Howdy!!

hmmmm alright lets see what happened this week!! sorry this is going to be a quickly again because we are going to the Natural History Museum downtown today!!!!! best part is usually it cost $20 for the general admission...but for whatever reason..missionaries get in for $7!!!! should be the best!! 

this week was full of new faces...we met new prepared people that want us to teach them, i went on exchanges to the english area (it was so weird...went inside a house instead of going to apartments for the first time in 6 months..), and random people on the street were stopping us like crazy! asking for prayers and money..we gave them half of what they asked for ;) after praying with this one guy named Vergil at a stop light he goes "i dont know why i just asked you to do that (pray) but i feel realllll good!!!!!! at least he felt the spirit!

we had another cool experience when we were walking around a complex and i saw a man walk by..stopped him..chatted for a second and found out that his mom was really sick in guatemala and that he has been really worried and scared for her...we were able to say a prayer with him right then and there to bless both him and his mom cope with the sickness :) then, through teary eyes he invited us to come teach him!!!

another miracle....about a month ago, when we were visiting a less active her friend was over and ended up asking why there are so many churches...taught lesson one about the restoration..gave him a book of mormon....but then hadn't seen him since! he texts us back once to tell us that he had been reading in the book of mormon and that it was really interesting, but other than that we had no contact with him...despite our millions of calls and texts.....this week when we were planning, we were going through the lists of people and we were going to "drop" him..aka take a break from inviting him and shift some of our focus to other people...but we felt like we should text him one last time.....he ended up calling us and inviting himself to church! he came to church, stayed all three hours, and then invited himself to come next week!! when i asked if we could see him befor, he said "of course! call me any day and we can meet up!" THIS GUY IS THE BOMB!!!!! it's experiences like these that i realize all of this is the Lord's work...HIS timing...Yovany is sooo prepared and i cant wait to bring him unto the TRUTH!

oh guess what?! we should be having a wedding soon....found out carolina and her "esposo" aren't technically married...so we will get them married and then have ourselves a baptism! cant wait for their sealing in a little more than a year from now!!!! (confession...haven't met her husband yet...but i'm sure it'll all work out...pray please? haha)
HAVE THE BEST WEEK!
love you all so much!!

took conehi to see a baptism!! 

LAST WEEKS PDAY ADVENTURES...we didnt actually go inside any museums last week..but we had a blast walking all around the museum district in downtown!

downtown....

graffiti

these kids are the CUTEST and pearly is the nicest lady <3

EXCHANGES IN HOUSES WHAT?

making papusas with veronica from el salvador!!!! so gooooodd!

little raquel is the cutest with my uke!! teaching her how to play..slowly but surely ;)

HERMANA WHITEHEAD IS THE BOOOMMMBBBB!!! ps we are doing a two week english fast..solo espanol baby!! 

SEVEN MONTHS

HAPPY VALENTINES DAYYYYYYY

just realized today is my SEVEN MONTH MARK?! i think i say this every month...but time is flyying out here...for real.

I LOVE MY NEW COMP!!!!! her name is Hermana Whitehead from American Fork, Utah! something that blew my mind is she graduated from high school in 2014..wait what? you best believe i felt ancient when she told me that!! she didnt speak any spanish before the mission, but she catches on really quick! super happy, quick to laugh..we get along just fine ;) already feel like ive known her my whole life! 

i need to be better about writing things down before i email because i get in here and im literally like "shoot...what happened this week?" hmmmmmm here's something! we were knockin some doors, doing some contacting when these three boys hollered at us "yall new here?" "no..we are just visiting..becasue we are missionaries...etc..and we are here to teach people....etc etc" "cool. can yall teach us?" "SURE!" so we taught them a quick lesson..and then i asked one of the little boys if he spoke spanish and he said yes! he invited us to meet his family and start teaching them!! gave us his house number and told us to come back at 3pm the next day!!! in my head i was like "saweeet! thanks for handing over all of your info! but wait shouldnt stranger danger be a thing? like im not gonna do anything weird but i cant promise how the next guy is gonna act..." regardless, we are super excited to be teaching this new family and will definitely keep you posted on how things go!! 

