tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80844048185308051572024-03-12T18:38:19.566-07:00HERMANA EMMA FINDLAY McAllen Texas MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03101682140651185919noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8084404818530805157.post-82352289401757329062017-02-13T15:37:00.001-08:002017-02-24T14:27:39.355-08:00Loving Brownsville<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Yeah, so this week, as many of you heard I got transferred to Brownsville!!! I am now with a Southern California sister missionary from my MTC group, We were already companions/best friends for three months of our missions and now we get to be together again. Hopefully we can finish out our missions together! Also, another piece of good news is that I am in a Spanish area now. This time, I hardly ever speak English during the day!! How crazy! I can probably count the number of times I have spoken English to someone on my fingers. It is awesome!! It has been a little rough to get back into the groove of Spanish again, but I am glad that I am learning so much Spanish again. I get to start off in a Spanish area and now end up in a Spanish area. Also, it is a very humble branch. My favorite member so far is a recent convert of a few months. There is a picture of her and her daughter actually at her house for dinner with the other sisters we live with. </span></div>
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Also, I get to live with Sister Villalobos again! I did my 2nd transfer (her 1st transfer) and we are pretty good friends. I am sure you are probably wondering, "How did you get soo lucky?" And don't worry, I am wondering the exact same thing. I think being with Sister Stanfill has helped me to work even harder because we worked REALLY hard when we were put together back in July and August and we know the potential of each other so it motivates us.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well, I found out last week that I will be leaving Edinburg after being here for six months. I am going to have to get rid of a lot of stuff that I have accumulated here. I haven't even started to pack haha. I am excited to go to a new area, but at the same time, will be sad to leave one of my favorite companions. I will keep you updated next week what my new area is. </span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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Also, today, for p-day, I got to play tennis. I was at first just playing with my companion and roommates, but then this dad and son came. He was actually pretty good, so I got to hit the ball around with him. </div>
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As far as the work goes, it has been a little hard because we haven't been able to find a lot of solid people. We thought we did find someone cool named Martha, but she said that she was sick of us calling her all the time...whoops. The husband of a member came to church, though, so that was exciting!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> <b>B</b>eautiful sunset. We parked in the bike lane with the flashers on and a really sweet guy asked if we needed any help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Castro taught me how to LONGBOARD!! Sooo fun!! We went to a really pretty park for P-day last week and biked/longboarded.</span></div>
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This week, we had two investigators at church! One is a guy that keeps coming but doesn't want to get baptized, but I still translate for him. The other is Bridgette. We have been working with her for a couple weeks, but this week, a member came with us to the lesson, and it was great because Bridgette was like who is going to give me a ride? Then, the member was like, "I will!" Bridgette is awesome! Hopefully she will get baptized. </div>
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I thought that the PowerPoint would just be at the mission leadership meeting that we have every week, but turns out that this powerpoint is going to be shown to everyone on the mission during zone conference. Whoops haha. Oh well, I already know a majority of the missionaries anyway. I had fun taking them too.<div>
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Right as we finished, we were driving down the road with the other sisters because they had to get their brakes checked. Then, the low tire pressure goes on again. We get out and realize the tire was deflating pretty quickly. We turn around and go back to Firestone. Then, we had to wait another couple hours. It was soo weird because back in September a similar thing happened.</div>
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As far as family history, I got to read a really cool story about my ancestor, who was a pilgram. Now, I don't remember exactly what it was, but I know that through the examples of my family members, I can be supported no matter what trials I may face.</div>
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Another cool thing that happened was that we had a big Christmas conference with everybody on the mission. That picture of me in the red dress is of a three generation picture.</div>
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On the mission, the missionary you trained is your daughter, and now I have a granddaughter hahaha.</div>
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So good news!! We have transfers this week, and I am staying for another transfer with Sister Castro!! The zone leaders played a prank on a couple of us from the zone though, and said that I was leaving, but then I showed up at the P-day activity, and they announced that it was a lie!! I even started packing and texted almost all the members in my ward. Oh well! It will be fun surprising them.</div>
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That other picture of the couple is Dania (the one getting baptized) and her husband, Christian.</div>
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That was the miracle story that I was talking about before. I started teaching Dania, but then lost contact. Super cool because this past week, Dania had a dream that she got baptized and felt really good after. The next day (Friday) she got baptized. </div>
