September 28. 2015

MOMMA!  I am sooo glad you got my package!  I was super worried about it.  Did everything get there okay?  I sure hope so!  

This week was SO GOOD!  I love Hermana Lang!  I am sure you already know about her haha and who does Sam know that knows her?  I didnt understand that part?  But yeah she is so ready to learn and work and everything!  I was praying SO HARD about the sister i was going to train but I know that Heavenly Father answered my prayers :)

This week we definitly did some work!  Even though i was in Piura most of the week we still found lots of people to teach.  One experience we had this week was super cool.  So we went to find a future investigator that i had contacted last week, so we went to her house and her and her daughter was there.  So it turns out that her daughter lived in Utah for 2 years and got baptized there!  She told us how much she wanted to get back to the church and how she also wanted to help her mom get baptized also.  She told us experiences of going to general conference and how strong the spirit was.  It was such a cool experience!  We are definitly being blessed here in Sullana :)  We also taught Angel this week and he came to church!  And we saw him on the street the other day reading his book of mormon!  I dont think i had ever been happier in my life then i was in that moment :)  

Well i had kinda a short week so i dont have much to write about.  But i am happy and everything is going sooooo well!  I cant believe how blessed I am.  This morning actually i was reading in Alma chaper 5 and honestly it hit my like never before.  If you havent read that chaper in a while i invite you all to read it again.  Its amazing!  It really made me think about my life and the things i am doing now...  

I am so happy everyone is doing good and everyone is happy!  I am glad Swiss Days went well too!  I am going to miss helping out with shirts next year but thats alright.  :)

Thanks for everything!  I hope everyone has a good week and enjoys general conference! :)

Love,

Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)

September 21, 2015

Momma!!!

Okay so things are crazy right now so sorry if this email is pretty short....  I will try and get as much information as i can in haha!

Well right now i am in Piura!  I will be reciving my new companion on wednesday but until then i have to wait here haha! I am super nervous but super excited!  I hope that i can help her and she can help me at the same time!  Yes i will be staying in Sullana! :)  The ward and the area are so amazing so i am excited to be staying there for a while :)

This week was super busy!  We did a lot of saying good bye with Hna. Shill.  That is what we did most of the week haha! And we did not have our baptism...  Hna Karla got sick and has to have an operation.  We are planning the baptism in a couple weeks.  Also this week a man gave us free honey!  Which made me so happy haha!  I love the people here :)

Yes i play my violin all the time haha!  I love it :)  I got put in charge of the ward choir for our ward conference so that should be fun.....  wish me luck haha!  All the young single adults are singing so i dont think we will get anything done in practices but whatever :)

Sorry i dont have much time to write!  But next week i will for sure give you an update of everything that is going on!  Wish me luck with my new companion!  Pray for me please!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Love you all so much!  Have such a great week! :

September 14, 2015

Hello family!  Well this pday was super crazy so i dont have much time haha but i will try to type as fast as i can!

And i am so flippin jealous that you got to go to Disneyland!!!!  And HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADDY!!!!  I can not believe that girl is 12 years old haha! Time flies by sooooo fast!

My week was SOO GOOD!  We found 8 new investigators this week and they are alll so amazing!  We challenged about half of them to baptism and they all said yes!  We just now need to get them specific dates!  The work is definitly moving forward here in Sullana and i love it!
So this week we taught Hna. Angel and his sister and his 2 nieces.  Okay and his nieces remind me SO much of addy and hope!  its not even funny!  the older one is 11 and the younger is 8.  They both have the same personalities as addy and hope and it makes me so happy whenever i am around them haha!  The older is named estrella and she just wants to get baptized as soon as possible! She is so great!  She brought her little sister to church this week and it was just them 2!  They came alone and it was so cute!  I am not sure why Angel didnt come but we will find out this week.  So we are working hard with them and their family.

We are pretty bummed because Karla didnt come to church this week so she will not be able to get baptized saturday.  But we are going to meet with her tonight and see how she feels about the next week.... I hope everything works out okay with her.  

