Exciting week!

HEY FAM!!!!!

Thank you so much for all of your letters! They made me SO happy to get! We've been so insanely busy lately even in the wee hours of the morning and lunch and dinner hours that I've literally only had time to open Linny's so far and read it super fast. But today is P-day so once we get home I'll get time to read them. Thank you so much for sending them! It made my whole day to get them in the mail!

So.....I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!! This has been the best week ever! Pretty much, my companion is the greatest person in the whole entire world. She is always super positive and is teaching me how to do the same. And it makes the hugest difference in the whole entire world! I've had a blast so far and this is the happiest I've been on my whole mission I think!

We've seen MIRACLES beyond MIRACLES this week. It's been so awesome. First of all, the very first day that she got here, we had a sweet miracle. It was crazy. As we were on our way to an appointment and already running late, as we stepped into the car I spotted a woman walking down the street and the Spirit said to talk to her. So as we started talking to her she told us that she was doing awful because her son was missing since 1:00 and thought that her worse fears were confirmed, that he was kidnapped. We didn't really know what to say or do other than to offer a prayer with her. My companion was offering the prayer for her to be comforted and find her son and before we even got to the end we heard, "Hi mom!" We opened our eyes and there was her son on his bicycle! We all freaked out including the woman and we told her that prayers are answered! She gave us her address and said she would love to learn the gospel.

On Saturday, we decided that we would have an "inspired dinner." We had no dinner appointment set up for the night and because driving to our apartment and back down south where we usually work would take a total of like 30 driving time, we decided that we would go out to eat and that the Lord would guide us to find the elect wherever we ate. We simply decided that it was going to happen. Usually, it's called "inspired tracting" or "an appointment with the Lord" when you pick a street to knock through prayer. So,I came up with "dinner appointment with the Lord" or "inspired dinner."
When 5 rolled around, we were both starving. I wanted sonoran hot dogs and she wanted tacos so we decided to find a taco stand. We passed a place and she said ooo I wanna go there to that taco place. They also had sonoran hot dogs so it was perfect. As we waited for our food to be cooked, I looked around wondering who the elect was and couldn't wait to meet them! We struck up a conversation with the guy next to us, Carlos. He was traveling through from Cali to Texas and said he always goes to that taco place when he comes. The conversation eventually led to the gospel and he was like "Why are you guys so happy? I wanna know, how?" We talked all about the gospel and baptism and the Book of Mormon. We bore testimony about how much joy it brings us and he was like "I can see that and I want that. I will read this whole book for sure and I'm going to call you." Man the Spirit was so strong and it was just the coolest moment, he was TOTALLY elect!!!! We found the elect at Tacos Apson! Appointments with the Lord WORK. Inspired dinner is the way to go. EVERYone's happy!
As we left the restaurant/stand taqueria thingy, one of the workers followed after us and asked what church we were from and said he'd like a Book of Mormon. He talked about how he's been looking for something to fill the hole in his life, that he wants to follow Christ and will come to church with us next Sunday. He said he would read the Book of Mormon and that we could come teach him on Wednesday. He speaks Spanish, lives in our area and is the next member of the SOnora branch! Woop!

We've been talking about faith lately. Hermana Eyre is helping me to have so much faith, more than I've ever even had this whole time so far! This is why all these miracles are happening! She's so legit. We walked into the library today and this guy was just looking at us and then said he wanted to talk to us. We went outside and expalined the gospel and the resoration and gave him a BOM and the Sprit was so strong it was awesome! We knew the answer to every single one of his questions (well the gospel answered every really good question of the soul he had) and helped him identify the Spirit. It was ahhhh just so awesome. I can't wait to see what other miracles we will have today!!!

Today we're teaching Arcelia. She has to get married to be baptized. Her boyfriend Hugo doesn't like us or the restoration or talking about baptism or anything. We were like well sad day I guess she'll have to split up their family to be baptized, cause she really doesn't like living with him at all even though he is the father of her children. But no! We decided that God wants every family to be eternal and that with faith and repentance and obedience it's possible! We just decided that we're going to have a miracle with Hugo and have their family baptized. And it's going to happen. We can't wait!!!!!

I love this insert that grandma and grandpa put in my scriptures. It talks about how there are two different kinds of faith. The first is the kind of knowing expectation you have from past experience (the sun will rise, the mailman will come, the sun will set). You don't actually know for 100 percent sure cause there's a possibility it won't happen but you can pretty much guarantee it's gonna happen. The second kind of faith is taking a step into the unknown. It's the kind of faith that actually causes things to move and things to happen that wouldn't otherwise occur. It's that faith that caused mountains to moved and that allowed the brother of Jared to see Christ. And it's that kind of faith that makes things happen in missionary work that would be otherwise impossible! We KNOW that we can have a miracle with Arcelia and Hugo and that if we just have the faith and make it happen, it will! I can't wait!

We have a sister's retreat tomorrow. It's going to be so fun. We're going up to Mount Lemon to a cabin for the day. It's gonna be sweet.

My comp rocks! She's also helping me be way better at being myself and truly having the Spirit. We are working so well together and it's totally awesome and we are a great team. This is gonna be like the best 12 weeks of my life.

Well gotta go but I love you so!

Love,

Kelsie :)