Back in Bell One

5/27/24 Pdayyyy!! It was a hot one today and I got sunburnt. The son finally came out after like 2 weeks! I made snacks for the zone too! Everyone called me the soccer mom hahaha. After the chat with mom and dad I feel better, and I am ready to take on a new race. Had some cool lessons tonight! Phone call lesson with this dude Jose, then we had lessons with these two random chick's at the park. They were funny and they didn't want to talk. Then we went to go look for this one lady and we were sent an angle to point us in the right direction. She knew exactly where she was. Then we had a lesson with our friend Maria and her four Kids! The spirit was so strong and I could just imagine Jesus christ standing in the room with us! 

 5-28/2024 Today was interesting but ended so so good. Started the day out with a doc appointment to refill my drugs that was fun. Then had zone and district council. This district I have been in is definitely where I needed to be. I have learned and grown so much in the last 5 weeks, and I am so grateful for each of them. We had a lesson with our friend Luben…just barely met him this sunday at church, but we put him on date to be baptized. June 15th lets goooo!! We had a cool member meal the elders gave her a blessing, and the spirit was so strong. Then a super dope member took us out for ice cream after at this place called Fosslemans in alhambra! You have to look it up, it is so cute! I need to take you both there! We had a super good testimony meeting with the zone tonight. And when it first started I was so anxious and just genuinley scared, but as I took a few breaths and tapped my knees and prayed that the spirit would be with me the spirit filled my whole body. Tonight was one of the first moments that I truly thought that I am a daughter of god. It was also the first time I have really internalized that change is possible with the atonement of jesus christ (still learning what this means). A lot was also said about forgetting yourself and serving others which I thought was interesting because it went right along the lines whith what we talked about on monday. I also just felt the strong impression that this is where I need to be, and the trials I have faced are for my growth to love the mission more. And it is going to take time to keep adjusting but I can do it. I have thought a lot about today about this one workout Kirk made us do. It was 10 miles total with 1.5 mile repeats and we had to do it under a certain amount of time each rep. And I was the only girl that finished it. And even though it was hard the only reason I finshed is becuase I believed in myself and my capabilities. Coach even asked me later that season how I did it and had me share with the other girls. Same thing applies here. Im scared for transfors, but its going to be ok whatevver happens 5/30/2024 Well today started out with tears already at 7:15 when president called amd reassigned hermana marble to stl and told me I was going back to Bel 1. That was tough. Luckily I got to talk to Jen 3 hours later. I cried to her some more and she told me I was an emotional girly but that it was ok. Me and Hermana Smith will now be companions. She and I came in at the same time. So two greengas in a jam pack area with only spanish. So that should be exciting. Slight terrified. Ok more than slightly. I am so sad to leave el Molino. I had to say goodbye to a member Amy who I helped reactivate. That was hard. I got her email so I can email her. I also had to say good bye to a recent convert family. I bawled my eyes out saying goodbye to them. It was rough. I'm scared for bell 1 again but it is ok to do things scared. It's a new race and I'm gonna be pushed out of my comfort zone and that is ok. I'm gonna grow a lot. With the saviors help I can do all things. I'm excited to be with Hermana Smith! She is one of my besties amd is one of the people who have kept me here. Plus, she will run with me hahaha! Hermana marble has helped me so much today. we got 7/11 mtn dew slurpees tonight too. please pray for me 🙏🙏

 5/31/2024 Well today was absolutely crazy. TRANSFER DAY! Currently sitting back in the Hendricks pad with Hermana Smith this time. I am so excited to be with her. Today was absolutely terrifying. Something I learned from a talk I read this week was that the lord has to be the first place you go tO get help from. I found that to be so true. I know live with Hermana G and marble too at first, they were gonna have me and Hermana Smith stay in the same room me and Hermana pacheco were in, but I asked her if we could switch and she said “sorry no” this girl does in fact have beef with me but that's OK. Me and hermana Smith had so much fun today but we were also super stressed jahah. We are taking it one day at a time. There are 2 people on date to baptized in this area and we have a whole lot of friends we need to go through…yikes. It will be fun. Lots of good stories to tell 🤓

 6/1/2024 JUNE?! WHAT?! I can't believe it is already June!! May went by so fast! Today was cool! Slightly terrifying. Something hermana marble told me today is that if we weren't scared we wouldn't have to have faith. I thought that was so true. I need to working on having more faith so I think this is the beat way for me to do so. Hermana smith is awesome! She works hard (+works out). So so kind! We got through the spanish today! Everyone today was like “you know spanish?!” it was hilarious. We found a good tamale spot recommended to us by Jen! Got 4 tamales, 2 drinks, and cookies for 14 dollars! It was so good! Taught a lot of lessons today and we are trying to clean up the area book so that is good hahah. Someone growled at us today and that is the first scary experience I had here in bell 1. But yeah it was an awesome day. Definitely getting pushed with my spanish, bit I think that is the only way I will learn hahah! 

 6/2/2024 Well today was funnnn hahaha. Me and Hermana smith are just loving this and trying to see that this is adventure. We had ward huddle today and it went pretty well. Church was good we had a friend Maria come to church today she is cool. We asked her to pray about being baptized. We had a member meal with the Perez family. She made us really good sandwiches and fruit. And then the hermano showed us his business. It was super cool. I asked him all the business questions. You would be proud of me dad hahaha. Talked to a recent convert today and he gave us cookies and he said he would take us out to eat sometime this week! Hooray! Tomorrow me and Hermana Smith are going to buy some stuff for our apartment to make it less gross and feel more homey hahah.