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Last night, Jordan got baptized!!! It was awesome to be a part of his conversion, but it technically didn't count for us since he lived out of the ward boundaries, however we did teach him just about every lesson. He was part of a family that is just recently coming back to church (being reactivated). Hopefully they will stay this time.</div>
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As far as Mary and the family goes, we called her and texted her and even knocked on her door before church to get the whole family to go. However, during church, we get a text from her that says "I just got home and I'm hungry." It was pretty hard not to be frustrated right then. Maybe we will have to drop them.</div>
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As far as other investigators go, we have this really sweet old lady that we've been teaching, and last night when we went over, she had this really good soup with rice and beef (called asopao) and hot chocolate and tamales. She is so sweet. She even said, well I know you are far from family, so you can just come here, and I'll make you something. People here are soo nice. </div>
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There was one day that I was in the area of YSA and we taught this lesson to this guy which meant we couldn't even go inside, but we ended up being out there for 45 minutes, and at the end, my feet were completely numb because I just had tights on instead of socks. It felt so weird to go back down the stairs. But it was really cool because every time there we were talking to someone, it almost felt like it wasn't even cold. I can't really describe it, but that was such a tender mercy. </div>
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This week was also our ward's Christmas party. My whole district actually got to put on a performance from the song, "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer." I have a video, but I don't know how to send it. Anyone know how? It was really fun, but also a little embarrassing. </div>
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This week has just been sooo great. Jordan came to church again and also this family of 3 just decided to show up to church today. Turns out they live in our area. They are in walking distance too! We had an awesome lesson with them <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1331761427" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> night, which is why we couldn't see the Christmas devotional. Hopefully we will be able to this week though!</div>
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Ok, so this week, super cool miracle happened when I was with Sister Williams. We got a call right when we were about to go to work at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1331761428" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10 AM</span></span> from one of my favorite members, Sister Cantu. She asked us if we could help her with her visiting teaching. Of course, we said yes. Unfortunately, nobody was home, but Sister Cantu saw one of her friends as she drove by. We then got to talk to her friend with Sister Cantu and share a lesson. Now, just so you know, Sister Cantu recently became active in the ward again, but she went in there and testified like crazy and invited her friend to church. It was awesome. Her friend, Natalie, told us at our next appointment, though, that she had talked to her pastor and she doesn't want to learn more. Oh well, it was a really cool chance to plant a seed.</div>
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Okay, super funny thing happened with Sister Williams this week too because we were knocking at an appointment that we had with an Atheist guy who said we could come back. As we were knocking, he walked up to us and looked surprised and told us he forgot to pick up his wife, and you could so tell he was lying. That's what people here in Texas are like. They are almost too polite. For example, there have been countless times that people say, sorry, as they shut the door on us. Hahaha. Now I just laugh.</div>
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We even got to go to two member's homes to eat Thanksgiving dinner with them. At least they were spread apart! It felt just like being home because everyone gathered around the table and there was an interesting topic of conversation that we felt awkward to be a part of. It's just like being at the adult table when you all know how much fun it is to be at the kid table haha.</div>
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Anyway, a funny thing happened on Thanksgiving--we knocked on this door and when they answered I said, "Happy Easter" with so much confidence, and the guy just started back and was probably thinking, who are these two nicely dressed teenagers and why are they at my door? However, he actually said we could come back and we said a prayer with him.</div>
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So miracle time! Ok. This is super cool. Pay attention. So, I got to go on exchanges with Sister Martin this week (we actually grew up in the same stake (Ashlyn Martin)). There's more too it, though. So at our last appointment of the night before coming home, this guy answered the door, and I knew him from somewhere. After a couple minutes, I realized that he was a less active member of the very first ward I was at here in Texas. He had moved over to this ward. But, not only that he is now married to the same girlfriend he had a year ago--the same one that I taught a year ago!! She is now preparing to get baptized. Talk about the fruit of your labors!! SO COOL!!!</div>
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Also, another awesome miracle is that this family randomly decided to come back to church. After sacrament <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1413580137" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> a member of the Bishopric went up to us and told us that there was someone that wants to get baptized for us to meet.It turned out to be the 9 year-old son. We are going by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1413580138" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span>--I'll keep you posted!</div>
