No title describes this week.

The missionaries of our branch at hmna Vargas' house, plus
Presedente's brother.

 Well, this week has officially hit the top 3 of the most interesting and crazy weeks of my whole mission. Firstly, THE CUBS WON THE WORLD SERIES! Wooooooo

Hmna Vargas' daughter Alexa :)

The rest of the week I need to describe day by day.

Tuesday: we had an awesome lesson with Diomara, who now wants to meet with us 3 days a week! That was a huge miracle. She also wants her whole family to come to church with her, and she is working with us to find times where we can teach them all together. She was also a bit worried to inform us that she doesn't believe people should be baptized until the age of 8. We informed her that that is s completely fine because that also happens to be the doctrine of our church. :) we also helped hmna Vargas in our branch pack up her house to move.

Wednesday: we helped hmna Vargas some more and had an awesome lesson with Ana and Leo the recent converts.

Thursday: We helped hmna Vargas some more, and also helped hmna Carroll pack up to move! They are the english family I told you about, that decided to attend a Spanish branch to teach their kids. We are super sad about all these awesome members moving. We then taught Diomara again, And the Ramirez fam. Both lessons went really well!

Friday: I woke up Friday morning and looked in the mirror- and guess what? I HAD LICE! My head had hurt really bad the day before and had been itching for a few weeks, so I wasn't super surprised. But, this started a very long and crazy weekend with very little opportunity for missionary work. We started with running to Walmart at 7 am in our sweats, and me with a beanie over my bug-infested head. We bought over-the-counter lice removal stuff. We then combed for around 5 hours, and found out that thankfully hmna Eldredge didn't get lice too! That was a big relief. But, we were able to finish in time to go to the second half of our Zone Conference (Which was super amazing and we loved it). Before we got out of the parking lot of the church, we
got a flat tire! But God watches out for His missionaries, and the elders right behind us knew how to change tires. Yay for mechanics that go on missions! 

Hmna Eldredge decided to take a picture of me putting Mayo in my
hair. I thought I'd share.

Washing everything we own.

Another miracle, the appointment we had right after zone  conference canceled, so we weren't late for anything! After taking the car to the shop we went home and found out I still had lice! We then ended up going to Walmart 5 times for different things, including more lice killing cream stuff. Also a tub of ice cream, because we ended up staying up nearly all night combing bugs out of my hair. We vacuumed our whole house and washed almost all our clothing. But the dryer broke! But, the guy came and fixed it! So many miracles, i wish i could remember them all. Our awesome neighbor Mary looked up home remedies for killing lice, and we ended up putting Salt, Essential oils, and mayo on my hair overnight. We also didn't want to sleep on our newly vacuumed beds, so we slept on the floor. We didn't sleep much. 

Ice cream to keep us up.

Saturday: so we got up around 6am and kept on combing! After finding that 3 1/2 bottles of lice killer and all our home remedies still hadn't killed the lice, we (and our amazing mission nurse) got a bit worried. She called the doctor and I got a prescription for some super strong stuff. So we got to go on a field trip to Geneva (Which is in the ward boundaries for the Aurora ward!) to pick up my weird prescription that none of the pharmacies in Bloomingdale has.  Then we put it on my head, and it was some strong stuff. I think it was acid, at least that's what it felt like. But because I have a lion's main for my hair, the two bottles weren't enough! We then spent the rest of the day calling and driving to different pharmacies to find this medication. No one had it, but then we decided to just pray and hope for the best. All the while we are re vacuuming and re washing everything. And we had yummy pizza!

Sunday: we woke up that morning around 4 am to remove the medication from my hair. And after a few more hours of combing, we found that all the lice were dead!!!! Wooo!! We were so relieved, and we even made it
to church on time! After about 18 hours of combing, way too much money, and a few sleepless nights, I am clean! I may not have a scalp anymore, but I don't have lice and so all is well!! The Lord has blessed us in so many ways, and I am so grateful that we have awesome people here to help us.

Well, that's my weekly. We didn't teach much, but we did learn much. And I know now as much as I ever have, that God is aware of His children in every little - even lice sized- thing. God is good, and miracles are real. Til next week!

Hermana Hokanson

Us waiting for prescriptions for my lice. I had to wear a turban made
out of my shirt. We got McDonalds. It was a weird day....