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1/24/2022

Hey guys! It's been a while.

These last few weeks have been super.. full of everything. Fun. Hard. Happy. Sad. Lots of work. Slow days, fast days. You get it.

I have a lot of mixed emotions because I'm now in my last transfer, I've got a little less than a month left now. Hermana Rojas and I stayed together. My friend Elder Dowling got transferred. So that's sad. But I guess that's the mission life
What's worse is that we're not going to have zone conference this transfer because lots of missionaries are arriving, so I won't be able to say goodbye in person to anyone not in my district :( So many missionaries arrived this transfer, like 25 ish. And I'm pretty sure this next week 30 are coming! It's going to be crazy.
Yesterday two of our friends went to church for the first time! Marcela and her daughter Ignacia ðŸ˜Š It was super great! The talks were really good too.
We have been teaching an 8 year old named Diego, his mom isn't a member because she can't get baptized yet, but they've been going to church for about 3 years. Diego's going to be baptized at the end of February!! So we're super excited and working hard to help them :)
I have set the goal to read the standard works in two years, because last year I didn't have the time to do it in one year. I started and it's super good! I'm really feeling good about my goal, I made study plans in Gospel Library. It gives me the flexibility in my study to do my reading for the day, and also read or study whatever else I want, conference talks, etc ☺
I've really learned a lot about the importance of sincere prayer, it really helps everything when I'm praying with all I've got. Whether I'm doing good, or doing bad. It reminds me of 1 Nephi 1, when Lehi heard the prophets and then prayed for the people of Jerusalem with all his heart, then after he received his answer from God he rejoiced and it said his whole heart was filled! ☺
I don't feel like writing anything else, so I guess I'll send a bunch of pictures to make up for the lack of words ðŸ˜‰
Pictures:
My companion cut her own bangs yesterday, a few weeks ago I cut her hair and she cut my hair. We trust each other too much.



















 

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