I've Grown A Foot Or Two!

Dear Family!!

Transfers!! Sister Calvo is leaving and training again so I will be a big sister and I am staying and taking over the area with a new companion. I have a lot of mixed feelings but I know with this I will grow and learn even more! I will miss Sister Calvo but we will be forever friends! :)

We weren't able to go on the tour with Roni because the temple is closed on Sundays, so we will go another time. I hope I get to go through another session before I leave!! That would be amazing!! :) I miss the temple.

So this week was a long hard week. It seemed like it would never end. Maybe because we were excited for transfers but either way we had to climb some mountains this week.

A highlight though was Roni getting confirmed. He came to church in his nice white shirt and tie, and dress pants. He looked like a Mormon! His blessing was awesome and he said he felt the spirit so strong! In the past 3 weeks Roni has changed so much. When we first met him he was shy and didn't talk much but now he talks a lot and jokes around with us. It’s awesome and we love him so much. He is going to be a strong member in the church. He is already starting to prepare to get the priesthood.

Coldstone!! Thanks Mom and Dad!!

Sadly though this was the only highlight of the week. This week we had a hard time finding new people to teach and getting our investigators now to progress. Dyana wasn't able to come to church or to eat with us at a members house because her son was sick so we went over to her house and took her some food and cleaned her house and did the dishes for her. After, we played a bit with her son while she made dinner. It was so great to her help her. She really appreciated it. Service is the best and made us feel a lot better.

At Dyanna's house with her son. So cute

This week in my personal study I learned a lot about service is and what kind of people we need to be when we serve. I was reading in Doctrine and Covenants, section 4:2 and as I was reading I saw that there was a foot note for service of God. I went down to the foot note and it said “children of light.” I was a bit confused so I decided to look up a couple scriptures to help be better understand what children of light meant. In Matthew 5:16 I found my answer. When we are serving God and others we need to radiate a light of Christ. We need to let our light shine so others can be touched by it. We need to be children of light and serve with all out mind, might, and strength. It’s important to remember that even if we wear a badge or not we are representatives of Jesus Christ and we need to stand out and be different. Let your light shine first so others can shine too.

This week we also found a girl Elizabeth. She was a referral from the church. She has lived here for a year and before she lived in Nicaragua. She lived there with sister missionaries who were renting out a room from her. She has had all the lessons and is practically Mormon and keeps all the commandments. She is just scared to get baptized. We were so excited to get her ready for baptism this week but she is going out of town this week so we were kind of bummed but we know soon a miracle will happen and she will be baptized.

Our Cuban grandparents hahah They are Daisy's grandparents and we love them! They left to go back to Cuba on Monday and they wanted to take us with them. They want me to come visit them so I can marry a Cuban. Not going to happen but they are so sweet!

We also found this really sweet girl Ashley who has lived such a hard life. She was abused as a child and her husband now smokes a lot and doesn't do much while she works. She is so humble. She accepted a book of Mormon so we are crossing our fingers that we get to teach her this week.

This week was difficult, but through this I have become so much closer to my Heavenly

Father and Jesus Christ. Maybe that's what he wanted me to do through these trials. While reading during personal study today I couldn’t help but feel like, yes that is exactly what he wanted me to do. I was reading in Moroni 10:30-33 and these verses reminded me of my new favorite song “Come unto Christ”. Part in the song says "come unto Christ, come unto Him, and by his grace be made holy again. He is waiting for you with arms opened wide. Come unto Christ". I love my Savior and Heavenly Father so much. even though this week was full of ups and downs I have never felt my Heavenly Father’s love so strong. Thomas S Monson said, “Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty”. I know that miracles are coming because just like in Ether 12:6. We don't receive a witness until after the trial of our faith. I have a strong testimony that Heavenly Father is walking right beside us and carries us when we face challenges in our life just like my favorite poem, Footprints in the Sand. :)