I can feel my testimony growing so much and I'm so glad to be on my mission. Its the best choice I have ever made in my life!

Hey there Everyone!

Well this week has flown right on by. Time is going fast here and next Sunday i will have been out for two months already. WOW. I'm having such a good time out here! The members are awesome and so so loving. This week we got invited to three members birthday parties and boy the Mexican food is just amazing! Me and Elder Adams have been working out in the mourning and then running at night to workout and try and loose some weight.

So yeah its going good and i don;t have any new news on Cynthia. We couldn't meet with her this past week cause she had finals and didn't have time. She texted us every night with a text saying Hey Elders, I'm still praying every night and reading the Book of Mormon so she is doing really good and we actually have another lesson staring up again with her tonight so I'm super excited to keep teaching her!

So this past Monday we went on exchanges. I was with Elder Hunsaker, our zone leader and we had really fun together. When we go on exchanges we go with a different elder for 24 hours. I went to his area and it was actually English speaking so i got to teach a little in English. It was honestly different cause i kept forgetting words in English and would say things in Spanish so yeah but it was really funny. It was good and now I'm back with elder Adams.

So next Friday we are going to a cubs game! our p-day next week will be on Friday because of that so yeah the next week or so will be a little messed up scheduling wise. I'm super excited for my first Pro Baseball game and can't wait to go! President Fenn is awesome and bought our tickets in the same area so we all get to sit by each other. 250 missionaries at a pro baseball game! Ha if you all at home watch the game you might see me on TV. So yeah I'm super excited.

Sorry i haven't been able to send pictures yet. I just haven't had time and i will try my hardest to send some next week. This area is so beautiful but it is most of the time raining. I really like the rain but the lightning here is amazing. When it would pour at home, that is like a little rain storm here. Their storms here are intense and Elder Adams and myself were woken up to the thunder literally shaking out dang apartment. It's awesome but the rain keep floods up and some of the members houses are halfway under water so were all praying that the rain will stop for awhile.

So this week we had a pretty weird experience. We knocked on this door and this huge guy answered the door and was like Hey Elders come on in and take a seat, ill tell you what you believe. So we went in and this guy was super anti Mormon. In the field we are told not to bible bash or argue with the people. He started saying how our religion was messed up and said some really disgusting things about it. I was like blown away and was speechless. After like twenty minutes of this guy just laying it on us Elder Adams said ok we have to go. We got up and walked off the guys porch. He started yelling get you A's back here and how do you believe any of this BS. Elder Adams said i can testify that these things are true with all my heart and we got in the car and drove away. I wasn't scared but so dang mad at this guy. Elder Adams looked at me and said one more word out of that guys mouth i w as going to be sent home for shutting him up ha. I felt the same way but had no idea what to do in that situation. It was a good experience so i knew what to do next time. Elder Adams is awesome and I'm glad he is my companion!

Alright well that's all for this week and i ask you all at home to continue to keep Cynthia in you prayers but also Armando. He is another investigator not knowing what to do with his life. Thanks so much and i know that our Heavenly Father answers our prayers. Maybe not right away all the time but he does at the right times! I can feel my testimony growing so much and I'm so glad to be on my mission. Its the best choice i have ever made in my life! I love you all and I'm so thankful for everything you all do for me! Keep up the good work and I'll talk to you all next Friday. Love you all!!!

Elder Banta :)