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Final Transfer


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 said a prayer, turned the corner, and heard children playing in the next house. When we went to knock on the door, we actually hestitated because it didn't look like anyone lived there. We did however, knock and a giant, serious looking man opened the door. We introduced ourselves, asked if we could say a prayer and sing a hymn, and then after telling him where the church was located, he told us that he would be there that Sunday. He didn't get there that Sunday, but he did the next one, and has been coming ot church every Sunday since. About a month after he started coming, his entire fmaily started to listen to us and come to church. 

Their names are Sandra and Arturo and together with one of their daughters, they were baptized this past Saturday in a beautiful baptismal service. 

I know that the Lord has prepared His children to recieve this message that we, as members of the church of Jesus Christ, know and love and that He will guide us to them. He wants us to be able to brign more of His children back to His presence because tiem is quickly running out. 

I love this work that I am doing, I love being a missionary, I loev beign a representative of Jesus Christ, and more than anythign, I love beign able to invite my brothers and sisters to come unto Christ and be perected in HIm. 

Con mi amor eterno, 
Hermana Rawlings


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