Well I hope you all had the best Christmas ever this year! I don't have too much to say being as I just talked to everyone 2 days ago. But here I go anyway! So this past week was very good and filled of Christmas cheer, this week we spent one of our nights caroling with the elders in our district so some members in our area it was really fun, from having dogs attacking us to singing the wrong tune to a song, to just being able to make peoples days.
We also rode our bikes last week, and that was fun! At one point we felt like a biker gang because their were tons of bikers near us going a long with us, it was funny! it was a good experience! Biking days are always soo funny!
We also got a new investigator this week Her name is Maritza, and she is really awesome! She has problems with Joseph Smith, but she is ready to listen, I feel like we will definitely be getting baptismal dates this week, so it's really exciting! We also still have Nery and Estela, who are doing as good as ever, they even came to a noche de hogar with us at a less-actives house yesterday!
Our Christmas Eve was great! However everyone wanted to feed us, but it was fun, we felt a part of a family everywhere we went! Then on Christmas the elders had a baptism and we went, and my companion who only kind of knows how to play the piano, played anyway because they asked her too, I was so proud of her, and felt bad that I didn't take piano lessons more seriously!
Yup, so that was our week, and on new years eve we will be getting transfer calls and will be having transfers on Monday, so we'll see what happens for the new year.
Happy New years!!!
Love, Hermana Love
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Merry Christmas!!.... Almost!!
Hello all!
Well this week was an eventful one, this past Tuesday we had interviews with the President, and boy President Becerra is so cool, such an inspired man it went well, I was interviewed first of my companions and then by the time Sister Taylor who was last came out, he had told her that we are the happiest trio in the history of the mission! That made me feel so privileged and awesome to be able to be a part of that, so pretty much we are really lucky, it's amazing how well we get along because we are all so very different, but we have the same goal in mind! Also a new missionary came this week to our district, it's the middle of a transfer, so it was really random, but he has been here before once I guess and now he's back, and the elder training him found out the day before that he was coming, so that was different.
Also we had our like 8 hour talent show on Wednesday, it was a nice break, but very long, our district did the EFY medley in Spanish, and being the procrastinators we are we only practiced once with the piano right before the show started. The funny part is me and my companions practiced a lot on our own, and the elders did not, however, when we did it we messed up and the elders did awesome, so that was way funny! Also my companions and I did this dance with a bunch of the English missionaries, and it was random and embarrassing, but there were a lot of weirder talents so I don't feel too bad about it.
We had a very cultural experience at our ward Christmas party this past week, the Hermanas in the Relief Society did some dances, one was about these old men or something with creepy masks on, they also told jokes that made no sense, because we don't know Spanish that well, but it was fun anyway.
That's the exciting things going on in the mission life right now, it's fun, I love the mission more and more everyday, that I get to go out and tell people that I know that Christ is our Savior and Redeemer, that our Heavenly Father knows and loves each of us, That we have a prophet on the earth today, That the Book of Mormon is true. I love that we can tell them that we know the way back to God! This is something so special to me, and I am grateful for the chance I have to be here helping people to know what we all know!
I love you all! I hope you have a merry Christmas and I'll be talking to you next week Family!
Love, Hermana Love
Well this week was an eventful one, this past Tuesday we had interviews with the President, and boy President Becerra is so cool, such an inspired man it went well, I was interviewed first of my companions and then by the time Sister Taylor who was last came out, he had told her that we are the happiest trio in the history of the mission! That made me feel so privileged and awesome to be able to be a part of that, so pretty much we are really lucky, it's amazing how well we get along because we are all so very different, but we have the same goal in mind! Also a new missionary came this week to our district, it's the middle of a transfer, so it was really random, but he has been here before once I guess and now he's back, and the elder training him found out the day before that he was coming, so that was different.
Also we had our like 8 hour talent show on Wednesday, it was a nice break, but very long, our district did the EFY medley in Spanish, and being the procrastinators we are we only practiced once with the piano right before the show started. The funny part is me and my companions practiced a lot on our own, and the elders did not, however, when we did it we messed up and the elders did awesome, so that was way funny! Also my companions and I did this dance with a bunch of the English missionaries, and it was random and embarrassing, but there were a lot of weirder talents so I don't feel too bad about it.
