Milagros In The Desert: Semana 29 Red Rock YSA & Foothills Ward: The craziest week!!!!

GUYS! SO MUCH HAPPENED! So much that I can't even have a short blurb for all you who don't read the whole email. It's too good. So buckle up peeps, it's about to get crazy.

Monday: I love being in the YSA because every Monday is FHE. We played broom hockey and I may or may not have broken our broom.... oof but we had a blast. Sadly we found out that our roomies are getting split up due to logistics and we get a new roomie? Maybe?!....! Crazy way to end the night.

Tuesday: Today was a huge day!! We ended up having a pretty rough morning because our roommates Sister Shannon found out she has to leave today. So, we barely made it out the door our hair all ruffled and our spirits deflated. But, we were determined to make it a good day! So, we did our studies, did some awesome Facebook and ended off the day with probably the best lesson of my entire mission. We taught Hollis the gospel of Jesus Christ and invited her to be baptized. She said yes!!!! She is getting baptized on the 14th of August and we are more than excited for her. The spirit was so strong and I know that she has felt the spirit so strongly that she can't deny it. We ran off from that lesson to a second exchange with our STL's! How fun.

Wednesday: I got to go to Rancho today with Sister Knight and I had such a blast! They live with the cutest member and I felt like I was at my grandpa Jerry's house like my family was last week. The only thing missing was my grandpa! Green carpet and all. We did like 6 lessons back to back and getting to teach with Sister Knight is honestly really awesome. She is about to go home so she has pretty much perfected teaching. I learned a lot from her. We went out and got matching shakes at Freddy's and don't worry we took pictures this time. Over all it was an amazing, stress free, leadership free, much needed, day.

Thursday: Today was yet another crazy bust day! We had a meeting with Devonte, and taught the Cassolari family about family history. Then, we went to this amazing dinner and Sister Godfrey invited a nonmember friend, and a recent convert family, and a part member family. Aka missionary heaven. We had traditional Japanese food, which I didn't love, but totally worth it because we got to chat with so many people! We ended the day off with study group and our friend Daniel came! He has become a lot more consistent and that is really awesome so hopefully we put him on date soon.

Friday: This morning started out with our last new missionary training meeting... :( Sister Lusk is getting so old. It was really nice to hear from other trainers too and their struggles and awesome ideas to become better teachers and trainers. After our rocking meeting we jam packed our day with studies, an awesome dinner with our favorite single lady sister Gardner, and last ended with yet another lesson with Hollis. We had an awesome lesson about commandments and she already follows the word of wisdom! Look at our luck. The Lord really has prepared her for this and we are so lucky to be her teachers. Sister Clawson and Mariam were both there which was awesome. We moved her date to August 14th so that Sister Clawson can come, and we can get some friends in the ward to support her too!

Saturday: We really chalked in the lessons this week we had four more today! We had a come follow me study with Amanda, and then met this really cool guy named Erik. We had a lesson with him and made him a new person! He really wants to learn and is coming out of a hard time in life. After Erik, we had a cool miracle. We tried visiting this guy named Alex but knocked on the wrong door and a cute older member couple let us in, gave us some water and cookies and sent us on our way. Then we knocked on the next door and it was Alex! He was nice but not super interested :( bummer. We ended the day with Ery on zoom and had a good discussion with him all about God's hand in our lives. We had a little dinner date with Sisters Tiechart and Crosby afterwards and I am grateful every day that we have roommates.

Sunday: Today we had our usual 8 hours of church and Hollis came! Woo! Then we went home and worked on a new missionary challenge program for the YSA. While we were doing that, we got an online referral and were able to chat with her! She is super interested in the gospel and we set up a video call with her in a couple days. Hopefully she lives in our YSA! We finished the day with an amazing lesson with Raul. He is a new move in and recent convert who is preparing for the temple!! And his other missionaries aren't in this mission so we might get to go with him! Ahhh!

We had so many spirit filled lessons this week and I feel like the main theme was God truly loves all of us so much that he made this amazing individual plan for us. One that allowed us to grow and make mistakes, but never alone. Love you all! Hakuna Matata ;) enjoy the funky silly pictures!