I'll Be Gone in Obregon

Hi Everyone!  HAPPY EASTER! Isn't Easter the best!! I am so grateful that e have the opportunity to celebrate the Resurracion of Jesus Christ.  More than anything, today I just want ot bear my testimony thta I KNOW He lives. I know He is my Savior, m King, my Redeemer nad I ma forever idebted to Him. I know He is aware of me and every single one of my trails and difficulties and thta He paid the pricce for each and every single one of then as He bled from every pore. I am incredibly grateful that He idd not do hÇHis own will, but was humble and lved us enough to submit to the will of the Father, een though it meant suffering unspeakable agony alone in the dark wihtiout a single shred of comfort. And because He suffered alone, we don`t have to, He is by our side,  He knows how we feel, and He weeps with us as we pass through this mortal existence. He descended below us all, and then was raised up on the cross to finish this great and ultimate sacrafice. But His Ato...

Hi Everyone! So, the reason I am writing on a Tuesday is because I was transferred to Nogales yesterday (Please don't freak out Dad). That is, Nogales Sonora not Nogales Arizona nor Nogales Veracruz (jajaja I love you mom sorry).  My companion is Hermana Arias, she is from Bolivia,, and she actaully arrived to the mission with Hermana Salas, so I've alrerady had the chance to meet her several times before.  Nogales is very hilly with winding streets, and narrow, towering type houses. It doesn't even look like the rest of the areas I've been in in Sonora. Still the desert though, just hilyly, colder desert.  OKay now that you know that and that I am fine (Dad I'm fine I swear and I will be fine don't worry), let me tell y'all a story. This story starts three months ago on my first day in Barrio Pueblitos. We were opening area, and we had already visited the few contacts that the sisters before us had left in the area book with no luck. We sa...

Didn't you just LOVE conference? I feel like I have gotten much more out of General Coonference here in my time as a missionary. It's literally such a highlight and a spiritual fest. I think my favorite talks were from Jeffrey R. Holland, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Russel M. Nelson, and actually, I can't choose, just all of them. I love what Elder Uchtdorf shared about how to share the gospel, step by step. I also love what was taught about the cvonnection between love and ministering, and I absolutely loved the emphasis on repentace and the Atoning power of Jesus Christ.  Thanks to the goodness of the Bishop, we actually had the opportunity to watch in English usign the computer in the Bishop's office and it was so great to hear the voices of the Apostles and The prophet. It's honestly just so much better when you can actually hear their voice with the intonation and all of that. An boy, was that fun. We might have taken over the office for a short while...

As this week has rollercoastered one, it has been such a testimony builde for me of the small and simple things, like how important it is to pray every day and always alwasy read the Book of Mormon. For the first time in about two weeks, I was able to really study from Come Follow Me, and it has been a very touching expereince, as I began to read the chapters form w few weeks ago about the parable of the sower. I spent a while pondering wether I would have been able to undestnad these parabels had I been there in person, and ponderign on my personal capacity to recieve personal revelation.  Honeslty, I have seen so many changes in who I have become as I have tread this path of being a missionary. About a week or two ago, as I watched several people bear theri testimony in their last zone conference, I realized thta next transfer will be me, which Is something I really do not want to think about, but has casued some quet moments of serious refelction on what I have learned...

Hello All,  this week we were able to watch our friend Alvaro descend into the wtaers of Baptism.  Hi story is quite neat actually. We have an awesome woman we are teaching named Karina, if you will remember my emails from 2 months ago when I first got to Pueblitos she is the lady in the yellow house that we found and she´s been doing well but she doesn´t have a phone which makes her hard to contact sometimes. The day before we had not been able to get to her house at the appointed time and had therefore not been able to find her. The next day we went be her house twice, but she wasn't hoem either time. The seciodn time we3 passed by, we felt impressed to contact a few people in her street, (none of them who really wanted to listen to our message but were nice enought to let us talk to them at least) when a little kid approached us and asked for a pamlet fopr his dad. He and his dad had just passed by us, so we gave the kid a pamphlet, finished the contact the fastest an...