We had a very cultural experience at our ward Christmas party this past week, the Hermanas in the Relief Society did some dances, one was about these old men or something with creepy masks on, they also told jokes that made no sense, because we don't know Spanish that well, but it was fun anyway.
That's the exciting things going on in the mission life right now, it's fun, I love the mission more and more everyday, that I get to go out and tell people that I know that Christ is our Savior and Redeemer, that our Heavenly Father knows and loves each of us, That we have a prophet on the earth today, That the Book of Mormon is true. I love that we can tell them that we know the way back to God! This is something so special to me, and I am grateful for the chance I have to be here helping people to know what we all know!
I love you all! I hope you have a merry Christmas and I'll be talking to you next week Family!
Love, Hermana Love
Monday, December 12, 2011
My 2nd Exchanges!
well this week was a good one, we had quite a few lessons this week, the main one was with a less-active, we invited him to a tour of the church, because he has been less-active for a REALLY LONG time so we decided to take him on the tour, and during the tour he opened up to us to why he isn't coming, because he doesn't remember it anymore and he spends time with his family. It went really well even though he didn't come to church, but the tour was a big step for him.
We also have been trying as a district to get our ward more unified, because they currently are not, but we are helping them to get that way, I'm really excited for that to change!
Probably the most eventful time this week was exchanges, we had exchanges on Saturday and that was really fun! Hermana Taylor went to Chino with Hermana Cruz (my MTC companion) and then her companion Hermana Brown (who has only been here 3 weeks came with me and Hermana Mulitalo. I drove for the day, and since I usually don't drive funny things happened including getting semi-lost, and the big thing is we came home for Lunch and well we walked out the door, and I had locked it, and just as I shut the door I realized the keys were on my desk, luckily this has happened before, so we opened the window and climbed through and got the keys. That was lucky! We also got to go to a Christmas concert at the stake center, It was really good, and made it sort of feel like Christmas, so that was way cool! It was a way fun exchange and a good learning experience!
This week we have President interviews this week, and the missionary Christmas talent show party, no one signed up to begin with so then President said he wanted everyone to be in it, so our district decided we would do it together and we'll be singing the EFY medley in Spanish, I don't know how it will go we just threw it together, but I'm excited to see the talents of the other missionaries. I'll let you know how it goes!
Well that's pretty much it! Hope all is well! and your enjoying all the snow back home, we just get rain!
Love, Hermana Love
We also have been trying as a district to get our ward more unified, because they currently are not, but we are helping them to get that way, I'm really excited for that to change!
Probably the most eventful time this week was exchanges, we had exchanges on Saturday and that was really fun! Hermana Taylor went to Chino with Hermana Cruz (my MTC companion) and then her companion Hermana Brown (who has only been here 3 weeks came with me and Hermana Mulitalo. I drove for the day, and since I usually don't drive funny things happened including getting semi-lost, and the big thing is we came home for Lunch and well we walked out the door, and I had locked it, and just as I shut the door I realized the keys were on my desk, luckily this has happened before, so we opened the window and climbed through and got the keys. That was lucky! We also got to go to a Christmas concert at the stake center, It was really good, and made it sort of feel like Christmas, so that was way cool! It was a way fun exchange and a good learning experience!
This week we have President interviews this week, and the missionary Christmas talent show party, no one signed up to begin with so then President said he wanted everyone to be in it, so our district decided we would do it together and we'll be singing the EFY medley in Spanish, I don't know how it will go we just threw it together, but I'm excited to see the talents of the other missionaries. I'll let you know how it goes!
Well that's pretty much it! Hope all is well! and your enjoying all the snow back home, we just get rain!
Love, Hermana Love
Monday, November 28, 2011
3 Meals May Be a Little Too Much
Well it was a good week this past week. I alsoo learned this past week that I am an amateur at the holiday in the mission thing. So as you all know it was Thanksgiving this past week, we decided it would probably be hard to do any real work on Thanksgiving, so me and my companions decided we would tell the members who asked us that we would go to their dinner, we thought we had spaced it out pretty well with 3 meals. It ended up that some people were late and some early so we ate 3 meals in a row, that was probably the worst decision I have ever made in my life, we were all close to tears by the end of the night. Christmas should be a lot smoother. We also spent that day taking fruit baskets to less active sisters from the Relief Society it was really fun!
We were pretty busy this week we even got a new investigator, it's been a while so that is pretty awesome! Things have been relatively slow here but this transfer with 3 of us we are going to take off and I can feel that with lots of work we can have a White Christmas this year!
