It's so crazy to think I have been a missionary for 5 months! YIKES! Some days I feel like I have been here forever and other days only for weeks. It's kind of insane. Well I think more than anything I am accustomed to the chest pains. But sometimes they are stronger. I am not on any medication right now because none seems to help. I just work even when it's hard. It's easier to do that than complain or sit around the house. 

I love the way he explained that! It really makes sense. (I, Keli's mom had sent her something another missionary mom had shared from her missionary's zone conference meeting: He said to qualify this, you have to remember that no unclean thing can stand in the presence of God. So he said that sin is just practice. Think about that. We know we can't be perfect. God knows we can't be perfect. The piano player doesn't play everything right the first time. We are all working towards perfection. Every time we sin, we just hit the wrong key in the chord. Luckily, we have the atonement and we can go back to the start of the measure and do it again. Sometimes we even mess up the same chord a hundred times. It happens. But the more we practice the better we will get. Remember that and don't let yourself get down about any sin you have committed. That is what Satan wants, not what the Savior wants. He wants you to get back up when you fall, not curl into the fetal position and wallow in self pity. Sin is part of the practice. Fix your mistakes. Practice until you have perfected one aspect of your life, and then move to the next while still working on that part; and someday, when the Savior returns, if we have done this, we will all be drafted into the first round, and be perfected.) We need to just keep working to that goal and remember that Heavenly Father knows we will not be perfect. We just have to keep trying and keep applying the atonement in our lives. :)

I have thought about Jake a lot. (A best friend of hers that passed away in their senior year of high school). I have his picture on my wall. But I have not been sad about it. I know that this is part of our amazing Heavenly Father's plan. He knows what he is doing better than I do. :)

Well Hermana De Leon is Hermana Ontiveros (my companion)'s previous companion. She's in Belice right now! How cool is that? I would love to get the Elder's name so I can tell her about it when I meet her! I am so proud of you doing that mom. :) (This was in response to my telling her I (her mom) had received word of a missionary from Guatemala, serving in Georgia, whose family isn't able to send much and his b-day was this month and how fun would it be to send him cards and stuff. He so graciously sent back thank you postcards and told of his cousin serving in Keli's mission and wondered if she had met his cousin).  

So I cannot wait to tell you about my week (It's been crazy!)

Monday: (after writing about the R's family and all that Jazz) We went home. Did our shopping for the week and then cleaned. After cleaning we had a little time to relax before six. Then at six we went to an appointment that we had with someone we had met on the street. When we knocked on the door, a young lady answered the door. We asked if Javier was there. She said he was at work. But she let us in and let us share a message with her and her cousin. It was seriously such a cool experience. Plus we have been working hard at trying to find those that are prepared and I think after some work we can get them to the church. We then went to a member's house. The Juaquin household. Hno. J is so stinkin' funny. They bought us pupusas and they were such good pupusas. They did a little family home evening and it was really beautiful. :)

Tuesday: We got to have a lesson finally with these two references that we had. Karen and Enoch. They are seriously so awesome! And Karen has this little almost 18 month year old boy. Momma, he's so cute! His skin tone kind of reminds me of Christian and Gabby. We also had this really awesome lesson with Maria. I think she can really progress. She tells us she wants to feel it. She doesn't just want to go to church, she wants the truth. It's amazing to meet people like that because we have exactly what they are looking for. We have that truth for them. :)

Wednesday: I was so sleep deprived. I was just laughing the whole time! Plus making the funniest bad jokes. Hna. Onti asked me where an investigator lived and I said "Just arriba" then laughed and said "Just a Reba McEntire". It was a lot funnier in the moment. :) Then we were street contacting and we met a woman.

Hna. Onti: ¿Cual es su nombre?

Ella: "Brindalinda"

Me: "Oh, ¡que linda!"

Yeah, I was just so tired. Also, to put your worries to rest (and all the moms who probably flipped out on Presidente Hintze) we got smoke/CO detectors installed this day. :)

Jueves: We had our District and Zone meetings. My DL and his companion (Elder Solazar and Elder Yos) gave me this mug that says Feliz Cumpleaños and it had some candies in it. It was so cute. Then we did exchanges for the day (since sister Onti is the Sister Trainer Leader) and I got to be with Hermana Torres. It was a lot of fun. A less active member gave us cake. Which of course made me so stinking happy. Haha. I also had a really good lesson with Isabell (an investigator) she hasn't been reading so we read with her. We read 1 Nefi ch. 2. I was able to use verse 4 to commit her to go to church... but then she didn't go. What a stinker right?

Viernes: We did exchanges again and Hermana Savage was my companion. I seriously love this girl! She's so funny! So we met this lady named Ana  who makes and sells earrings/bracelets/necklaces for only .25-.50 cents. Needless to say I bought 2 dollar worth of .25 cent earrings. Ana  is seriously one of the cutest things I have ever seen! I wish she was in our area so we could visit her and teach her. We then went to the Maldonado familia. They are too stinkin' cute! They told Hna. Savage that she looked like a barbie doll (like 5 times). They told me that my FB photos make me look like the girl from Brave. So Lily (the 5 yr old) ran to me and hugged me calling me "Princesa Valiente" Haha. I about died from cuteness. She also gave me a bracelet she made. Mom, I thought I would die from cuteness overload. When we gave hugs because we were leaving she asks me "¿Va a venir mañana?" (are you coming tomorrow?). I sadly had to tell her no. It was heart breaking.

Sábado: So as me and Hna. Onti are on our way to a city this guy rides up behind us on his motorcycle (which is normal) but he grabs my butt! Then just rides off like nothing even happened! Momma, I was so shocked. I just looked at him driving away, back at Hna Onti and right back at him. Like what in the world was this guy thinking? Then I also tripped in a hole. It had been such a long week, then they guy on the motorcycle, and then tripping and hurting my foot. I just sat and cried-laughed. There was nothing else I could do for like 5 minutes. I just cried-laughed. Plus all of our appointments fell through. So we ended up talking to 32 people trying to find news. And we only found one. 

Domingo: So on our way to Church guys yell disgusting things at us. It was just terrible! I haven't heard so many swear words in English. But I felt better when I saw one of our less active members was there at church. She just ran up and hugged me. I am running out of time so I am just going to skip to the craziest thing that has happened to me since I have been in El Sal. So We were walking to go visit an investigator. We turn down the street and this dark, like crazy dark man is at the end of the street. He had this face whiter than white. He had these eyes dark black. And he had this crazy hair. In his had was either a club or a machete. And he screamed at us and went to chase us. It was insane. So Hna. Onti started to run so I started to run. And when we finally felt safe and slowed down and I turned to Hna. Onti and told her "I think that was the adversary himself." Mother, no one else saw it. It was terrifying. We visited members for the last hour of our time. 

But I am safe. I am happy. I am ready to go work some more.

I love you so much mom.