Four months baby!!

Hola,

 

Well, I had a bunch of spiritual experiences this week that I am so grateful for! The first experience was Martes (Tuesday) during my hour of training with Hermana Morinigo. That day I was having a rough time and I was being really hard on myself and wondering why I´m out here. I had prayed that morning and begged my Heavenly Father to either give me a desire to stay on the mission or a reason so that I could go home. He definitely answered my prayers! We watched a video of The District and as  I watched the experiences of these missionaries I was gradually comforted but then one of the Elders said, “any person who is worthy to serve a mission and chooses not to go is making the worst mistake of their lives.” When I heard that I just started crying because the spirit testified so strong to me that I am supposed to be on a mission. I was able to think back on all the progress I have made in these four months and all the people I have met, how much my testimony has grown, and how much I love the people I´m teaching. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father answers our prayers and even though in that moment I wanted a reason to go home .I am so thankful that I am still out here kicking Satan´s trash J

 

Another spiritual experience that I had this week was with one of our investigators named Sandra. She is so special to Hermana Morinigo and I. She is our golden investigator right now and on Saturday we went to visit her and we were supposed to teach about profetas pero (prophets, but) we felt that we needed to talk about baptism with her so as we talked about how wonderful baptism is and all the blessings we get from this convenio (covenant.) I invited her to be baptized, but I felt impressed to let her pick the date that she wanted to get baptized, but to give her three dates in September. When I invited her to get baptized and gave her the option of the three dates she started crying and said that during our lesson she kept thinking of September and she didn´t know why until I gave her the three dates in September. Needless to say she wants to be baptized and she agreed to pray about which date in September is her baptismal date. I was so happy that I was able to follow the spirit. Can you imagine what would have happened if I had just picked a date for her? Maybe she wouldn´t have had that experience that she needed in order to have a desire to get baptized! Wow!

 

Well we saw a huge miracle this week too! We have been trying to get one of our investigators Johanna to actually do the commitments that she promises to do! Like go to church or read from the Book of Mormon between visits! She is really receptive during our visits and always says she is going to read and go to church but she never does. We were getting pretty frustrated because she always says she wants to get baptized and change her life but she isn´t do the things that she needs to! Finally during one of our lessons she was talking about her baptism and I was like Johanna, you can´t get baptized unless you read and go to church! (I used more loving words but I was pretty direct). I talked about how much we love her and how much my love for her has grown  over these past 3 months and that we weren´t leaving her chapters just to leave her chapters. We were leaving them so that she can better her life and learn the things she needs to do to get baptized. We left her with 4 verses to read and I promised her that if she read these 4 verses she would have clients in her hair salon because she doesn´t have very many clients. She agreed to read. 

 

The next day we passed by and the first thing she said to us was, "Hermana I read!" Oh I almost had a heart attack and then I just wanted to hug her and cry all at the same time but I thought she would think that was weird so I just said, "Yeah, that´s cool." JUST KIDDING! I was so happy! I really did hug her, but I didn´t cry! She had two clients in her salon at that point and she talked about how reading really brought clients. We talked a little bit about the power of the Book of Mormon and then we left. We passed by at night and she was sitting in her chair and looked like she was about to die. She told us that she had tons of work that day and she was so tired. We asked her why she wasn´t reading in her down time and she said she doesn´t want any more clients cuz she was tired. I´m so grateful that Heavenly Father gave her that experience to increase her testimony of the Book of Mormon. He works in weird ways but I know he always answers our prayers.

 

I finished my 12 weeks of training yesterday and now I´m officially a real missionary :) To celebrate we had a district meeting in English which was super interesting and ate cake and I taught everyone how to play chubby bunny! Unfortunately Elder Montes de Oca can fit 14 grapes in his mouth and still say chubby bunny and I can only fit 12 so I didn´t win but it was a great bonding experience for the district!

 

Hermana Morinigo had a dream that we were going to have cambios (transfers) this week and we had made a pact that we would eat a chili if we had cambios. I have no idea what we were thinking but we decided to trust her dream and eat the chilis on Saturday. We went to the Munoz´s house and they gave us each two chilis de arbol which are apparently one of the hottest chilis. I wasn´t too worried about it, but Hermana Morinigo was about to cry, but like a good companion I forced the chili into her mouth and we suffered together.

