Flaming Hot Peppers

Why hello there my dear family! How are y'all doing? I hope that everything is good and that y'all are having a great time getting ready for Halloween ! What is everyone going to dress up as? All I know is that Avery will be a lady bug, and that's it. So I need the info on this and pictures!! Lots and Lots of pictures ! Has anything else gone on that is exciting? I want to know everything!! Ok so in exchange for info on y'all I will tell you about my Stories of the Week!! And this is in good faith that y'all will send me lots of info about every body!

Story 1 The Tale of the Flaming Hot Pepper

On Wednesday night we went out to dinner with our ward mission leader and his wife. We went to this awesome little New Mexican restaurant called Sandies and we had a great time. Brother Depreist (our ward mission leader) likes to garden, so he brought a few green peppers from his garden for us to try. Sister Johnson eats one like it is candy, because her family is Hispanic and she has grown up eating really really hot things since she was little. Sister Brown took bite, said that it was not to hot, and ate a little more. So I am still getting used to all of the really hot foods down here. Don't get me wrong there is nothing that I love better than a green chilly smothered burrito with extra green chilly on the side. But I am still learning to eat the really really spicy things. So I cut a small piece of this pepper off, smell it to see if it is to hot. All seemed well so I plopped it into my mouth, and started to chew. And at first it was really good, it had a nice flavor to it and was just a little hot...But the more I chewed it the hotter it got. Until my mouth was on fire!!! Dang it that was one of the hottest things I have every eaten!! So I drank some water, that didn't help. So I drank more water and that still didn't help. I sucked on an ice cube which only dulled the pain for a second or so until it melted. Then I tried a spoon full of honey and that still did not even touch it!!! So I sat there dying while everyone is laughing and ordering there food. After awhile it died down and I was able to enjoy my quesadilla. It was so good!! It had shredded beef, cheese, sour cream, avocado, and green chilies! And then for dessert we had sopopeas, they are pretty much scones that you put honey in/on and then eat it. And I also learned that when you put honey on your tortilla chips it tastes really good!! No I am serious! It is very good and y'all should try it.

Story 2 The Tale of the Week of Awesomeness!

Being in a trio is so much fun!! We have been able to talk to so many people and teach tons of lessons. We have several families that are on date to be baptized in the coming months so cross your fingers that everything goes well. This past week we meet a very nice lady from Ghana and we will start to teach her this next week. Her name is Sharon and she is a CNA at a assisted living center. She has been living in Albuquerque for the past year and is also looking for a new church. We meet her on Friday and she is so very sweet! She says that we are her angels and that she wants us to stay and chat forever! We are also still teaching Amber and Phil's family which is going very well. They all got blessing from the bishop this past week and are starting to over come some hurdles that have been holding them back. They are the cutes family ever, there oldest is Austin who is 9. Then Tai who is 8, Kaylen who's 6 and Harligh who is 4. They are so much fun to go see, and they just love the gospel. It is so amazing to be able to see the change in peoples lives as they all accept the gospel of Christ. Oh and we are also teaching the Greenlie family. The husband is a member but the wife is not, they have no kids and they are very nice. Although we could not meet with them for the longest time because she got bit by a brown recluse spider on her thigh and was in the hospital. She showed us pictures of what it looked like, sister Brown and sister Johnson thought that it was very gross looking. I thought it looked really cool and she told me all about her surgery and we looked at more pictures. Things are just going so well.

Story 3 The Tale of the Magic Lights

The other night we were out and about when sister brown felt like we needed to go home and to see some people that live in our apartment. So the member who was with us took us back home and we all went to see this girl. It took us a minute to find her apartment but we did and so we knocked. I could see through the peep hole that the lights were on so we were pretty sure that someone was home. So we knocked again and still no one came to the door. Just as we were about to leave a not on the door and go home, we see the girl that we are trying to visit coming up the stairs. We say hi and ask how she is doing, and she tells us that they had moved a few days earlier. And that she was only coming back to the old apartment because she saw that the lights were on, so she came to see what was going on. Then she invited us back to her new apartment and we talked about how much of a miracle that it was that we caught her. It is just so amazing the way that our Heavenly Father works, and if you just listen to the promptings that he gives you, then you will be able to see wondrous things happen.

Story 4 The Tale of the Trunks Full of Treats

This past Friday was the ward Halloween/ chilly cook off/ trunk or treat party. It was so much fun to see all of the cute families and kids dressed up and running around on sugar highs. They had face painting, a cupcake walk, a fishing for candy game, and the doughnut on the string game. Since we could not dress up for real's this year, the three of us decided to dress up as a candy corn. So sister Johnson wore a white shirt, I wore my orange sweater, and sister Brown wore her yellow dress. It was so fun and cute!! I put some picture in the drop box so you can see some of the fun that we had. Oh and there is a video that is of me and sister brown participating in the dounght eating contest....Just saying you may want to check that out. It is really funny.

Well that was my week! It was super fun and exciting. And we hope that the next 5 weeks will be just as fun as this one has. I hope that y'all have a great week and that you send me lots of pictures! I love y'all so much  and cant wait to hear from you soon.

Love Sister Chatwin

P.S " I  have a big head and little arms!! I don't think that this plan was through enough...Master?"