Hey Family!!!

Let me tell you about how I found out about the Super Bowl. On Monday, Sister Torralba had a doctor’s appointment. She is in her appointment and I am just sitting outside waiting, just chilling. Then all of a sudden, the assistant to the doctor comes out and calls me by first name. So weird. She says the doctor wanted me to tell me something.  While she is saying this, I am thinking, oh know something is wrong. The doctor said the Seahawks lost! I was like what?!?!? I probably said it a little louder than I should. I asked by how much and he said by 3 points. I was so sad. Sister Torralba said that the doctor gave her play by play of the Super Bowl and she said my companion is from Seattle. So he had the assistant come out and tell me. I was sad but it’s okay they only lost because I wasn't home. Next year they will win!

Go Seahawks!

So transfer call update!...... I am staying!! Me and Sister Torralba are staying together another one! Yay! I am so excited itIs so nice not having to pack! It will be the first time since I was done being trained! So excited to continue to help our ward and the people here.

This week we saw so many miracles. We had an exchange with our STL. It was so much fun. We had a cool experience. We were praying for a place to knock and after the prayer all three of us had a different prompting to go to three separate places. Usually when that happens we pray again until we agree on one place, but we felt we needed to knock in all 3 places. So we did.  We taught some pretty powerful lessons and found a lady who had been taught by missionaries before and has gone to church and is still reading the Book of Mormon. Her name is Alejandra and we have been working with her this week. She has some questions because she used to be Catholic. She had questions concerning Mary. She is super awesome and we are excited to continue to teach her. She even lives with members.

We have also been working with Claudia this week as well! Her testimony is growing so much! She is so amazing. She hasn't come to church yet but she will. She has been reading and summarizes everything she has learned which is awesome. It is so amazing to see them change and grow and see the happiness they have has they read. She definitely has more light in her eyes.

Cool picture of Book of Mormon I took

As for Nuvea and Teo, we haven't been able to see them in a while which has been sad. We are going to see them tonight and see if they have been keeping commitments. If not we will probably drop them, which will be super sad! But we know we have planted seeds and we have done all we can do. Sometimes agency is hard. I wish we could just take it away sometimes but its all part of Gods plan for us.

Our relationship with our members has increased so much! We are finally starting to build trust and good relationships with them. We had a cool experience a couple days ago. We were praying about what member we need to go see and visit and we had a feeling we needed to go see a certain member. We went and it turn out this member has a less active son. Right before we went to see her, her and her son were talking about how he wanted to go back to church. When he saw us pull up he said, “mom did you really call the missionaries?”  She said, “No i didn't.” She was in tears because it was an answer to her prayers. We got to teach the son and he is super cool!! It was a great miracle.

Me and Sister Torralba have been fighting a head cold all week and Saturday night we didn't get any sleep. When the alarm went off, we decided to set it for a little later and try and get some sleep, but I couldn't sleep. So I woke her up and said, “Sister, I know if we get up now and do our studies that we will see miracles and that's just what happened. The next day on Sunday, a less active named America, that we have been working with finally came to church!! She hadn't been in over a year and she just showed up! As well as another less active! It was like having investigators at sacrament. It was such a miracle. It just shows that when you put your trust in god you will receive blessings. :)

  

This week as well I got a letter that was from a BYU devotional. I encourage you to look it up, it’s so good. It’s called Real Intent. I learned how important it is that we don't go through the motions. I was reading in Ether 1:34-39 about the brother of Jared, how he prayed to the Lord constantly. It is only six verses, but over these six verses it could have been years that he had been praying. It said that he cried unto the Lord. He prayed with real intent. He did it because he was driven by the love he had for God. Because he was so faithful, he was able to see the Lord. The same needs to be for us as well. We could do things because we love God not because we love man. Super good talk. Please read!  

My commitment to you all is when you say your personal prayers at night, to pray at least for 10 min and really council with the Lord. I know you will really feel the love that he has for you and you will receive so many blessings!!  Thanks so much for all that you do! I love you so much!!!! :) I hope you have a good week!!!

Hermana Heacock