"It's a great day to be alive because the sun's still shining when I close my eyes………..."
Hola a todos! (Hello everyone!)
So this week has been so good! Every day has truly been a GREAT day to be alive! Also Happy Presidents day everyone!
We had an awesome family home evening with an amazing lady from our Branch, Sister Martin! Her husband is a truck driver and he is out driving right now so we had a great time with her. We shared experiences about how we have all come closer to Christ. I shared an experience that I had when I got in a car accident and I felt so alone and I was so ashamed that I had gotten in the car accident. I shared how I prayed specifically for the ability to apply the atonement in my life. In those moments I truly felt the Saviors love encircled around me. I had not thought of that experience for a long time but I felt so impressed to share it and it felt really good. I really am so thankful for the time the hard times that I have had and that they have made me stronger.
This week I went on exchanges with Sister Andreasen. Wow! It was an incredible exchange! We are so a like and so I was able to help her because she is going through some things that I went through earlier in my mission. She has been out about 9 months and is hitting a rut so I tried to pull her out of it. It was such an amazing experience to listen to her and to feel the Spirit guiding me in how to help her.
Also this transfer I have really been praying for charity and for us to have unity in our companionship and my prayers are truly being answered. We have had some amazing conversations this week and we are getting a long very well! I have learned the importance of communication on my mission. I would prefer to just keep things to myself so that I don't get upset but it is so much easier to just express my concerns and then try to solve them together.
This week we have had so many opportunities to do our lessons with some of our members. It has been so fun to get to know them better and to help them find opportunities to share the gospel.
I truly feel so at home here in Rio Vista! For Valentine's day the four of us made sugar cookies and cards for some of our favorite members and the less active members that we are teaching and then spent the night delivering them and singing Love One Another to them. It was such a great opportunity to express our love to these wonderful people!
We are just trying to keep on talking to everyone! This week we went to the little town of Isleton and we truly talked to everyone that we saw. We found a good amount of people who speak Spanish and so we plan on going back there this week! I have noticed that as we talk to everyone no matter what they look like or what language they speak we see a small miracle from our efforts.
One last thing, this weekend we have had dinner or spent time with a lot of families with little kids and it has truly touched me how much little kids look up to the missionaries. The song "I hope they call me on a mission" is so true. Little kids truly aspire to be a missionary. Well I don't know if I really hoped that I would be called on a mission when I was little but now I am so thankful that I was called on a mission! It is the best calling ever! So if you have little kids and they have questions about missions or missionaries please send their questions my way!
I love you all so so much! Have a great day and a great week!
Love you!
Hermana Hillary:)
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