Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Da Week

Transfers! District Awesome has been disbanded :( due to the transfer
of our district commander hahaha oh well. It's weird how close you get
to people, like we were literally a family! Oh well, life goes on. We
did an awesome service project and wore our district shirts that we
made together. I got a sweet tan and Hno Perez says I look like a
lamanite. YAS. He and his wife were also talking about mi "color de
voz" so cool, my voice color. Just sounds better in Spanish. Like
everything else haha.

I love Spanish. And I love this branch so much. I'm so glad Hna Burke
and I are staying. This transfer is going to be awesome. We know the
members a lot more and I feel like we will utilize that this transfer
and stuff will explode. Hopefully. That's the plan hahaha.

I really don't know what else to say....I still keep up with my
journal? Hahaha so that's good.

OOHHH we ate with an English member and it was so awesome. Dad he's
kind of like you!!! I felt so at home, and it was so what I needed in
the moment, but after it was so funny to realize why they don't let
missionaries read anything except the mish library haha. We talked
about the Talmud, and how we might have multiple heavenly mothers, and
the false temples, Ham stole the garment, Noah used the stones to
light the ark, the veil in the temple is Jesus Christ. It was just so
cool. So nice and fresh to have something else to think about. And
they make you call them Pat and Brenda, no brother or sister because
would you call God or anyone in heaven, brother Jesus? Brother God?
Hahaha it was cool, it was just nice to find some people out here that
are more like you guys haha, that aren't converts of two years hahaha.
Nothing against the Spanish branch, but sometimes, yeah. Otherwise I
love the Spanish branch, it's a lot of work I see having gone to some
branch councils, but still, it's kind of simple in a way, and it feels
like work. Because we work to help people get ready to make covenants
they haven't made yet, whereas in an English ward, it's just not as
big a deal sometimes, like me getting my endowments-no big deal, but
in the Spanish branch it's huge, and it's nice to see people work
together to take care of other people, to help them save themselves.
This branch is awesome.

The biggest thing this week is just Satan haha. Jasmine who is a
senior in highschool, who finally decided to go on a mission again,
came to church, then missed 3 sundays. We saw her 3 weeks ago, and she
was good, and then she said from that night everything fell apart. She
had a dream that night that she was leaving on her mission and then
someone asked her not to go. They told her not go on her mission, just
a straight clear voice and she said it felt so real. And when she woke
up she just felt sick and confused and like she hasn't even been
living her life how she wants to, and that she doesn't fit in at
church, and her family picks on her for going, and then at church she
doesn't get enough real support. There's no one in her life that she
feels puts her first, and it was so sad, I was so furious that she
felt that way, that Satan had made her feel like that and question so
much and question herself and her self-worth. I don't know. And she
said she's been having dreams about people from the branch about their
lives and marriages falling apart, and they've been messing her up!! I
was so mad!!!!! Satan can give me all the crap dreams he wants, but
not her. We talked for a while. And Sister Burke is a godsend, she is
here for Jasmine, there's no other way to say it, and I am so glad
she's here and that Jasmine has someone like her and it's just such a
blessing. I love missionaries. I love missions. I can't believe I'm
almost half way, can you believe that? Time is crazy. It just goes.

I think Dylan's choice is good. I think it'll work out.

I love you guys! Did you send me a package yet? Hahaha ;) I'll try and
get you a real letter sometime. It's just now I love zone sports so
much.....because we play soccer and I've actually been perfecting my
goalie skills it's kind of hilarious. But it's fun.

LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!



So the district is Elder Ortega from Mexico and who is AMAZING at
soccer, he's 20 but he's like a little brother (he is finishing
training someone this new transfer, a kid from PA) then Elder Jensen
from UT who just finished training Elder Ortega and is now a ZL in
Folsom, super awesome, he's like the super man elder we all want to
be, Me, Comp, Sister Miller from East Sac but now we're really close
:) and Sister Robinson who is really cool from Idaho.



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