October 26, 2015

Momma!!!!  How the heck are you???  :)  I have been looking forward to getting this email from you alllll week! :)  

As far as my week, well it has been good and bad.  I will start with the good parts :)  We went to our 5 week training this week and it was sooo good!  Can i just say that i LOVE President and Hermana Rasmussen?  Honestly they are so hilarous and yeah i just love them :)  In 2 weeks we are going to spend our pday making cookies with Hermana Rasmussen  so that will be fun :)  We also have been teaching our investigators and have contacted some others with such good potnetial!   I am super excited for this next week :)  We taught Angel this week but he was sick so he couldnt come to church.  But he has been reading and is still super excited for everything :)  And thats about the only cool lesson we had because at the end of this week.. Me and my companion got sick....  I honestly dont know what we had. I am actually still sick but its alright.  I just had a horrible headache and my whole body hurt and i just felt so sick.  I speant one whole night throwing up.  But i am feelign a little bit better.  I felt well enough to go play soccer with the zone this morning but i am really regretting it now... 

Another hard thing i had to do was... Well i had to ask for an int erview with President.  And dont  get scared haha i didnt do anything wrong..  But one of the companions i had a couple transfers ago was really not doing good things.  I honestly didnt want to talk to him but i couldnt push aside the feeling so I had to go tell him.  It was super hard for me.   He did know most of what i told him though but I also told him things he did not know.   I know it was the right thing to do but i have been stressing about it.  But other  than that everything is good here :)

Now i will try to answer your questions momma :) Up to this week i was feelig great!  I am not sure what happened to me....  And i have been stuggling with sleep for awhile.  I am ALWAYS exhausted but when its time to go to bed i just dont sleep well.  Sometimes i do, but other times not at all.  But i still am feeling good so its okay :)

I live in an apartment thats ubove a members house.  I like it :)  its super small and has  a million spiders in it but its pretty cozy.  And we do have a pensionista and she cooks really good and healthy t oo.  She also washes our clothes for us.  And my shoes and clothes are champs so far :)

And about the travel plans.  everything sounds good!  I would like another day in Piura to be able to head to Tumbes...  but if not thats totally fine.  I already know which famililes i want to visit and everything and it shouldnt take too long i dont think.  So whatever works for you guys. 

And yes i am pretty sure i will be with Hermana Lang for at least one more transfer :)  Transfers are actually next week!  But yeah im sure we will stay together.  :)

And also i got your package!!!!  The stuff in it didnt last long because i like sharing haha.  And some people here have never had poptarts or any of the other stuff so of course i had to share the love right?  But thank youSOOO much!  You are the best momma :)

Well that is it for my week!  I love you all soooo much! Have such a good week!  

Love,

Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)

October 12, 2015

Good afternoon!!!!

Hows it going???  Wow this week went by so fast...  Time is just going by super fast!  But I am loving every second that I am here :)

So this week was another good week of teaching and learning!  We have been so busy everyday and I always forget what we have done but i will try to remember!

This week we found such a good new investigator!  Her name is Sonia.  She was a reference of some girl in a different ward so we went and visited her.  She is a single mom with 4 kids and she is just looking for something to help her get a long.  She is very worried about her 14 year old son and he was in our lesson as well :)  We taught them about the restoration and they paid so much attention during the lessson.  The spirt was sooo strong!  She is so excited to learn more and to pray and do anything it takes to find more peace in her life.  We have another lesson with her tomorrow so i am super excited for that! :)

We also broke through a barrier with Angel this week!  He finally opened up and told us all his problems and doubts and everything!  It was honestly a miracle...  We also got the chance to meet his sister who is a member yesterday!  She is also working super hard with him.  Yesterday he said that he knows he will be baptized but he just wants to really feel like its the right choice beforehand.  We will definitly continue to help him with that :)

We are still teaching Karla but she is going downhill.....  I am super worried about her.  She just doesnt do what she needs to do.  She isnt reading the book of mormon or coming to church and wants us to come to her house every night but i am at the point where we honestly dont have time for that.  I am super stressed about it but i dont know what else we can do to help her.....  Pray I guess..

I am still loving training!  Hermana Lang is just so ready to meet all of our goals and meet new people and just do everything so it really helps me out a ton :)

Oh and the YSA group in our ward had a party for my birthday this week and cracked a bunch of eggs on my head so that was fun hahaha!  I think i have some pictures of the aftermath that ill send if i have time :)

And the best part of my week....  wow its too hard just to pick one!  But it was probably the multizone conference we had!  It was AMAZING!  We talked about the faith to see miracles and the mission is now making a bunch of miracle movies so go to Presidents blog to see them!  

The worst part...?  there is no bad part of the mission mama haha!  :)  i am just super happy with everything right now :)

Thanks for everything family!  I love you all TONS and i will talk to you all next week!  Be safe, have fun!  

Love

Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)

October 5, 2015

Family!  Wow Aubree are you kidding me!!!!  Sub-3 marathon! That is sooo cool! Maybe thatll be me someday..... yeah probably not!  But congrats sis! :)

This week was a good week!  My birthday was sooo good!  We went to general conference, investigators came!, we got to watch one of the sessions in English, and it was all so good :)  One of my investigators invited me over for dinner and treats and all sorts of good stuff!  It was so fun! :)  They are the family i am hoping to get baptized soon so we will see :)

This week was a slower week working wise because it was soo hectic...  We had a bunch of meetings and general conference so our numbers were a little down but we definiltly worked.  Me and Hermana Lang get along super well haha she is so funny!  And she is super motivated to work and it helps me out a ton.  Her spanish gets better everyday and she is really improving!  So everything is going super well right now!  

So this week we had a big meeting about El Niño...  Im not sure if youve heard anything about it but i guess its supposed to be a pretty big thing.  We have to prepare emergency back packs and do a bunch of stuff to be ready.  I guess its just a ton of rain that comes and floods and destroys everything.  Im pretty excited for it :)  but i guess we will see what happens..

General Conference was sooo good!  I got to watch all of the sessions, most of them in english!  And I loved every second of it!  The talks were SOOO good and I learned so much!  I hope all of you got to watch it too!  And i am already excited for the next one in 6 months!

All my investigators are doing super good!  Angel (who invited me over for my birthday) is progressing sooo much and it makes me sooo happy!  He started taking his Book of Mormon to work with him and he is now in like chapter 11 or something!  He came to general conference and loved it and now we just need to see what happens this week!  I love this family and hope soooo bad that they get baptized!  

Well, that is about it for my week!  Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!  I am going to try to respond back to everyone but sorry if i dont have enough time!  Thanks for everything and have such a good week!  Love you all TONS! :)

Love, 

Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell