Week 48

Hello everyone!!!! I guess i will start my email with my transfer News! We got news on Friday that I will be staying in Vail with Hermana Haycock! I am super excited because this is my longest time I have served in an area!!! I love the people here, and this week just solidified for me that I am supposed to be in this area! I also got called to be a Sister Training Leader in Vail! I am a little bit nervous because that means that I have to get over my public speaking fear! But I know that I will learn so much by giving trainings and serving the Sisters around me! I am excited to grow!!! 

   Hmmmmm.. Where to start this week... Well, This week we got free Slurpee's for 7-11!!! So that was a great thing that happened hahaha. Also we had a lot of miracles happen this week! On Saturday morning we were doing our daily planning and at the end we both just didn't feel right about our plans. So we prayed for some inspiration, and out of nowhere we felt like we needed to go to Red Cliffs, which is a little corner of our area! It is a little small town with about 50 people living there! So we decided to follow the prompting and we went! AND SO MANY MIRACLES HAPPENED! The first miracle we saw, is we were trekking up these dirt hills to knock these houses and we knocked this door and found these two 80 year old ladies named Angela and Christine. And, they are the cutest people i have ever met! they LOVED THE first vision, and Angela said that she has a son going to the Mormon church down in Utah! Then after that we went to go try a member of our ward who is less active named Brother Gleeson, and we ended up teaching his daughter Reina, who wants to take the lessons and be baptized! THEN... on the way back from Red Cliffs we stopped in Minturn and we felt inspired to knock a door. And this guy named Dan answered! And he is AWESOME! He basically has the Bible memorized and he actually UNDERSTANDS it! He asked us what our churches stance is on Heaven, because he said that he believes that there are Levels of Heaven!!

    I have NEVER heard a non-member say that! so we taught him the Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon, and we got a return appointment. Then my favorite miracle that happened this week happened with our investigators Angelica, Geraldine, and Cesar. We were teaching the Restoration, and we had just finished the first Vision, and we looked up and the whole family was just in tears. And we asked them how they felt, and Cesar said that he had recently been in a coma for 2 days. And at the end right before he woke up he remembered hearing a voice saying that there was more for him to do and then he saw a light. And he told us that the light that he saw was the light that is in the picture with Joseph Smith. After this day of miracles I have a FIRM testimony that we NEED to listen to promptings. Because if we hadn't gone to red cliffs and changed our plans, we wouldn't have met any of these prepared people! And I know that There are people prepared to listen to our message, but as a missionary we need to be ready to be guided and to listen! I know that I am supposed to be in Vail to work with these amazing people! And I know with all of my heart that these people are ready to except this message and be baptized and enter into the kingdom of God! 

     I LOVE THIS WORK! I wish I could express how much my mission has meant to me, and I wish I could express the Joy that it has brought me to help others KNOW their Savior! But, it truly is indescribable! I am so BLESSED to be where I am!!! I love you all so much! I wanted to finish my email with something that our Mission President sent us in his email! He said this is his desire for us.... “Yes, we want both converted missionaries and many baptisms. But most of all, we want the grandchildren of your missionaries, and the grandchildren of those whom your missionaries baptize, to be endowed and sealed in the temple. We want multi-generational families of faith. God wants His children to return to Him, converted, endowed, and sealed as families.” Elder Russell M. Nelson

 I hope and pray that I can be so converted that I can keep this Legacy of Faith in my family! 

Love you all, have a great week!!!

Hermana Tams🌻🌸

FOTOS:

1.FREE 7-11 slurpees!

2.Oh yeah! We had a Semi annual mission cleaning day and we found a random compartment of weird elder stuff! Here is there ritual stick! 

3.AND ALL OF THEIR TIES!!!!

4.Red Cliffs!