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Sooo, BEST THING EVER HAPPENED!!!!! I stayed with Sister Castro in Edinburg, but new news is that Sister Schaffner is in the trio with us now! I trained her, and she was balling when I left. I am sooo glad we all get to be together. We have the best of times together. It's a little weird though because Sister Schaffner is not an STL (sister training leader), but Sister Castro and I are. Along with that, now we only have to cover 3 other companionships. That takes a big weight off my shoulders.</div>
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Well, the rest of the email, I am just going to explain the pictures. So this last Friday, we got to help two of the sisters move out of our house into a really nice apartment. Also, there was a random wall post, so of course, all the sisters said to me, "You won't!" And I had to take the challenge. The others tried to join me, but they got a little scared.</div>
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I am soooo excited for this week! We have two meal appointments set up just for Thanksgiving day. Good thing we are riding bikes that day! :)</div>
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A really awesome object lesson that we have been sharing with people is one with three cups and 3 knives and we basically make it so it is a sure foundation. The 3 pillars of the restored gospel are prophets and apostles, revelation, and Priesthood. I really do know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has the essential pillars we all need.</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Well, I guess I will start off with the best news ever!!! Guys! ELEVEN investigators came to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_8008603" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>!!! And that's of what I could count! The most I have ever had on one <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_8008604" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> on my mission was two. It was sooo cool!! Sister Castro and I were just jumping up and down for excitement! A family that we found of 4 came and then Victoria (the girl that I have been talking about) and a member's sister came that we had a lesson with this week and Sister Cantu (one of our favorite members who just recently re-activated) brought pretty much her whole family who aren't members. Also, I got to be in the Primary Program yet again to help the kids sing louder. Victoria even got to be in it too!! The ward is just great at fellow-shipping her in! Last week, we even had her come over to a member's home for dinner and a lesson after. She even said, "Of course, I love Victoria!" The goal is for her to get baptized this Sunday, but here, the Bishop doesn't have too much trust in us, but we will work on that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Also, that family of 4 that came has a single mom named Mary and she has a son that is 14 and daughter that is 11 and a really cute daughter named Bella who is 5. They also know one of the members already because she was the 11-year-old's school teacher. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Also, double exciting news is that I get to stay here with Sister Castro, and we will be together for both Thanksgiving and Christmas!! That means that I will stay here in Edinburg for three tansfers (meaning 6 weeks). I have never stayed that long in an area. This means I can see our investigators actually get baptized! Also, I feel like I am just getting the hang of this area. Yay!! Also, I get to still live with Sister Williams!! She is the best! We always laugh at each other. It's pretty fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Let's see...what else? Well, I got to go on an exchange with Sister Horgesheimer!! She is soo cute! She has about 3 months on the mission. I felt bad for her, though, because people kept telling her that they felt that she was really stern, but I was really nice. She really is a nice person though! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Another exciting thing that happened was that I had an elote for the first time!! It's basically corn with mayo and chile. I have been hearing the elote trucks go around my whole mission, but decided to finally get one and pay for Sister Castro too. It was a great night! That was after 2 meal appointments too. Haha...whoops ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Also, sorry for the lack of pictures this week...I thought I lost my camera cord, but to my great surprise, I found it here in the lost and found in the library. Thank goodness!!</span></div>
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Anyway, to celebrate our year mark, I got to text the other sisters in the area to meet up for FroYo at Red Mango that day. It was so much fun!! That is probably my favorite part of being a Sister Training Leader--just being able to communicate with so many sisters and having them look up to me as an example. Also, sometimes, I feel like exchanges are just sleepovers with some of my friends. There are some cons to it, but it is generally really fun!</div>
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I almost forgot that Halloween was also this week!! I knew that there would be a costume party with the other missionaries, but of course, I didn't prepare by buying a costume because nobody has time for that as a misionary. But, I was thinking in my head of what I had, and remembered that I had a red, black, and white skirt and also a deck of cards. I decided to dress up as the queen of hearts. Everyone loved my outfit! </div>
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Also, there was even a ping pong table there!! President Torres kept playing the whole time though because he was getting competitive and wanted to beat Elder Widmer before the activity did. I think he finally did after the fifth round. I wonder who that sounds like...*cough cough* Dad. Haha I also, was the only one that brought a healthy side of hummus and carrots...others decided to bring chips and cookies to go along with the hamburgers and hot dogs. </div>
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Another fun thing I did was that I got to make a candle this week at mutual! The Bishop wanted us to go to mutual every week, and I am glad I have an essential oil smelling candle now. </div>
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Also, I got to go on an exchange with Sisters Postoin, Richardson, and Wanner. Sorry I forgot to take pictures! I was only with my companion for 2 days last week!</div>
