Yes, I know who your uncle Bob is. I'll definitely keep Aunt Jo and the family in my prayers. I hope you're okay. I don't really know how close you were to him, but I remember he was a good man.
You can just upload the pictures onto Walmart or something. Or print them up and put them in my scrapbook. I don't need them back. Just send back the SD card. Okay, so the first picture you sent me in front of the temple... the five of us in the middle there, that's me, Hermana Hopkins with the glasses, Hermana Montgomery with the dark hair and green dress, Hermana Webb, and Hermana Pond in the middle. Hermana Furtstenau is peaking over from the back. You should be able to recognize her. The other girls were in our zone, but a different district. When they first got there, our district was the oldest in the zone and they were the newest, so we saw them a lot and took lots of pictures together.
The second picture is Hermana Gurecki/Ricarda/consuela and I. That was our last class with her!
3rd picture is of my district, minus Elder Miller. Left to right: Elder Wride, Graf, Fivas, Ware, Hermana Furstenau, Webb, me, Pond, Montgomery, and Elder Jensen and Hermana Hopkins in the front.
So a few crazy cool things happened this past week.. First of all, THOMAS IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON MAY 25TH!!! Haha, so we recently started teaching a man named Thomas. He has only been in the US for about 7 months, but before we started meeting with him, he ran into 2 other sets of missionaries. He was actually a referral from a companionship of English elders. So just this past week we taught him the Plan of Salvation. Afterwards I extended the baptism commitment and he agreed. The lesson went super amazing and Hermana Franco cried during one of her testimonies. No big deal, but she said she never cried in a lesson before and she's been out for 14 months! It was super cool and he said something so amazing. He told us, "I believed this before I knew it" meaning the things we have been teaching him. He is so awesome! He keeps all of his commitments and loves everything and feels the spirit so strong, even when we think we're doing a bad job. The spirit communicates through us and he doesn't even seem to notice any mistakes we might make with the language or anything. We meet with him usually on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and he reads what we ask him to overnight. He doesn't have a car either, so he's super committed! Over here they have a little thing called "night church" because a lot of Hispanics have to work on Sundays. There is a lot of controversy about it and I personally don't think it's the most legit, as it allows for excuses to be made, but anyway... Thomas went with us yesterday. We were scared because the lady who gave the talk said some pretty crazy stuff about the temple, but afterwards, he said he felt so good and loved it all. He talked to the woman afterwards and told me that he was getting baptized May 25th, which is super rare! he was telling everyone about his baptism! We are definitely going to talk to him about the importance of attending CHURCH church, though because he can't really progress at night church and he needs to try and get Sundays off. So that's what's up with Thomas.
Also, like I said last week, Fremont was cancelled. We were so bummed and almost had a melt down because it was the shortest P-day in the history of missionary work and we did not want to get up and get back to work so soon. (I know, terrible) Anyway, even the few backups we had were cancelled, and so we didn't know where we were going to go and we were still a little gloomy about the whole Fremont thing. However, a miracle ended up occurring that night. We got a phone call from Hillary Valadez (the family we've been working with a lot to get to the temple and get Jose baptized) and she was in tears and asked us to come over. We were just heading out, not really knowing where we were going, so it was perfect timing. We turned around and we said a prayer in the car on the way there so that we would know what to say and that everyone was safe. We didn't know what to expect. We got there and Hillary (15 years old) came right to the door in tears and gave us big hugs. Luckily no one was hurt, but someone had hacked into her Facebook and posted really vulgar things. She was very upset and we went upstairs and talked to her and her siblings for a while. She was devastated and really opened up to us about pretty much everything. I think her reaction over the Facebook thing was rooted in something more serious. She even told us that she had called a few other people and we were the only ones there for her. Her and her sister said they never felt this close to missionaries and even called us angels. We said some really powerful spiritual thoughts about repentance and I shared with her the quote, "When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future." They loved it and I know that we were meant to be there that night. What's even more crazy is that the day before we had made goals to be more specific in our prayers, and so before we went out on Monday, we prayed that we would be led to those who were most in need of us and our message that day. That was a miracle.
We had our sister luncheon the other day and they announced a few changes that would be taking place worldwide as a result of all these sisters coming out. They are starting a new leadership position for sisters called "Sister Leadership Trainer". They're going to be working with zone leaders and oversee sister exchanges (which is another change!) but I'm not sure exactly what they do yet as it is just starting with this new transfer, which is tomorrow. Sister Franco and I are staying together right here, and she is going to be a SLT! They said they are eventually going to do them by companionship like zone leaders, but I guess not yet. I'm still "Junior companion" according to my transfer papers. There are two other SLTs, too, but they're both going to be companions as well, so I guess I can pretend I'm one myself. Haha. Yeah, so anyway, since we have way more sisters coming in than we can handle, sisters are going to be going on exchanges as much as elders. It's so weird to be at the very beginning of all of these monumental changes.
We also did a mini mission thing with the Paradise stake's Youth Conference. The youth actually got to go out on splits with us. Hermana Franco and I had two girls with us, so we went on splits and each took one. I got to drive the car! no accidents! It was a pretty cool experience. Especially since I've been feeling pretty inadequate lately. For two hours I felt like I could actually be a leader and talk to everyone.
Anyway, What is new with you? I never got a letter.. :( Aunt Amy sent me a package! It had a whole bunch of yellow stuff in it and cute little pictures and letters from my little cousins. It was so awesome! I'm going to write her and say thank you! Well, I hope everything is well with you. I love you!
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I'm really worried about my Spanish! Tell dad to give me advice on how to learn! I'm sad I never got a package. :(
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