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Gilarious With a Gutteral “G”

Here’s the most recent email from Zuster Mergenthaler:

I realized I haven't written a lot about my companion, but I'm gonna take a brag moment because she's amazeballs. So far, I've only had awesome companions, no lie. Zr. McGuire is her name and being hilarious is her game. I write down quotes in my planner and half of them are her being a goof. We have a great time together.

Anyways, this was an AWESOME week. Someone please send me some English adjectives for good because my English is going down the toilet. But yeah, great week. Some stuff that happened....
--played soccer with the youth. It was a blast! Luis kept whispering at me in Spanish and then I would yell what he just said and try to complete it. The frustrating thing is I understand Spanish but I forget my verb conjugation and sometimes speak it with Dutch grammar, so I struggle speaking it back. But we're workin on it.
--Set a contact goal of 70. Got 60! People say this island is small, but we meet new people every day, so if that's not God's hand, I don't know what is. I'm determined to talk to every single person on this island before I leave ;)
--contacted this one house and a Dutch lady comes out and starts yelling at us in Spanish because she only sees me and thinks I'm latino. Best moment of my life. I don't think she was interested, but she made me feel good for being dark.
--taught a man named Manier Rasiman. He had three grills in his front yard, is ripped as heck, and drives a sports car with a bunch of protein shake stickers. He told us he "doesn't normally do this"and have us over "where everyone can see" and said he had to take some "me" time and didn't want to meet with us again. I felt like I was being broken up with! And I haven't actually experienced that! Weirdest lesson I've ever been in. Actually that's not true because the creepy voodoo lady, but weirdest lesson in Bonaire.
--Taught a professional boxer. He fought Mohammed Ali! He gave us juice.
--Found an ELECT woman named Cathyln contacting yesterday. I was just beaming out of my mind the rest of that night. I'm so excited to teach her.
--Aquilles, one of our long time investigators, came to a missionary activity at the church! He hasn't been to church yet....which we are going to work on, but he LOVED the activity and asked if there was another this week. I know he felt the spirit in that church building. We are having an appointment with him tonight to put him on baptismal date. I love that man! He is so humbled and prepared. He was asking about the pictures of the temple and family proclomation and I said, "Aquiles, you can go in there! But you have to go in the ocean to be baptized first." He laughed like it was a joke, but I think he knows in the back of his mind I'm not joking at all haha. 

My spiritual experience this week was watching Ronny teach his wife a little about the Restoration. It was so cool to see his growth from that first appointment we had when I first got here. My favorite thing about teaching is seeing people's light grow. It's a very visible thing for me. I can't really explain it, but the more people learn about the gospel of Jesus Christ and apply it in their lives, the more light they give off! Ronny has truly become a holier man. I know that's the Holy Ghost purifying him for his efforts to learn the gospel. It was a treat to watch him share what he could remember with his wife. Pray for him that his health doesn't deteriorate so we can finish the lessons and he can get baptized!
 
I hope everyone has an awesome week! I sure love you guys. 
Zuster Mergenthaler

Bonni here. Since I don’t have pictures from Emily this week, here is something that made me laugh at the grocery store:




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