Week 36

Wow! This week was so great! I have loved this week because I got to go out every day and give it my all and go home every night sooo tired! I LOVE THAT FEELING! I will start with transfer news, since I know everyone is dying to know hahah! So no surprises here, me and Hermana Garcia are staying together in Vail! I am soo excited to work more in this area! I already love the people soo much! Something that really hit me this week is how fast a mission is!!! As Hermana Gutierrez has gotten ready to go home I realize how close I am to going home! I honestly do not want to waste one second of this precious time! Something that I liked that a member was telling sister Gutierrez this week was, he said "There is only one word that is almost the same as life and that is time. Then he said thank you Sister Gutierrez for giving this mission your time and a part of your life". I know that I really have tried to give this mission my all! All my time, and all of this part of my life! and I WANT TO KEEP ON IMPROVING, I WANT TO KEEP ON GROWING, I WANT TO KEEP ON LOVING, AND HELPING OTHERS. There is nothing greater than the opportunity to literally forget yourself and go to work and only focus on helping others. I know that I am not going to be able to do be a missionary full time again! One of my most favorite experiences this week was when we were walking out of our apartment to do service and we found this teenage girl crying on the stairs. She had her notebook doing math and on her notebook it said please help me! I was immediately brought to a stop to talk to her, and we all asked her if we could help. We found out that this girl was really going through a lot, and she was struggling with not wanting to live. My heart really heart when she told us this, and she was so young! My FAVORITE thing about a mission that I will love forever, is that as missionaries we get to meet people we have never met, who we have never seen, and we can automatically feel the saviors love for them! I know that that is what a mission is all about! It is not about numbers, it is not about baptisms, it is not about leadership positions, and is not even about bringing new members to the church. A mission is about LOVE, A mission is about helping others come unto Christ and be perfected in him through repentance, baptism, the holy ghost and enduring to the end. So that these people that we meet everyday can have the love of Jesus Christ forever. So that one day when they go to the celestial kingdom they can Abide in his love forever! I can not imagine a greater purpose, And that is the purpose that I get to have each and every day of this mission! A lot of great fun things happened this week, that made me realize how very lucky I am! I love these people in Colorado! I LOVE THIS GOSPEL I love my SAVIOR! 

     Some other updates that happened this week, are that we had Sandra and Ruben our investigators come to church, and they got to see Josues Confirmation which was so special. And my companions had some technical difficulties in the apartment hahah! Hermana Garcia put Dawn dish soap in the dishwasher! And Hermana Gutierrez took a giant lime and put it down the disposal! "Because it made it smell good!" hahahah. The maintenance workers looked at us like we were soo dumb! Oh the joys of being missionaries, who have no idea how to live on their own! That is about it for this week! Nothing too crazy. I just worked the hardest I have ever worked in my mission this week and it felt soo good! I can feel my testimony growing each time I testify! I absolutely love this work! Thank you for everything that you all do for me! I love you all so much!!!!! 

Also, the next person to ask me about my half way mark is in serious trouble haahha! wE DONT TALK ABOUT IT, i STILL HAVE 18 MONTHS! 😉

Have an amazing week Les Quiero mucho! 

Love, Hermana Tams

1. Going away dinner for hermana Gutierrez

2 and 3.Hahahh our amazing new investigator got us starbucks coffee so we poured it down the drain, to pretend like we drank it! IT was soo rough hahah! We didnt want to offend her because she was brand new!!!!!