I'll Be Gone in Obregon

Hi All! I don't have tons of time to write today, sorry, but I want to share with you some miracles that happened this week.  As we were returning form a lesson with the familia Valenzuela, we heard someone yell, "hey. how do I get to church? I want to go!" We truned around a saw a young man behind us who knew Hermano Jesus and wanted to continue to progress in his journey to become a completely new person after leaving behind drugs about a year ago. His name is Luis and he is an absolute joy to teach and he's curently on track to washing away all his sins in the waters of baptism.  This Sunday, we were glad to see that several of the less active member who were have been workign with came to church and were able to renew their covenants, but we were slightly sad because we had been expecting more people. Feeling a little bit das, but tryign to let it get us down, we headed to gospel principles for the second hour of church, and in the middle of the class, o...

Hi Everyone! Thank you for all the birthday wishes! I honestly can't believe I'm twenty. Its so weird to think about and I feel slightly old... But yeah, I'm twenty everyone. I spent my birthday well I promise. With only a few days before they despsited the mensualidad, our companionship was broke, but my companion surprised m with a birthdday mango instead of a cake and then made me pancakes. They surprised me with cake and a few presents in the comida and then later at night, one of the sweet sisters in the ward invited us to helados, which are more or less popsicles, as we were passing by on our bikes, and as we conversed, it slipped out that it was my birthday and hermana Emma snapped into mothering mode. She fed us dinner and brought out a few pan dulces that we put a candle in and told us all about how her son, who is serving a mission right now, is doing. It was honestly a really good day.  Today for district activity, there are actually three of us ...

Hey All!  Some of you have asked how is my comanion, the culture, and the food here and I haven't really answered those, so here goes.  My comanion is awesome. I will send you one of the only photos I have of just us but its little goofy whcih is proabbly pretty accurate becasue she's super bubbly and funny. She's honestly super awesome.  The culture her in Huatabampo is uh, Mexican. Lol. No, I mean it's obviously a pueblo in Mexico so there's that, but it's quiet here. People say its a big city and its a biggish coty for our mission, but it has a small twon feel. MOSlty because the people born here, stay here, which is cool but a little sad becuse they can't get a good education here, and school here isn't really free, so three are a lot of pople who don't finsh high school, and a lot of adults who don't know how to read. Also a lot of the poorer kids here get to be about 10 or 11 and sometimes still don't know how to rea...

This week we started off the transfer with several kind of funny stories and some pretty awesoem miracles.  On Monday, we got the bikes fixed and "lubed" if you will and then we went to go write. When we left the Cyber, Hermana Gonzales' bike was comletely flat and the wheel punctured and so we ent back tot bike shop, but they were closed and so we thought, buneo, we'll go to our appointment and then we'll get them fixed tomorrow in the morning and so we walked witht the bikes to the appointment and everythign was fine. We left the appointment and my bike tire was flat too and the wheel was wrecked! So we had to go back to the bike guy about four times iin two days and I reallythink the Lord wanted us to contact him because he has a lot of questions about the second coming and we had a pretty neat conversionwith the him while he as tryign to figure out what to do with my bike and it's destroyed tire.  This week, we also went to visit the V...

Well, I have some news. Transfers have come and as these are the final transfers before July 1st, I will be staying in Sonora and will be part of the Misión México Hermosillo. It was quite sad to say goodbye to several firends and good missionaries, but I'm looking to what the future brings. And I get to be in a mssion with the temple. I also get to roast in the sun some more, so here's to gettign tan and gettign spiritually lit. This past week, we saw a lot of miracles I was not expecting. There's a fmaily where the teenagers really want to be baptized and coem to church and everythign, but when they didn't have permission from their parents to be baptized. They've been comign to church since Febuary. This week we had the impression to ask their mom again to let them be baptized, and for the first time, this other let the missionaries share a lesson with her. And as we taught lesson one, the spirit began to speak to her, and she began to understand and ...