I'm glad you liked my letter. I did cut my hair, but just layers. :) I'm glad you enjoy getting to know my daily life... it's kind of boring to me. Jaja. I'm glad you understand about how people can be fun and obedient. I feel like sometimes missionaries don't understand that's possible. About who I want at the airport... I don't really care. Just as I get my first little bit of time with you guys. :) So whoever you want to invite can be there. 

I will send the package home this week or next. Please do not send me another package. I don't want to worry about it being in Belize and me in El Salva or vice versa. So just leave that stuff home for me. :)

I hated reading the scriptures as well, but now I love it. You know why? because I prayed to love it. And it really helps! :) But it's beautiful this wonderful commandment that God has given us really is for our benefit. I suggest just praying to love reading. It will become something wonderful.

Well, about this week.........

I just got an email from Sister Hintze. I was confused at the title "The fruit of your labor" and it was a picture of a young man I worked with in Miramonte... and he was dressed in white. he had gotten baptized. I thought all that time with him, wasn't wasted exactly, but that it wouldn't of amounted to this... the moment I saw it I tried to recognize his face. I began to cry. It's beautiful how the Lord works in mysterious ways. 

We found 3 new investigator families this week! We're now teaching 7 different families. 

I got "the call" from Elder Lopez asking which airport I would be flying home to... I was terrified. But it's crazy that I'll be home in October... YIKES!

I'm running out of time. But I love you! 

 Today at 1:26 PM

Well we will be having a baptism on this coming up Sunday. It's the husband of a wonderful member. We'll be getting him baptized this coming Sunday and hopefully in a year they'll be getting sealed in the temple! That's his biggest desire. The lessons have decreased a bit because we now have more people to teach but the numbers still look beautiful and we're still working with about 6 people to be baptized in August so we'll see how that goes.  

Oh by the way transfers are this week but it's cool. Me and Sister Baires are staying in Santa Elena. 

Natalie told me about Lacie I think that is just so exciting! I'm happy for her and that she'll be making such a wonderful step in her life!

I miss the Tigers games so much. But I'm excited to see the new team. I'm glad you got to go and have fun with Marsha. I think about her and Steve every time I'm in Belize City because right in front of the church is a Harley Davidson place. jaja. 

I still sing just as bad as ever but since I've been in Belize I've lead the music just about every week.  Here I lead music every other week. Yesterday we taught Gospel Principles and Young Women's. Sometimes we get to teach a lot... and by sometimes I mean like about every week. But I like it, it makes me feel important. 

I wish i could go to the pool man I miss that so much! But my tan lines are way too terrible for all that jazz. Please tell Vicky I said thanks for everything. I am really bad with notes but I'll try and send her a little post card or something to say thank you. 

Things are really starting to look up here in Santa Elena. We have a lot of gringos coming into our branch so it will be exciting to see what help they have to bring. Also news flash I don't know how to deal with white people... they scare me and freak me out now. Which may sound weird but it's true.

One of our investigators his pig had little piglets. I got to hold one. It wouldn't stop screaming... which was hecca annoying. but it was fun. 

We now have 5 investigator families that we're working super hard with. Two of which are part member families. Francisco has a baptism date for Sunday which is cool. The other 4 families are really cool people and I love them all so much. 

I'm excited for the upcoming weeks. We're going to have a lot of success this transfer! 

We had a really awesome lesson with this Rasta guy yesterday who's interested in genealogy. He said he'd come to church tomorrow. When i invited him to baptism he said the 9th sounded a little close but that God works  miracles. So that would be pretty interesting to see if we could baptize him. Ps. he has sick dreads. 

Well.... I guess that's all for now. I LOVE YOU! 

I am doing really well this week. We had an area 70 come and talk with our mission. So that meant a MULTI-ZONE! What up! 

I can now better understand how missionaries feel when they leave and area. As much as it sucks for us... it's even harder on them because they do make those little connections and feel like a certain person is like a mom or a person is like a family member. I mean leaving Elena Vivas I felt like I was leaving a mom. And with Jorge I felt like I was leaving a best friend. It was awful. So I'm sorry to hear that you're losing a really awesome Elder. I know it's rough. 

