Week 15 - Sonoma Valley

Hola mis amigos!! Como estan!! Espero bein!

This week was a good week, to start if off on Monday I got to meet our recent convert Jeremias! He is super awesome and we are preparing him to receive the priesthood! His wife is a member also and they have a six year old daughter named Ashley! She is super tall for being six and is the sweetest person ever! During the lesson she drew me a picture and afterwards gave it to me and told me it was to welcome me! It was the cutest and made me so happy! Bien bonidos a sonama!!

Tuesday we taught 7 lessons all in the span of two hours and I killed two bugs in our apartment that were straight out of Jurassic world. We meet some pretty cool people that I hope we can go back and teach!! We never know who is truly interested because a lot of people are to nice to say that they aren't interested to our face but a couple people gave us a time and day to come back so that's good!!

We visit an older member each week named Bambi. She is seriously the sweetest person in the entire world! She won't ever let us leave without some kind of treat. She hurt her shoulder recently but she used to bring flowers to church every Sunday that were from her garden! She's the best!

For her BFF Madison and notice the Slurpee

Thursday we went tracting for years and walked everywhere, we ended up walking a long way from our car and had to back track like thirty min. We meet some pretty rude people it was great. We also meet a woman who said we could come back and a super duper cute old couple who let us come in to talk to them for a bit. Somewhere along the line we found a 7-11  which I haven't had since like I lived in Utah. So we stopped and got a Slurpee after our two hour tracting sess. We didn't totally think it through in the moment because we couldn't tract after that cause it's probs not very professional to sip a Slurpee and try to talk about Christ at random peoples doors but it's fine. I also go told that my Spanish is bad which was just super nice and fantastic to hear. YAY! oh well paso y paso!!

Saturday was a fun day we got to do something called a blitz! It's where our zone got together and everyone got a different temporary companion for a couple hours and you go tracting with them! It was super fun I was paired with Hermana Lewis, a Hermana I served with in my last area! She's so awesome! It's definitely summer haha it's starting to get warm and it's slowly becoming very noticeable in our non air-conditioned apartment. Maybe I'll sleep in our car now. But guess what, I just found out there is a swamp cooler so as soon as we get home I am going to find that thing and get it running.  Saturday we also had a pasta feed with our ward! It was really fun and pasta is always good! The ward I'm in now has some really awesome cute people and I've already been signed up to sing some songs. The ward consists of more elderly people and I guess they super enjoy musical numbers... So it begins. But I miss singing a lot so it's ok! :)

Sunday night we also did a few minutes of tracting and we knocked on this one door and this guy our age opened up with sparkling white teeth and a full fledge six pack. He saw our name tags and went "oh snap, one sec" and he ran back inside a put on a bro tank that didn't distract from his bulging biceps. He was embarrassed that he opened up to missionaries kinda naked and was all over the place as we asked him if he wanted to see a video about Jesus. He really didn't know what to say or do so we ever so politely got ourselves out of that situation. When we left I made the mistake of saying wow best day ever!  But I said it because someone pulled up in a car that we wanted to see.

Anyway this week is super exciting because this Saturday Elder Bednar from the quorum of the twelve apostles is coming to speak to our mission!! I'm so excited to be able to learn and hear from him!! In preparation he has asked us to read some of his previous talks. I've been studying them this week they are all amazing but two that have stood out to me are his talks "Ask in Faith" and "Converted Unto the Lord" so if you have a free moment those are really good talks to read and ponder!! Also this transfer Hermana Gudmuson and I have a goal to read through preach my gospel in 40 days. It's been awesome so far!! That book is just packed with everything you need to know about being a missionary and more. I learn so much from it each day.

Even without air conditioning the church is true and the work continues! This is an amazing opportunity that has taught me SO much and I am grateful to be able to have this opportunity! I love the gospel and know that the church is true! Take some time to read from the Book of Mormon everyday and I promise it will help you in the things you need and remember to pray our Heavenly Father loves and wants to hear from you!

You're all amazing, thank you so much for your emails it sounds like you are doing well!! Te quiero!!!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Foster

Merlin

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