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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Hola! My family






Hi Mom and Dad!

HOW EXCITING!!!! I AM SO HAPPY THAT YOU MET HERMANA COX, my soul sister! I love her so much. I know it was a treat for you to meet her...she is kind of like a celebrity for our family, huh? I am happy that her family is with her now, but honestly, I feel like a part of my heart is missing. Uruguay just is not the same without the presence of Hermana Cox. I cant wait to be reunited with her again! I want to know more about the weekend! Write me with all of the details!

And how fun that you met Hermana Harvey's family! Thank you so much for making such great memories and connecting with their families. I feel so blessed to have such remarkable parents. I am getting so anxious and excited to see you and to give you a big hug. What a marvelous day that will be. I love you both with my whole heart. 

It is so interesting the feelings that one receives when you are ending your mission. Also, it is super fun training a new missionary and really seeing how much a missionary progresses in the time of their missions. The theme this week for Hermana Harvey and I has been, "We sacrifice a little bit, but the Lord blesses even more." We have seen that come to pass this week as we had a BAPTISM! Finally! This area hasn't had a baptism since June! I also think that quote applies to me staying here for Christmas and New Years. I barely miss the holidays at home with my family and there are a many missionaries going home to celebrate Christmas with their families. Heavenly Father wants me to stay here. I would love to be home with my family for Christmas, but I know that Heavenly Father will bless my family 1,000,000 times more for serving him. And how many times in life can you say that you celebrated Christmas in Uruguay? Not very many!

Speaking of Christmas, today, Hermana Harvey and I went to Devoto, the supermercado, and we walked in and heard Christmas music playing! We saw the Christmas decorations and right next to the decorations, we saw.......SWIM TOWELS and sunblock! It was so funny. 

Do you want to know a fun fact about Piriapolis? Bueno, house numbers DO NOT exist. Addresses do not exist! You are probably wondering why in the world are there no addresses. I am wondering the same thing. Instead of numbers, they have NAMES! The houses have names! It is quite funny.

The baptism that we had was a HUGE tender mercy from the Lord. The mother is a less active member and the missionaries have been trying to baptize her 11 year old daughter, Yazmin, for years! She never wanted to and would not. A few weeks ago, Yazmins grandpa passed away suddenly from cancer. The Lord guided us to their house that night, and Yazmin told us she wanted to be baptized so she could see her grandpa again. Talk about blessing in disguise. The baptism was beautiful. I cant wait for Hannah to get baptized in a few short weeks!

Enrique is doing so awesome! He is flying high with so much faith! His story of finding the missionaries is so amazing. It amazes me every time! Ever since the beginning of my mission, I have recorded my converts testimonies of how they met the missionaries and their conversion. I think it will be such a treat to watch when I get home. I will probably cry my eyes out as I translate to you all what they are saying. It is so fun because Enrique is an author and is writing a book about religions. He was stuck at this point in his book and he didn't know where to go, until he met "his angels." (thats what he calls us.) He was sharing his testimony with us during one of our lessons this week, and he began to cry. I have never seen a man cry with such sincerity of heart as Enrique did. Thanks to the day we found him, he received guidance for his life. This is just another testimony to me how the gospel changes lives. And we are even in his book! His book will be published by the end of the year. I definitely want to read it!

Sometimes I get home after a long days work and I cant feel my legs. After walking and walking and walking some more everyday, I feel like I am just about to collapse from exhaustion. But it all makes it worth it to meet people like Enrique and to receive inspiring letters from my converts. They love the gospel and that is what is most rewarding. I will walk a million more miles to find even more people prepared for the gospel. The time is ticking so fast.

I love you my dear family. Again, I am so happy that you got to spend time with my dear Hermana Cox. I thank my Heavenly Father everyday for blessing me with bounteous blessings like my family and my mission. 

¡Les amo!
Hermana Coon



Tuesday, November 18, 2014

I love my family!

My Dearest Family,

¡Hola! It has been such a wonderful week. I honestly cannot believe how fast time is flying! Can you believe it is changes again??? The big news is that Hermana Harvey and I are staying here in Piriapolis! haha I already knew that I would be ending my misión here. Today was such a wonderful Pday because Hermana Cox came to visit her old áreas here in Piriapolis and Pan de Azucar. I also got to see her on Thursday for the Conference in Montevideo! It was such a blessing to give her a huge huge hug before she leaves on that airplane. I love her dearly...my sister for the eternities.

