hellllllllo friends && family to the weirdest week of my mission!!!! so much happened and then im here at the computer and can't remember anything. Forgive me for my jumbleness. First of all can I just say how much i love being a missionary? Its so weird how okay it is for me to just always be with another person and just talk to strangers all the time. I'm so grateful for the strength i recieve from my Heavenly Father because i never thought I would be in this situation, nonetheless be so immensely happy about it. la obra sigue adelante. So first off this last week we found out we were moving apartments, we were stoked because our apartment is in a pretty sketchy part of town behind a fred meyer and next to some traintracks where all the homeless people live so we were excited to move, until they told us it was in the same apartment complex just a smaller apartment hahaha but its okay because it didn't take AS long to move things and now theres less to clean! Blessings. moving took a solid day, I realized i've never actually moved everything from a house, so to all my siblings that thought i was getting out of helping the parents move i paid my dues. But now we're in our new lil apartment and we can keep doing the work! On friday we had a really cool experience in MLC. As leadership we try our best to help the missionaries reach the highest potential they can reach, and its hard being a missionary and doing all the things we need to and finding success in the midst of a lot of rejection but I've learned a lot about the power of goals. The first presidency has encouraged us to set transfer or monthly goals to help us stretch and reach our potential. we wanted to set a goal for the mission on baptisms this transfer that would push us to be closer to what we should be reaching, because quite honestly we should be baptizing a whole lot more but we have a lot of difficulties in the mission. It was humbling to kneel down as a leadership council and pray to the Lord on what His plan is for our mission, what we can do to help them, and how many people He has prepared in our mission to enter the waters of baptism this transfer. It was incredible as all of us came to the same number. I know that the Lord is in the details, He knows exactly who is ready to join His church, and He will guide our mission to them this transfer. I am so pumped! This was also Hermana Baird's last week in the field and we worked as hard as we could when we were together, but with MLC and her departing temple trip and interview and devotional we were hardly together, but we did see some crazy miracles. On tuesday night we were with a member, the relief society president, and we had a lesson fall through and our relief society president was kinda down, going through some hard stuff, so we asked if she wanted to go knocking with us and she said yes! We started knocking around in the apartment complex and nobody was answering really and I knew that God was going to provide a miracle to increase the faith of this member. we stood still and asked ourselves if we were in the right place. we then heard this really loud music coming from an apartment, and we realized it was some spanish rap hahaah so we went and knocked on this door and wendy from guatemala answers, She said her baby falls asleep to that music and her baby was passed out in her lil crib. Our member gets so excited and starts sharing the gospel and talking about random things and we were almost scared that this lady was going to get scared off but no, she invites us in to learn more. We taught her and invited her to be baptized and she accepted a date for later in september. God provides moments of faith to build His saints. Wendy came to our bible class on Friday too and loved it. god is so good. another miracle: two nights ago i was with two english sisters while hermana baird was in her exit devotional and we walk past this giant mexican family party and we waved and they were like 'the mormons! " So i was like eh lets talk to them and the sisters were like WHAT but i just had no fear but we ended up teaching this like 45 person party of drunk mexicans but they totally loved it and we got a return appointment. SO GOOD. I could go on for hours about the ways I see the hand of the Lord in everything I do everyday. i know He is aware of all of His children, and He sends us to their need when they are ready to accept this message of joy and hope. He also knows, that this area is in need of a greenie fire missionary. That's right folks, ITS A GIRL. HERMANA REED IS TRAINING ONCE MORE. Pray for me and my new baby! I love you all and I love this work!!! hermana reed okay lots of pics
1 zone kick ball. this is the chines symbol thing they do for love hahaha 2 district pics 3-4 this is mostly for Dani to show what i do for excercise every morning... i love WA 5 me post move.... RIP 6 this was when me and hermana baird invited ourselves over for dinner at the rasmussens and we had date night... this was the best day of my whole mission 7 MLC thug pic feat. Pres Ras money 8 we made these shirts 9 weekly fabiola selfie 10 notice the current temp 11-12 final goodbyes with hna baird )': 13 la familia espinoza en la iglesia 14 mi amiga Jocelyn y su perritito ahhh
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