I Made It!!!!

¡Hola Mama! Yes I made it! The last few days have been good but crazy because of the meetings we had and trying to get everything packed and ready to bring out into the field. Saturday was our last day of classes with our teachers so we were able to get pictures with them. Then yesterday was fast Sunday and again to keep my goal of bearing my testimony every Fast Sunday for a year I got up and bore it again! After our devotionals and even throughout the day we said bye to the new friends we had made and took pictures. After that we were up later packing and getting everything ready. When we woke up this morning we gathered our stuff and took it to the reception desk and then went to breakfast and said bye to our district and then back to reception to wait for the APs and President to come pick us up.

After we got loaded up, it took us about 45 minutes to get to the Mission Home where we got told about what we need to do in the field, got interviewed by the President and got food made by the President’s wife!! It was the best food ever! We got eggs, beans, sausage, French Toast, and of course tortillas. The mission home is in this super nice gated area with huge houses that had a guard gate that had a bunch of people guarding including the guys with guns. One guy had a rifle and then the other 2 had shotguns! It was both scary and sweet at the same time! After that and loads of pictures taken, we loaded back up into a van and came to the mission office and then came to email for a bit at an internet place. They didn’t tell us we would be emailing so I don’t have my camera to send you pictures so I will have to send them all next week.

We were told we are going to go out tracting for a bit trying to give out Book of Mormon’s and talking to people. I’m not sure where we are staying tonight but tomorrow I will find out what area I’m in and who my companion is. I’m sorry if my story jumps around and doesn’t make any sense, I’m super excited and I’m trying to type fast but tell you everything that has happened!

My thought for this week from a devo we had is: If you have a chance to bear your testimony, do it. You stand up and you bear your testimony about the truths you know about Jesus Christ and The Book of Mormon. Our testimonies will do us no good if we don’t share them. If you think doing it in front of people in America is hard, you should try doing it in a different country where you hardly know the language Haha. As scary as it is, you will receive blessings for doing it! I haven’t been out in the field really yet but I’m so excited to be able to go out and share the gospel and my testimony about it and the things I know to be true! I know that I will have the love of the Lord and of all of my family and friends to help me!

I love you so much! Talk to you next week!

PS - I forgot to post this last week but here's a message Chad shared with Christy (my sister for those of you who don't know her), that I just wanted to post on here as well: One of the biggest miracles I’ve had so far being on my mission, at least here in the CCM, is how much Spanish I have learned and how much I feel the spirit helping my comp and I during our lessons. Even being here is a super huge miracle because I have a pretty casa to sleep in, and get 3 meals a day. Most Latino missionaries that come here have told us that they normally don’t get 3 meals a day and that their houses are small and tight quarters! There are miracles we get every day, even small ones, we just have to look for them!