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY BTW! my comp and i decided to treat ourselves for dinner for the occasion...haha..asked a guy on the street for a recommendation and i guess he thought we were drowning in money because we walked in the referred restaurant and walked right back out because there is no way im paying $16 for bread-any way you slice it!! luckily there was a sketchy lookin Indian restaurant next door that looked promising..and at least up our price alley haha it ended up being AMAZING!!!! all of the other customers looked at us like we were aliens and kept asking us how we liked the food....which was AMAZING!!!!!!! they had the chicken tikka missala thing that we get at Bombay house?? sooo goood!!!! the customers looked at us even weirder when i started talking to our server in spanish! carlos from mexico is now an investigator ;) moral of the story? sometimes you gotta go to sketchy lookin indian restaurants to find new people to teach!! NOT EVEN COMPLAINING!!! 

anyway, i hope yall have a blessed week! miracles happen ON THE DAILY!! dont forget to notice ;) 

paz y bendiciones

hermana hull

rockin the helmets because we cannnn

anything for chocolate right? you throw-ill catch..

indian restaurant!!

saying bye to some favorites with hna endicott...these twins though <3

 ITS TRADITION!! 

bye bye baby <3

family pic!!

matching pjs? kinda...

pink heart pancakes because valentintes day <3

OH I HELD A FERRET THIS MORNING...WHAT?! 

valentines with wilson

SEVEN MONTHS BABY!

otra vezzzz

buenas tardes familia y amigos!!!! 

So on Thursday we got a call from President... it went a little like this

"hello, how are you doing? is this hermana hull?"
"great thanks! and yes it is."
"good. hermana hull the Lord has called you to train again next transfer....oh and be sister training leader. you up for it? we just dont want to give you an easy time...but dont worry, we have a lot of faith in you!"

hahahhaa my mission president has a GREAT sense of humor!! so looks like im staying here at least one more transfer (but most likely too for training purposes), getting a brand-spankin new missionary, and sister training leader-ing!!! LETS GOOOOO! i am actually pretty stoked about it! ill miss hermana endicott for sure...but i am excited for her! she really wants to see more of the mission..especially some of the farther out areas because her dad actually served down there like twenty years ago...she has this vision of finding people her dad taught and baptized and making sure they are still active or reactivating them! how cool is that??

i gotta keep this brief because i am running out of time...but two cool things real quick!
1. so we have just started teaching a husband and wife from Iraq (i believe i mentioned that last week) and the other day the member from the English ward that speaks arabic was actually able to come with us and translate a little bit!!! but the crazy part was...I COULD FOLLOW THEIR CONVERSATION IN ARABIC!!!!!! they would chat back and forth for a sec and then brother tennsmyer would turn to us to explain what happened...but i would be like "you were talking about <this> right?" "what the..yeah! how did you know that?" "i have NO IDEA!!" i mean i already have a testimony of the whole "gift of tongues" thing...but now im a believer in "gift of interpretation of tongues"!!! IT WAS THE COOLEST!

2. yall should read the talk by sheri dew's talk she gave at a womens conference at a BYU devotional or something? called "Sweet above all that was sweet" or whatever that scripture in 1 nephi 8 says haha it is a reallllyyyy good talk in which she explains grace!!! i have been studying grace a lot lately and it is AMAZING!!! a scripture she shares in the begining of her talk that hit home for me is Psalms 84:11 "For the Lord God is a sun and shield : the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." aka God CAN'T NOT bless us when we are "walk[ing] uprightly" aka keeping the commandments...he HAS to give us all good things!! 

love you all a million! happy valentines day! yall know how ill be spending mine ;)..........

paz y bendiciones,
hermana hull 

cooked "sopa de mariscos" with Rosario and wilson the other night!!! cant believe i ate it...offically like seafood!! baby octopus/catfish/crab..you name it!

kiko took us out to dinner to celebrate his year anniversary as a member of the true church!!! atta boy uncle kiks!!

bye bye hermana groves.....she goes home tomorrow :( gonna miss her something awful!

the zone baby!

hermana allen is going home too! amazing missionary <3

Angelica had us model her handmade sweaters haha she is amazing!! they look store bought, no?

churchin' ;)

this is how eddy churches

final goodbye with the best

goodbye dinner for hna endicott with uncle kiko at a supppperrr good mexican restaurant!! we are so spoiled!

the district

jess took us to the coolest asian place for some tapioca drink things!! dont really know what it was...mine was a pina colada kind of thing?? idk..but im not complaining!!