Another Week In The Mish 7/11/11

OK so this week was fairly good. we did lots of teaching. lots, which is nice, it means less contacting, which isn´t the most effective thing you can do as a missionary, this week we found a kid who is 17 and he had 2 questions, how do i find the true church and how do i become clean from my sins, as a missionary all you do when that happens is smile and say ``we can help you with that`` it was way cool, first person i`ve found that actually wanted to know those things. we were going to have a baptism this week, a 17 year old girl we were teaching that wanted to be baptised, but when she talked to her parents they decided no and so she couldn´t get it done, maybe in the future, but as of right now, there isn´t much else we can do for her, her parents told her to wait until she´s 18, which is next june... we had an expirience that was pretty awesome and very humbling. yesterday (sunday) we ate with a really old widow, everyday we eat with a different sister from the ward. lately we have been struggling to eat, the sisters of the ward just don´t seem to want to feed the missionaries, so we eat with the same families every week, thats a fairly heavy load for a family, the widow woman has been telling them to sign her up for about a month now, well they finally did. the woman literally has nothing. she rents a 1 room house that is falling down around her, she sits next to a radio alone all day long, every day, she´s a convert to the church as of 2 years ago. she put a little night stand and 2 cinder blocks in the hallway outside her room so that we could have a place to eat, she then placed every scrap of food she had in the house on our plates. she insisted that we eat it all. so we did, it was very humbling, to see someone who had very little give everything she could to us made me feel very grateful.  She will be very blessed for the sacrifice she made to feed the missionaries. Love you all, talk to you next week.
-Elder Paden Allen