Everything is going well with our converts and hopefully soon we will have even more!  Carlos is now planning on going on a mission!  He is getting ready to go to mission prep and everything!  She is the funniest person ive ever met and is so excited about everything :)

And today is Hna. Shills last pday!  This transfer went by SOOO fast!  I dont know where the time went!  I am super scared to train but i know itll all go well.  I am in a good area to be training :)  Oh and mother if you havent sent my package i would like to add some things if thats okay :)  not many things but... more peanut butter haha, vinalla tootsie rolls, and music on a USB.  Music from les mis, disney, and joesph and the dream coat :)  and other good appropriate music as well :) Oh and that consecrated oil for president if you still have it! And also other yummy treats you can find! :)

Well, that is is for my week! I will try and send some pics right now!  I love you all tons and have such a good week! :)

September 7, 2015

Mother!  Okay I literally died laughing at your story with Addy hahahah!  Poor girl!  But it made for some good laughs right! :)  Gosh i love you guys haha!  And Addy is going to be 12 years old!  That is SOOO crazy!  They are all growing up soo fast and i cant believe it!  Where has the time gone..?

Well, this week was AWESOME!  So we had surprise interviews with President this week!  And my interview went so well.  He is so motivated and wants to see baptisms and has some really good ideas on how to help us.  But also in my interveiw he told me to be getting ready to train a new missionary!  Woohoo!  I am super nervous hahah!  Especially because now they are having north american train other north americans!  I cant train someone who doesnt speak spanish!  I mean i speak it well but not perfectly!  So yeah i am pretty stressed.  Only 2 more weeks until transfers!  AHHH!

Also this week we taught one of our new investigators named Cynthia.  She is honestly so amazing!  Since we have started teaching her she has been praying and keeping up with commitments and doing everything.  We also found something interesting about her husband yesterday that i actually need some help with (dad, this is where you come in haha).  Her husband is a Mason.  And they had TONS  of questions about Joesph Smith with the Masons and honestly I just keep thinking about National Treasure and didnt know how to respond haha.  I know that he was a Mason but nothing else about it.  So, Father, if you have any information for me that would be super helpful so i can know what to tell them or anything that could help me.  He said nothing but good things about Joesph Smith though.  I guess they have like a brothership thing and he believes everything we teach about him.... So i guess we will have to see what happens haha! 

Also a MIRACLE happened this week!  So Carlos got baptized a few weeks ago right?  So he got his school scedule and has classes every sunday at 8:40.  I am not sure if i metioned this earlier or not about his schedule... But anyways.  Every week he has been having to just come for sacrament meeting and having to leave super fast afterwards.  Well, this sunday in the afternoon he called us and told us that his class got changed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  He can now attend all 3 hours of church from now on!!!!!!!!  We have honestly been praying for this and he has too.  He was so happy and knows now for sure that Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers.  

We have been finding and teaching a lot this week.  It has been fun to get to know the ward better and be able to connect with them.  Because honestly we cant do ANYTHING if the ward and the members arent involved.  We are so blessed here to have such great members!

Today for Pday we went to the beach with President and hermana rasmussen!  It was soooo fun hahaha!  They are honestly like our parents out here.  They are so loving and nice and do fun things with us and i love it!  I have honestly never been happier :)

Honestly i can t think of anything else i need momma haha!  I sometimes think of stuff throughout the weeks but i forget!  I will think about it this week and write some things down so i wont forget them :)  And yes i see Cole somtimes :)  its super funny because everyone knows were friends and the assistents see him all the time and give me updates as to what hes doing haha!  Its funny :)  and yeah i have been talking to Lauren!  She is doing so good!  She has 2 more weeks left int he MTC before shes offf :)  And yes i got your last package!  THank you OSOOO much!  There is NO peanut butter where i am at so i have been enjoying that TONS!  Gosh i miss american food!  There is a big lack of creativity here haaha :)

Well, that is it for my week.  I love you all SOOOO much!  I hope you have such a good week this week!  

Love,
Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)