Dearest darlingest family and friends,

As you all might have guessed from the title of my email this week, we got iPads! They are SO nice. The iPad basically has replaced everything we work with, our planners, our area book, our scriptures, our video players, everything! It's awesome and crazy at the same time because now we have to input all that information! You would think that this would take all our time, but ah, quite the contrary! We've actually had MORE lessons and MORE members out to our lessons. Hermana and I have both agreed that the iPad is very empowering and we feel more confident because of it. Also all the study information is hooked
up to my LDS account so even after I leave I will have all my online notes.

As I mentioned before, we've had a lot more lessons this week. We're really trying hard to see our investigators 2-3 times a week. This week we saw most of our investigators at least twice, so we're off to a
good start. We've also had a lot of miracles. I think I will just go through the week because there is so much to say!

Monday: We taught Tachima and Moises at the Arguetas house. It was really great because they got to connect with someone around their same age and circumstance. After that we taught one of our newer
investigators, Gabriel, the Plan of Salvation.

Tuesday: We received our iPads at our mini zone meeting! After that, all the sisters went out to eat with Sister Cusick (mission presidents wife). It was so fun to be there with all the girls in our zone I love
them all so much! They are some of the prettiest and strongest women I know.

We taught 5 lessons that day, all with members which made us super happy. If only members truly knew how much they help us. My favorite lesson of the day was teaching some teens that we've been working with
because we didn't think they would want to hear from us without their mom there. They loved our lesson about Ammon and have since started reading the scriptures on their own! We may or may not have also
sneaked in a teensy bit of basketball with them too.

Wednesday: we spent most of the day working on the area book. Thinking back I can't really recall what we did after that...probably a member present lesson. We had so many!

Thursday: We taught lesson after lesson. Everyone is progressing quite nicely.

Friday: For Valentines Day, we went out to eat with Romanee (our ward missionary) for lunch. It was lots of fun. We gave her a Chinese Valentines take-out box with paper fortune cookies inside like little
conversation hearts. She loved it.

After that, we decided to go back to the complex for some more area book work. While we were sitting there, this guy came up in his wheelchair and started talking to us. His name is Mark and he's a return veteran. He had some crazy stories and he kept swearing. Nevertheless, Hermana decided to teach him the first lesson right there. He kept interrupting with war stories, but we managed to finish. Then to our astonishment, he kissed Hermana Duong! I was stunned! What do you do when someone kisses your companion? She handled it super well and just told him the elders would be by soon to teach him.

As if that wasn't crazy enough, when we got back to the apartment one of our young single male investigators texted us and said,"I love you." We're like what? We didn't answer him back. THEN later that night we received chocolates from a random guy we met in Walgreens! Haha, we joked that we got everything a girl
could hope to get on Valentines Day. But the cool thing is the guy we met in Walgreens told us that he had the feeling he had to go there that night,  although he didn't know why and so did we! At first I was really
skeptical about him because I thought he might just be interested in us as girls but we taught him the next day and the spirit was amazing! He fully accepted everything we said and told us that he has been looking for direction in his life. When we said the first vision he was like, "Whoa." He told us he had never felt that good before. We really hope he's golden. We have a lesson set up with him tonight with the Arguetas it should be good!

Sunday: more great lessons, more great members.

We'll that's it my crazy week. I hope to hear from you all soon have a great week!

Con Amor de Largo,
Hermana Mathis