Week 80 Love the People 3/22/2021

 Another week! It was so good! Started the week off good with zone conference. The APs called us on Monday and told us, "hey sooo president wants you to do a finding panel in zone conference. " haha well at this point, this transfer we already gave a training at the first zone conference and talked at MLC so we were like "uh are you sure? We've talked sooooo much" and the APs were like "we are SO SORRY! Haha told president that." So we were just kinda dying of laughter. Well that night we had to go up to the mission office to kinda get everything set up for the day. We were expecting a couple more companionships because panel, there had to be more than us. Well no, just us, President and Hermana Cordón, and the APs who were answering the questions. LOL. And one of my comps Sister Bull is still in her first transfer was stressed out of her mind. But she killed it!!! It was good, didn't end up being too bad. And it was a blessing too because it was supposed to be on Tuesday so we drove up, and then we ran out of time. So they had us come up the next day which was Hermana Cordón's birthday! So we "sunflowered" her door and sang to her happy birthday (with Sister Bull's amazing ukelele skills). 

Service wars:

It was one of the district leaders' birthdays so we brought him some stuff too! AND cute  Sister Staheli has slipped notes into my pocket for OUR WHOLE APARTMENT. When I pulled them out I was like huh??? What is this. So cute and sweet. 

We've been playing frisbee in the morning with the elders! And today I learned how to play football!! Way fun.

Spiritual thought:

In zone conference, this cute Hermana that I started my mission with talked about how loving the people is important. She said, if my sister forgot everything and was in LA, I would go find her, and remind her who she is, and bring her back! Well, that's the case with the people here!! We need to go find them!!! I loved that.

IIt's been a good week. I LOVE MY MISSION! there is way more that happened this week I just can't remember haha I love you all!

Week 79 First Exchange Miracle! 3/15/2021

 This week was so good!! Some experiences that hopefully uplift your day:

I went on exchanges with this cute sister, Sister Kaufusi, who I love soooo much. It was a her first exchange and I LOVE first exchanges. They are just filled with so much energy! We were calling people and we were in the mindset that we were going to call whoever we are prompted to, even if they were just called yesterday, even if they weren't interested, etc. Well we came across this lady who hadn't looked like she wasn't too interested in the past. But we called her. She picked up and was a little hesitant at first, but then started opening up about her trails and she told us, "I don't know why I'm telling you all these things, but I feel so much peace telling you guys." And she talked about how the missionaries seemed to reach out at the right time. That was such an amazing experience and Sister Kaufusi is amazing. She was listening so well and ah it was just an amazing experience. 

Went to City Walk/Universal with all the sisters! Also we have been doing service wars in our zone which has been soooo fun!! That's all I have for this week. It's been so fun this week. We are going to have a zone pday! (Finally!!) It's been more than a year and I'm pumped! We're playing sports all together and us sisters are determined to win lol.

Week 78 .... 3/8/2021

Week 77 The Best Two Years 3/1/2021

 Soooo. Story time. We were doing outdoor sacrament with the elders (we still don't have in person church here haha help but also it's fine because we just get together as missionaries and do a little sacrament). Well in the middle of sacrament a car rolled up and we were like huh? Well when we finished sacrament he came out of his car and started talking to us. He asked if this was just a missionary thing and if there were any close by church services. Turns out, he is from utah and came here for work! So we talked with him and he was so sweet! He asked if he could take pictures of us to document, ah this man was just so tender. Well, while he's talking to us, Sister Carr turned to me and whispered, wait, I know his voice. WAIT he's in The Best Two Years I think!! Well 2 days before we had met this person who we were like, WAIT we think he's an NBA player, but WE DIDNT ASK. And then we regretted it big time. So I was like, ask him ask him!! And so Sister Carr was like, "hey, are you in the best 2 years??" And he was like oh yeah! And ALL OF US were like WOW WHAT!! And that was way fun. I'll attach some pictures. Way good times. Ah that was epic.

This week FLEW. It was so amazing!! Some really cool miracles that happened with our friends:

Sharmistha 

She is this cute cute lady and recently she's had a lot of questions about woman and the priesthood. And I was like oookay how do we approach this?? Be cause I'm honestly not great at explaining this. Well we had 2 lessons on it and during our second lesson, she just went all, oh I get it. And something just clicked inside of her and she explained it to us!! It was AMAZING.

Bryan

Every time we teach Bryan he is so down, but never really does his commitments and is usually distracted. Well this week we've been making good progress with him! We taught him twice and they were both just tender experiences. We had read 1 Nephi 1 and he told us he liked it, so we told him he could watch the Book of Mormon video. We sent it and the next time, he told us he LOVED it and said that he will always keep that video in his heart (how cute!!) And then he told us he has a really hard time with reading and understanding and he doesn't like reading, but when he read the Book of Mormon, he likes it. And we talked about how that was the spirit confirming truth to him. And then he was talking about how he knew this book would save him. It just helped me see that wherever people are in their life, if they understand scripture or not, that there are people prepared and if they have that desire, God will help them.

Keith

Oh keith. I love this man. So he is one of those people that loves Jesus and everything with God and sings praises. Amazing man. Sometimes though it's a little hard to get across to him that there was a Great Apostasy and that we needed a restoration and that the restoration is different than anything else that's ever happened before. Well we were going over the restoration, and he was like, where is Joseph Smith's name in the Bible? And we were like oof okay how do we answer this one. Well, we talked about the Great Apostasy in the Bible, and then we read Moroni 10:3-5. And then all of a sudden he goes all (by the way, he's very knowledgable with the scriptures), oh. I understand. I believe what you said about Joseph Smith. Ah the spirit was SO STRONG! Now our next step, helping understanding that this is the one true church(:

This week was so good! I also got to go on exchanges with Sister Perez. She's so sweet, pretty quiet, but she is so kind! 

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