Fourth of July

I always leave this big massive email last and I really shouldn't. I only have 17 minutes to write it...I can do it...Challenge accepted!

So let me just tell you, Fourth of July was amazing!! I finally got to eat carne asada (grilled steak)!! It was soo good!! Hermana Hernandez is an amazing cook!! It was delicious!! She made homemade salsa and it was really good!! I want to learn how to make salsa!! Oooh and I got to cook the carne!! Father be proud of me!! :D For dessert we had smores and it was SOO good!!! But I got super messy! Oh well! :P We then ran home 'cuz we had to have the car parked by 6. Sister Sittman came to pick us up to go to the Laguna family's block party! They close of their street (it's only their family that lives on their street) and just have like a huge party! It was fun!! But ya, it was a really good 4th of July! I had fun!!

Update on Investigators:

TONY 

Apparently has a problem with the Word of Wisdom... :(  He had just barely *boughten a new thing of coffee and beer but he said that he wasn't going to buy anymore. He was doing really good at not drinking coffee, but yesterday we went to his house and he had just barely *drunken some!! Darn Satan!! He's so sneaky! UGH!! But Tony is working hard! 

IZZY

We met with her yesterday and with her dad!! Oh my goodness!! We had an amazing lesson!! We talked about how we can feel the Holy Ghost. It was a super good lesson!! At the end, we were about to close, but I asked Izzy about getting baptized. Her dad stepped in and said that he wanted her to know more before she got baptized. I told him, "Brother Ramos, before I got baptized I had the same problem. I felt like I didn't know enough about the gospel, but the sister missionary told me, 'I was born in the church and I still don't know everything I want to know. I don't know everything I should know. I'm still learning every single day.' Then she bore her testimony and I felt the spirit soo much that I couldn't deny it! Because of that I know that this is the true church." I then bore my testimony. and at the end, he said, "No, I know that your church is true..." and then he kept talking. Hallelujah!! He knows the church is true!!! But then, Sister McArthur asked why he hadn't gotten baptized and he said it was just about selfish reasons...Basically because of tradition. His whole family is Catholic and that's how he grew up.

It really stinks that there are soo many people that know that this church is true but don't want to take that first step and get baptized. It kills me to know that they have felt the spirit soo strong and they still deny it! I don't understand how people can feel the spirit and just deny it! I want to yell at them and just say, "GOD IS TELLING YOU TO GET BAPTIZED!! WHY WON'T YOU DO IT?!?!?!" UGH!! It's so frustrating...But I know that God is teaching me patience. It's hard but it's going to be worth it. 

I know this church is true. I know that the spirit is what testifies the truth and I know that if we all pay attention to the spirit we can really truly know the truths of all things! Please pay attention to the spirit and to those thoughts that tell you to do good! I love you all!

I gotta go, we have an activity with the youth! I get to play volleyball! Yay!!

Thanks for the support!!
 Love you!!

-Hermana Ramos-Escobar

(*A/N: Gabby sometimes thinks saying "en" at the end of a verb means it's in the past. So instead of saying "I already ate", she'd say "I have already ate-en." Thus why she put "boughten" and "drunken" instead of "bought" and "drank." Just some funny little quirks that make her adorable!)