Best Family Ever- March in the mission!

 Monday, March 11, 2024 4:14 pm

As I have been taken out of the Cedar City bubble, I have gained much appreciation for all of you and the beautiful life we live! Thanks you for being you! I couldn't have asked for a better family! You all are amazing! Though we all face our challenges I know we are blessed because we have the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives! I love you all! Good luck with all that you have going on! 

March 18, 2024

 Only been here for one week and have grown to love the people so much! Especially our ward! Half the time I don't know what they are saying , but I love giving all the sisters hugs!

- Met Gustavo and Marce! They are a mom and a son! They are super interested in the gospel! I taught Gustavo to say a prayer and told him that if he said a prayer in our lesson that I would play 1v1 basketball with Him...so obviously he said the prayer!

-Taught an English class! Invited our friend Karen in the class to come to church and she came!! 

-Played soccer with the youth in our ward! I love kids so much so honestly the best day ever 

-Going to explore some new areas in our zone this week! Praying that the lord will lead us to where we need to go!

2 Nephi 10: 23-24

23 Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves—to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life. 24 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved.

Life is full of choices! Choose to follow the way of eternal life! Becuase when you do you experience many miracles!!!

Love you all! Have a great week!

March 25, 2024

-went on exchanges with the STLs. SUPER FIRE

-found Erik! He was in the park and that morning he was praying for missionaries to come fine him! 

-played soccer with a bunch of middle aged Latinos! The funnest and scariest thing to ever happen 

Missions are challenging, but I kown my savior lives and he loves each one of his children! I'm grateful for the chance I have to serve Him and His children and help bring more souls unto christ! As Easter approaches I am so grateful for the atonement of jesus christ, and how it brings me strength each and everyday!

Love you all!

Read this talk!

The Prodigal and the Road That Leads Home By Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Taught two lessons tonight and made a new friend! Super exciting! We are trying to hit our goals this week, so we got to work a little harder to achieve them! We taught a old couple tonight and they are honestly the cutest! You can just tell they love each other. And then we taught Gustavo and Marce, we are hoping they will keep progressing. Gustavo is a lot more exctited about the gospel than marce is, so hopefully we can change that! 

3/26/24

Today was good. Woke up and did a pretty good workout. Although when I use my jumprope I whip myself sometimes, it is so painful. Me and my companion during companion study were talking and I was telling her how I dont know if I should be her or not. And she told me not to think about what anyone would think or say to me, and to understand and pray to know what god wants me to do. So during personal study I was reading in 3 Nephi 18. And in one scripture it said “I give unto you another comandment and then I must go unto my father that I may fulfil other commandments which he hath given me.” So yeah that stuck out to me, but I am still strying to figure out God’s plan for me. And later in the chapter it says “behold I know my sheep, and they are numbered” and then I knew that I have to help gather his sheep becuase He knows and loves each and everyone of them. And then I was reading a talk by elder uctdorf and he said, “do not deviate from the course of the lord” and to have “self dicipline to stay on this path.” In my patriarchal blessing it says if I make the choice to serve I will bless many people. I think god knows I don’t like being told what to do. 

Also today we met with our friend christian and he is SO EXCITED to be baptized! We did lots of home to home contacting today and didn’t have a whole lot of success. But we did get invited to a different church today, so that was crazy hahaa!! And then we went to a memebers house tonight and she was telling a crazy story but I didn’t understand a lick of it! But that is alright! I am focusing on what I can do and not what I can’t. 

3/28/24

Today we had a zone conference! It was so good we focused a lot on the savior and Easter. We then went to a cemetary and some super cool paintings that were so big! Like 4 school buses tall and 5 school buses long! And It was all about the savior and the day he was resurected. Today was also super painful and hard. I am so confused on what I want to do. Becuase I know I felt a mission was right for me before, but now I am not so sure because I don’t know how I thought I could stay away from my family for this long. My heart literally hurts and I just want to be home. I have tried so many things to not be homesick but this week has been hell. My companion loves to be obedient, and I like to be obedient too but there have been a couple things that I have just slipped up on and I can tell she tries to do it out of love, but it just makes me feel like an awful person. And all the things mom sent me that I should consider I have considered them. How would this choice effect my life now and in the future? I do not know. I know that christ won’t with hold blessings from me becuase I didn’t succeed on my mission. And I am aware that so many people are going to say things. So I guess the only thing keeping me here right now is the regret that I might feel when I am home? Do i serve a service mission? Do I go serve in the st george visitor center? I am not sure what to do. I have counceled with the spirit with both options and either choice doesn’t seem right or wrong. But I also I have thought about what kind of damage it might due to me on the inside if I do come home? Becuase I know I will have considered myself a failure. But I also know that if it isn’t healthy for me to be out here, then it might just be best if I go home. Because I have literally just thought about getting on a bus and getting home myself, or just driving home. I seriously do not know what to do.

3/31/2024

I have not felt like writing much the last few days. It has been so hard. Many many tears have been shed. Zone confrence was amazing! The spirit was so strong and it was so unique because we went to the beautiful cemetary and say this HUGE paining of the day christ was on the cross! After we walked to a garden in the cemetary where there was a christ statue. It was so pretty!! It was so quiet all you could to do was hear the water running which represented the living water of christ. We have been meeting with our friends and some are progressing better than others. We made some new friends last week Donatila and Rirgo, they are a cute old couple and she has cancer. Breaks my heart, she goes in for more chemo treatments next week. It was super cool becuase we had the elders come and giver her a blessing and she was just crying, becuase she was so terrified, but she could feel the peace of the savior. It was also super awesome to see the hamiltons! They were so niche to take us four hermanas out to lunch. It was reallly good to just hug sister hamilton, I cried a little bit to her as well. Yesterday I met with president jones. And can I just say he is so amazing and loving. It was super cool cause we started our conversation about him telling me all the stories of him and His sons doing super hard things before they went on their missions: like 180 mile bike ride, a iron man, or a marathon. And I could just tell that all those things were leading our conversation to where they needed to go. And then I told him a little more about myself, and how I love running. Then we continued to go on the path of how I don’t quit even when it hurts so bad, and how I just need to take it one day at a time. Then our conversation led to trust and how I really just have to trust that god’s will is greater than mine, even if it is so very painful in the moment. We met for like 1.5 hours, it was so good!

 Our friend Christian is doing amazing! He said he wants to go visist the temple! So hopefully we will be able to do that with him! And our friend Elia, she has a really hard life, just crazy. So we are trying to bring some light into and give her some peace and guidance!

 Today is easter. It pains me to not be home, but I can get through today, because I am strong. And I know he has a plan for me. And I am LEARNING to trust in his will over mine, it’s hard but I can do it!

3/31/2024

Today was good. Except for the fact that I cried all of sacrement becuase u just don't want to be here. Before Church we went to stop by our friends house to make sure He was going go come to church! And when we turned down the street he was in his electric wheelchair on his way to church. He forgot how to get there so he followed us in the car. We were going a solid 3 mph  and then after church with handed out all the suckers to all the kids for Easter! They were so happy. The bishops family lives in Utah. So it was nice to see people who know a little bit about where I am from. And then later today we taught a total of 7 lessons! It was absolutely insane. I loved ever minute of it. And quite a few people spoke English so it was nice to participate a little more! Met lots of people with potential today. Hopefully We can meet with them again!