Monday was a great day, but we did experience one of our major downs that day! We have been teaching Jimmy for a while, and he was the one that lived on an Air Force Base, but was going to come back to our area for a couple weeks and wanted to get baptized while he was here, which would have happened tomorrow. BUT I noticed on Monday that he had left our group chat super randomly, and so we made another one and asked why and he said his girlfriend had gone through his phone and got super upset he was talking with us (about God?.. weird haha) and so he said he couldn't meet with us anymore. We asked the Elder missionaries where he lived to try and reach out, but Jimmy asked them to stop messaging him as well which was the most sad thing ever :( He was planning on being baptized tomorrow (which is also my companions birthday) so that was a bummer when we had to cancel that. But that was the biggest bummer we experienced.
We started talking with Ricardo and were able to meet him at the church and give him a Book of Mormon! He has been pretty cool to talk with and interested in learning more!
My comp also made cookies so that was super delicious but that started this whole week of baking, which was a bad decision sometimes haha.
Tuesday was quite the day as well! We started with our Mission - wide Sisters Call, and that was fun but super crazy! There are eight Sisters going home this transfer, so all eight of us shared one thing that has helped us feel joy during our mission and that was super sweet to hear from all of those other sisters as well!!
We had to drive to Eagle Pass and have some vehicle inspections, so that was good! The whole zone was there so I was able to see the only other sisters in our zone, Hermana Anderson and Hermana Groll and that was fun! Then we got Dairy Queen and so did the Elders in our district and that has kind of become our tradition as a district haha.
That night we had our Sister Training Leader Call, and were able to council together about how we can continue to help the sisters in our stewardships, and one of the sweetest moments in my mission happened during that call! We were discussing about how we can help the sisters, even through virtual exchanges, and Sister Flores is now a Sister Training Leader and she shared about how she has "had one exchange that she absolutely loved and that completely changed her life" and that was with me, and then she went on to explain how I truly cared for her and loved her, and that was just the sweetest thing I have ever heard. That was one of my goals was to be able to touch someones life, and knowing that I helped Sister Flores made me so happy and gave me so much joy. She truly changed my life and changed my outlook on things. I love her.
Wednesday we spent all morning doing service at the Food Bank Distribution in Carrizo, and we were outside in the heat from 8 to 12, and it was fun and good to be able to talk to people face to face, and we were also able to chat with one of the other workers there named Myranda and I talked to her all about what we do as missionaries and why in the world we would volunteer to come and do the things she gets paid for, hahah and talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ a little bit and it was just all super awesome!
We went home after service and put away all of the food they gave us (which was a ton) and we were feeling absolutely exhausted from being in the sun for 4 straight hours, so we texted our mission nurse and got permission to take a nap, but we first had a video call lesson with Dro, and it went good but neither of us were feeling good which was a bummer because it could've been such a better lesson if we were on our A game haha.
My companion made truffles as her treat for that day and wow they were super duper delicious! We had a fun night of taking pictures and laughing as well which is always so needed! I can't say it enough how thankful I am for all of my companions I have had, but especially this one because I really wanted to end my mission on a high note, and she is definitely helping me do that!
Thursday we went and did some paper work for Ms B, and that is always fun! Ms B is super cute and wants to feed us before I leave haha she is super sweet to us!
Hermana Brooks made me a tres leches cake because that is my favorite kind of cake, and it was her first time making the cake, and it was sooooo good!! I am still excited to have Costa Vida Tres Leches, but her cake was pretty good too :)
That night we had to make a video about a talent we have, so we did a kickboxing video and it is soooo funny haha I will try and attach it as well, but we had a very good time making the video.
Friday we were able to have a training as a mission on how to conduct device audits (because there are a lot of missionaries that came from foreign missions that didn't have phones before) and that was good!
We made a chocolate cake for Jose's baptism and my comp is professional at baking hah it ended up so good and tasted good too!!
We had our Live FB study on the prophet Noah and talked about three main principles that we learned from him which is Preparation, Obedience, and Covenants and that was fun!
Saturday we had District council and that was awesome! Our district leader talked about Charity, and how there are like 3 main principles of Charity : Love for Christ, Love from Christ, and Love like Christ, and I loved that!
Afterwards we made a district run to Dairy Queen, and then the elders still don't have much food or anything in their apartment since they are the first ones living there, so we gave them some of the food that we got from the service on Wednesday and also gave them some flour and sugar and baking essentials so they could bake some cookies haha.
I got to have another exchange with Sister Obray and it was super awesome! She is super cute and such a dedicated missionary and I have learned a lot from her through our exchanges!
Sunday was such an amazing day!! We got to have virtual church and Dee and a few other people we are teaching were able to join!
We also had Jose's baptism!! It was seriously so awesome and he had his family members there to support him! It was a little awkward for me because some of his family members are the members we used to do service with on their ranch, and for those of you who have been with me on my mission journey for a while might remember what happened, but that same member is Jose's half brother, so he was at the baptism and it was just a little awkward haha. But Jose's baptism was super special and Phillip was able to baptize him which was also so special to witness! It was a little stressful too because right when we pulled up to the church it was raining soooo hard, and we had to get papers inside the church as well as the cake, so we had to book it from the truck to the church and just those 50 ft got us absolutely soaked so that wasn't super fun haha. Jose was baptized and confirmed and received the Holy Ghost and also received the Aaronic Priesthood which is seriously so special! He is already asking about starting family history work and preparing for the temple, and it is so amazing to see and witness!
Last night we had a meeting with members and missionaries here in the border district, and we talked about our efforts of having missionary work and service and family history work all come together in the work of salvation and just working together to make it all easier.
This morning I woke up to the cutest FB post ever! I'll attach the screenshot I took, but Veronica posted on Facebook and it's moments like these that are seriously the cutest and my most favorite moments ever. I am eternally grateful for this time I have had as a missionary and to be able to meet the people I have, but IT AINT OVER YET!!
This week we have a killer week planned! We are keeping super busy and doing all that we can every single day! Tomorrow we get to have a SUPER FANTASTIC day cause it's my comps birthday and my mom sent her some gifts and her mom sent decorations so I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night and decorate!!! Then we will be having a tour of Temple Square from Sister Persia (we are so stoked) and celebrating her birthday by eating cheesecake!!!
We have MLC on Friday and it will be super weird to have that be my last one haha.
We are hoping and praying that Jason gets baptized on Friday so if everybody could pray for that, that'd be sooo appreciated!!
Y'all already know how much I love you and how appreciative I am of you and how much I can't wait to see y'all!!
Have a wonderful week!!
Hermana Griffin :)
She's my Favorite!
Yummy Blizzards!
District Tradition!
Exchange with Sis Obray!
Matchy Matchy...
These were delicious!
Cleaning the church is so fun!
We found a little friend!
Jose's baptism!
Veronica's post!
Our fun talent video!
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