Week 6 and Week 7

Hola FIRST week in Colorado!! Wow Colorado is breathtaking! I will send you a million pictures but it is like a painting it doesn't even look real. So I will start at the beginning from when i talked to you last! The last week at the MTC was so good it is so bitter sweet saying goodbye, But It was a spiritual week and we all knew that we were ready to be in the field. It was amazing the last week we did a musical number with our district and we sang be still my soul in sacrament. It was also sacrament meeting and i shared part of Uchdorfs talk in womens conference about faith! That talk was amazing!!! I also shared about how i know that a mission isn't going to be easy because salvation isn't easy. I know that the Savior suffered so much for us and if we are going to declare HIS truth and share His gospel and be HIS missionary we cant expect to have it be easy, we will have to experience a little bit of what the savior went through for us. And only A LITTLE! I always think back to that and remember that if ever it gets hard the Savior knows EXACTLY what we are feeling. That night leaving the MTC all of my house mates went in the family room and packed and talked about how excited we were. When i left and they were weighing in my bags all of them were literally at the max weight they could be! Hahahah and i still had to wear my rain boots when it was so nice outside! When we got to the mission home we did an orientation and got to eat dinner! American food is GREAT!!! Then we got to spend the night in a hotel, i felt like a queen hahahah! That morning when we woke up we got our calls of where we would be for 6 weeks or maybe more!! I got assigned to Eagle County which covers Eagle and Gypsum. and my companion is Hermana Cardosa! Wow this was a divine place to be serving! I have loved every minute of being here! So i will tell you a little bit about my area and then my companion. My area is so beautiful! It is these two small towns with cute diners and a million farms. The ward here is just one ward, it is kind of weird because it is half Spanish and half English speaking. They are together for sacrament and have the sisters transalate (So good luck to me hahahah) But honestly all of the people here are so nice and there are a lot more Spanish speakers than i thought! ALL of our investigators are Spanish speakers with like one who is english. My trainer is Hermana Cardosa and she is amazing! She is from Fontana, California and has been out on her mission for 6 months. She has served before this only in Denver. So we are WHITE WASHING the area!!!! Which basically means neither one of us has been here before so we get lost a lot and we just are trying to start fresh and figure out our lives hahah! But i could not have asked for a better trainer, she is always patient and encouraging and she also speaks fluent Spanish and English so i lucked out! She is latina and her mom and dad are converts from mexico so she has just grown up knowing Spanish! Some miracles that have happened this week in eagle Valley are A LOT!! My first day here on our first dinner meal we met the Lundeberg family! And the very first thing she asked when i walked through the door was where i was from and she was from the exact same place. Which is not a coincidence because no one is from Pleasant View, She literally went to Lomond View. It just reassured me my first day that this is where i am supposed to be! The members here are amazing and so kind, they literally give us referrals without us asking sometimes! This week during conference another miracle happened if you can believe it. We have this investigator named Lorena who is fairly new, she has had a lot of struggles in her life and wants a spiritual change. We invited her to the afternoon session of conference and she said she would come. Then while at the session she texted us and told us that she couldn't and that it was getting late and she was busy. WE WERE SO SAD!! But then i watched Bednars talk which was my absolute favorite in conference. I don't remember exactly what he said but he was talking about believing and that it is more than having faith in him, it is having faith in His timing and giving up your priorities! Then literally 5 minutes later Lorena walked in and sat down to watch conference! I know that, that was a lesson i needed and an answer i needed! Overall this week has been so good, it has been hard like it is every week. But it is always a good hard, it feels good to be working so hard and caring so much that i pass out at the end of the night! Being a real missionary and teaching real people is amazing. With every lesson i have more love for these people and a stronger desire to be better and to give them this wonderful gift! I am so thankful for all of your love this week, through grammy paulas quilt, or through Juliannes care package of goodies, and ESPECIALLY Through all of your prayers! I love you guys so much and i want you to know that i have never been so happy and i am well taken care of! I have a mom and dad here and some grandparents and my companions ALWAYS remind me of my siblings! So far this companion is A molly and a little bit of Sam hahahah! I am blessed to be in this beautiful place surrounded by amazing people! We went to hanging lake today and i was just reminded again how Beautiful it is here!! I love you guys and I am so excited to be able to teach these amazing people through the spirit! 

LOVE SIEMPRE< Hermana Tams>