Week 73 and 74

Week 73

This week on Elder Silva's mission it was great. We are planing on baptizing Guadalupe this week and she is very excited. The good thing about her is that every time we go and teach her she has tons of questions and we try our best to answer them. Once we answer them she really understands the response. We are also teaching her sisters and hopefully they all progress and have a desire to change their lives. 
This week was also really scary because one morning I woke I was doing my normal things like showering and getting dressed to study, once I sat on my chair and opened my Book Of Mormon I felt something crawl down my leg. So I wiggled my leg and I saw something black fall and I started to look for the thing that fell in the ground and there was nothing. Until all of the sudden I saw a SCORPION!!! It crawled out and I was like what the heck and I told the rest of the missionary's of what happened and they saw the scorpion and they all got scared lol. It kept crawling and it went into one of the missionary's bags that was on the floor and we grabbed a stick and pushed it out and smashed it. So now every time that I put something on I check in case if there is a scorpion in it. I was lucky that the scorpion didn't sting me :O  

Week 74

This week on Elder Silva's mission it was a great experience for my son it. It was his first baptism and he was super happy to do it. The sister who got baptized is named Guadalupe and she is the aunt of a member and since the first day that we taught her she was really receptive. I could tell that she is going to be a really strong member in the Church. She loves to read and she really understands the gospel. 
We also have another person that we are teaching named Juliana and she is awesome also. She has a small shaved ice stand outside her house and every time that we teach her she gives us shaved ice! It got to the point that when we teach her a bunch of people go to buy the shaved ice so that my companion could still teach and I would prepare the shaved ice while she is getting taught lol 

Week 72

This week on Elder Silva's mission it was really expecting! First off I thought that I was going to be transferred because I have been in Parilla for six months and a half and that's a super long time!!!!! I was not only transferred but I'm also training a new missionary Elder Roque or AKA Mi Hijo/My Son lol. He is one of the funniest people that I have met, he is from Ecuador and he is just a really happy person. We get along really well because I have been to Ecuador a bunch and we just relate a lot!
This entire week we have been working really hard to find new people to teach and contacting a bunch of people. We are currently teaching four families who are really good and we are praying that these families keep on progressing. The Guzman family was a really great experience. One day we contacted the parents in the street and we passed by their little store that they have and once we got there they looked at us like uhhh and it was kinda awkward. But we broke the ice and we asked if it was fine if we started with a prayer and she said ¨yes.¨ She had 2 daughters there, Betsy and Hanna and we asked them if they wanted to join and they said ¨no.¨ :(     So we started teaching them and the lesson got really spiritual and we started to involve the daughters and they started to participate and by the end of the lesson the whole family was together in prayer and it was really special for the mom to see her daughters pray. I know that through the gospel families are able to have that unity and peace in their family and I'm very grateful for it!