Also we had a lesson with Arnulfo one of our investigators this week and we were talking to him, he has to look for a new place to live and a new job all at once and we said we were sorry, and he said I enjoy everything in life whether it's working all the time, even my problems and every day because you never know what will come tomorrow, so enjoy it today because tomorrow you wont have it. It was really profound and it was really cool, Arnulfo is a really awesome investigator!
That's basically the most of what happenened this was a great week, and I feel a lot of great things will happen this coming week so stay tuned this week.
Love, Hermana Love
We were pretty busy this week we even got a new investigator, it's been a while so that is pretty awesome! Things have been relatively slow here but this transfer with 3 of us we are going to take off and I can feel that with lots of work we can have a White Christmas this year!
Also we had a lesson with Arnulfo one of our investigators this week and we were talking to him, he has to look for a new place to live and a new job all at once and we said we were sorry, and he said I enjoy everything in life whether it's working all the time, even my problems and every day because you never know what will come tomorrow, so enjoy it today because tomorrow you wont have it. It was really profound and it was really cool, Arnulfo is a really awesome investigator!
That's basically the most of what happenened this was a great week, and I feel a lot of great things will happen this coming week so stay tuned this week.
Love, Hermana Love
Monday, November 21, 2011
3rd Trio and Still in Rimgrove
So it was transfer times again, and well it turns out that I am in another trio again, me and Hna Taylor stayed in our area, but then Hna Mulitalo came to join us, so that was pretty crazy insane! Hna Mulitalo is Samoan but she is from salt lake Utah! I'll give more details next week! However I am happy we are staying here because I love it here, and I have had a new companion every transfer thus far it is really crazy!
Anyway and things are really awesome, I feel things really are going to pick up here pretty soon and I am really excited to see what this next transfer has to bring to us, so it should be really good and awesome! I can't remember much of what happened this past week, but it was good, on Saturday we had a ward thanksgiving party, and they went all out, we went to the church early to help them prepare all this food it was soo awesome, and also the ward choir which included us sang in the jungle from Lion King, not sure how that relates to thanksgiving, but we just do as we are told. So that was the main thing that happened.
Then of course on Tuesday, I got a phone call from President Becerra that was really quite shocking, from your mom called to the news of grandma was really quite crazy! Weird I didn't know Grandma was sick but somehow when I heard the news from the president, all I could feel in that moment was a sense of peace, knowing it was her time, and a greater appreciation that we have the gospel in our lives that we have the plan of salvation, and that Grandma was needed to do work on the other side. I loved Grandma, and I am praying for you all and hope you can feel peace at this time. I love you all a lot as well!
Love, Hna Love
also if you want to read an awesome story Alma 20 is the way to go, seriously I love it soo much! I read it today!
Also happy thanksgiving!!!
Anyway and things are really awesome, I feel things really are going to pick up here pretty soon and I am really excited to see what this next transfer has to bring to us, so it should be really good and awesome! I can't remember much of what happened this past week, but it was good, on Saturday we had a ward thanksgiving party, and they went all out, we went to the church early to help them prepare all this food it was soo awesome, and also the ward choir which included us sang in the jungle from Lion King, not sure how that relates to thanksgiving, but we just do as we are told. So that was the main thing that happened.
Then of course on Tuesday, I got a phone call from President Becerra that was really quite shocking, from your mom called to the news of grandma was really quite crazy! Weird I didn't know Grandma was sick but somehow when I heard the news from the president, all I could feel in that moment was a sense of peace, knowing it was her time, and a greater appreciation that we have the gospel in our lives that we have the plan of salvation, and that Grandma was needed to do work on the other side. I loved Grandma, and I am praying for you all and hope you can feel peace at this time. I love you all a lot as well!
Love, Hna Love
also if you want to read an awesome story Alma 20 is the way to go, seriously I love it soo much! I read it today!
Also happy thanksgiving!!!
Monday, November 14, 2011
A week of service!
Well last week was a little different. One of the members here in our ward got a notice of eviction a few weeks ago, so we kept going by to see how we could help them, and hoping they knew we were serious when we told them to call when they were moving, so we were so happy when they actually called last week so that we could help them! Also during that move I realized just how lucky we are to have the life we have. Because we were packing stuff and moving it out and their were COCKROACHES....EVERYWHERE! It was insane I don't know how people can live the way they do, sometimes, also us and the other missionaries and 2 other people were the only people to help so we were there all day because we just had 1 truck. However I was grateful to help and get some service, since there is not much service to do here.
