Family!!

Physical Therapy has been going good. Its helping. My last one is on the 23rd. It has been helping with the inflammation and pain.

​Elders tagging our car with a "I love One Direction" balloon. Silly elders haha

So this week we dropped Lisa and Angel the Jamaican family. They are great but just not quite ready yet. They just got really contentious and when we would teach them the spirit wasn't there. So we had to drop them. :( But I know that soon they will be ready to continue moving forward. They just need time.

1 Year Mark

We haven't been able to see Rachel, but tomorrow we will. She was dog sitting last week but we called her every day and she is reading a chapter a day in the Book of Mormon and loves it! She is amazing. We love her to death! We will continue to teach her this week :) Super excited!!

Went to the Temple with Rachel!!

This week we had interviews with mission president. I love interviews with him. So amazing. This one was super spiritual. We always have to go in with a question to ask him and my question this time was "How did you learn to trust God and what were some of the experiences you had that helped strengthen that trust?" He told me an amazing story. When president was young, his mom passed away when he was 7. A year later his dad re married and president and his step mom did not get along. So every summer he went to Canada to be with his step moms mom and dad. He loved them so much and they loved them. He spent a lot of time with his grandma and he would brush her hair for a quarter an hour and they would just talk as he brushed her hair. Well later on her spine started literally crumbling. When he was on his mission she wrote to him and said I can’t wait till you get back because I want you to give me a priesthood blessing because I know you can heal me. So after his mission he went to go see her in the hospital and he gave her that blessing. When the doctors took an x ray a couple days after he gave the blessing, there was bone where there wasn't before. Her spine had rebuilt itself. He said that his grandmother had faith. Lots of it. He said that's the key to trusting in Heavenly Father is faith. It was super good. I love learning from him! :)

Closest to sand we can go!

This week we have been working a lot with less actives and one of those families is the Whites. They are Vietnamese. Brother White, who is the member, is adopted and grew up here in the states. He is amazing and his adoption story is amazing. Anyways, he has a little girl who is 4 and we love her and his wife is awesome as well but catholic. They have us over every week and feed us amazing food! This week it was that soup I sent a pic of (Pho). He took us out to eat at a Chinese place and it was like really authentic Chinese food! I had whole baby squid, chicken feet, and surprise soup! haha Half the stuff I ate I didn't even know what going in my mouth. We also had shrimp in this rice thing and for desert, which was the best, was this white bun thing. It was like a roll that had a crème in the middle. It was a crazy experience but so much fun! And yesterday he came to church with his daughter for the first time in a long time and loved it! He really wants to go to the temple and get sealed as a family! We love them.

First time eating Pho at the White's home.

The other family is the Espinosa family who we love we are going to see them tonight so cool!! They are the best!

  

This week we found and are teaching Mike and Emma. They are from Trinidad. They have had contact with the church before. They love to can so they have been to the cannery. We taught them the restoration and it went really well! Mike was super interested and loved it and Emma was really quiet. She didn't say much but it seemed like she liked it. We gave them a Book of Mormon and they are going to church next week. They also have a daughter Abby who is 13. We haven't met her yet though. We are seeing them tonight and super excited about it!! We don't have a lot of people to teach so we are happy.

Yesterday we were visiting with a member and his son and his son isn't a member but he is practically a dry Mormon. He asked us a question. He asked "When Jesus comes and calls us, will you be able to recognize his voice?" That made me think? Will I be able to recognize His voice? It made me think of Mary when she was at the tomb and she was crying and Jesus called her and she knew it was the voice of her Savior. So I decided to get to know my Savior better. I made it a point to read the New Testament every day and study more about the atonement. It’s something really cool to think about.

​Got locked out of our house, so we ate Wendy's and chilled in the mothers lounge at church building for our dinner hour....

I was reading in Mormon 8:25 and it was talking about all the things the prophets went through for the church and it made me think of the previous dispensations. The prophets of old were able to go through failure, torture, and torment because they knew they were laying the ground work for us. They would be a part of the success we would have in this dispensation. That’s probably what gave them hope and helped them endure knowing that they needed to do this for us because they knew we would have success but we needed the foundation they set. It’s crazy all the sacrifices people have made leading up to this point for the church. Because of their faith and trust, they knew this church was true and they would do anything to make sure it was spread through all four corners of the earth. I love this gospel sooo much!! It has changed my life so much. It is true!! I have never hungered so much to read the scriptures. :) I am so grateful for all the prophets who gave their lives so we can have the Book of Mormon :)

 

Planning and studying in our princess room

Thanks so much for all the scriptures dad!!! I love them, thanks for all that you do!! I love you all so much! Hope you all have a great week!! :) Miss you!

Briaunna