After gardening we got to go to dinner at Maria Espinozas which was delicious as usual and the other Hermanas came with and brought an investigator/friend of Maria's which was awesome. THEN we got to go to our ward misson leader's, Jose's, wedding!! Haha it was so great they are the cutest and they had fun music (wish we could dance sometimes) we had to leave early so they let us smuggles some food before we left! But it was an awesome way to end an unusual Friday.
Saturday FIRST OUT OF AREA SPLIT...DUN, DUN dun. Haha worst part is having to pack a bag to go like 10 blocks away haha. But it was a good day in the English program with Sister Keeling and I even still managed to have a Dominican food appointment haha (English ward less active)
Also Saturday night we got to go down to the temple building for REUNION DE MUJERES! Or the general women's meeting if you don't yet speak Español ;) they provided dinner and it was one of the most spiritual experiences I've had in one sitting in a long time! It made me SO EXCITED for general conference this weekend, and I hope y'all are so excited!! I received answers to a lot of questions and gained insight I needed just from the women's meeting....challenge y'all to think of questions, ponder before general conference this weekend! Some thoughts that I want to share is that everything is just by consistent effort, drop by drop, little by little we don't become something overnight it takes the baby steps. There was also a lot of amazing talks about the temple and cove gas but I really gained a lot from President Uchtdorf so here's a few of my favs:
You are ALWAYS a child of God, it's not something you earn and he loves you ALWAYS. Despite every flaw, you're value to Heavenly Father NEVER changes. The one who created all loves you always, despite what the world may think.
KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS, God knows the best way for us, he sees the big picture and is trying to guide us back to him, he will never force us but he desires us to return. He is constantly raining blessings upon us all we have to do is close our umbrellas of disobedience, pride, etc ☔️ it's NOT a to-do list to live the gospel. It should be something we desire, we obey because we love God and Jesus Christ. Little by little it becomes who we are!
Sunday there was a medieval festival at the cloisters which caused so many people to be walking through our neighborhood in all sorts of strange costumes haha. Also we went to the Giffords for dinner which is always the best. And we ended up having an amazing correlation type discussion about the ward since he's now the bishopric member over missionary service and it just got me so excited for all the work we have to do in ward here! also midway into this discussion one of their little girls climbs up on my sits down, farts, and the says "I tooted" and then gets down and proceeds to play. It was HILARIOUS.
Monday we set a baptism date for Valerie and we're bringing her to general conference and to the special youth lunch after on Sunday! Also midway through Monday we got a call from a member that wanted to come with us to our two appointments that night! It was so awesome, we visited a member/less active and they fed us, and then we got to visit the Castro family and Hermana Familia (the member) got along really well and we had an awesome discussion about conference and read in the BOM and it was just amazing! We've had so many tender mercies with our members lately!
Tuesday I went on split with sister hall into the English program (yes another split, that's what happens when your companion is a solo STL) we had such a good day! We started off my jogging down to this really cool skate park by the water with awesome graffiti (I'll eventually get some pictures). We constantly talked to people all day, a crazy old man ripped part of his fruit strip thing off for us on the subway (picture included), we had a really cool APF with chalk in the park about conference, we met with amazing less actives and investigators and it was just amazing!
Sorry these are always such long emails but we just meet so many people and are constantly having great experiences! I wish I could share it all! I'm going to send some pictures of this week for all y'all's enjoyment :) I hope you have an amazing conference experience this weekend! Love y'all and hope you have another great week
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