 

At first nothing happened and then I swallowed and it was like Satan was in my mouth. Hermana Morinigo was crying and I was breathing really hard and we ate tons of salt which was supposed to help but didn´t really do anything. We looked like a bad Mexican soap opera. And then after we thought it was a really good idea to eat habanero peppers.. The members told us that they had a pepper that was hotter and we were already suffering so we agreed to eat a habanero which was another bad idea! Luckily it was not as hot as the first chilis but still it was pretty bad. But we survived :) But it was a good experience until after when my stomach started hurting... I wasn´t too happy at that point but one of our investigators gave me some stuff to take away the pain, here they call it drogas but I don´t know what it is in English... Just kidding! She gave me jello :) Turns out we didn´t have cambios so we ate the chilis for nothing! I decided to never trust her dreams ever again. 

 

Anyway family, I´m with Hermana Morinigo for another 6 weeks and we´re still in the same area! We committed ourselves to working harder and longer this cambio and we´re going to see tons of baptisms! I love you all and I love this gospel. More and more ever day :)

 

Love,

Hermana Huff

4 months!!!

Chubby Bunny:)

This is called Elote or something like that and it´s corn and mayonaise and chili and cheese. It looks gross but it tastes so good!

We like to ride bicicletas

The chilis de arbol

I made pancakes:)

I ate crickets!!!

 

 

 

What happened to this week?!!

Well this week seriously FLEW by! I´m in my last week of training! I was talking with one of my investigators the other day and we were amazed that I have been in Mexico for 3 months.. This week I´ll have 4 meses en mi misión! (months in my mission) I have no idea where the time went. I feel like I´m been out here for like a week, but I also feel like I´ve been in Mexico for years and years. The mission is super weird like that. 

 

This week we went to the doctor at the beginning of the week and he was pretty upset that Hermana Morinigo (HM) had been walking so much with her foot how it is, and he pretty much threatened to break her other foot if she didn´t rest this week. I don´t know how he became a doctor but that´s Mexico for ya! :P 

 

Anyway, HM had to be en reposo Lunes until Jueves, (resting Monday until Saturday) so guess what! I went out alone with the members again! How fun. It was super difficult to help the members understand that they aren´t missionaries and that they weren´t allowed to give the whole lesson, but I kept everything under control. I went out with one Hermana and I had to interrupt her while she was talking because she started talking about really weird things that had nothing to do with the lesson we were teaching. I taught about the apostasy and for some reason she thought it was a good idea to talk about how the bible came about. Granted the bible was changed and stuff during the apostasy pero (but) she didn´t have to give a 10 minute talk about who did what to the Bible. When she started talking about all this stuff I had to be really quick on my feet and figure out how I was going to take control of the lesson in the most loving way. Luckily, Heavenly Father helped me out and I was able to fix the confusion. Needless to say I really started to miss HM by the end of the day. She is the greatest part of my life right now because I get to serve her so much everyday and I completely forget about myself. I love that feeling! 

 

Anyway! Friday we started working together again and let me tell you I was so glad that I had her by my side as we taught. There is a power in a companionship that is really hard to describe especially when we get along and we look to have fun and share the gospel. We have one more week before transfers and I´m really really hoping we don´t get transferred but the Elders think they are super funny and keep telling me that I´m going to train the only Hermana that´s coming in this transfer. I really hope not, I don´t feel ready to train, yet, but if Heavenly Father trusts me enough to train a new misionera then I know I can do it! We´ll see in a week! 

 

This week it rained a ton! Like more than all my years in Arizona combined. It was insane! Jueves (Saturday) I tried to go out and work with a member but it started to rain bien fuerte (very strong) and I was about to go out to work anyway, but then it started hailing and the street flooded and we couldn´t go anywhere. But of course I ran out in the rain and took a video and pictures! The next day was Friday and it was the first day HM went out to work and of course it started raining really hard again and, first, HM´s foot started hurting pretty bad and, second, she didn´t want to get her ankle wet cuz the cold would make it worse. We were stuck in a papeleria (stationery store) for probably 20 minutes until I finally convinced her to walk down the street to an investigator's house. But when we tried to cross the street it was like a river and HM didn´t want to cross cuz of her foot, but there was no turning back, so I gave her a piggy back ride across the street. It was probably the weirdest thing we had done together. Well, not really.

