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Well folks this week was another just swell one.  We did an interchange this week with the Zone Leaders and I got to be back with my good old boy Elder Sonnenberg for the last time before he goes back home in three weeks.  Kinda funky that he goes home before I do huh.  Well anyways our interchange was really good.  I realized that a lot of the customs and ways to do things that he has are all the same ones I have (probably because i trained the guy), and it made me feel glad to have had a really positive impact.  He loves the people here, and the missionaries in our zone, and that makes him great.  Apart from that we also had zone conference and I got to see some of my mission buddies that are still around (there really just aren't that many anymore unfortunately) but it was still a way good conference.  We were mostly looking for new people to teach this week and trying to weed through the people that we have found, but we have found around 70 people to teach in these last two weeks and honestly a lot of them are really special people, and they all need the gospel so Elder Claro and I are doing everything that we can to help them receive it.  Yesterday we had a lot of miracles, we went out to try and track down a couple of people that we couldn't find, but we found some really great people along the way.  I love the feeling of taking down the notch from proclaming without rest our message and really listening to people's thoughts and needs and helping them see how the gospel applies to THEM, as it applies to all of us in a special way.  We had a certain moment yesterday when we went to see a family that we had family home evening planned with, we passed two hours earlier to confirm with them.  They had completely forgotten, and the mother walked out and told us not to come back, that they were catholic and that they didn't want us to waste our time.  Then as we started to talk to her and listen to her, we came right back and helped her see how her family really needs the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ in it's entirety, not just their passive catholic beliefs.  She would say, "I'm not a die hard catholic either, I just believe in Christ."  Some people just don't realize how CLOSE they are to the truth until we (the missionaries) have to make it blatantly obvious haha.  So then we went and saw some colombian people that were a reference from another Elder in the zone next to ours, and the mother of the family had just fallen sick.  When we told her that we could do priesthood blessings of health, she was sure she needed one and willing to receive it.  Then we went out and saw man lying in the street, and went and bought him a completo to eat.  Man if I were a homeless guy sleeping in the street i think i would like a good completo from a stranger every now and then, and he didn't really pay any attention to us until we came back with the completo (hot dog ish thing), and he was really greatful.   Then we went back to the Family Home Evening that we had planned and really had a great time.  I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I love this life.  I'm glad for our fathers plan and the opportunity that we have to share it with the world.  Have a great week everybody and give your moms a kiss on mothers day (but don't give my mom one)
Elder McCurdy