2ND TRANSFER!!

 HOWDY YALLL!!!! I'm in my 2nd transfer!!!! These past two months have flown by!!! Mission time is actually nuts i don't think i'll ever get used to it lol! Any who, sorry my emails are like essays but lots happens in a week! Plus its easier for me to type a fat essay than try to summarize so enjoy lol! 

Monday: PDAYYYY! We played swipe for hours! The Moffatts ( our senior couple) destroy us every time lol! Then a member in the YSA took our district bowling! It was wayy fun!! I'm absolutely trash at bowling but it was a party! Then we had FHE and we played a huge game of volleyball! Ya'll know I love volleyball so that was a blast! 

Tuesday: We got organized with the list of some of the people we are teaching!  but it actually payed off cuz a member took us out to dinner and one of the workers there was an inactive that we had just made plans to try to get in touch w/  from our list and he wants to start coming to stuff now! 

Wednesday: we had district council! It was wayyy good!! We did a silent lesson about the Holy Ghost and is was sooo powerful! I swear like all the questions I had were answered in that lesson! When we take the time to listen and be still amazing things happen! After this lesson I really tried to start listening to the Spirit and tried to find out how I get promptings and stuff! We let ourselves be lead by the Spirit 100%! And we saw so many miracles! That morning I had felt like we should go to the park, so we went to the park but it didn't feel right so we prayed and I like could immediately picture the food pantry we volunteer at. I was like that's wayy weird cause it's closed but it's also like right next to a guy we're trying to meet with! So we went to the crisis center & then knocked this guys door. And HE ANSWERED!! That may not seem like a big deal but we've been trying to meet with this man for the whole time I've been here and he's bailed every time lol! We talked for a while and we're probs gonna start doing Book of Mormon reads with him each week! He also made us horchata and it was bomb! 

Thursday:

We contacted some in active members then we had YSA that night and that was a blast! We have the best group of people ever! I love them all w/ my whole heart! One of the people who we are teaching told us they can't meet with us anymore and that absolutely destroyed me tbh! I think my heart actually shattered when we got the text from her. So that was a Lil rough but it just reminded me about why I'm here and why I'm doing this everyday. It's because the gospel has without a doubt changed my life. It's brought me more joy than anything has or ever will. The thought of others not having that breaks my heart. Seeing how happy it makes people when they learn they have a loving Heavenly Father and a Savior, that death is not the end brings me so much joy. It makes it all worth it no matter how hard it may be. 

Friday:

We did campus! It was kinda dead but we talked to this guy and gave him a Book of Mormon. We got his number and stuff and he's been reading it! We also came to the sad realization that a lot of the people were teaching have either ghosted us or recently joined a different church, so that kinda stinks but hey it will just add to their conversion story! So know we're on the finding grind which is extremely difficult with ysa since people will drop you so fast lol! But we're just trying to stay out of the apartment! So if any of you have any finding tips let me know haha! We had game night and that was sooooo fun! We played one of the most intense games of Secret Hitler I've ever played lol! Then we played murder in the dark in the church w/ 0 lights on and I think my soul left my body multiple times cause people would scare us so bad lol! 

Saturday: we went to contact less actives. None of them were home but there parents were so we talked to a few of them. One of them really needed a visit so that was cool to see! You could tell she was struggling and you could see the worry start the melt away after we meet with her. God really does know what He's doing! Then we had stake conference. It was amazing!!!! Elder Stanfield from the seventy came and spoke and the spirit was so strong! He talked a lot about charity and getting rid of contention. He took the time to answer questions, after every talk he got up and would ask people what they felt. It made me realize how often I might shrug off the spirit as just a thought or a feeling that came from me but that's not the case. Those thoughts and feelings are from God and its important that we recognize them! 

Sunday: 

Was so good! We had stake conference pt 2 and it was soo powerful! We talked about spiritual momentum and ministering to the one! 2 of our friends came so that was wayy cool!! The weather here is soooo nice in the fall too! We had dinner with a member and we did a picnic and it was so fun!!

Challenge: GENERAL CONFERENCE IS THIS WEEKEND!!!!! Prepare yourself by picking one thing you want to stop doing and one thing you want to start doing to prepare for general conference! Write down questions you have or things you need guidance on. Be very prayerful and write down the answers you receive! 

no guess who they are big fans of around here... LOL