 

There was one day that an investigator gave us ice cream after the comida (food) and I ate it cause I didn´t want to be rude, and of course I got sick again and HM rubbed my stomach as I laid on the floor of our apartment and we told stories to each other. That´s probably the weirdest thing we´ve done together. But I feel like that´s pretty normal.

 

Anyway! We finally got across the street ( good thing I´m so strong) and into the estetica de Johanna and we tried to call a taxi but because the streets were so flooded. No taxis would come and get us, so we had to walk all the way home in the pouring rain, and I carried HM across every puddle. It was definitely the best and most hilarious experience of my mission.

 

I´m not sure what else happened this week. Everything is such a blur at this point! We had a lesson with an investigator named Johanna yesterday and she was telling us a story about how she was talking with her husband and they were having an argument about how she is turning Christian and she was like, No, I´m not Christian, I´m Mormon. We were super confused at this point because here she is telling her husband that she is a Mormon, but she has yet to come to church or read a lot of the Book of Mormon or get baptized! (Besides, Mormons are Christians.) We were happy that she was willing to defend herself and her beliefs, but we have to find a way to get her to come to church and read!! It´s really hard when people have albedrío (will) :P

 

Well, I love you all and I miss you tons!! But I´m happy and healthy. I haven´t had any parasites or anything so I´m still waiting for the real fun to start :)

 

Love,

Hermana Huff

 

The RAIN here is crazy!!

 

And this is how we get to all of our appointments right now since HM can´t walk :P

 

 

I learned how to mop yesterday! I´m so prepared to get married it´s insane!!

 

My last week of my training!! How exciting is that!!

 

 

Street tacos!! I´m really hoping to get a parasite this week!!

 

That is our investigator Johanna!

 

These are pictures of my zone.

 

The one with happy birthday is because it was an elder´s mom´s birthday

 

 

Bautismo de Paloma!!

Oh what a great week!!

We saw so many miracles dealing with Paloma´s baptism this week! So we were able to get Paloma´s mom to sign the papers for her baptism on Tuesday and we were beyond happy, but then on Thursday ( the day before her interview) Paloma told us that her mom said she couldn´t get baptized because they got in an argument. WHAT??

We were so distressed about what to do, but we taught Paloma about repentance again and she said she would ask forgiveness from her mom and ask if she could get baptized again. Anyway, we called her on Friday and she said her mom still hadn´t given her permission, so we went to talk to her mom. Her mom was super nice and as she saw us talking to Paloma and trying to get her to apologize, the heart of her mom was softened and she let Paloma go to the interview! Woo Hoo! Paloma passed the interview with flying colors and after was so excited for her baptism! 

 

The next day, Saturday, Hermana Morinigo and I went to the chapel to clean and fill the font. It took two hours but we entertained ourselves by singing our lessons to each other. I´m getting really good at making up songs about the prophets and Joseph Smith. I think I´m going to record a cd when I get home. :) Anyway, we went to get Paloma after the comida (meal) and she was so excited.

 

She would have run to the church if Hermana Moringio could walk faster. We were so happy, and she had us take a ton of pictures of her in her baptismal dress. One Hermano asked her if she was nervous and she said, YES! And when he asked why, she said, "because it's my first time getting baptized!" We laughed a lot at that and then afterward made sure she knew that this was going to be the only time she was baptized too. 

 

The elders and nosotras (us) sang "Cuando me bautice" (When I am Baptized) for a special musical number and she teared up. It was so precious :) After she got baptized she couldn´t stop smiling and kept telling us how good she felt and how much she liked it. Seriously, it was the best day of my mission so far! To see someone that I taught enter into such a special covenant with Heavenly Father is so special! 

 

Hermana Morinigo is using a cane right now to help her walk. Poor girl looks like a grandma but the youngest and cutest grandma I´ve ever seen :) We went to the doctor because her foot had swollen up again and was hurting and he said she needs to rest again so this week she is going to stay in the house of familia Echeverria and I´m going back out with the members! Woo hoo! More training!

