Thursday, October 9, 2014

Conference was amazing!

Conference was amazing! I loved the Spanish speakers. I could follow along with the Spanish very well. And the Portuguese one I could understand a little bit, but I'm still grateful for the English audio they had. :) I could understand the the Portuguese because, as Hna. Stanford put it "It's like French and Spanish got together and had a baby." Portuguese is really similar to Spanish.

Today in Hna. Moleli's birthday! So we celebrated by having Funfetti cake with Christmas frosting! (I made a gluten-free one--just a box of gluten-free yellow cake mix and rainbow sprinkles. I didn't have frosting, though). We decided it was a holiday cake, so we sang to Hna. Moleli (to the tune of "We Wish you a Merry Christmas": "we wish you a happy birthday, we wish you a happy birthday, we wish you a happy birthday and a happy Halloween!" She laughed. It was good. Tonight, though, we've got two dinners to go to! (Happy birthday in Hispanic language). We're excited.

The car of the other hermanas in our district broke down on Saturday. They got into a car accident and cracked the rim of the wheel. There's no injuries, they're fine. We've been spending the day with them, so they got to eat Funfetti cake, too! and we're going to the first dinner with them, and then the member we're eating with is going to help them out with their appointments. It's gonna be good.

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Teaching on Facebook

We did get to see the session for women of general conference, Hna. Moleli and I. It was awesome! President Utchdorf gave a really good talk about how God loves us no matter what our makeup or hair looks or what our social status is on Facebook or Instigram or Twitter. It was powerful testimony to me that Heavenly Father cares about us so much. I loved the song of the Korean girls singing "I love to See the Temple." They were so cute!

This last week, our zone had a goal of getting 75 lessons with a member present. It boiled down to 6 per companionship. It was kind of amusing, because before district meeting, Hna. Moleli and I were going for 3 member present lessons for the week. So when they announced that we were going to do 6 per companionship, we looked at each other and said, "ok, we'll double our weekly goal. No problem!" We were really nervous about it, but we worked hard and we got 5 as a companionship. As a zone, we had 74. One less than our goal but we did so good this last week! 

Hna. Argueta has been transferred to Old Town. One of the Hermanas there was sent home so she could recuperate from Lyme's Disease, and Hna. Argueta was sent to fill her place, so now it's just me and Hna. Moleli again, just like in the CCM! We're having so much fun together! She helps me laugh everyday and I help her with her Spanish-it works and we love it!  

We had our sisters conference this last Friday and it was all about health and nutrition! Sister Riggs gave us permission to buy a small crockpot for our apartments if they don't have one already. Crockpot meals are perfect for a busy schedule like missionaries'! We learned a lot of workout moves, too. We were sore the next day, but we've now got the moves! 

Teaching lessons on Facebook is really interesting. It definitely not the same as teaching lessons face-to-face, but they're going good. Invited a few people to go to church where they live, so I got to look up where the chapels were in their areas-I had no idea there were so many! Crazy!-it was a lot of fun, though, and it was good for me. 

Being a missionary's great. I love it. 

Thank you for your prayers. I appreciate them! 

Love you!

Hermana Moleli and Hermana Brown