My dad's miracle and 16 months... so crazy!!! June 8, 2020

Hello everyone! I hope this week was fantastic for you all and that you're still seeing miracles! If any of you read my email last week then you will remember that yes, my sisters got in a crash.. but no worries they're ok! What I didn't write about (I didn't know about it when I wrote my email) was the miracle that occured when my dad helped on the rescue call of the family in Logan Canyon. If we're friends on FB, I shared it the other day and would encourage you to read it! My dad was the rescuer that got caught under the water and almost didn't make it, but once again I want to THANK YOU all, from the bottom of my heart, for any and all the prayers you have said on my behalf and the behalf of my family. Last week was a sure testament to me that prayers are answered and that Heavenly Father watches over the families of His missionaries.
We had AMAZING things happen last week and even more AMAZING things will be happening this week :)

So we started off the week pretty great! We had like 8 lessons last Monday in the span of 3 hours, and then I got to call my family and I heard about the crazy experience and miracles my family witnessed last week and then I also had one of the BEST surprises ever!! Kenz got home from her mission two weeks ago and last week she went over to my house and I got to TALK with her!! It was the weirdest thing hahah but it was so fun :)

Tuesday we had one of those weird days where nobody really wanted to answer us hahah. We spent about an hour just on the computer at the church scheduling our FB posts. We realized it is a lot easier to take one hour every week or every two weeks and schedule out the post, instead of 30 minutes every single day, so we did that and it was really nice! We were able to have kind of an unplanned video call with Jesse! He is someone we have been teaching for a while but has been going through a lot in his marriage and family.... But we were able to video chat with him while he was at work and have a wonderful lesson and he is thinking about baptism!!
That evening we also went on a drive out in the country side and tried to find a quiet place to film our musical number for the devotional we had on Sunday through our FB pages. If you haven't seen it, it'll surprise you because I've been learning a new skill and I did it in our musical number so go watch it!! But that night we weren't able to find a good place because so many cars kept driving by and we couldn't hear it hahah

Wednesday we were able to go to Eagle Pass and have district council in person!! It was a little scary to go there because Eagle Pass has like a thousand cases (I'm exaggerating) BUT they do have a lot hahah. But our district council was fun and it's crazy because everybody in our district hasn't even been in our district for 6 weeks yet, but ME, I've been in this district for 8 months... hahah but I LOVE IT!! So many missionaries have come in and out of our district since I've been here but I love it and I love being in Carrizo :)
That night we were finally able to find somewhere to film our musical number! We thought of the Johnsons an how they live far enough away from a busy road and their backyard has a perfect overview of the Texas flat-ness hahah. But it was perfect and it only took us a few tries  until we got it good enough for the devotional :)

Thursday morning we RAN two miles.. hahah it was torture. We've been doing a fun exercise and meal plan though and I've loved it! IDK if any of you care to know what it is, so if not you can skip this part but I'm going to include it because I want to remember it in the future that we did this meal plan hahah.
EXERCISE-
Tuesday - kickboxing video
Wednesday - yoga
Thursday - running
Friday - abs
Saturday - biking
MEAL PLAN-
Monday - chicken & asparagus
Tuesday - fish & corn
Wednesday - ground turkey lettuce wrap
Thursday - curry OR chicken pesto spaghetti squash
Friday - fish & steamed carrots
Saturday - leftovers
Sunday - BFAST for dinner (sausage, eggs & pancakes)
Anyways, that's been fun to do and helped me get back into shape a little bit! That morning we were able to go and do some service with her and that was fun!
That night we did some book of mormon drop offs and went to Big Wells for a while and sat in the truck while we friended like EVERYONE that lived in Big Wells on FB and tried asking them if we can bring them a book of mormon and absolutely none of them answered hahahah but it was a fun drive out and back and we listened to some good Christian music :) If you haven't heard "together" by king and country, I recommend it :)

Friday was CRAZY!!! We started our day with MLC and it was super awesome! There were amazing trainings and one of my favorites was on 'personal development' from Sister Sauan and Sister Jacobs, and they are seriously some of my favorite sisters I have ever met. It helped motivate me as well to continue working on myself and in turn, that can help others as well!
We had a few lessons with Phillip and Vicente and Kino, and it was awesome, and we were able to talk with our families and that was fun!
We had our live bible study about service on our Facebook page and it was fun!
I also hit 16 months on Friday. That's crazy.

Saturday we went on like a 5 mile bike ride and we get it done pretty quickly and I wish we could do more but there are dogs EVERYWHERE and we don't really want to die hahah. we had lots and lots of lessons and we were also able to find four people! We also had our zone call and it was good!

Sunday we had soooo many lessons, and messaged like absolutely everybody and we were able to share lots and lots of messages about Jesus Christ and I always LOVE talking about Jesus Christ :)
We also fasted yesterday and it is always quite a challenge for me because of my thyroid not working BUT with the strength from Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ, I am always able to live through it even though sometimes I feel like I'm going to die hahha.
We were able to watch our live devotional yesterday as well that we have been working on with the spanish pages in our mission (half the people in our area speak or understand spanish so we have it cross-posted to our page as well) and we were able to have our musical number in there!!! If you haven't seen it and you're curious what I have been learning, go to Church of Jesus Christ in Carrizo Springs and check out our devotional from yesterday!!

This week will be super duper awesome like usual :) We are going to have a mission wide Sisters call on Wednesday and I am super excited for that! Except I'm not excited at the same time because Sister Sauan has to give her departing testimony and even though I am soooo excited to hear it, I know for sure she's gonna cry and in turn I'm going to cry and then that means I'M NEXT aghhh. So many weird feelings.
This saturday, JOEL, who is Amandas FIANCE (yes, they got engaged again hahah) but he is going to be getting baptized in Uvalde!! It's soo crazy because he was super against the church BUT he is proof that the church and the gospel and most importantly Jesus Christ can change hearts! I'm super excited because Sister Persia and I started teaching him right after Amandas baptism, and then after a few lessons we had to give him over to the Elders in Uvalde because that's where he lives, BUT we got permission from our mission president that we can go and I'm super excited!! I love seeing the gospel and how it can change people :)

I don't have much more time because we have looooots of stuff to do today BUT I love you all and I'm eternally grateful for each and every one of you and all  you've done for me!

Happiest of birthdays TODAY to my grandpa Terry and my little cousin Brooklyn! I love you both and hope you have the most fabulous day ever!

p.s. if you have any ideas of fun gospel related videos we can make for our FB page, please email them to me!!
Have a great week y'all!
con mucho amor,
hermana griffin :)

Practicing our song...

Talking with Kenzie and my family!