 

I guess Heavenly Father really wants me to learn to not rely on anyone else but Him. I´m really grateful for the experience though :)

 

One day this week we were crossing the street and Herman Morinigo has to go slow cuz her foot hurts and she thought she was being funny and she just stops in the middle of the street with cars coming and says, "I think I need to take a break." I practically carried her out of the street and told her she wasn´t funny. But in reality it was pretty funny and she laughed a lot while my heart calmed down and then I started to laugh with her. She´ll be the death of me, in the best way possible :)

 

This week I learned something very traumatic. I´M NOT READY TO GET MARRIED! Who would have thought! We were at a member's house and I offered to cut the tomatoes and onions and she told me that we´re going to see if I´m ready to get married or not by the way I cut them. I was super nervous and I tried to cut them super thin but I failed miserably. Well, atleast I have 15 more months to learn how to cut tomatoes and onions right! I´ve been practicing all week and I´m going to be so prepared for married by the end of my mission :)

 

Also this week I ate a chicken foot. It was very interesting but it looked like a baby´s hand. I had to be very careful not to eat the bones but the meat tasted like chicken. But I had to close my eyes as I ate it because it didn´t want to imagine eating a baby hand. That was my experience for the week :)

 

All this week we studied about how we can recognize the spirit more and use the spirit more in our lessons and yesterday we had an incredible experience with an investigator named Sandra. We taught her about the Spirit and it was the first time I felt the spirit super strong in one of my lessons and I felt the guide of the spirit to help her learn to recognize how she recieved her answer. She could feel the sprirt too and she was super interested in our lesson. I was so grateful for this experience and I can´t wait to have more and more experiences like this one. 

 

Well Family! I love you guys a lot! I´m doing better with my Spanish and my confidence in my lessons has improved. I´m like a whole new person! I have never been so happy as I am right now :)

I LOVE YOU ALL!

 

Love,

Hermana Huff

This is Dana! My mexican version of Summer!

 

Happy Birthday Shelly! I love you!:)

 

Because Hermana Morinigo can´t carry anything I carry everything!

 

It´s so fun to serve her :)

 

 

 

 

Paloma!!

 

And her Aunt Bertha

 

Paloma and Shayla

 

My Chicken Foot!

 

I can't think of a clever subject line ...

Well, I´m definitely getting trained, but it is in a completely different way than normal missionaries. So Monday we went to the doctor for Hermana Morinigo and turns out Hermana Morinigo needed a week of rest for her foot. So this week was a little strange but really good for my confidence in my teaching and my espanol.

 

Hermana Morinigo obviously couldn´t walk which means she couldn´t leave to do lessons, and I thought that meant I couldn´t leave to do lessons, but boy was I wrong. Tuesday and Wednesday I left to teach lessons with the hermanas in our ward. Between the two days I had 7 new companions. It sure was a party. Hermana Morinigo stayed in the house of a member and I was left all alone to fend for myself during the lessons. I was SUPER nervous but turns out I can teach people all by myself! Who would have thought?! 

 

So pretty much I was training myself this week, well actually Heavenly Father was training me, but still. I truly believe that Heavenly Father sent us this trial so that I could gain more confidence in my teaching and in myself because I was having a problem with my confidence these past few weeks. I´m so grateful for this opportunity I had to teach alone and not have anyone else to rely on. 

 

But by the end of the two days I was missing Hermana Morinigo a lot! She was able to walk by Friday so we started little by little, each day walking a little more but anytime she felt pain or started to get really tired we headed back to the house because we didn´t want to push her and end up making her injury worse. So needless to say we were in the house more than normal, but I have been able to serve my companion, so I didn´t feel bad about being in the house.

 

She, on the other hand, was pretty discouraged this week because she felt horrible that I am being trained like this and that we can´t work as hard as before, but I assured her that this is the best training I could get, and I am so grateful that I have this opportunity to serve her because then I forget about myself and my problems. 

 

I always call her my baby because I take care of her so much right now. Every morning I make her breakfast (Yeah, I actually make breakfast, and we haven´t died yet, it´s a miracle right?) and then I heat up water so she can put her foot in the water, and apparently that takes away the swelling and the pain, and then I do everything else she needs. I don´t have any time to think about myself it´s the most fantastic thing ever! 