Then came my birthday and it was great, I had 2 cakes that day one with the other missionaries and one with the investigators they planned it as a surprise. Our investigators are the best! Also the tradition is that you have to bite the cake, and when you do that someone pushes your head so you get frosting all over your face, it's a funny tradition, I think I'll keep that tradition.
Then we had a chance to help the elders and we moved another family, but that was much easier because it was from one to another in the same apartment complex, it was soo great!
Also this week we had Zone conference! I love zone conference! Seriously our president is so inspired! I really learn a lot each time he teaches, so it is really exciting. It was in Spanish this time, so it was good, to learn more Spanish. I always feel soo inspired after we meet with him.
We also had a lesson with Arnulfo our investigator this week, in which we finished teaching him everything, however the crazy thing is that he works everyday, and so he had a 2 hour break on Saturday, so we went to his work, and taught him in the back of Burger king. It was slightly random, but that's how much he is prepared, but he only has thanksgiving and Christmas off for the rest of the year. It's sad because he has a desire to come to church, but he literally is working all the time now! But I believe in Miracles! The faith must be tried first though.
I got to go to a baptism this week also of a little girl from my English ward. Leo, who got baptized while I was there baptized her. It's so cool to see a convert be able to use the priesthood. It was a sweet experience.
Also our mission President came to our ward yesterday, and he spoke and then while he was there we asked about how to help our investigators and he really inspired us, and it was so good, to have that inspiration. Truly i feel like one of the reasons I'm here in this mission is so that I can know President Becerra!
Well that's all here this week! Transfers are this week, so we'll see if President decides to change things with me again. Who Knows?
Love, Hermana Love
Then came my birthday and it was great, I had 2 cakes that day one with the other missionaries and one with the investigators they planned it as a surprise. Our investigators are the best! Also the tradition is that you have to bite the cake, and when you do that someone pushes your head so you get frosting all over your face, it's a funny tradition, I think I'll keep that tradition.
Then we had a chance to help the elders and we moved another family, but that was much easier because it was from one to another in the same apartment complex, it was soo great!
Also this week we had Zone conference! I love zone conference! Seriously our president is so inspired! I really learn a lot each time he teaches, so it is really exciting. It was in Spanish this time, so it was good, to learn more Spanish. I always feel soo inspired after we meet with him.
We also had a lesson with Arnulfo our investigator this week, in which we finished teaching him everything, however the crazy thing is that he works everyday, and so he had a 2 hour break on Saturday, so we went to his work, and taught him in the back of Burger king. It was slightly random, but that's how much he is prepared, but he only has thanksgiving and Christmas off for the rest of the year. It's sad because he has a desire to come to church, but he literally is working all the time now! But I believe in Miracles! The faith must be tried first though.
I got to go to a baptism this week also of a little girl from my English ward. Leo, who got baptized while I was there baptized her. It's so cool to see a convert be able to use the priesthood. It was a sweet experience.
Also our mission President came to our ward yesterday, and he spoke and then while he was there we asked about how to help our investigators and he really inspired us, and it was so good, to have that inspiration. Truly i feel like one of the reasons I'm here in this mission is so that I can know President Becerra!
Well that's all here this week! Transfers are this week, so we'll see if President decides to change things with me again. Who Knows?
Love, Hermana Love
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Gracias!
Well I received the package today, and I saw all the wrapped presents and I said I'll wait til tomorrow to open them and my companion said wow you have a lot of self control so then I opened them seconds later, I couldn't help it, I had to know! Also I loved the outfit, you chose well, I also tried it on and it fits perfectly, I'll take a pic and send it next week, because I at least am waiting to wear it till tomorrow! Thanks so much though I really loved it!
Also guess what? My companion became an aunt this week, her sister had a baby and it's the first in the family, so it's really exciting, I just found out now, but the situation seems similar to Mitchell, so that's funny! Thanks for the pics I love them!
Love, Hermana Love
Also guess what? My companion became an aunt this week, her sister had a baby and it's the first in the family, so it's really exciting, I just found out now, but the situation seems similar to Mitchell, so that's funny! Thanks for the pics I love them!
Love, Hermana Love
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