Moisés la Novela, y la Pascua!

Our farewell picture with our minivan Nancy. She is being retired. 

Someone gave us a boiled egg in a sugar cookie? Why? 

Feliz dia de Pascua! Happy Easter! 
This week we have had multiple investigators tell us that instead of studying their scriptures, they were watching Moisés, which is a Novela (like a soap opra, or TV series) about the prophet Moses. And they feel completely justified in it, because it's about Moses.  Just so you know, Moisés is not scripture study. People are so funny. :)

Lunch with Rebecca!

It has been such a good week! We are teaching so many people right now (which I am sure is because of all of your prayers, thank you so much!). It has come to the point that one day this week we will need to do splits with the ward missionaries so we can make it to all of our appointments. Our days consist of squeezing our studies in in the morning, teaching, driving, teaching, driving, teaching, driving, and crashing at our apartment sometime between 9-9:30 pm every night! Our area is also huge, so it takes at least 20 min to get anywhere. But that's not stopping us! Hmna Craner is a hoot, I love her so much! She can make anything fun and is a great teacher. I'm sad I'll be losing her in 2 weeks when she finishes her mission. 

Well, Irving and Maria are still doing amazing, right on track for baptism! Irving still hasn't smoked (I think that makes 13 days smoke free?) and Maria bought her marriage licence, and will be getting married this week! She has been the driving force for all of this- she wants to be baptized the 29th and is doing everything necessary to get there! I really love these two. They will be wonderful members.

Schaumburg YSA

We are still teaching Andres, he is awesome. We taught a new investigator named Anayeli and she has a lot of potential. We also taught Rocio, Maricela, Jocelyn, Carolina, Azael, and visited a few less active members. For Easter we ate dinner with a recent convert named Brenda and her family. They have been main fellowshippers for Irving and Maria and have helped us a ton. We also went on exchanges with the Schaumburg YSA sisters and it was great! I've never tried to find single young adults that speak English before, so that was a weird change. :)

Jesus is the Christ, I love the Book of Mormon, and nothing can replace hard work and genuine love. have a good week!

Hermana Hokanson

 Easter dinner! Sorry it's fuzzy.