General Conference, Canadian Treats and...Stair Surfing??

Our First Name Tag Photo !

The package I got, it's full of Canadian treats !!! Yes, I love it all. My roommates were like, "What are you eating" and I'm like, "Ketchup chips !" I love the Canadian treats so much !

My Spanish is getting good. I can bear testimony in Spanish now and almost pray, so that's cool. 

Monday was one of the Sister's birthdays so we had a fun little party. We had lots of food, music and sports going on. We made district t-shirts as well. The highlight, though, is one of the investigators in Santa Paula was there. Her dad grows chili's. They are about as hot as the world's hottest ghost chili pepper. So we all ate 1 and for 15 minutes my throat hurt so bad I was almost in tears ! Because of how hot it was, I chugged a whole half gallon of milk and was still dying inside and for a few hours after my chest hurt, but man, it was fun !

Tuesday has the crazy store of the week. I don't know how this keeps happening, but we need an oil change in our car. Okay sweet. So we go to Ventura to get one and the guy says we need 4 new tires. We call Elder Stewart, our car guy, and he said to go ahead and get 4 tires. As we were waiting, some random guy bought us lunch (Subway) and he told us he has a son serving a mission in Idaho, so that was cool. Back to the crazy, fun story. 

So we get our tires and are on our way down the highway, well then the car rolled 4 times !! Ha, APRIL FOOL'S...it didn't roll, but here IS what happened.... The car started to shake and pull hard to the right so we pull over and the front right tire has no air. IT IS BRAND NEW, WHAT THE HECK !? I started to do my first tire change as an Elder, then it just goes down hill. The jack was tilted so it fell off the jack and smacked hard on the ground, so Elder Robinson and I free lifted the front end, stood the jack up and got the new spare on. We then drove back to Pep boys and on the way, whatever bent when it hit the ground was making really loud screech noises. We got there alive, they fixed the tire and the bent cover and said they forgot to tighten one of the valves on the tire. So, crazy story of the week, there you go. 

Wednesday, nothing exciting happened. 
Thursday I was on an exchange with the other Elder I live with. That was fun but nothing crazy happened that day either. 

Friday my companion was so sick I was in the apartment doing studying most of the day. 

So now, General Conference. I forgot my notes at the apartment but I remember my favorite talks. First was L Tom Perry about the summit that President Eyring went to and the Muslim guy reading from the Family Proclamation. Then I really liked Jeffrey R Holland's talk. He always lays into you with such power and when he said, "But suddenly, like a lightning strike in a summer storm," oh wow. It was great. 
I also like the quote about life is not on a 4" screen, I loved that. 

And a quote that I can't remember who gave, but said "Don't judge imperfect companions as you are imperfect yourself". I took like 15 pages of notes, I love them all so much.  
I really like the talks on marriage and how it should be equal between both, that was sweet. The talks just hit me with such power, maybe because I am an Elder, I don't know, but they were so good. 
They really were powerful and really put things into new eyes fro me. Now I have things I need to try to improve on. 

Well, I know this letter is short, but I am not sure what else I have got to say so... I love you so much, my family and everyone else supporting me. I'll talk to you all next week :)