I don't know if I will stay here in S.E but I wouldn't mind finishing my mission here. The people are really awesome and I have a lot of things planned for next transfer so I hope I get to stay for at least another 6 weeks. Which is weird  to think that I Only have like 13 weeks left before I'm home. Wow. I haven't gotten "the call" or anything so I don't know about my flights or anything. But I think in the next 2 or 3 weeks I'll know for sure. Don't worry about taking off too many days. I'll feel better hanging out with my friends if I know that you didn't take days off to be with me. Know what I mean? So just take 3 or 4 and I think that will be just fine.Plus a whole 10 days in Utah. I feel valued.

 I'm glad you're not alone. It may sound weird but I just didn't like thinking that you'd be alone. I mean my whole life I thought Rachel would always be there living with you.. and now she's not. It's weird. 

I can't believe Chris Cassidy has been writing me this whole time and I haven't gotten a single letter! That makes me so sad. Feel free to give him my email. I think it'd be cool to talk a little with him. Also How's Soraya doing with mission stuff? Anyone else I should know about going on missions/getting married etc.?

This week has been awesome we're working wit a part member family and the dad accepted baptism. He's awesome. I'm excited for the 26th!

We have the mentality to just invite everyone to baptism and with a specific date. It's really awesome. People seem more open and it's easier to know if they will be open or not to changing. Because there are a lot of people that say they would love to hear our message but have such tough hearts that the minute we teach things they close up... being a waste of our time. So it's nice. 

We found a guy while teaching an investigator and he was a little weird/crazy. But we invited him to Sports Night... he came. Then Saturday morning we saw him again and invited him one more time. HE SHOWED UP!Then we kept messing with him about how he had to go to church the next day. As I stand up to direct the music I see him sitting in the back corner with the hymn book open. I couldn't believe it. I've invited him like 20 times to get baptized (he's been to church before and also listened to missionaries before) but no luck yet. He lives in the Elder's area. We're hoping that they can help him. 

About what you were talking about with the whole mountains fall upon us to hide our guilt. I'm at that point in Alma as well. I thought a lot about it. But you know, as much as we will Want to hide from him... he will be willing to take away that guilt. He will beg us to use his atonement. He already made that sacrifice he wants us to use that grace that he so fully offers us. He knows we are trying, He is there to always help us. Just remember if you are trying your hardest, and you are going longer without making the same mistake you are doing good. He cares more about who you are becoming that to who you were or are.

I'm doing really well this week. I'm proud of this weeks numbers as well. We had like 40 lessons to non-members and 27 to less actives. Which is still pretty awesome. We didn't know that Pres. Packer died. People in Santa Elena don't use too much of the internet so I just don't know what's up. But man that's so sad. It will be a crazy October general conference. 

I love that insight you had. It's amazing when you can really put talks/scriptures into view in your life. I think that's just really awesome. You go mom!

I AM SO STOKED FOR NOVEMBER! Shoot man. I'm excited. We have to go to Zupas also. My comp used to work there. I'm super excited. I let all my dead missionary friends know I'll be there at that time. I'm glad now it's official. Jaja. Sister B is a little sad that she'll still be in the mission when I'm out there. But I am so excited to see the family and to see some friends. 

For the fourth of July we had 2 gringo Elders over (outside the house of course) and we made sloppy joes and root beer floats. It was seriously awesome. I loved it. Also we got to play volleyball for like 2 hours... thank you sports night. jaja. So it was really just missing the fireworks.

Friday we got to be part of the District Young Women activity and help out with that. I got to speak twice. I think I did pretty good for not preparing. We then had a really cool spiritual part where we wrote down our spiritual goal and put them in a balloon and let them fly away with the wind. I let mine go accidentally and it took off and went super high and far away. No other girl could get her's to go like mine. Then during testimony meeting yesterday the YW District president talked about that and how sometimes our goals can be achieved very easily and other times it takes a long time for them to be met. And it made me think a lot about goals I have for me, my future, etc. And I'm just realizing how much work my life is going to be and how I think a mission is hard... real life is so much harder. So I am trying really hard to get that into perspective. But I know the Lord is there 100% of the time. And he wants me to meet these goals. Just like our goal of 90 lessons in a week was super hard and we were tired... these goals will be similar but with the support of the Lord it will be slightly easier. 

So yeaah. That's all I really have for this week. Sorry. I'm super boring. This last p-day we just watched the other side of heaven as a zone. It was fun. Super chill. 

Well I LOVE YOU MOM!