It's a Dictionary - Part 2

Hey all!  This week was fantastic!  But I want to start with the it's a dictionary story because I was going to last week and I never did.

SO Elder Covey had a dream one night and told us about it the next morning.  He dreamed that he was in a dark room with his sister and two other girls that he didn't know, and in the dream he had the sensation that something bad was going to happen that night.  One of the girls he didn't know was huddled in a corner reading a book with a blanket over her head, and Elder Covey's sister told him that that girl was a demon.  Elder Covey was pretty freaked out, but he said that she wasn't a demon because she had been reading for the last two hours (dream logic,) but then his sister whispered 3 words in his ear that filled him with horror:

''It's a dictionary.''

He was so terrified because obviously nobody normal reads a dictionary!  At that moment the demon stood up and stood around and he slapped the dictionary out of her hand.

I know it was a nightmare, and I don't know if it was just the way he told it to us, but I found it so funny.  Just that those words filled him with such horror was super funny to us.  So, since then, it's a dictionary has become our inside joke, along with Alejandro.  The next day, while Elder Covey was in the bathroom, we flipped the circuit breaker and I sat on the floor cross-legged with a blanket over my head, reading a dictionary in the candlelight.  He walked out of the bathroom and just screamed ''OH MY GOSH'' and stood there frozen for about 30 seconds.  I decided to stand up at the exact moment that he decided to try to run past me, and I accidently scared the living daylights out of him haha I felt really bad because his face was super pale once we turned the lights on.  This week, I put a blanket completely over my head and put my hat and sunglasses on my blanket-covered face and lit a candle and held a dictionary in my other hand and scared him pretty good.  I have a picture of that one, but I'll have to send it next week because I don't have it with me.  Since then, dictionaries have become the symbol of horror in our house.  When anything weird happens while we're working, Alejandro whispers ''it's a dictionary'' and it's hilarious.  I hope that was as funny as I thought it was haha it's better to explain it in person.

Anyway, this week was amazing.  We're seeing miracle after miracle and I don't even feel like we're doing that much.  Last week I talked about Rosa Machuca, the woman who wasn't married who wanted us to baptize her son.  Many pairs of missionaries have passed by them, and for whatever reason they never got married and never went back to church.  The Dad has received the lessons many times, but has never taken any steps towards baptisms.  We weren't even focusing on teaching the parents, just the kid, but this week Rosa told us that they were going to get married and that he was going to be baptized before we baptize their son.  We had invited them to a baptism, and after the baptism we took advantage of the occasion to celebrate the birthday of a new hermana in our zone from Ecuador, and during the mini birthday celebration is when she told us this.  So it came completely out of the blue, but we were extremely grateful.  Sometimes the Lord's way of preparing people is through the missionaries, and sometimes the Lord has other ways of preparing people and then just puts them in front of the missionaries' nose!  It was a huge miracle :)

More than that, we've been working a lot closer with the ward, we're improving our relationship with the leadership in the stake and the ward, and things are moving forward!  We don't have any more news about specific investigators or people but everybody is doing well in general!

Wednesday was our zone training and interviews day with President.  Then, after the interviews, we went to a meeting with President Salazar (Stake President) and President Harris to talk about missionary week.  During the interviews, we did more trainings, so it was definitely a full day for us!  It was a good day though, and we felt like the zone benefited a lot from it.

And that was basically my week!  A short summary of it, at least.  I'll try to share more details in the coming weeks for sure.  Just know that life is good!  I love you all!  I hope you have a good week!  Always remember how awesome the gospel is!  Whenever we pass through tough moments, God always picks us up, and that truly is the miracle.  Have a great week!

Love

Elder Fox