BIG NEWS! Vicki Jo and Steve Andersen came to visit Hna Harvey and I here in Piriapolis!!! It was SO FUN and such a huge blessing! I feel like the Lords blessings are so huge. We were waiting for them outside of our Little home and up drives a Little mini van with them inside! I got so giddy and just about had tears in my eyes! Vicki Jo leaps out of the car and give me the biggest hug I have received in 18 months almost! As she squeezes me she said,"This hug is from your mom!" Then she let me go and began squeezing me again and said, "This hug is from your dad. And this one is from me!" We had such a great time together. They took us out to lunch and I loved talking to them. They are just the greatest. I saw pictures of everyone and oh my I cant believe how much everyone has grown! It is incredible! What a giant blessing it is to have them here in Uruguay with me. I love them. 

I am now on my last change as a missionary. That actually brought tears to my eyes as I wrote that last sentence. I cannot believe it. I only have 6 more weeks of being a representative of Jesús Christ. I told Hermana Harvey that we are forbidden to talk about me leaving haha only on Pdays we can talk about it. I am just going to make the most out of everyday. I know that this change will seem like another blink of the eye.

I dont even know where to start. Mom....dont freak out at what I am about to tell you...just another one of those crazy stories from the mission. Its super embarassing, but I figure I have already embarassed myself enough during my misión haha. This week Satan has been working so hard. (It is because there are people waiting for the góspel. That is why he is working so hard. haha) All week, this week and last week, my head has been itching so hard. I thought maybe I got sunburned and my skin was pealing on my head. I thought of every posible reason why my head would be itching. I asked Hermana Harvey to check to see if my worst nightmare had come true...LICE! She said she didnt see any sign of lice. I was relieved. Then, a few days later, we were visiting Hermana Chavez and Hernández and I began itching my head again. It was so painful. I told my dear Hermana Chavez what was happening. She began looking through my head. She gasp from shock. "Hermana Coon," she said, "Usted tiene PIOJOS!" You have Lice! You better believe within a Split second, I was washing my hair in the shower with the lice shampoo that they had. I didnt know whether to laugh or to cry. I think it pretty much has scarred poor Hermana Harvey for life! haha. For 3 hours, I sat in a chair, while my sweet Hermana Chavez picked lice out of my hair. For 3 hours!!!! Hermana Chavez deserves a Golden metal. Her new nickname is Hermana Caridad (Hermana Charity! haha) After 3 hours, I came out nice and clean. Who on earth gave me lice, I have no idea. We enter into so many homes each day and receive so many kisses and hugs from Little children. I have no idea. All I know is that I can now check "getting lice" off of the bucket list!

In so many ways, the Lord has blessed us this week. It is so wonderful all of his tender mercies. For example, as we were walking down the street a few days ago, someone stops their car, hops out, screams "COOON!" and gives me a huge hug! Do you know who it was? My sweet Hermana Pollo from Progreso! I havent seen her in so long! It was such a tender mercy that we were in the right place and the right time. I was beyond happy. I never thought I would love these Uruguayos so much, but I do! They have my heart!

I had a very spiritual experience this week on Thursday at the 2 mission conference in Malvin, Montevideo. It was absolutely amazing. I sat on the very front row right in front of the speaker, Elder Christensen, and soaked up every word. I felt like he was specifically talking to me! Everything that I have been praying about and pondering about these last couple of days he spoke about! He spoke about how the mission is not about preaching the góspel, it is about cleaning our lives. Everytime we teach and testifiy, every time we search and search for people prepared and ready to receive the góspel, the spirit is cleaning us. That is what causes a change of heart.....it is the spirit. It is the process of teaching, baptizing, and testifiying that strengthens us. I know that to be true. He spoke about the difference between charity and love. Love is feelings, but charity is when you sacrifice. You cant have charity without sacrificing. Doctrine and Covenants 138:12 13. We have to suffer through challenges and trials in order to refine us. It is part of the mission. It was amazing as I reflected upon my mission and all of the many experiences that I have blessed to experience. The good and the hard ones. These are what strengthens our testimonies and makes us become the person that our Heavenly Father wants us to be. I was suppose to get piojos, lice, for something. Heavenly Father wanted to teach me something. I am just in that refining processes. I cant wait for James to experience this so soon! The mission is the best. I hope as I walk off of that plane in a few weeks, you will see a different person because I hope that I am not the same Katie Coon that I was when I left almost 18 months ago. I have been put throught the refiners fire here on my mission and I have felt the spirit work within me. That is what changes people. I love my mission. so much.

