20 months - Dijo Aquel

We had a good talk with Joseph today. We talked about the Coronavirus (and how it was announced today that General Conference will be closed to the public!), about people here that he knows that just received mission calls (Thomas P in our ward to Madagascar, and Mel's roommate to Anaheim California), and I got Joseph's prediction for Ethan. Ethan finished his papers and had his interviews on Sunday, so we think he might get his call next Tuesday and we'll be able to tell Joseph next week. Joseph's guess was Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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  Subject: Dijo Aquel        

So there is this phrase here that people say all the time but I have never seen in any textbook and it doesn't make that much sense. Sometimes they just throw the words "dijo aquel" at the end of their sentences. It means "said he" but they just throw it at the end of any random sentence. For example the lady who gives us lunch one day noticed that she forgot the fresco (lemonade) and said "Oh, I forgot the fresco, dijo aquel". So we have been trying to figure out what it means and lots of the latinos don't know what it means either so I guess it's a chapin thing. But from what I can tell it means "as they say".

But anyways this was a really great week, dijo aquel.

We planned to go to the temple wit Claudia this week to do baptisms for the dead and she even had two family names ready. But when we met her there she said she didn't feel ready and so we didn't actually go inside except for the waiting room. But we were able to explain a little bit more about the temple and when her husband Jairo (who is less-active) came to pick her up we explained a little more and we think it was an important step in helping them keep their sight set on the temple and having an eternal family.

Also Jairo took it off for the picture but he always wears this jacket that says "kill your local drug dealer" and it cracks us up because he doesn't know what it says. 

This week we have planned to take Sandi and her whole family to the temple to help them get an answer and gain a testimony and we had a great lesson with them on Monday night. So please keep them in your prayers.

Also we had a lesson with Maribel yesterday and she told us that she invited a friend to church on Sunday and gave us her address! We hadn't even asked for any references or anything and she just asked us if we could share our message with her too. She isn't even a member and she is already sharing the gospel with her friends!

Also this week we had a training with Elder Taylor from the 70 who is in the Area presidency and it was awesome!! He gave us a list of things to do to find 20 people to teach and promised that if we do them that we will have so many people to teach that we wont have time to teach them all we will be baptizing and teaching so much. Pretty cool promise and we are working to apply what he taught us.

I hope you are all getting ready for Conference by diving into the Restoration and sharing the Gospel with others.

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