1-5-15 We rigged the cambios (Hmna Durfee's Email)

So you should all be able to guess according to the title what happened
this week, and if you cant well then you CLEARLY haven't been paying
attention to my emails. Not cool.  Ok but before I go there I have to say
how amazing Heavenly Father is.  The cambios we had last week are literally
CLEAR EVIDENCE that Heavenly Father is there, he hears every detail to
every prayer we say and if we are being obedient and pray with true faith,
He will give us what we ask for. I can honestly say that any little thing I
ask for in my prayers throughout my mission I have gotten. LITERALLY
EVERYTHING!!  It actually has kind of shocked me.  Not shocked, but its
surprised me. Literally He gives me the smallest, even insignificant desires
of my heart. It's so amazing.

Literally every day last cambio I prayed that Hna Whitlock would be made an
hermana leader and come to San Ramon and be my comp.  And let me tell y'all,
There were SO many reasons why the entire world would and did say that was
impossible.

1.  She already had been in this zone 6 months.  That never happens
2.  My old comp had very little time here and only had 1 cambio left in her
mission. EVERYONE thought she was staying.
3.  President pretty much flat out told us earlier on in the mish. that we'd
never be comps.

And many more reasons...

But all last cambio I decided to trust in the fact that God is a God of
miracles and that no matter what every person says or what the
circumstances were I knew God would give me what I prayed for.  We didn't
say anything to president,  we just poured our hearts out to Heavenly
Father. We got the calls for cambios and I honestly wasn't even surprised
because I KNEW God was going to answer my prayers and sure enough hna
Whitlock was made an hna leader and is now my companion!!! GOD IS SO
REAL!!!!

We're traveling to Huancayo this week and I'm really excited to ask president
what on earth he was thinking and also thank him.  Since Tuesday when we
got cambios I have literally knelt down every day and just poured out my
heart in gratitude!!

The funniest thing is I'm pretty sure the entire mission is worried and
thinks we rigged the camibos...well we actually did...just in the
righteous,  obedient type of way.  Lots and lots of prayer.  Bajajja.  But
really you should of seen the looks on the faces of the zone leaders.
BAAAAHHHH. Also everyone in the mish. was calling that night freaking out
that we are now comps.  It's like having sleepovers every night with your
best friend. I AM JUST SO HAPPY!!!!!  God is so good people.

So we have two investigators getting baptized in a few weeks and I love
them so much and love teaching them.  Please keep them in your prayers
(Juana, y Mauro).  Mauro has some addictions that he has to overcome, but
we have been working so hard with him.  It's seriously so beautiful to see
the changes we experience in the mission because before the mish. I would
have seen someone with an alcohol addictions and wondered to myself how on
earth they got to that point and say that their messed up life was completely
their own fault.  But seeing this man, even the times we have seen him
drunk, my heart is just so filled with compassion and mercy for him. I see
him how God does and can feel how much He loves him.  I will literally do
anything for that man so that he can too make it back home to Heavenly
Father and find the peace and happiness in life he is so desperately
searching for. He wants to change so badly and I know that thanks to the
sacrifice of our Savior, that miracle of change and healing is so possible
and we are working our butts off to make sure it happens.

I know I've said this a million times but I wish all of you back home could
see how happy I am and just how much I love my mission.  Sometimes it kind
of weirds me out how just happy I am literally 24/7.  I never want this to
end.  I love my Heavenly Father and Savior.  I know my mission would have
been impossible if it weren't for the peace and comfort they have given me.
 I'm closer to them than I have been in my entire life and I will stand as a
witness of them at all times in all things and in all places. In your
prayers I invite you all to have a little more faith, no matter how
unlikely the circumstances appear I know that if we want it bad enough, an
we obey our Father in Heaven he will bless us with the deepest desires of
our hearts.  "Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and
your concers, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, becaues ALL
things are possible to them that believe."  #gottaloveholland

con amor,

Hermana Durfee

p.s...everyone go listen to Holland's talk "lot's wife"  It's perfect for the
new year, and perfect in general because its by Holland. duh.

Line of the week:

In a lesson teaching a little 15 year old punk boy.

Hermana Whitlock: "I know God is there. And I love you. Wait no. God loves
you. He loves you, not me." bajajjajja