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As far as the actually missionary work, a 9 year-old girl in a less active family has gone to church for the past two weeks with her recently active grandma! Her name is Victoria. Hopefully, she will get baptized this month! </div>
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Also, this week, I got to be in the same area that I started my mission in. I got to see some of the members, and even got to encourage my recent convert over there to get back to church (she hasn't gone for a month and a half). Also, I got to be companions with my MTC comp again. We had a lot of fun!!</div>
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Also, some cool miracles happened. Something that President Torres has advised us to do is instead of asking people if they have a minute, ask if we could say a prayer over their home to bless it. One night, we didn't have a lot of plans set up, and we needed to contact some referrals to reach our goals. When I looked at the referrals we had, I felt that we needed to go to this one apt complex, but we only had one referral there. Then, I handed the sheet over to Sister Castro, and she said the same thing. That referral is a family and they are now new investigators and then they referred us to Pino (this 21 year old girl from Mexico). We knocked on her door, she answered, and cheered up when we said that we could bless her home. She immediately let us in and after Sister Castro's prayer, she cried, and said that that never happens. We were able to testify that it was the Spirit. She wants us to come back too! </div>
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So sorry, but I left home without my camera today. I completely forgot it :/, but at least I can write about how my week went This week was really sad but also very spiritual. One of the first things we found out this week was that our really cool investigator, Nina, passed away. She is the same age as Mom, too!! It was totally unexpected. Nina was really sick, but I thought she would recover. My companion and I were so shocked that we couldn't even pay attention to anything that her mom told us that day. I was fully expecting to see her there when we knocked on her apartment door because we only set the appointment up two days before. We didn't get to go to the funeral because we went be a day late, too. However, thanks so much to God's perfect plan of salvation, I will be able to see Nina again and will be able to be baptized for her like she wanted to do <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525816" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">next Sunday</span></span>! I know for sure that she will be okay and she is in a better place now. </div>
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Another thing that happened this week was that we did an exchange with some sisters that live in La Joya (really far from our area) and we were supposed to meet them at a church that was in McAllen at 5. We got a text from them at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525817" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:40</span></span> saying they were about to be on their way. Then, they texted us at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525818" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:10 </span></span>saying "8 miles away." Missionaries are always late, but what really worried us is that they weren't answering their phone calls or text messages. It was getting late and the thunder and lightning storm was coming fast. When it became <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525819" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6 o'clock</span></span>, Sister Enfield and I were pretty worried about them, not knowing what happened. After calling the district leader and zone leaders, I decided to call President. When he answered he told us that he was in Brownsville (about an hour away) but that he would be there <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525820" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in 20 minutes</span></span>. He got there at around <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525821" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:30</span></span> with the assistants. Everyone pretty much was informed by then, but at around <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525822" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:45</span></span> they showed up around the corner and turns out they lost the phone somewhere by their apartment and got really lost because the GPS wasn't updated. That was a crazy day. At least a very sweet member offered us a ride over to McAllen and was there to comfort us. After, her husband surprised us by having all the missionaries over for dinner to have a little ward coordination meeting. The Harding family is by far my favorite members. The little kids even knew me as "Sister Friendly" the second time I visited them.</div>
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Even if we aren't finding very many prepared people, there are always the members that we can count on. They care about us so much and I really do feel like they are my family her in Texas. </div>
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Another thing that Sister Castro and I got to do was teach seminary. Let me tell you the sacrifice it is to teach seminary on the mission. It means that instead of waking up at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525823" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:30</span></span>, you have to wake up at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525824" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:30</span></span> and do exercises barely even having time to look at the lesson plan, and then going to teach intimidating teenagers while missing out on the only day of the week that your missionary zone plays soccer. It was hard for me to have a good attitude about that one, but our zone leaders were nice enough to let us have another soccer day <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777525825" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span>. It all worked out! It actually was fun to teach seminary and share our testimonies with them. I'm grateful for the opportunity, and I know that sacrifice brings blessings!</div>
