Life in a Nutshell

Friends! Good news- A Savior is Born! Isn't this the most wonderful holiday to celebrate?! What a fun past week this has been with getting more excited with the Christmas Spirit and helping and seeing others grow in this Christmas Spirit! But with this has come more challenges and stresses too, but it's a gift to help us realize that we really need Christ's strength and come to know in a real sense how grand the gift of a Savior was to us. This morning in my personal study I was reading in the end Omni (verse 26) about how God asks of us our whole soul. It reminded me of a lesson from seminary of the meaning of soul- body and spirit (D&C 88:15). That's a lot that He asks from us, but then He did give us everything, it makes sense that he would ask for our everything back because He gave it to us! God is perfect and He perfectly wants us to have true joy, be able to return to live with Him and know exactly what we need to do to do that. He asks that we offer u...

Hola, Hola friends! This week has been a journey to say the least- a wonderful, delightful journey at least! I've been sick this past week and so I decided to be smart and sleep when I could so I wouldn't be sick for two weeks again! I'm feeling better enough to not have it effect my missionary work now and so that's great! But we've also come to realize some parts of our area that we shouldn't go to at all (at least at night or without a member). We got pulled over next to the freeway by May and 27th street after going to find a less-active member near there. We were trying to find which house was there and a cop had been watching us but since we had our bike rack on our car he couldn't see the license plate to look up our car (I guess we had seemed kind of suspicious). Then when we went up to the house when Hermana Gubler stopped because she didn't see any lights on so she thought we should go, I told her I could see lights. Then while I was proceed...

Friends! So transfer doctrine was last night and Hermana Gubler and I were totally thinking our area would be staying the same and then Elder Schwartz dropped the bomb on us. Someone was leaving... I definitely decided that we would boot Hermana Gubler off the island. haha but it's actually our car that is leaving. Round 2 with Hna. Gubler We are going to a car-share area! Holla holla! Haha I'm actually pretty excited to start biking more (I kind of need it)! But it's going to be harder to visit all 4 of our investigators! This past week we dropped almost all of our investigators. None of them were keeping commitments or progressing so we went on a dropping spree and it feels so good! We are going to be able to really teach those who are prepared to hear the gospel! Our few investigators are Marcela and Gabriela (they are the aunt's of one of the Elder's investigating families- Carlos and Adriana who just need to get married before they can be baptized which...

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! But now it's Christmas time!! Holla holla! The Christmas video #ASaviorIsBorn is now here! Check it out! It's amazing! (: The youth had already left for dinner, but this  is when we went to the temple for baptisms for the  dead and we got to do initiatories! One of our investigators, Alfredo, we found a couple of weeks ago tracting and we shared a Book of Mormon with him and he talked to his friend, Humberto, about it and they both came to church yesterday! It was super exciting and several of the members just came up and introduced themselves! It was just fantastic! I've been studying a lot from Jesus the Christ and trying to find ways that it applies to my life. I must say, I've been rebuked several times, but it's great! It helps me to know what I need to improve on! The hard part is just knowing what I need to do to improve. With patience and prayer though, answers come. So I totally had a Spanish dream la...