Sorry for not writing last week. I just didn’t feel like getting to it. Last week we finally upgraded our phones and missionary department has made it so that every new missionary going to a mobile device mission will now be using smartphones instead of tablets! That’s pretty cool and I never thought I would see that because I was the very last one in the DC South mission with an iPad before they switched to Samsung tablets so I thought those would stick around for a long time...So every companionship in the mission got 1 Samsung Galaxy this last week which will stay in the proselyting area.
With this, President Huntsman also brought back Facebook and he said he’s not planning on doing away with it ever again. We got the phones at zone conference and there was a bunch of training given on how to best use social media + tech.
Last week we visited Cecilio Lara and something weird happened. We talked to him and we soon found out that most everything we teach him doesn’t stick. It’s as if everything we teach goes in, gets scrambled up and doesn’t come out the way it came in. He told us that he read for 30 min in the Restoration pamphlet and then claimed that it said that the Bible was written by one person and that if we don’t consciously think and plan out every single word to say in our prayers that it’s not pleasing to God....he said other things that just left us standing there confused.
This week my greenie found himself in his first bible bash lesson lol. We got a referral from Wolf Trap YSA Sisters saying to go see this guy Edas that they had met. We went by and basically disputed why the the sabbath day is observed on Sunday and not Saturday anymore. It wasn’t too bad. We got a return appointment only because I wanted to show them that we’re not going to give up on teaching them like they assumed we would.
We saw the Montano family again! I love them so much. We’ve decided to start teaching out of the New Testament more and we even got the N.T. Stories for the kids. Jose, their dad who’s not a member, seemed to like the fact that we’re doing this because he doesn’t yet understand why we have the Book of Mormon. Jacqueline ended up making empenadas for us and they were so good! Elder Coleman loves to cook so he actually helped her out haha 
we ate with their whole family and it was great quality time spent with them all.
So for the longest time we’ve had this basketball collecting dust in our Narnia closet so I finally said we’re going to call the number on it and return it. We dropped it off at this inactive’s house out in Ashburn and we got to know him a bit. I was taken back by his situation! He and his wife are inactive and both grew up in Utah (Mormon land as he described) and he went on to tell us that he did everything a typical Mormon does and when he went on his mission he had a faith crisis at 6 months out. He finished his mission only because he didn’t want to go back to Mormon land early from the mission and become a “second class citizen”. He ended up meeting his wife who was in the same boat he was and they got sealed in the temple ONLY to please their parents on both sides...and then a week after their marriage they moved out here and left the church for good....crazy right!?!?? I was so appalled when I heard this. Now I know we all have agency, it was just that the importance of keeping covenants was running through my mind while I heard this brother’s story (he preferred us not to call him brother anything). Covenants are sacred, and they just gotta he kept. We’re not perfect but we should always be TRYING to keep them. Oremos por él.
Bueno...quiero terminar así en Español. Algo nuevo que decir es que voy a llevar lentes (según se necesita) desde mañana y adelante! Ciego boy soy! Jaja 
el tener el iPad en mi misión me hizo que casi no veo sino lo que esté cerquita. Pero está bien. Me falta 4 semanas más en la misión y de verdad quiero aprovechar este tiempecito. Me voy el primer día de Marzo. Quiero agradecer a todos aquellos que me han ayudado llegar aquí a este punto en mi vida. Aveces me pongo pensar en cómo llegué aquí y no lo pudiera haber hecho si no fuera por mi familia, mis amigos, líderes, etc. Les agradezco mucho, y les quiero!
With the Montano kids 
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