 

This week we have our first baptism!!!! Oh I am so excited!! We have definitely seen SOOO many miracles this week! Paloma is getting baptized on Saturday. She is so fantastic and so excited. We had a really cool experience with her this week. We taught her the word of wisdom and when we talked about not drinking coffee she got kind of upset because apparently she drinks coffee every morning and she loves it.

 

She agreed to try to not drink coffee the next day but we left really worried because if she has a problem with the Word of Wisdom we would have to postpone her baptism another week, and we didn´t want to do that! Anyway, we prayed so hard that night for her to receive strength to quit drinking coffee and to help her find a way to motivate herself to not drink it. The next day we went to visit her and we were super worried to ask her if she drank coffee but we finally did and SHE DIDN¨T DRINK HER COFFEE THAT MORNING!! She said that she woke up earlier to go running while everyone else made the coffee and she made sure that she ran long enough that by the time she got home there was no more coffee. How great is she?? Next week I´ll send pictures of her baptism :) 

 

Oh I also saw another miracle this week with the food. We eat with the Elders everyday at a members house and the members always ask us what we want to eat, and this week it was Elder Chavez´s turn to pick what we ate and guess what he chose ... Sushi. When I saw that we were eating sushi I looked at the Elders and they both started laughing cuz they knew I hate sushi.

 

They gave us 14 rolls each. FOURTEEN! I only almost threw up twice and I every time I put a roll in my mouth I said a little prayer and apparently my face was hilarious cuz the Elders could not stop laughing. But I ate all 14 of those sushi rolls. I was so proud of myself! 

 

Another interesting thing we ate this week was nopal which is cactus. It was actually pretty good! They take the cactus piece and make it kind of like a pita pocket and then stuff it with bacon and ham and cheese. I don´t know why we don´t do that in Arizona ... We have so many cacti it´s like free food. 

 

Well I love you all and I am so grateful that I´m out here even though it is hard! I just hope I can help people find the joy and light of the gospel! 

 

Love,

Hermana Huff

One year for Hermana Morinigo!!

THursday she completed one year in the mission! Apparently no one burns anything for completing a year but I made her pick a shirt to burn. She was really sad but after she felt good about it! I was glad to start this tradition with her :)

Yeah, not for me. For Hermana Morinigo!

14 sushi rolls??

Before and after of my sushi experience!

We take a ton of taxis right now cuz Hermana Morinigo can´t walk...

I made that food!!

 

Mi Querido Familia (My Dear Family)

So this week was a rollercoaster! 

 

Monday I was having a rough day with my self confidence because I am really hard on myself when it comes to the language and teaching, but I can´t even describe how grateful I am for Hermana Morinigo and her support. She makes me laugh when I want to cry and lifts me up when I want to fall down. She is the definition of the perfect companion. Heavenly Father knows me so well because he gave me her. I learned that I wasn´t trained correctly so I have learned so many new things in this week and we have a lot more investigators and a lot more success because of the things I have learned! 

 

We started a wall of miracles that we have seen in our lives and the lives of our investigators which has really helped us have a positive outlook on all the things around us. One of the miracles that we saw this week is that one of our investigators, Paloma, has a baptismal date for 2 de Agosto. And her parents said YES! She is 12 so we had to get permission from her parents but they said yes!

 

Hallelujah! She went to Girl´s Camp this week and she loved it. She is one big miracle in our lives right now! When we first started teaching her she was really shy and didn´t like to talk or answer questions but we brought a young woman with us to one of the lessons and they became good friends and Paloma opened up and now she won´t stop talking during the lessons. She is super incredible! Through this experience I have a strong testimony of the importancia de los miembros en la obra misional. WORK WITH THE MISSIONARIES! :) 

 

Tuesday night I got sick with a fever and throwing up and other gross stuff I don´t really want to talk about and so I went to bed early but woke up every 30 minutes with the shivers or I had to rush to the bathroom. Needless to say, it wasn´t my favorite day in the mission but at least I got what I wanted, right? The next morning I really didn´t feel better but we had set appointments with investigators so I got out of bed and put a dress on and went out and taught. I looked like a zombie and felt like I wanted to die but at least we taught lessons! I got a blessing from the Elders and the next morning I felt almost good as new! Although I still had problems with the other stuff I didn´t want to talk about.. I think we discovered that I might be lactose intolerant because I ate a lot of ice cream Tuesday and that´s when I got sick and now every time I eat dairy I get sick again. And every time I think about ice cream it makes me want to puke.

