Isis to be Baptized!

Birthday Cake for my Comp 

Transfers are this coming Monday... so put it in your calendar that next week ill be writing on Tuesday! I'm anxious to find out who my next comp is, but I'm feeling comforted knowing that its either a Latina, or someone who at least has more time than me. So we were talking this week in comp study, and my comp told me that she has had so much fun being comps with me. She said her training was stressful and hard, but she is really starting to enjoy the mission experience now, and she also feels more effective because we try to talk to as many people as possible.  I think all of us feel like we waste time in our training and once we are up to speed we feel more productive.  I did too.  It just made my day to know that she has felt loved and has learned a lot.  That was my goal! 

Isis is scheduled to be baptized this Saturday!! yay! In relief society we talked about temples, and she raised her hand and said that Vincen (her husband who's a recent convert) said he wants to be sealed in a year so they can be together forever, and she started crying. it was so tender!

MANGOES

We have an investigator named Daìan, shes 22. and we got talking the other day about journals.. and how I write in mine every night. and she was amazed. She said  she really wants to start one, but doesn't really know how to. she doesn't want to write the sad things, because someday she`ll look back and it'll be negative. But i told her that that's the only way to look back and really see your progress, or see how much you've changed. And that she can read it someday to help her children, etc. So she said shes gonna start! i know you always kept journals growing up, but I hope you still keep one. Even though you already are an adult and have children, and you think sometimes all you do is work, etc. .. I'm sure you have thoughts and experiences that will bless us someday. So I'd encourage you to keep writing mom. XO 

In every mission you'll find missionaries who are lax with the rules and just don't care as much. I've definitely found them here and it's hard to find a way to try to influence my peers to value obedience without coming off as a goody good and like I'm calling them out on everything.  Any ideas?   

COSTANERA

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