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Something that I read this week was in Doctrine and Covenants section 10. I just love it because even though Satan can do many things, the work of the Lord will never fail because God has it all under control. I know that is true.</div>
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This week, we were blessed to have Elder Kopischke come to the mission!! We had a big mission meeting with half of the missionaries (from Harlingen, Mission, and McAllen) and then Sister Castro and I got to hear from him again the next day at the Mission Leadership Council. It was sooo cool! He even called me out to do a little role play of setting up an exchange for the sisters. He basically told me I was doing it all wrong and pretty much all the STLs (sister training leaders) were doing it all wrong by setting them up with the district leaders instead of the actual sisters. It's okay now though because I am improving. Elder Kopischke also called out our mission president, President Torres, that he needs to stop having missionaries that are about to go home as zone leaders, STLs, and assistants to the President. You know what that means?? I might just be a regular missionary again! I would probably really like that! This week there was one night where I didn't have to call any district leaders or sisters. I FINALLY could write in my journal!! </div>
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Some points that I really liked of what else Elder Kopischke said is that he simply told us to all relax!! He basically was like God will take care of it--just have the faith!! I really like that because especially this transfer I have just been stressing out so much. Another thing he said is that we all need to become one with Jesus Christ. It talks about it in John 17: 20-24. Then he talked about how all the priesthood ordinances in the Church are so that we can become one with Christ.</div>
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It has really been a good week! I went on an exchange with Sister Wanner and Sister Sanchez. Sister Wanner had only 7 days in the mission, but was great! I had fun being with YSA again for the day. Also, when Sister Sanchez came with me in my area, she was just soo jealous of this great area. I really love it. The members are soo great!</div>
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Oh!!! I almost forgot to tell you about our adventure last Monday!! We got a call saying that we should get an oil change, so we took it in, and we didn't have anything to do during the meantime, so we decided to walk to HEB (a great grocery store in Texas). Also, it got it's name from Howard E. Butt or something HAHAHA. We thought it was just a couple blocks down, but it ended up being about a mile away. We had SOO much fun though! It was fun to just have time to spare. We even got two samples of sushi and switched our tags in hopes they wouldn't recognize us hahaha.</div>
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I now have a companion originally from the Dominican Republic named Sister Castro!!! She is so cool!! We are constantly laughing and she is teaching me the Dominican way of saying, "Ehhh, bueno, ya tu sabes," and a cool song to make it rain. She is literally so funny and can relate to the sisters so easily. I am so happy! We are going to speak in Spanish at least one entire day every week. Now I have had conversations in Spanish with people from Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Spain, Peru, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and some others that I cant remember right now.</div>
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Also, it is really fun in our house now because there are six instead of four, and now we have someone from Haiti (Sister Cademis), someone from Tonga (Sister Tupou), and my companion. It is awesome. Sister Cademis has only lived in the US for 2 years and she is fluent in English, Creole, French, and is learning Spanish. That is who I went on an exchange this week. See pictures!</div>
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This week, it was pretty hard to actually get a lot of things done because I got sick one day and had to stay in, and then we had transfers before that and then meetings every day as well. It was a little hard, but it is alright. I love the members here! I got to introduce Sister Castro to several of them. Also, one day, we went and visited Sister Hernandez, and she has been on my mind a lot lately, so when we came she said it was the perfect time. We shared with her Alma 36:36-37. It was super great! Those are some really cool scriptures :)</div>
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Also, we had our monthly leadership meeting with President this week, and a cool thing that he wants us to start doing is to not even say, "How are you?" But to say right away that we are representatives of Jesus Christ and bear testimony to people right away. It helps us so much to use our time more effective and find more!</div>
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On the other hand, we found some really cool people who came to church this week! Their names are Nina and Javi! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1247776139" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Monday</span></span>, we showed up at our meal appt. with the Rawlings family (he is in the stake presidency) and taught the Restoration, and invited Javi to be baptized. He is really excited for that! We thought he was going to be in a different area, but then it turns out that he stays with his step-dad about 3X each week, so we can still teach him! Yay!! He even played volleyball with us this week at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1247776140" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:30</span></span> in the morning!! That was pretty fun.</div>
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Also, Nina is a super cool, spunky lady we met. She was taught from previous missionaries, and has about 20 cats in her apartment. Her personality is kind of like Sister McGrath's (shout-out) haha. That's why I love teaching her so much! She asks so many questions too! Also, she loved conference!</div>
