Buenos Días everyone! Yes, President Ballard came to Vegas and we got to see him live and it was amazing. Scroll to Saturday for an amazing spiritual thought about how awesome he is. It's transfer day and I'm sure you're all so excited to hear that I have been transferred! I am moving to the La Sombra Branch and will be training a new STL! Her name is Sister Susman and she is a really awesome missionary. My transfer details threw us off a little bit because I thought for sure they were going to keep Sister Tveten and I together, but they are dissolving our area so no one is replacing us..... Since so many people are leaving to their original assignments we are busy combining all sorts of areas back together like they were pre covid. Pray that Hopa still gets baptized next week even with the Elders taking over. All in all I am super sad to leave the Rancho Ward, but, I feel like I have done what I needed to do here and I am ready to move onto the next chapter of my mission in the La Sombra Branch. Everyone calls it the promised land..... so I'm super intrigued to find out what that means ;)
Monday: Today was a good day, we basically did language study, tried to set up a ton of lessons and then planned for our zone council and district council trainings. Our zone has been struggling in being unified and so we are excited to give a training on how we can work better as a team. Let's just say we made the zone leaders do 50 pushups while everyone watched..... ;) don't worry it was for an object lesson.
Tuesday: Today we gave our training in District council about being 100 percent responsible. It is an amazing BYU devotional and I highly recommend reading it if you're wanting to know how you can change your life and your relationships with others. After that we gave our Zone Council training Coach Carter style and made the zone leaders do so many pushups. We related it to Christ in that he carries us through our hard times as long as we put in the work. I think our zone full of boys really liked it and it brought the spirit of unity which was our goal. After that we had an awesome lesson with the Jones family. They have 5 kids and are working on becoming active again in the church! They promised they'd come this Sunday, which is super exciting. We can wait to see them there. We finished the night with a Centro Hispano shift and started off our first of three exchanges in a row.......
Wednesday: Today I got to go on exchanges with Sister Mini! She is awesome and we had a great time. We taught this amazing lady who is working on some word of wisdom problems so she can get baptized. If there's one thing I've seen on my mission it's that God can truly take our burdens no matter how addictive or strong they are, as long as we are responsible and allow him to help us. She has overcome so much already and we can't wait to see her baptized. It was for to visit up in Norther Vegas and get to see the different culture there. I love Sister Mini and am super sad she is leaving to Chile in 2 weeks.
Thursday: Today I was on exchanges with Sister Wilson. I've been her STL for three transfers so it was super fun that we got to go on exchanges again! We both came out to Vegas together and it was a really special experience to connect with her yet again. We grinded on the contacting game and contacted over 40 people which was amazing! I'm so glad I get to learn from these girls and see their successes and trials. It's a super humbling experience to be one of the older Sisters in the mission and I'm so grateful that I get to help the newer and older girls grow.
Friday: Today was exchanges with Sister Lafleur! I love her! We got to stay in the area so that was awesome. We got to talk to a ton of our friends. We had a meeting with the Crump family, had a lesson with Alex and Ellie, and got to do some finding activities. All in all an amazing day. Alex told us he quit his job and is going to be able to come to church on Sunday which is huge! We can't wait to see him progress towards baptism.
Saturday: Today was the day of all days. One, I finally got to be back with my companion, and two, PRESIDENT BALLARD CAME TO VEGAS! He was the keynote speaker at Harry Reid's funeral and so after that he came and spoke to the missionaries for 4 hours! He is surely more than a man as Joseph Smith would say. I could talk for hours about my experiences with him and what he talked about but I'll just mention 3 main points. Number one is that Elder Ballard is hilarious, he has the most dry sense of humor and it really made him so relatable and personal, even though he was talking to 500+ missionaries. Number Two, the church must be true because I have never felt the spirit so strong in my life. Elder Ballard's presence brought with him the strongest sprit, you could feel it when he walked in and you could tell when he left. Three, engrave the Savior into you heart. President Ballard took about 2 hours making one point, and that point was to learn all we can about Jesus Christ, so that we can love him enough to be successful in life and as missionaries. He told us if we learn all we can, and study about him, our love for him will grow, our success will increase, and we will have greater joy. At the end of his talk he pronounced and Apostolic blessing on all of us and that was pretty much the coolest moment of my life. So, all in all I have a new favorite Apostle and I am revising my study plans ;)
Sunday: Today we had Alex come to church which was huge! We was a little nervous but he made it through sacrament meeting and That was awesome. We are so excited to see where he goes and hopefully he can get baptized.
Monday: Today was full of goodbyes, packing and prepping out area to be double transferred. We also had an amazing lesson with Shannon and are hoping she continues to progress!
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