Week 8

Well this week was amazing just like every week! Eagle es la mejor lugar en el mundo!! Every day i am here the more i love it! So here is the rundown of what happened this week! Monday after emailing we did laundry and wrote cards! We also got to go to the store and we got comp unity Halloween earrings and socks!! They are so cool, my comp is hilarious she wants to wear them everyday because she loves Halloween, and everyone always is weirded out by it hahah! That night we did a simple supper service at a Methodist church! It was funny because we got lost and ended up going into a christian church, and asking for directions. This lady in there was like "Since you are already here you can just stay here!" She was trying to convert us and afterwards Hermana Cardosa was like "no what is she thinking that is our job!" After the service project we had an appointment with our investigator Maritza Campos. She is an amazing lady she actually has a return missionary as a daughter and has been taking the lessons a lot but she never really took them seriously until after she got diagnosed with cancer. She has had cancer for about 6 months and they tell her she does not have much time left. She told us her story and how hard it has been to think about how little time she has left. Her daughter just got engaged and she is afraid she is going to miss the wedding. She was in tears ,and so of course I was too. I just had such a prompting in my head to tell her that she is loved and that her savior  loves her and is helping her through this hard time. I felt the saviors love for her immediately and for the first time the Spanish just came. She is an amazing lady and i know that this gospel will help her so much. We challenged her to pray about the gospel and read a chapter in the book of Mormon. My companion promised her that she would receive an answer. I am blessed to meet people like this sweet lady. Tuesday we had train the trainers all the way in grand junction haahah! Which means we woke up at 430 and drove two hours to get there! But it was amazing they talked about how to adjust to missionary life, and how to use DISCERNMENT! I love this word, I am working so hard to try and be like Ammon in Alma 18 and ask inspired questions. This meeting got me inspired to say the least.😂 Afterwards that night we had a lesson with lorena, who went to conference! It was great and she is really progressing. Wednesday and Thursday we did a lot of OYM! Which basically means opening your mouth to everyone you see! We taught a lot of the plan of salvation, which i really took for granted before my mission. But i have met so many people here who have lost thee parents, or lost their son, and they are literally searching for the answer of where they are. And through this marvelous church we have those answers. It is amazing to me how great the latinas are here, they are so open to learning. Friday was more lessons and we had an amazing dinner at the Hendersons where they fed us MASHED POTATOES AND GRAVY!!! Can you believe it!❤💞 I'm not going to lie to you guys Friday and Saturday is when this week became a little hard, BUT I am always blessed after it is hard with tender mercies. It was hard because that day we just had lessons where people weren't progressing or didn't want to keep commitments. We were feeling down and sad. But then on Sunday we had Stake conference and they talked about being spiritually prepared and trying to give our all. And afterwards we had a meeting with brother wait. Which guess where he served his mission.................. That's right Mexico city South Mission! I was almost in tears hahaah... He told us to just keep going and just keep on opening our mouths and he challenged us to do 20 resto lessons this week. SO we ARE doing 20 resto lessons this week hahah! I juat got so inspired and i know that that is my heavenly father telling me, its okay pick yourself up an keep going! (or get up and win the race) Ever since me and my companion are trying harder than ever and praying more than ever! SUNDAYS ARE AWESOME! Yesterday we had p day and the very first thing that happened is we went to the library and it was closed! It was a bummer but then we had our first resto lesson with Lynae. She is 21 with bright red hair and she is a nanny. It was actually a miracle she was there because it was her first day on the job at the park! She struggles with her brother who is kind of struggling to do good right now! We got a return appointment with her and she is amazing!! Then afterwards we did my comps hair and i got to be a hair stylist again!! We did a caramel ombre and she loves it!! This week has been amazing and i am blessed to be here. I cannot even count all my blessings, I am blessed for my companion and the members here, I am blessed for my cute family and there advice every week, I am thankful for warm clothes and my quilt from my grammy, I am thankful for the love of god and his tender mercies, and i am thankful for the investigators here! Esta es la mejor experiencia. Estoy muy agradecida por mi familia, y por la opurtunidad ser aqui progresar y aprender cada dia!! 

I love you all so much!!!

TE AMO!

Love siempre Hermana Tams!❤💜💙💞