My God is a God of miracles! Is yours?? YO DIGO QUE SI!!

I think I forgot to post this last week...Sorry!

We celebrated Juanitos birthday. SO LOVE THIS FAMILY!

MELA GOT BAPTIZED!

My girl Silvia...

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Hello,
So how are you? Who is your companion and where is she from? Is she as excited to work as you are? Photos??

Her name is Hermana Alba from Mexico. She is excited to work. She cant walk very fast...yet...but thats alright. She is excited to work and has a strong testimony. I love her so much already!! We are just enjoying our time here together!!

How was conference for you? Did you get to watch it? Where? I figured you all loved the Spanish talk.

We did love the spanish talks. but it was great. We got to watch the majority. The thing is we watch it on the computer so it is slow and pauses every 10 minutes to load...and then when there is rain it just shuts off and it started raining both days at like 330....so we didnt get to finish the after noon sessions. But its all good. I AM SO EXCITED TO READ THEM! We do get the Ensigns here!

Jeremy was able to go to the Saturday morning session. He has a friend that has not ever been there and so he got tickets and they went. I was glad he was able to get tickets.

Thats too cool. It made me a little baggy, which means trunky...to watch it. but not much!! I JUST LOVE CONFERENCE!!

This is a busy week. I just found out this morning Jeremy has a band concert for Jazz and Concert band, both Tuesday and Thursday. Ash has a choir concert Wednesday. Spencer is getting his nose septum fixed on Thursday, Ash has a Dr. Lyman appointment on Thursday, Ensers boys wedding is on Thursday, I was supposed to work Tues night and Thurs night. What else...I don't know. Oh ya, Dad has High Counsel on Thursday night, too. We will see how it all turns out. Im trying to move my night appointments to earlier and later. That should work. We will see.

Sounds like a crazy night!! I love hearing how everyone is doing and finally spencer writes me and keeps me up on his life which is great to hear!! Love you all!!

Anyway, tell us about you and your investigators. It sounds like you have sooo many people there. I love the story of Henry and Mirza and how he said he knows why you emergency transferred there. That is awesome. Emily's baptism still on for the 15th so far? Did Juanito come to conference since he is finished working Sundays? Did Manuel and Lucy come to conference?

HENRY AND MIRZA MOVED!!! I ABOUT DIED WHEN THEY TOLD ME. I did cry...for sure...They didnt even move far, they just moved out of our area. They are in the area of the other sisters in the branch. So i get to see them every sunday. They told me they didnt want to tell me they were moving because they knew it was going to be hard. Emily and i just sat there and cried together the whole lesson. hahaha but she will still get baptized. I am so glad for that. I am just sad because i dont get to visit them anymore. I grew to love them sooo much!!

Juanito did go to conference! HE IS DONE WORKING SATURDAY! HE loved conference and he is so excited about everything. He is set for the baptism the 19th!! 

I feel for Esmeralda. I hate it when it rains cuz I think it will always flood. I wish she had a way to move the water away from her house. Poor thing. You seem to get rain EVERY DAY!

Ya the water enters their house every time. and we do get rain EVERY DAY!. Except for yesterday. I was grateful for a break!

Juan Jose - how is the no smoking or drinking going? Did you ever find Nery?

WE havent found Juan Jose for a long time. Nery told us he doesnt want to listen because he is going to some other church with his girl friend...lame!

How about Imelda? Did you set a date?

YA WE SET THE DATE. She got baptized this past sunday. Everything was perfect. She was very sick...shes got like bronchitis or something. but she came excited. Everything went just great. We did it in between sessions of conference which was great because there was great support. The members just stay they so they dont have to travel back and forth. It was a beautiful baptism!!

I'm sure there are more people now. You ran out of time last week. You said you had so much to tell us and not enough time. That is awesome.

I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT LUCY AND MANUEL IN ONE MINUTE!! MIRACLES!!!!!

Well, instead of this being super long, I want you to have time to write so I will quit. That's all I can think of to tell you about anyway. We did just get a letter from you on Friday. I will send some photos later today. I have to go to the dentist at 10, but I needed to write you in case you are on today for any reason. I have some from dinner at Grandpa and Grandmas yesterday.

LOVE YOU SO MUCH, MORGAN!
Take care of you! Any other somethings you need us to send? I am waiting til the shoes come, hopefully this week, and we will send it off. Love you!
Mom

OK --- SO MUCH TO WRITE AND NO TIME!!

I have to tell you about Manuel and Lucy. We had them set to go to conference sunday and they didnt show up. So we passed by their house for the afternoon session so they could go but they werent home. So sunday night we went to visit them and Lucy was in the house. She told us Manuel was in the bathroom drunk. AH I WANTED TO DIE. But we told her to go and tell him to come. She went and he said he didnt want to. So we tried a few more time but he didnt want to so we decided to just start,.All the sudden i looked out side and in came Manuel stumbling...he was very drunk. We started to pray and some some weird things went on with him...he was very drunk Then he told us how he was in the bathroom praying for forgiveness when all the sudden he heard or felt very strong a voice saying he had to go to the hermana's because we would be his guides. He felt as if someone was pushing him out the bathroom...even pulling him by the hair. THE SPIRIT WAS WORKING STRONG ON HIM ALL THIS TIME! FROM THE TIME HE WAS IN THE BATHROOM TO THE END OF THE LESSON. So he was embarrassed but came. We started to talk and saw him change completely. He was very drunk but as we went on he was pretty normal. Very conscious and very aware of what he was saying and what we were saying. I have seriously never seen such a change in someone. The spirit is real. Well longgg story short, they have decided to get married and he finally found a job, and they are going to church this sunday FOR SURE! Oh my i still cant get over it. This was a hugeee miracle. The spirit is so real and works so hard. 

We have some little converts...these little kids who havent been going to church and we couldnt find their house. WEll an investigator took us to their house the other day because she is family with them.- Well the mom and dad were in an accident the other day and it involved a gun...in the capital...and they were saved miraculously. The mom lost her eye and the dad is very weak in his arm but they are all going to be fine. I am amazed at the miracles that we see in the mission. My God is a God of miracles. Is yours?? YO DIGO QUE SI!!

Just a few fun facts....we have no water half the time..hahaha we went about 4 days with out showering because we didn't have water...its super fun. but thank goodness it rains so that we can rinse off in the rain :) hahaha my skins is like baby skin here on the coast. Im lovin it. My cloths all drown me...i look kind of goofy sometimes with all my big baggy clothes. safety pins are my new best friends!

One big miracle in the mission. Each day and each night i can hardly walk because my body just hurts. its just tired and sore. But each day as we leave the house i feel like i have energy to run a marathon. it is amazing how we are blessed as missionaries. I just am amazed every day.

We had interviews with president yesterday. I cant explain to you what he taught me. I had an interview probably 2x as along as everyone else but he started to teach me some things about prayer and the temple that i am just in awe. I cant wait to be able to share all these things with you guys in a few months. I hope you guys are excited to share with me all your experiences.

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH. I love my savior. I am a representative of Jesus Christ. I know he lives. I know he loves us. I know our Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us. I know that the gospel is the only thing that brings true happiness and peace because i am living it.

HERMANA OLIPHANT