We decided to stay in Steamboat for Preparation day because we missed an appointment last time we went with the other missionaries, and we had that same appointment today. We met a recently returned missionary from Ohio while we were cleaning the truck, and he told us some crazy stories from his mission!
On Saturday, we took the time to drive out to Jeddito again, and we met some great people! One of them is named Tasha. When she opened the door she was super happy to see us and said that she was a 'believer' too, and that she wanted us to teach her kids! Sadly, there wasn't another adult male in their home, so we couldn't go in, but she set up an appointment for Sunday! We were super excited to finally find some new people to teach. We also found Sister Norris, who simply doesn't have the means to make it to church, but would probably be an active member if she had some sort of transportation.
Well, we went by Tasha's home on Sunday and I guess they were having a family emergency, so they couldn't meet with us. Hopefully we will be able to meet with them some other time. The same day, we visited Sister Bowman, who is very old and gets lots of visitors. When we got there she she was like "Why are you even here?" and we said that we were there to check up on her, and she suddenly started giving us chores to do outside her house, like readjusting the tarp over her wood pile and raking up wood pieces and stuff like that. After we were done, she invited us in, but she didn't have another man home and we tried to tell her, but she wouldn't hear us, so we sort of maybe just went in her house and gave a quick prayer! Yeah!
For the rest of the day we visited a bunch of people and met some new faces that weren't very interested in what we had to hear, and before we went to bed we got a text from Sister Lincoln asking us to come over and bring a small bowl, so we went over there and she gave us some Navajo tacos and potato salad! We thanked her for her kindness, drove home and turned in for the night.
Happy Halloween!
Practicing Navajo on a whiteboard with President Yazzie
A baby Tarantula! Interesting.
some sheep me and Elder Asher herded for Pres. Yazzie
Burrs that the sheep were coated in. And I mean coated!
What happens when you try to pet a mean cat 
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I have made up my own version of the Charlie Brown theme song on the piano, and I have the general pattern down for it. I just don't know how the rest of the song goes! I think it would be super fun to start learning the real thing, though.
I have found that Duolingo is very limited in Navajo right now, but I have been logging in every day and keeping in check my knowledge of the limited Navajo that it can teach me. Also, not having the voice to help with the learning makes it really difficult to know how it actually sounds, so I have found the best way to learn is from the people themselves.
Hagooshineh! (It means goodbye, in response to Hagooshii' which is another way to say goodbye)
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