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The members here are interesting. Most of them are converts and they have very strong testimonies. Testimony meeting is the best thing ever! They also really love each other and are pretty united. But at the same time this is the most dysfunctional ward I've ever been in. It's just very unorganized. Setting things for specific times is a joke. They don't care that much about rules or procedures. We told them about the white bible and they thought we were joking. Church is super fun and always exciting, but sometimes I stop and think, "Is ward council supposed to be this fun?" Probably not. So I can't decide it their version of Mormon culture is worse or better. The one thing that I do definitely like, is how much they adore missionaries. We're like angels to them. We do a million things for the ward that they are probably supposed to be doing for themselves but at the same time they take very good care of us. 

Right now my favorite family is Gomez. They are the family whose son died. We're still teaching the parents and their two girls because the girls need to be baptized. They were completely inactive before but now they go to church every week and want all the blessings of God! We've become best friends. We are at their house all the time. They are super funny. Last night we were talking about baptisms for the dead and Max was like I want their to be a whole arena of people thanking me for doing their work when I die. They'll be like Whooooohh Yeahhhh!!! I should probably start working on that. Technically they're Mexican but they both grew up here and are racist against Mexicans. Every time we go over we leave with bags of food. Max (the dad) tried to sign up to feed us every day this week but Michelle (the mom) told him that wasn't nice. They are super sassy. Especially the girls. The girls don't speak Spanish very well so we have to tell them what words mean in church. On Saturday we took them to a tour of the Newport Temple grounds. It was so cool! They want to be sealed as a family as soon as possible. They want us to come over every day but we only have time to go there every few days.

 

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