo funny story of the week; we were have been teaching this guy named Miguel. He is from the Dominican Republic and came here to Ohio a couple months ago from the Bronx NY where he had lived for 8 years. Because he is Dominican he talks SUPER fast and does not pronounce his words very clearly. When my companion teaches Dominicans he tries to mimic their accent just for fun. It kinda makes me uncomfortable and at times I have to hold back laughter. Well, we had a reasonable lesson with Miguel and so I go to say the prayer. I ask that his family in the DR will have the chance to come here to the states because he told us how badly he wants them to be here. When I said that he shouted "Trabajo" (work). I had to fight back laughter to close the prayer and get out of there as quickly as I could... Me and my companion laughed way hard after we left....

Now for the best story of the day!!!! So Janeese and Brent so kindly sent me a package (thanks for that guys) and in the package were some little valentines treats. Included was a card that Janeese selected without the help of Brent. In the card She told me how she had no idea what it said but hoped it said something nice.... This is what the card said... Remember, this is from my sister-in-law Janeese "mi corazon es tuyo... y el resto de mi tambien! Feliz Dia Del Amor" ok, now here is the translation... "My heart is yours... and the rest of me also! Happy Day of Love" HAHAHAAHAH I laughed soo hard! That just made my week. She even one upped Kelly's Spanish greeting card that she sent me saying "Congratulations on your first communion. (She crossed out communion and wrote mission) You have worked so hard to memorize the prayers" or something to that effect! But anyways! Life is great! Working hard and having fun... Hopefully the weather will be better this week! I love you all!
Elder Scott Stiles