Life in a Nutshell

The other sisters who came in with me in  front of the mission home. 6 out of 30 missionaries were sisters and only 2 of us 6 were hermanas. Hola Amigos! Que pasa? Wow! I feel like each week is getting better and better! But this past week was the best so far! Exchanges with Hermana Beltetone were so fantastic- learning from her teaching style was very helpful and being able to talk with her and see yet another missionaries perspective was so incredibly helpful!  A big part of why I think this past week was so great was I've finally figured out why I'm really on a mission. Well, at least my goal for my mission. I wrote down a quote from my one of my Missionary Training Center teachers that says "Missionary work is for anyone but you.". I've been thinking about this quote a lot as well as the scripture that's found in Matthew, I believe, that says something along the lines of "whoever shall looseth himself for my sake shall find, but whoever keepeth ...

This week has gone well, Hna. Pine and I have been trying to find more people to teach and have had a little success. We are continuing to teach Lois, a recent convert, and Karen, her daughter and a less active. We had a wonderful lesson last week with them and Karen expressed her desire to obtain a temple recommend. She's on the right track to begin working for a temple recommend and Lois is a very strong woman in her faith in Jesus Christ and is a good example to her. A little about Karen- she is amazing! During this last week, she mentioned that she had flat out quit drinking tea! She said she replaced it with Kool-Aid and we were so excited for her! She is also reading For the Strength of Youth on her phone (which I have no idea where she got the idea to read it- inspiration I would assume) and was like "you mean I have to wear sleeves? Are you kidding me? I don't have anything with sleeves!" Although she was a bit irritated, before going out to a lesson with us,...

Mi districto! Ellos mi favorito! 1st ​Temple trip with mis companeras! Temple trip #2 from last p-day My mallows from my "lucky charms". It's the best part of my  breakfasts  when I can't have cracked wheat Hermanas from District 49A with district 49D or C or something  else. Elder Taylor Monnet is the second  on the  left and he was in my seminary class and I was  friends  with his older sister Nikki! Super fantastic Elder!  Elder Piscone, Monnet, Knutty, Weight, us, Brundage,  Christensen, Philips, Davis, Grondel, and Johnson Awkward palm trees and my awkward  upside down turtle The Sisters in our District Hello everybody! Wow, every week has it's ups and downs and this week was just the same! BUT I'm so grateful for all of it! Every last second! I woke up one day and my first thought was- can I just not do the mission thing today? It wasn't for any particular reason, but that ende...