ENGLISH FAST DAY 15

...but anyways, this week has overall been really good. As the heading says this is Day 15 of our English fast, lol. We started it 2 weeks ago so I´ve gone 2 weeks without english (ok, not purely, there have been a few times when I would ask how do you say such-and-such and things like that, but for the most part pure spanish :). yeah it really wasn´t that hard at first, I just kind of didn´t talk as much. But now after 2 weeks it´s starting to wear on me, and I think everyone in the house. It´s starting to take some more discipline to remember not to speak english, but oh man it´s worth it. I am really starting to feel a significant difference in how comfortabe I am with spanish. I can understand people a lot better and it´s easier to speak. In fact there were a couple lessons where I like completely surprised myself with how comfortable it was teaching a principle. Like just yesterday we were teaching a grandaughter (who was just baptised on saturday! I´ll tell you more about that later:) and we taught the restoration again. When I started talking about Joseph Smith and establishing the church in the middle I realized that I almost felt like I was speaking english (now it´s probaby because she´s 8 so I only taught the basics of basics, and plus Joseph Smith and the first vision is the principle that I´ve personally taught the most since I´ve been with Elder Sanchez, but still, it was a cool feeling:). At other times I tried explaining more principles that I never had before and really tried to stretch myself (like we taught obeying and honoring the law to one family and I started talking about how it was the laws of reigious freedom that allowed the church to be estabished- definitely a stretch:). Also, on Sunday I taught the Gospel doctrine class (is that what it´s called? for investigators and new converts?) about baptism. yeah, the ward mission leader decided to have me teach it the week before. It was a little hard but I think I did a fairly good job. Definitely good for my spanish. Other than that we have a bunch of investigadors that are progressing. On Saturday we had a baptismal service for Nayeli, a 8 year-old who´s parents are non-members. It´s funny, we kind of feel like we´re cheating because she´s gone for 3 years with her grandparents but technically is a convert so we count her as ours, lol. But nonetheless it was great to be a part of a baptism. It was neat too because she chose me to baptise her. Again, I was kind of surprised that she chose me but I was honored to do it :) I kind of felt like we should´ve had her grandpa baptize her but on Sunday he did the confirmation so it was fine. It was neat because she has several friends and actually one of her friends was baptized the week before so she´s happy. It was a great service and we could feel the spirit and the rest of the day after was great. Funny how every Saturday after a baptism goes great. :P That night we stopped by the farmacia and bought two "magnums" to celebrate. It´s become sort of a tradition now after baptisms to celebrate by getting them. They´re these chocolate covered ice cream bars that are ridiculously expensive (like 1.25$!) but ridiculously good, lol. I don´t know how but the chocolate is sooo creamy and good and my favorite is the one with almonds, lol. Definitely worth it :D.....