2-2-15 FORGIVE ME!!!! NEXT WEEK I SWEAR.... you have to love the missionaries, right?

OK. I know I know. I am getting terrible at sending emails home! It's just… one gets a little lazy.  Really I don’t have an excuse! But I hope you have been reading Hermana Durfee's letters because really, they are the exact same thing I would say about everything haha.

Okay. So quick update

1.       Juana got babtized!!! Last Saturday. It really was one of the most amazing conversions I have seen on the mission. We went and visited her this week and she told us that all of the hate and pain she had felt throughout her life was completely gone. She said “I'm just happy now.” And you can see it!! She just smiles all the time. Before her baptism, she was a very serious lady. The whole story of her is a miracle. This was a lady who wasn’t able to remember things or understand well and we were considering dropping her. Instead, we did a fast that she would be able to progress, and she did. And she is and will continue to do so for her whole life. I LOVE THE GOSPEL!!!!

2.       I have a parasite. Anything I eat hurts and comes out one of two ways. Sometimes both. Hahahaha gross.

3.      But I did this fun thing where I went and answered all of my emails because people wrote me this week!!!!! And now I am again out of time!!! I am so sorry!! I have attached Durfee's letter because I had actually written out to say the EXACT same stories and things. Haha we are too alike. 

so really, you can just pretend I wrote this.... :) hahaha

"Oh boy oh boy it's been one heck of a week that's for sure. We have been unreal busy. This week my comp and I went out to two towns deeper in the jungle to do divisions with the sisters out there. They were both about 2 hours away so we both stayed out there. 

So being out of our area a ton was hard cuz it only left us with like 3 and a half days to work here in San Ramon.  But once again we saw such a miracle this week.  All week we were praying so hard that God would bless our area and that we could still get a lot done and have success with the few days we did have.  Well God sure shedded his blessings over San Ramon because it's hands down one of the best weeks we had in our mission.  In one day we had 8 lessons, found a family of 5 new investigators who all accepted baptism AND all came to church!!! And we even had 7 investigators at church yesterday who ALL have baptism dates. HOW UNREAL IS THAT??? AHHHH!!!  It is seriously insane how much success we are having.  I'm unbelievably grateful to my Father in Heaven because I know it would all be so impossible without him.  We are seeing miracles daily and I know more than ever that this work is HIS work and is so beyond us.  We are just his instruments.  He is the one doing it all, and I'm sooo grateful to be a part of it. 

Ok so the most precious thing ever.  When we finally got back to our area we went to visit Juana first thing (our investigator that got baptized last week).  We asked how she had been and she goes “to be honest…missing you guys.  I thought y'all just baptized me and then weren't ever going to come back.”  OMG!!! Shes unreal cute.  We felt horrible and explained it was because we were gone and all.  Bajjaj I just love her to death.  We asked her how she has felt since her baptism and she smiled so big and said she feels like a new person.  She's had a very hard life and before had a lot of hate and anger in her for those who had hurt her and she told us that since her baptism she feels nothing but love and peace towards those people.  She truly has been clensed.  In the lesson she asked me to say the opening prayer and as I was thanking Heavenly Father for guiding us to her and allowing us to be a part of her life I got sooo chocked up.  I love her so much, and we could see how much of a true conversion she has had and how different and happy she is now.  We walked out of the lesson both fighing back tears and just said to each other…it's moments like that that make it ALL worth it.  BAAAHHHH. I love the mish!!!

Btw have I ever said how much I LOVE my companion???  She is my very best friend, and makes me SUCH a better person.  She wrote me a note and secretly stuck it in my bag while we were on divisions and she goes “just know that I feel unreal blessed to be your comp.  You still answer my prayers daily.  Who knew I'd be getting an angel for a companion?” she is perfect.  She's one of the most selfless and Christlike people I know and I really don’t know what I'm going to do if president ever decided to change us.  Idk maybe refuse to leave!!! Bajajjajaj…but really.  I LOVE HER!!

So the title is because San Ramon is GORGEOUS but fam it sure would be prettier with you. Bajajja get it???? Ok I crack myself up."

 Con amor,

Hermana durfee

Line of the week:

Me: “Ya, hoy dia vamos a explicar dos mandamientos.  Los diezmos y el ayuno.”

Jesus (our investigator that cant hear) :  “ahhhhhh yaaa.  El mandamiento de los diezmos y la lluvia.” Bajajjajajaj I lost it so hard. 

Sorry it's just funnier in spanish. Thank heavens for google translate!! "

Okay. By the way. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! Even when I don't write!! Thanks to everyone who DID email me this week, I felt so happy!!! Keep it up!!! You only have 12 more Mondays to write me.... think about that!!!

Love, Hermana whitlock