Week 63

This week has been amazing!! AGAIN!! Every week gets better and better! I still cannot believe that I get to have this amazing experience and be a missionary!! I LOVE THIS CALLING, I love my purpose! Their is no greater purpose than opening up the doors to the  kingdom of God for others! We have seen so many miracles this week! And it has been a busy week! We had exchanges this week with the sisters in Front range and Platt River and I was in my area with Sister Abbott, She came out with Sister Pelo (my last companion)! And she is adorable! SHe is an awesome missionary and she is a hard worker, it was great to exchange! i love exchanges because I always learn soo much!! Then this week we also had both of our Halloween Parties in both wards!! It was great!! We had over 20 non members there!! It was amazing to see the members doing missionary work and getting involved! We also had the opportunity to go to Jays baptism. She is the investigator of Sister Pelo and Sister Hooper, an d it was a powerful baptism. We had Eric nitzle there, and his family was really moved!! It is so cool to see how the gospel brings families together and makes them complete and whole! That is exactly what has happened with Eric!! It has been a long, slow conversion and he is finally to the point where he is just ready to change and be baptized!!

The biggest miracles came this Sunday!! We had a lot of our investigators at church and it was amazing!! I will tell you a little about the amazing people that we are teaching!! 

Ryan: Ryan is a cute 18 year old, and is a referral that we got from the Duffys (members in the columbine ward) and she is amazing!  And she has gone to church before with the Duffys and she says that it is just magical!  her draw to the church, is that families can be together forever!  And she came to church this Sunday!

Sharon Bergsma: I already told you a little about her but she has 2 kids who are members and her late husband was an inactive member. And she really just is so sensitive to the spirit! She has had a lot of tears as she has been touched at church! And she was there this Sunday as well!

Izzy Hanks: Izzy is a cute little 9 year old, and her mom is wanting to come back to church and she wants to be baptized, and I absolutely love her! She is so sweet and has a sincere desire to follow jesus Christ.  And it was her and her moms first time back to church this Sunday!

Eric Nitzle: Eric is a non member and his wife and daughter are members. He has been taking discussions for 2 years and little by little he has gained a testimony! He is in Ether in the Book of Mormon, and he has come to church for 6 months and he has a calling in the ward! And our first lesson, we got to invite him to be baptized and he said yes! his date is for November 18th as well. And his family is so cute and is about to be complete!! 

The Brumble family: The brumbles are awesome. The mom and the dad are less active endowed members. and they have 5 kids. They are less active because there only day off is Sunday and they use it to catch up on everything. And 3 of their kids are unbaptized. And this week at church the whole family came to sacrament! IT WAS THEIR FIRST TIME IN 2 YEARS!! It was amazing to see a family in the sacrament pew working towards an eternal family and working towards no empty chairs! 

My favorite part of the work is seeing families become united and whole because of the Gospel! THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!! I know with all of my heart that it is all true. I am so grateful for these amazing people and I LOVE them!!  Honestly I know that as missionaries our purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ. But in the process these amazing people have invited me to come unto Christ!! I have come closer by seeing them come closer! I am grateful that our Heavenly Father loves us and that he wants us to change! I know that, that is why we have to Atonement and that is why he sent his son! And I know that change can be hard and it wont happen overnight. But we need to slowly and steadily live the Gospel and he will change us!! I testify that he loves us and I testify that the Atonement is real!! I love all of you and I hope that you know that change is possible! When Elder Holland came he said "come as you are, but don't plan to stay as you are."  HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 

CON AMOR< Herana Tamales! 💀👻🕸🎃

FOTOS:

1. BLURRy but me and my companion at the Harvest Festival!

2. Me at the Harvest Festival

3. my cute companion took a picture of the mountains for me while she was on exchanges!