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This week, the daughters of the R...... family got baptized!! That is a recently activated family and the two daughters that got baptized. They have been going through a hard time financially lately, but members in the ward were so willing to help them out. So many ward members came to the wonderful baptismal service. Also, a lady in the ward got Ana and Emily some dresses for the special day. They are such sweet girls!</div>
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Also, Alex is progressing really well with the lessons. We don't know if he can get baptized this Sunday or next (because of conference), but will keep you updated. Alex even came to dinner with us at the Sale's. The Sale family feeds us every <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_702748358" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday</span></span> and this week, they made curry! Brother Sale just loved how I helped myself to three servings. I was the only one okay with the amount of spice I think. (My dad would have been coughing haha) Anyway, there Alex (who is 19) and Brother Sale (who is in his 50s) made really good friends. Alex even agreed to make the dessert next week!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the story about her. So we talked to her one day this week, and invited her to church, but she said that she didn't want to come to church because she has her church to go to in the morning. When we came back and shared the Restoration, she felt the Spirit so strong that she was like when can I come to church?? Then we went by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2082989184" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> morning, and she made the same excuse again. That was disappointing..but there are other cool people so it's alright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, I got to go on an exchange with Sister Valdez, and she taught me a lot of things like how to be a better teacher. That was awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week, we have zone conference AND women's general broadcast!! It's like Christmas! LOL! It's weird what missionaries get excited for...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also a cool thing that I learned from Preach my Gospel was that essentially charity=missionary work. Some of the sisters that I am over are struggling a lot, but when we are intelligent, charitable people, we will enjoy the mission that much more. A quote that Sister Barton has up on the wall is "How much you enjoy your mission is how converted you are to the gospel."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, remember that rat in Sinton?? Yeah, they finally killed him this week. He filled up one of those giant glue traps! Wow!</span></div>
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First I am going to talk about the pictures because I don't even know where to start, but the girl with red hair is Sister Hill and this is her second transfer on the mission. She is awesome. We had such a fun time biking in the rain, and she didn't get impatient with me not knowing the area that well. </div>
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This week, my testimony of teaching to needs has really grown. No matter what lesson or scripture we share, it will apply to something that someone is going through. I love the mission!</div>
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Also turns out that Sister Barton and I are over 16 different sisters..big change from just being over 8. That has made us super busy, but that is also super fun. I have already done 2 exchanges. One with Sister Jensen (I lived with her my second transfer) and 1 with Sister Williams. This is her third transfer, but she is awesome! </div>
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One day, we showed up at our meal appointment, and a family in a ward invited their friend over! I don't know how interested he is right now, but it is awesome that a lot of them are trying to do missionary work! </div>
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I have been reading a lot from Preach my Gospel and also the Power of Everyday missionaries about the power of missionary work and what it can do for us. It brings so much joy and happiness when we truly forget about ourselves and help someone else out either with a small act of service, a smile, a hug, or sharing a scripture. I invite you all to do something along that nature to someone this week. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I have news for you...I am leaving Sinton again...We got the transfer call last night, but we only know where people are going. I am going to be so sad to leave my pretty much sister/ best friend here, and I'm sad to leave this ward. The members are so great!! Some Texas vocabulary since I have been here is I am fixing to be 40 (like about), Mama (pronounced like Maaamawww) and y'all. The people in this area are mostly Texan, and they actually know that Sister Stanfill and I are from California with our "California" accents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a side note, this week, I ate Menudo...grossest soup ever filled with cow intestines and pig feet. I don't think I did a very good job convincing the member that I liked it, but at least he won't make it again lol. The meat is so chewy and the broth tastes like dirty dish water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, exciting news! It has been raining so much here, and I think the summer is about to end, but we will see in the new area I am going to. Sinton is the coolest place in the mision. so grateful I was here in the summer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for the pictures, one is when we cleaned out the fridge so I sat in it lol. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Also, one is a guess of where everyone is going to go at transfers. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One is of a really cute cafe that we ate at that made me a little homesick. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A really cool thing I studied this week was faith...in the bible dictionary, it has a really cool definition of faith. You should read it this week. It was part of my training in zone meeting :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sister Findlay</span></div>
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