Super Good Week--28 March 2016

I hope everything is wonderful there!! This week we saw a lot of success and a lot of miracles. God is really leading us to people who are ready for the gospel. It takes time to teach of course, but they are so wonderful and I love them a lot!!

Raquel, Karla, and Carlos are all SO pumped to get baptized. They're counting down the days till the 10th!! How cute are they!?!?!?!?!?! Hermana Hofheins always says they are like little pioneer children. They love going to church and wow, they already have such strong testimonies. They make me want to be better!!

I love seeing my recent converts at church. It brings me so much joy because I know they're repenting and changes and they can keep going forward and stay strong!!! That's all I want. I would be devastated if they fell away, but as long as I do my part and they do theirs, it will all work out. 

One really special experience we had was we were talking to a lady Josefina and she just opened up about everything that was going on. Man, it's really hard for her right now, but I was able to give her a Book of Mormon and explain that she can find peace and guidance and it really would help her life when she feels like there is no hope left. She teared up and the Spirit was really strong. God really guides us to people who need the gospel in their lives.

Yesterday was Easter!!! It was a very special day because that's the day that He was risen! The Resurrection is real! and because He resurrected, we all can live again!!! Because He lives, we have hope for a new life. How amazing is that. It's something we still can't fully comprehend. He literally freed us from the powers of Satan. Physically, spiritually, mentally, any way. All we have to do is give what we have to Him and follow Him. Como dice el sitio de web siguelo y encuentra una nueva vida (or in English) follow Him and find a new life. 

ONE MORE THING!!!! THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!! I was listening to a talk, character of Christ and it was AMAZING!!!! but the main thing is the character of Christ is that he turns outward when everyone else would turn inward. Even during his hardest moments, he thought of others. That is Christ. He forgets about Himself and He does all He can for others. 

La vida is buena. There are so many wonderful things in this world and just think, it will be a million times better in heaven!! We can't even imagine it.  Keep going strong. Love you all so much!!!!!! Hasta luego:):)

Please let me know if I can do anything for you!!!

Murahe 21 March 2017

We have had a very interesting week to say the least. It has not been a normal missionary week. But hey. Asi es la vida.

Only in Houston can you talk to people from Afganistan, Nigeria, Rwanda, Congo, Jerusalem, and all over central america and south america. It was super cool that we could talk to all of them. Actually, we are teaching the family from Congo and Rwanda. They're sooooo cute!! They're teaching us their language Swahili and Kirwanda. How legit is that?? They are so happy when we are trying to use it! 

Speaking of them the picture of the avocados that are HUGE!! (if you can't tell in the picture, they're almost the size of my head) are from them. We teach them English and they just give us so much stuff. They have so little, but they always want to give us things. How adorable are they??? 

We also went to their church and it was soooooooo cool!!!! They had someone try to translate just for us and we got to sing all their hymns in their language. They even chose come thou fount because they knew we knew it!!! They were so happy that we were there. It was adorable :) (the picture is part of them) but the coolest thing of all is 8 of them came to our church!! and now the English elders can go and teach them!!!! They're so cute and going to get baptized :):)

They kept telling us how happy they were that we were there and that we are their sisters and it was just adorable. I really like them a lot :)

Tono came to church again, he just won't get baptized!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it will help him so much. Please pray for him. He's passed his interview and everything and he knows he needs to, he's just procrastinating. Man, I feel like I get that a lot. But he's awesome. We're getting more and more members involved, so that he can get in the water and be clean!!!!

Raquel, Carlos, Karla, Alison, and Ernesto all came to church yesterday and they love it!!!!! They're sooooo excited to get baptized!!!!! Once we teach them everything, they'll be able to be baptized and have all the blessings that come from it!!! Love them tons :):) we are sooooo blessed in our area.

With all those blessings though, wow, we are so busy. Some days we are frantically running around trying to get to all of our appointments and it can be a little stressful, but I love being busy. It makes life better.

We did get to go to the temple!!!!! That was awesome!!!!! I loved it!! Really needed it too. But now I want to go back again. Can't wait to be able to go all the time at home. 

Yep, this week. a little bit of everything. it was a little weird, but sometimes that happens.

Love you all tons!! Have a wonderful week!!! 

16 March 2016

FAMILY!!!!!!! JENIFER GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!! she's soooooooooo cute and she totally felt the spirit so strong. She said she felt free and so happy after she got baptized. ME ALEGRE MUCHO :):):):):):):):):):):):):):) She is soooooo cute. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm so happy for her!!!!!!! She now has the chance to live with God again, the only thing is she has to keep going forward. If we don't do that, we can't achieve eternal life. If you can imagine all of the happiness you've even felt in your entire life, times that by 1000, it still won't match up to how wonderful eternal life will be!!!! Nothing is more important than that!!!!!

