This week has been busy! We are planning a ward missionary activity for July 4th and are super excited! It’s going to be great! We have been inviting everyone so hopefully it will be a good turn out!

 I am sick of mangoes! I think me and my companion have been eating our weight in mangoes and I don't want to see another one again! Members and neighbors keep giving them to us! But one thing i could eat my weight in is street churros! I had my first real Mexican street churro and it was the best thing in the whole wide world! So yummy! Mom would die!

This week has been a cockroach week and I don't know how long I can take. They are in our bed, in our bathroom and my companion found one on her tooth brush. They are in the kitchen just everywhere and they are huge! We have like 20 different poisons for them and nothing works! Ugh!

Cockroaches watch out!!

This week was also busy but hard as well. I really learned what it means to forgive and forget about the natural man. Me and my companion are so alike, very hard headed and like to be in charge and my patience was definitely tested this week. I would hold grudges and finally I realized because of that the spirit wasn't in our lessons, i wasn’t happy and neither was my companion. I learned that it doesn't matter if she talks the whole time of if what she said made me mad all that matters is our investigators and their progression. I realized that I need to just let things go or talk to her about it. After that the rest of this week went awesome and our friendship grew so much! We are working better and we have received so many blessings because of that.

This week I prayed really hard for the gift of tongues to help my Spanish speaking and studied so hard. I also prayed for my mission leader, and this week heavenly father made sure I had opportunities to use my Spanish. We went on exchanges and I took over the area and I was with an English speaking sister and had to speak all the Spanish by myself and had to try and understand them. It was so scary but the Holy Ghost was with me and somehow I understood and remembered what I studied.

Studying hard!

I also bore my testimony on Sunday in Spanish and was so scared but oh what an amazing experience it was as the Spirit testified to me that what I was saying was true. During correlation it was my turn to tell our mission leader about our investigators and I was really scared about that but he was able to understand me and said I was improving. I was so relieved.  

This week and I came across this hymn and it’s called When Faith Endures and it says "I will not doubt, I will not fear, God’s love and strength are always near. His promised gifts help me find an inner strength and peace of mind. I give the Father willing my trust, my prayers and my humility. His spirit guides, His loves assures that fear departs when faith endures".

I realized that I needed to replace my fear with faith and as I put that to the test I have definitely seen the blessings that come from that. There are so many things in life that are scary but as we just turn that fear into faith our Heavenly Father will bless us so much and help us. We are never alone. He is always right there. And i know that with all my heart :)

Daisy is doing amazing! She is coming to church, keeping all the commitments and is growing and changing. Without us telling her, she went and bought modest clothes for church on Sunday! She is making so much changes and has such strong testimony! We are like best friends! She has a baptism date for the 13th and we are so excited!! Her family is amazing too! They feed us amazing Cuban food all the time and say that they want me to marry a Cuban so I don't have to leave Florida. They want me to stay forever! I love watching investigators change and gain a testimony. It’s something amazing and the best thing is hearing them pray. When your investigator prays for the first time it is the best experience ever the spirit is so strong! 

With an investigator named Celia and a member of the church.

  As with the new mission president, we get to meet him this Wednesday and we are excited. It’s so weird, a couple weeks ago before he came he was set apart by an apostle and its so weird but when he was set apart we missionaries could feel it. All of a sudden our thoughts and focus changed. We could feel the change then our president left. I don’t know how to explain it but it was so weird and amazing. We are all so excited for something new!!

Love,

Briaunna :))