 

Saturday I became a real missionary. If you don´t get what that means just ask Robert. He will tell you! 

 

Every morning we have language study and I study Spanish and Hermana Morinigo studies English but to start and finish we pray in English and let me tell you. It is hard to think and pray in English. I sound like a 2 year old praying when I pray in English. Hermana Morinigo is 10 X better at praying in English than I am. I know it sounds ridiculous but I have forgotten words in English already.. Hermana Morinigo asked me how to pronounce exaltation and I couldn´t do it... I could only think of how to pronounce it in Spanish. How pathetic is that? I guess you could say that I have the gift of tongues or that I´m just slow :P But let´s go with the first one!

 

Yesterday Hermana Moringio twisted her ankle and couldn´t walk so we spent all day in the house and today we went to the hospital to get her checked out. Apparently she needs a cast and to rest for 3 weeks. But apparently she can walk with crutches while she has her cast so we should be able to work still. If not I have to leave her with an hermana in the ward while I go out with another hermana in the ward to do our visits. Oh I´m super nervous about that because I will be the only one teaching! But if that is what I need to grow with my confidence than come what may! 

 

I love you all so much and I miss you  less and less everyday but don´t worry, I haven´t forgotten about you yet :) I´ll keep you posted on how Hermana Morinigo is and how my lactose intolerance goes :) 

 

Love,

Hermana Huff

Her feet get really cold in the morning so she wears pillows on her feet... I know.. She is so weird but I love her like a sister :)

 

Nicest part of Aguascalientes!!

 

The cerro de muerto ( The mountain looks like a dead man.)

 

And this is how we finish our nights. With half a watermelon and journal writing :)

 

 

Oh, the Blessings of Missionary Work!

Dearest Familia,

Remember that one time when I told you guys how much I loved Hermana Mora? Yeah... times that by 100 and that´s how much I love Hermana Morinigo!! She is seriously fantastic! We´re pretty much the same person, maybe that´s why I love her so much... I have seriously learned more from her in these 7 days then I did in my first six weeks training. She is incredible.

We had a lot of success this week. We street contacted double the amount of people this week than I had ever contacted before and we actually teach with unity and the spirit is so strong in all of our lessons. I loved this week! She is always happy and always smiling which is probably the reason that I like her so much!

The weather here is sooo perfect! It´s like 20-30 degrees Celsius everyday and i´m not sure what that is in Fahrenheit but you all can figure it out (68 to 86 degree F)! It rains almost every day and in the mornings and evenings I´m actually cold. It´s weird to think that it´s July and I´m cold but I´m glad it´s not 120 degrees :)

Our barrio (Ward) is really small compared to the home Ward but the members are all so great! We have probably about 50 members that come every Sunday and our chapel doesn´t have benches so we sit in chairs, but at least we have chairs, right? The members are always willing to come with us to lessons and to hermanar (I can´t remember the Word in english... sorry) our investigators!

Tuesday Hermana Morinigo and I got lost because I thought I knew where I was going but apparently not! I still don´t know the area very well and our map is horrible so I got us lost so we wandered around contacting people as we tried to figure out where we were and where we were going. Super embarrassing, but eventually we made it to our appointment and had a ton of contacts that day. She always tells me that I´m the best trainer she´s ever had! Even though she´s training me how to be a good missionary, I´m training her with the area. Maybe this is Heavenly Father training me to be a trainer. I sure hope not!

We always sing songs in between each appointment. This is how all of our conversations go.

