Miami Lakes North

hey fam how are you? glad to hear you had a fun 4th, mine was ok not anything too fun. we had a baptism yesterday in my new ward of a cute 13 year old boy named Vladi. i will try to attach pics. my new comp is hermana van de graff from mesa arizona. we get along, but i miss my old area a lot. mom, thanks for sending the package, that was so nice of you to send a present for them. it sounds like you are going to get to have a fun time in WA, i'm serving with elder johnson that nin knows his dad, we are really good friends already! i bore my testimony yesterday in spanish it was scary. we are working with 2 other invest henry and jorge, hopefully they will both get bap in 2 weeks but henry needs to stop smoking!! i only have 1 hr total on the comp so i need to figure out how to managae my time..sorry this is short.. miss you all have a good week and take care!! send pics of the trip- dad hope your HP thing went well i wanted to come :( love you so so much!!
hermana call

A Wonderful Week

It has been a wonderful week in Hollywood Hills. Sister Keller and I have seen many miracles and have kept ourselves extremely busy. We have been preparing for the 5 baptisms tonight of Marcos, Carlos, Carolina, Eva, and Santos. Each of them have a neat story and we have been so blessed to have witnessed the miracles that have taken place in the lives of these people. Marcos was out of town working for awhile and we were still able to call him nightly to keep in touch with him. Carlos and Carolina spent most of their money to be married and have a wedding that was memorable. Carolina quit her job on Sundays so she could attend church. Eva was a wonderful missionary before excepting her own baptismal date. She changed her work schedule so that she could attend church on Sundays. Santos was baptized into another church the same week we met him. He didn’t want to be baptized again because he understood that baptism is a serious, eternal thing but now that he is understanding that his previous baptism wasn’t with the authority, he has agreed to be baptized tonight. It will be a great way to end my transfer with Hermana Keller and the time I’ve had to serve in Hollywood Hills. I have loved getting to know members, investigators, and other missionaries while serving here. I am grateful for all the things I learned from Hermana Keller and although I am really sad I am getting transferred I know it is the Lord’s will.

Getting Transferred

hey everyone i found out last night i'm getting transferred again so i will move tomorrow morning..we have a transfer meeting at 9. hermana keller is staying here and training. i have no idea where i will go or who i will be with. i'm really sad to leave this ward! i love the people a lot! i hope i dont keep getting transferred so much. its kind of annoying to pack and unpack. this week was hectic but very fun with all that we had going on. i got a cd with lots of pics made today so i'll send that home soon and you can check out some wedding pics and stuff.. i dont have time to attach any today sorry! we are in a hurry cause we need to go make the baptismal programs for our baptism tonight. we are having 5 investigators getting baptized :)!!!!! we are so happy and so excited. see info in letter to pres on who they all are. did you get the letter in the mail for my cleanest apt award? fun huh. the elders here have made our purpose into this..."our purpose is to help the sisters invite others to come unto Christ..." haha cause they havent had as much success in their area. but we are all working together and elder rose and oliphant have been a huge help us. last week was exciting when eva announced she was getting baptized. oh ya i think i told you about that in the tape. i am glad you got the tape. i was worried cause i didnt put insurance on it. marcos also gave us some shirts he bought us in orlando! mom thanks for the cute creative bump package- i never got the other one but hopefully they have it.how was laggooon? dad thanks for the letter you sent !!! i laughed a lot reading it :) the wedding was a huge success but also a huge amount of work as we all know, we spent the whole time the night before decorating and the night of the wedding was a fiasco-= the girl doing the bride;'s hair didnt get there til 15 min after it was supposed to start, so we started wayyy late and then we had to leave right after the ceremony cause we had to be in the house at 9:30 ya know. but we were late i'll admit.. .and then we were super tired the next day and we had an exchange with us. Sister Hale. ya. the elders thought AP exchanges were scary. well sister hale was just cute and fun as ever and i love her.. and the day was kinda lame but busy so ya it all worked out. the morning of the wedding was nuts sister keller had to go to mission conference and so i was companions with sister moore, an ASL sister. so i had to do all these last minute spanish phone calls by myself it was so scary. but i tried to mostly text people so i could have time to figure out their reply. the elders left right before the wedding and we didnt know where they went, they come back in their suits awhile later and it was so funny cause they wore ties to match our dresses (we got to borrow these little formal dresses from a 21 yr old in our ward) and the elders were wearing ties that matched our dresses... it was so awkward..we laughed so hard but to this day havent told them that we noticed. they totally did it on purpose through. carlos gomez recieved the Preisthood on Sunday and that was a neat special day! except.. nobody had told me the hymns last week so i thought i was out of playing. well i get there and they tell me they need to me play. only the 3 hymn was in my made easy book. i was trying to sightread the 1 and 2 hymn just the right hand..anyway the sacramnet hymn was so bad, the choister stopped the congregation and made me start over. it was so embarrassing. oh my.. the spirit was not able to enter that sacrament meeting haha. then in gospel principels the guy is up there to say we are going to start then he says..the missionaries will be teaching today...(cause the teacher didnt show up) and we had no idea so we had to go up and teach it was so bad. Luis cant baptize our 4 people he was going to which is sad but then we had to find other peopel to do it. well the ward is kind of mad at the missionaries cause of the wedding or something so they wouldnt sign up to feed us on sunday. then the RS pres stood up and gave a long speech on how it is their respoinsibility so they finally signed up or gave us money but that was embarriassing too. so all my good friends leave this week and i want you all to go to their homecomings for me if you can. tonight the Hales are bringing the 11 new kids that fly in today to the baptism which is scary!! this morning we went to the dania beach pier to watch the sunrise.. i think i was up before dad for the first time ever. we wrote in our journals and studied it was really fun. you'll see pics when i send the cd home. and we went to breakfast. its a busy day but really fun end of transfer- love you all!! thanks for the emails and letters and packages xoxoxoxoxoxo
hermana m call

Scavenger Hunt

On Saturday morning the Hollywood English ward did a scavenger hunt missionary activity and we were able to go help out at it. I went with the Rodriquez girls, who are 18 and 11. Their parents drove us to our area and for the first time I got to be the senior companion. It was so, so fun. I was able to gain a lot of confidence in myself as I helped these girls share the gospel with people. It was really neat that they both spoke Spanish so we were able to talk to a lot of Spanish people and get some referrals there. They helped me learn a few things in Spanish too! I gained a lot of confidence in myself as I was able to teach these girls and help them. I never realized how much knowledge I had until I was able to be the example. It was really neat to see them follow my example and hear them say the same things I had just said to the previous contact. I really enjoyed it!

Father's Day

hey guys how are you doing? i am glad to hear you had a fun fathers day and lots going on it sounds like your summer is busy. wish i could be at park city. i bet it was fun. do you have any pics to send me? this week we had PPI and a noche de hogar at the byrams at it was so so fun and we had a huge fathers day activitiy on wednesday and thursday a big briadal shower- the wedding on friday will be so tiring and on sat we did a missionary scavenger hunt with the englsih ward. we are so busy all the time and i'm sorry i cant write a long email this week, i dont know what i've been doing but somehow i'm out of time already-i sent pics and hope they will hold you through til i can send a fun long email next week. i promise. fyi: i'm goign to doc tomorrow because i somehow got allergic to something on my face and have this itchy acne but i'll pay with my missionary money. i love you and hope all is well- mom hermana keller wrote her mom a long email this week maybe she can forward it to you. things are good here i miss you all tons especailly yesterday but keeping busy- hopefully santos will be bapt later this week and the wedding will go well-pray for those 2 things please- love you so so much xoxoxoxo
hermana call