Tono is so excited to get baptized. He has gotten his answer and everything and he went and saw a baptism and he knows it's what he has to do. He is a little nervous, but we are bringing over a lot of members, so they can support him and he can see that others have made the change. Really though. Member presents help sooooooo much. I mean 20 year old kids are great, but if you have someone who has been through a little more and who is a convert to the church, it will help you. He is so ready!!!!!! I can't wait!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH He is going to be such a strong member!!!!!!

The kids are gone this week for spring break, but soon they will be back and hopefully the mom will be a little more open. They just neeeeeeeeed to get baptized. The mom is impeding their salvation!!!!!!!!!!! It makes me so sad, but I know God is more powerful than anyone and He knows what's best, so I'm sure it will all work out :)

We have such a cute family!!! Oh my goodness. Raquel, Carlos, Karla, Allison, German, and the mom (I'm the worst, I can't remember her name.....) and they have all accepted dates. The kids have already gone to church and activities and they were sooooooooooooooooooo excited to accept being baptized!!!!! How phenomenal.!! The mom really wants her kids to be baptized too!!! And she wants to be baptized as well :) awesooooome!!!!!! They are progressing so much and they will be able to be so happy in their lives. Can't wait for that!! We have to teach them everything, but they are really excited for it all.

Then we are teaching an adorable girl, Yasmine. She's about 15 years old from Guatemala. So cute. She wants to teach us how to make typical Guatemalan food, so we're doing that this Friday. awesome!!! I'm excited!!! and it made her so happy when we said yes. She also is so close to the Spirit. She told us that she could tell and she had a dream that we were so full of the Spirit and that was so cool because you know we have the gift of the Holy Ghost and so that's why she could see it!!! Soon she will be able to know the truth for herself and get baptized!!!!!!!!! She's adorable though. Love her tons :)

We're teaching our neighbor Ana. She's so cute and her little girl loves listening to us. We're good friends with them, so it's cool that she invited us over to teach her and her family. 

Plus we are teaching English to a family from Rwanda and Congo and it is amazing!!! They are so cute!!!! We are going to go to their church and we are going to teach them!!!! They also speak French, so I've got to brush up on that :) They're so cute and they went to church last week!!! How legit!!!!!!

Wow, this week has been such a good week. Llena de milagros :) Also found a guy who spoke french, so I got to talk to him a little bit, but I was so not good at it anymore. I was speaking like Spanish and French all mixed because well for a year and for 5 months straight, I have been speaking pure spanish. I'm going to start practicing again though.

GOING TO THE TEMPLE TODAY!!!! IT:S BEEN SOOOOOO LONG!!!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):)

and there have been some AMAZING things that I have realized through study and all that jazz.

First of all, I have been studying prayer a lot and its' important, but mostly, how I can make my prayers more meaningful. So as I have been working on that, can I just tell you how much of a difference I've already felt???  It's incredible!!! One quote I love is that with prayer you are able to receive the highest blessings. Or something like that I can't remember it perfectly. But I now feel refreshed and enlightened after my prayers, and I am going to keep working on that everyday because I know that is something so important.

I love life. I love the mission. My companion is awesome. We are working hard all day everyday. Riding bikes all day too!!! So fun. I've definitely got to go on more missions after this one. Maybe like 5. I think that's reasonable :) hahaha but please keep reading and praying. If you want happiness, and if you want really anything good, FOLLOW GOD!!!!! Also you should watch this amazing video followhim.mormon.org or mormon.org/easter EASTER IS COMING!!!!! If you want to go back as well, Because He lives (my personal favorite ever) Remember that Christ lives and that we need to follow Him to live with Him and our families forever!!!!!! 

Love you all so much!!! Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you!!!!! I'm always here and praying for all of you :) Have a wonderful break!!!!!!!

7 March 2016

So guess what. I totally fixed the computer, so now I can send a better email! wooooooot. Who knew I would have to learn how to fix the computer. But I really didn't do anything. Anyway, that is so not important. 

So funny story. We were OYMing in an apartment complex when a guy came up and started talking to us. He didn't seem drunk or anything, so of course, we got into the whole, we're your missionaries and we teach about Christ, could we come over sometime to talk to you? and he seemed super awesome! So he got our number and then it got crazy. You know how I have the wonderful gift of sleeping through alarms??? Well apparently that works for phone calls too, but Hermana Hofheins always wakes up. So she wakes me up and says Hermana someone has been calling us every minute for 30 minutes. So she answered the phone. in her own words that she said in her email, "he was talking really weird, so as a good missionary does, I deferred to my companion" haha, it turned out to be the guy we OYMed and he was, well, not at full capacity, so I told him to go to bed, that the elders were coming by tomorrow, and that he needed to read the bible. and then Hermana Hofheins let him know that we are basically monjas (nuns) hahahah it was hilarious. 

Just thought y'all should know!! 

Hmmmm not much else is happening. People are awesome. We are working super hard. My brain is going crazy right now... I keep forgetting EVERYTHING!!!! I forgot the phone at an appointment and we accidentally got locked out of the office with all of our stuff inside. So today, we decided we are just going to be hermits and try to normalize our brains. A ver lo que pasa :) 

Yep. that's all I got. fun stuff.