Thanksgiving

This week has been so crazy! We tried so hard, and things just kept going wrong. Not the missionary work, but everything else for sure! On Tuesday, we went out for a few appointments. At one house, Sister Rocha was getting me back for laughing at her falling, but her plan failed, and she ended up getting in the wrong car and then once she realized it, she ran out and fell into a hole on the ground. It was so funny. I mean, really sad, but she wasn't hurt, so I was laughing my head off. We finally got into the car (the right one) and she realized the phone was missing. We searched the hole, and all the other places we went that night. It was GONE. So, we basically were without connection to the world this week. That was a struggle in itself.

On Thanksgiving, the sun was shining, the weather was perfect, and we hopped on our bikes all day long and got some awesome finding done. We got so many invites to come in and eat with random people's families for Thanksgiving. It just amazes me how friendly people are. At 5, we headed over to Danny and Brenda's for Thanksgiving. Which, by the way, I made a dang good apple crisp pie for. Not nearly as good as mom's, but for the lack of time I had to make it, it was GOOD. Thanksgiving was so fun, the food was great, and we played Loteria. Which is like Spanish BINGO. They all thought it was different, but it's like the exact same thing, haha. We found out Saturday night that we weren't even supposed to work Thanksgiving. Perks of not having a phone, we got to work an extra day..yay. Haha, but we got some good stuff done, so it's alright! I'll know for next year:)

On Friday, it was like we just weren't supposed to work. Maybe it was God giving us a break since we worked Thanksgiving. We were headed out after weekly planning to go to our dinner appointment, and our new phone had been delivered! So stoked. But then we hopped in our car and it would not start for the life of me. We were stoked that we at least had a phone now to tell our members the situation, but we got stuck on the phone for an hour trying to activate it before we could even call them! Like an hour late, we called our members, and they brought us dinner and tried to jump the car. Didn't work, so we were stuck at home for the night until our mission leader could come get us!

Saturday, we finally got back into the groove of things! We have been doing some crazy finding with this new "He is the Gift" program the church has. If you haven't seen it, do it now! Check out Christmas.Mormon.org. It is so amazing, and I loving sharing this message with people. I can already tell that Christmas in the mission is going to be so fun. We have a couple solid investigators and I am so excited to keep working with them. The work here is building, and we are also finding some solid families to teach. People love the message of Christ's birth, and the spirit is so strong when we get to share and teach about it. Saturday night, we had a second thanksgiving! It really was just a week full of food. We have so many leftovers in the fridge. The people here are just way too nice.

On Sunday, Sister Rocha had to translate for the stake presidency who came to talk. She tried to get me to do it, but HECK NO. I may be more fluent now, but translating? No way. Not yet. I helped her a little, but translating is like a whole different ball game.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm so glad that it was fun (at least that's what I've heard). Mine was wonderful!

Love you all!

Hermana Peck

P-day in Portales means Dollar Tree adventures

Not saying it's better than an ocean sunset,
but dang, the sunsets are pretty here

Sometimes, you just have to pull over and take a comp selfie

I made couga! Is that how you spell it? 

On bikes!

On the outskirts