1-15-18

Hello. Haha honestly not much has changed here! It was a really good week but it's been a battle getting people to follow through on their appointments with us! All our investigators suddenly had more important things than salvation come up so we spent a lot of time on the streets! It really was a ton of fun though! We are improving so much in our contacting and I just think it's so fun to talk with random people 5 minutes at a time all day long!
We also met a ton of awesome people and because of that we have a jam packed schedule this next week!
So if you'd all just hope and pray something more important doesn't come up for every person we know this week, that would really help the mission work up here!
Progression man.
It's so true! If your not moving forward your moving backwards. I think stagnation is such a tool Satan uses. There is just such an urgency in the work of salvation that is awfully hard to convey to others! Not even just missionary work, there is urgency in improving ourselves, helping our family, and those around us! Someday... Is such a dangerous word! But we're trying! We are having lots of fun! We are getting to know all the streets and alleys of this here town, and man we are working hard! By the end of the day we are just pooped! Haha I'm serious!! So tired! It's the best!
So yes that's this week! It came and went so fast I'm sorry I don't have much more to say right now! It was a thrusting in the sickle sort of week, but get pumped because the harvest week is coming one of these days!!!!

Fun story.. So I'm doing alright with Spanish, like I can understand and generally have some good conversations.... But there is this one lady we met with this week Isora... She is cubano and they just speak a different Spanish I swear! I can understand literally 3 percent of what she says.. It's weird like I know what all the words she is saying mean but somehow nothing makes sense! It's insane! So here I am listening so intently and doing the 'yeah yeah okay mm hmm yeah' nod you do when you can understand people, there is a break in conversation... Suddenly I'm eating an orange... Then another... And another... And then she fills my backpack with oranges.. Haha I guess she kept asking if I wanted an orange, but clearly I missed that.. And nodded yes.. Over and over and over again! Haha. It was such a beautiful new missionary moment. I laughed for the rest the day and now I have a ton of oranges! 

Love you all! Have a great week!
️Hermana Simmons

1. Tired but happy