Hermana Morinigo: "Con quien vamos?" (Who are we going to?)
Yo: Francisca, yo creo. (Francisca, I think.)
H.M.: Vamos a ensenar profetas, si? (We will teach prophets, yes)
Yo: Si. (yes)

And then she starts singing a song about how we are going to teach Francisca about prophets but she only sings one line and then waits for me to sing another line and by the time we get to the persons house we have sung our whole lesson plan. How cute right? At least we are really prepared for each lesson :)

I love how much fun we have and how much I grow every day with her. I have learned how to enjoy every day and I hope that I stay with her for the rest of my misión! I know that´s not possible but I still pray for it every night :)

In sacrament meeting yesterday an hermana gave a talk and she said that we aren´t alone in this life, we have a guide. The Book of Mormon. I loved this. I have felt the Book of Mormon guide my life every day for the past 3 months and I have realized how much I rely on my personal study every day. I have truly found so much comfort, guidance, love, and knowledge while I read the Book of Mormon. En verdad (Verily) we have an incredible gift in our hands and we can feel our Savior´s and Heavenly Father´s love every sing time we read it. I love the Book of Mormon and I love this gospel. I love my Savior with all my heart and I try every day to make Him proud. I love you all and I look forward to reading your letters later. Thank you for all the support, love and prayers.

Love,
Hermana Huff

Hermana Morinigo!

These are our Hermana lideres. Hermana Duverge y Anderson



One of the members gave us balloons and so I wrote Hermana Huff ama Hermana Morinigo on mine!

My New Companion!

Hola Familia!!

 

So last night we got a call from our district leaders and they told us that Hermana Mora was transferring to San Luis. And of course we laughed about it because the Elders always joke around with us about cambios and cambios especiales (transfers and special transfers.) Anyway, we didn´t believe them until the zone leaders called us and were like yeah Hermanas you have cambios tomorrow. As you can imagine we cried a lot last night and this morning as I said good bye to her. I don't know why they changed us already, usually they have the same trainer for all 12 weeks but then I remembered that Heavenly Father knows me really well and knows that I hate change and want´s me to grow as much as I can on my mission, so of course, I´m going to have cambios. At least I´m staying in my area! But I have to navigate around now which is stressful because I still don´t know the area really well. But I can do it! And I already LOVE my companion. She is really happy, loves to laugh, and have a good time. Just like me! Her name is Hermana Morinigo she is from Paraguay and doesn´t speak a lot of English! Yes!

 

This week was a little rough with Hermana Mora though. I read all your letters last week about obedience and how it brings miracles and so I tried my hardest every day to be exactly obedient and it seemed to have the opposite effect than I wanted. We had two investigators drop us which was really sad because we had a lot of hope for them! And my relationship with Hermana Mora kind of decreased as she because more and more frustrated that we weren´t having as much success. I was pretty discouraged one day and then I reread mom´s letter and it talked about gratitude and I started thanking Heavenly Father for these challenges and I started to see miracles. Little miracles but still miracles. :)

 

We met an Hermana named Tete and she is golden! She is so happy all the time and is really interested and wants to learn more about the Book of Mormon and the Bible. We had our first lesson with her on Saturday and she is so excited to come to church with us next Sunday and to have our next lesson. She was one miracle this week.

 

Another miracle is that I got your package! We have a Zone conference every cambio and that´s when we get our packages and letters. So every six weeks I get stuff. It´s a long time to wait but oh well, I guess those are the rules! I loved all the stuff in the package! There is stuff in there that I didn´t think I needed but I realized when I opened the package that I really do need it! So thank you so much! 

 

Dad, I love every letter that you send. I love all the scriptures and inspirational stuff you put in every letter. Also, you said something in the last letter that was almost an exact quote of my patriarchal blessing that I used a lot this week. I don´t think it´s a scripture but maybe. You said I have the power to call down blessings from heaven for me and those around me. I had forgotten that part of my patriarchal blessing but as I called down blessings for each of my investigators this week I could feel the power I had as a representative of Jesus Christ and I watch little miracles happen every day in the lives of our investigators. So thank you for that :)

 

But guys, I finished my first six weeks in the mission field! Time flew by! It feels like I´ve only been here for 1 week! But my Spanish is getting really good! All my investigators tell me my Spanish is perfect which is a huge lie but I really can see a change from my first week until now. The gift of tongues is real! Heavenly Father really loves me a lot :) 

 

The saying really is true that time flies when you´re having fun and when you´re working hard! 

I´m so excited to get to know my new companion more and to take on the challenge of being the senior companion of the area even though she is training me. We will learn together and grow together :) I love the Lord and I love my mission. I love you guys and I pray for each of you! 

 

Love,

Hermana Huff



Goodbye Hermana Mora