#8 "These are a few of my favorite things."

Ok so being a missionary is muy suave (very cool).  There are so many things that I love about my calling so I thought I would share a couple with you.

1.  Street contacting.  This is by far my favorite thing to do in the whole Entire world. Going up to random people and just making a new friend is the best.  Listening to the stories they have to tell and relating it to the gospel.  Elder Holland said that "if you truly listen to someone with the spirit of the Lord, what they are saying will highlight a gospel truth.  Always". How amazing is that, being on my mission I have seen this everyday.  Next time you are talking to someone who doesn't have the gospel think about it.  How can this relate to the blessing of the gospel.

2.  Being at the right place at the right time.  This week we were trying to figure where to go tracking after a lesson and my companion said that we should go visit this family that hadn't been returning our calls. So we go, and Olga opens the door and starts yelling saying she didn't have time to talk with us, and that she wanted us to go away.  But missionaries are like a cold you can't shake it off.  We stayed and she ended opening up to us.  Something really bad happened to her that morning and she really needed god's love.  We shared D&C 121: 7-8 with her ( which is my favorite scripture)  the spirit was SO strong.  She thanked us and told us we were the answers to her prayers and that she regretted shutting us out.

3.  THE MEMBERS. Oh my goodness we have so many members I want to talk about but I don't have time.  They are the best, they are so willing to come out with us to lessons and fellowship.  They also feed us. FEED THE MISSIONARIES.  WE LOVE IT.

4.  Teaching the law of chastity.

5.  Having a companion who sings like a Disney princess

6.  TEACHING THE GOSPEL

AWKWARD
we went hiking this morning and we made a new friend😊.
I get asked what part of Mexico I am from everyday 😑
Then they realize I don't speak Spanish and they laugh at me 😒
One of our investigators wouldn't let me leave till I drank a huge cup of soda for a dirty and I mean like dusty cup.

Everyone go read Ether 12 k?  Email me what you learned about faith k?

#7 "I ate a goat"

Well to start things off I can't remember very much that happened this week.  My life is seriously the biggest blur.  Biking, knocking on doors, teaching, study, rice, knocking on doors, beans, teaching, more beans, more teaching, embarrassing moment, more beans.  I love every second.

First off we committed another baptism! Her name is Hermana Mata and she has been an investigator for 30 years.  How crazy is that.  We didn't even know she wasn't a member b cause she comes to church every week.  Anyways we finally set up a lesson with her and she is getting baptized in two weeks.  I LOVE BAPTISMS.  Also 5 investigators came to church this week.  Fistpump up in the air for the Hermanas.  Pretty sure we will have another baptism by the end of the day too.

Today we had a mission meeting, and President Toone told us some pretty exciting news.  Members of the Missionary board from Salt Lake are coming and shadowing missionaries.  They are doing s pretty cool project here in Tempe because we are the most successful mission with technology.  I wish I could tell you more but i can't. Sorry.

Tender moment, I told Hermana Andelin that I just wanted to bike in the rain, two seconds later it started pouring.  Dios me ama.

AWKWARD

YEAH remember those goats from last week?  Yeah I ate one the other day.  Pretty gross, I felt especially bad eating it while his brother was staring at me from across the table.  Also I made him Andelin light her own candles on her birthday cake,isn't she the cutest ?  And some one gave us flowers, so my helmet hair is pretty awkward if you ask me.

I love you all.  I had a couple people ask for my address

208 W. Darrow St.
Phoenix, Arizona 85041

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#6 Those are all goats!

Next ARIZONA

First can I say, I love my mission president and his wife sooooo much holy cow.  We had to wake up at two in the morning in Mexico for our flight to Arizona.  When we got there he told us he had a special surprise for us.  I was thinking we were going to teach a lesson or something, which I was terrified because I stilled smelled like Mexico and my eyes WOULD NOT STAY OPEN.  Want to know what the suprise was?  A nap.  FOR REALS. I love them so much.  We went through a lot of trainer and then on Thursday they sent us out.  

My trainer is Hermana Andelin.  I love her!  You don't even understand, I have been prayer for my trainer everyday.  God answers prayers for sure.  She is hands down The best missionary.  She talks to every single person we pass, we never have a moment to sit, and we improve every day.  President Toone asked me what my vision for my mission was.  I told him that I wanted to get to the point where I would understand how important the gospel is, so that I wouldn't hesitate sharing it with everyone.  That is the kind of missionary Hermana Andelin is, she is my missionary hero.  

I am serving in the area of Southern Phoenix.  Thank goodness because it is sooooo Hispanic.  We assume some speaks Spanish before English and we are right more often than not.  Hopefully I get this language down fast.  It is also the ghetto and a little sketch, but every single person we have met has been so kind to us.  The coolest thing is being able to see everyone through God's eyes.  I had no idea how powerful asking for this gift would be.  We have to talked to so many people I would other wise be hesitant to speak to, but now I have no fear!  They have always shared with us that they really needed to hear whatever message we shared with them.  Apparently those that come to this area are here for like 9 months haha, which I real,y hope so because we cover two wards so there are a lot of work to be done. 

GUESS WHAT, my first day I committed someone to a baptismal date!  Edmond is 17 and lives with his aunt. The rest of his family lives in Mexico still.  He is an awesome kid, and we were about to leave and I just had a feeling that I needed to ask him if he would be baptized and he said YES!  Then I was like "so what are you doing November 14th".   He said nothing, do I said let's prepare you to be baptized by then.  HE SAID YES.  I was so excited you don't even know.  Los milagros de dios son muy maravillosos.

As for Spanish, I have no idea what is going on I just shake my head and smile.  The I get laughed at. Then I laugh.  GAH GIFT OF TONGUES HURRY FASTER.

Awkward

A woman was telling us how she was the only member in her family, instead of saying "Es muy difícil." I salud "es my divertido."  She Disney like that to much.  Also member's that we ate at the other, randomly had 100 goats.  75 chickens, 5 dogs 2 horses, a million pigeons, and snakes.  Let's just say the dogs need to bridle their passions.   Also found myself stuck in a bible bash yesterday.  Haha he said didn't like our church because he believes God and Jesus are one person and that God sent himself here.  So I said so you believe that when Jesus prayed he was praying to himself?  His response was duh.  Hah we shared our testimonies with him and invited him to read The Book of Mormon.  He didn't like that very much.

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