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Hey Yall,
This week was a very slow week. However, we did have several people come back to church. Hermana Milka and Hermana Lorena with her kids all came back. We are having lots of fun here, don't worry. (Culture of the mission #5: We enjoy the mission)
We had a weird experience on Thursday. That is our planning day, so we usually do practices and things in the morning and don't leave the house until we go to lunch. We got up and did all of that and noticed that it was a little darker than normal. We didn't think much of it and left for lunch at about 12:45 to be there at 1:00. We got to Carlos and his family and they were still preparing food. They asked us, "Elders, what time do you usually eat lunch?" We told them that we always come to their house at one and so we just talked to them while waiting. We then realized that my watch was an hour off. We don't know how, but that made us over an hour early for lunch...oh the joys of the mission.
I feel kind of bad this week, though. People have had a hard time understanding Elder Cottrell and it is bugging him. I don't really know what to do to help him, really. We are trying to Speak as much Spanish as possible for right now. We will see how it goes.
We burned a couple of books last night. Sometimes as we go out contacting people, they give us random books about their religion...and they are usually written by random people that no one has even heard of. So, we decided to burn them last night. It was pretty awesome.
That's about all of our adventures for Santa Barbara. Keep reading the book of Mormon!

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