May 18, 2015

Buenos tardes familia!!!  Well this week was TRANSFERS!!!!  Hna. Rivera finished her mission today and it was so hard to say goodbye to her!  We were such good friends and i learned so much from her!  I am going to miss her TONS!  But I also got my new companion today!!  Her name is Hermana Pacheco and she is from Mexico!  She was in the MTC with me so i at least got to know her a little there :) She has been on her mission for 6 months and i have only been here for 7 so we are both pretty new and pretty nervous haha but I am really excited for this transfer!  And President Rowley made me senior companion!  I was really surprised at that but i am excited at the same time! I mean there really isnt much of a difference between senior and junior companion but still I feel pretty cool :) 

This week was such a good week!  Hna. Rivera finished her mission working hard haha and a lot of good things happened this week!  This week we found 2 amazing new investigators!  Their names are Fiorela and Diego.  Fiorela is 21 years old and Diego is 16 years old.  They are siblings and they are so amazing!  We invitied them to an activity and to church and they went to both!  And Diego really liked Church.  He made a ton of friends his first week and they invited him to play soccer with them and he was super happy because they just moved here and he hadnt found any friends so he was really greatful :)  They are really excited to keep learning more and want to keep coming to church!  They also they they want to invite their family to listen to us to because they really like how ``family friendly`` we are haha :)  But i am super excited for them and i really hope everything goes well this week!  I am pretty nervous because of our transfers but i am super excited at the same time :)

Dallin!!!!  CONGRATS!  You are an offical doctor now!  That is so cool!  I wish i couldve been there for your graduation and everything but I was there in spirit so that counts right? :)

And Braden!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!  I hope you had a good day too :)  I bet it was so fun to be all together again :)  Soon ill get to be there too haha :)

Mother have fun in Pheonix :)  I bet its hotter here than it is there right now:)

Well that is it for my week.  Gosh time is flying by SOOO super fast!!!  I honestly can not believe it!  But I am loving my mission so much.  I have met such amazing people and i am not sure that i am going to want to come home! I have a good feeling about this transfer :)  

I love you all SOOO MUCH!  You are honestly the best family in the world!  :)  Have such an amazing week and I will talk to you all next week!  :)

Love,

Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)

Papa!!!
How was the Dominican Republic???  That sounds like such a cool experience!  I want to do something like that when I get home as well!  And dad you have to learn spanish before i get home so we can talk in spanish!  It really isnt that hard after a while haha :)  But really that sounds like such an amazing adventure!  I am glad that you made it home safely though and I am sure that Momma missed you a ton too :)

And Sarah is home??????  I honestly feel like she just left!  Time honestly flies by so fast here that is not even funny!  I feel like I just left and in less than a year I am going to be home!  But really I am so incredibly happy here and things are going soooo good :)  I was also made Senior Companion this transfer so if you have any advice for me let me know!  I was honestly really surprised that President made me Sr. Comp because i havent been out that long and my companion has been out the same amount of time as me but she speaks spanish haha! But it will be a good experience for me im sure :)

I wish you couldve been there for mothers day too...  But it was soo good to be able to see everyone and to get to talk to mom and everything :)  Everyone looks like they are doing so good and that makes me so happy :)

Gosh mission life really is just the greatest :)  It definitly isnt easy but I am really just so happy here :)  I have met some of the most amazing people and have had some of the most amazing experiences and everything is just so good :)

Thank you so much for you email papa.  I miss you soooo much and love you tons!  Give all the kids hugs for me!  Have such a good week and I will talk to you again in just another short week! :)  Love you dad :)

Love, 

Hermana Lauren Jane :)