Love you family with all my heart. I know this góspel is true. What a blessing it is to have such a faithful and stalwart family! Until next week,

Hermana Coon


 My dear Hermana Cox! She is on her way home!


mis hijas! (My daughters!)






 Read my email to find out what are PIOJOS!



Hermana Harvey's letter to her family:

Hola mi familia y amigos!

I'm alive no worries! This week was combios (TRANSFERS), plus today the lights were out at the cyber so im just BARELY getting onto the computer. haha sorry i wont have any time to write letters today, hopefully i can make up for it next week.  What an experience this has all been, thank goodness I have Hermana Coon by my side to help me every step of the way.

First of all let me apologize for how awful that letter was last week! I always just get so excited to hear from everyone else I get lost with the time and forget to write my mass email. You guys deserve more details and so hopefully this week I will have more time.. Sorry if its long!

On Tuesday my Zone all got together for a Choque la fuerza. Its where we all get together to help one zone out. We all met up in Minas to help out that area since they were struggling with investigators. First we had a little meeting, then eat lunch, played a couple games like mafia (oh mafia..good memories of girls camp) then confri which is like big booty. Yeah its even worse in Spanish haha sooooo hard! Next we split up into different companionships and I was with Hna. Ots shes from Argentina and shes hilarious! We had to get 3 new investigators in an hour and a half and we ended up getting 8! Shes amazing ill tell you that! That was fun!

On Thursday we had another huge conference with the 2 missions of Uruguay in Montevideo. Elder. Christensen of the 70 came with his wife and spoke, along with the 2 mission presidents and their wives. Oh the spirit was so strong and they all cried and it was just a beautiful day!

Hna.Chavez (a Hermana in the other area of Piriapolis)  has been having leg problems and hasn’t been able to walk this week. So one day I went on splits with her companion Hna.Hernandez and helped them teach this adorable eleven year old girl who is getting baptized this week! The house we had the charla with was the Relief Society president for our ward and her husband works with bees and makes homemade honey so we got to see all the bees and how it works and he gave us free honey! So yummy!

Hna. Coon and I have felt Satan working hard on us this week. Heres our luck for this week: 

-Our load of whites turned pink.. then blue haha that was our mostly our bad, but still.
-For some reason I decided to wear the shoes that are a bit too big for me and I of course ended up getting  blisters and now they’ve grown to the size of quarters! Its ok though im fine I can still walk.
-Hna. Coon ended up getting lice!!! Ahhh Piojos! Pobrecita! All of us hermanas were her ¨monas¨and spent all day picking them out. Oh She is such a strong woman and has taken so much but her faith is still so strong! Such an example to me! Luckily I didn’t end up getting them..yet. They're very common here!
- Hna.Coon and I have been sharing clothes, its wonderful! You truly do get sick of your clothes fast haha but its hilarious every time she has worn my skirts they’ve ripped.  I just laugh its seriously hilarious! But yeah I might need some new shoes and skirts soon J

But Hna.Coon and I have also realized that we go through these struggles, hard things happen only beacause the lord wants to test our faith and see if we choose to lean on him in times of need. We definitely have. And we know that when something bad happens it just means something even greater is in store for us. And we have also seen that this week J

Our investigator Yasmin (the 11 year old girl with the family that has 14 perros) said she wouldn’t come to church this week because she wanted to go to her dogs race. We told her she should pray about it though and see what the lord wants her to do. Well she came to church and now she can get baptized this week!!! Whooooo! My first baptism! Shes awesome shes just very very shy so pray for her!

Also Enrique surprised us again! We only had one charla with him this week and we weren’t able to talk to him before church but he came! He came sweating again because he walked! Ah he is awesome and you know what. We found out he is living the law of chastity and can get baptized too! Pray for him as well! We also found out he wrote about us in his book! He's hilarious! What a great guy he is so excited to go to the temple too and get sealed. He said ¨the true church has temples, and that’s your church¨

We have also seen many other mircles this week. Our bendiciones (blessings) paper is running out of room! some days we didnt have lunch this week, but the Lord is always watching over his missionaries and surprisingly we haven't run out of food and we haven't gone a day without lunch! Speaking of lunch, yes Hna.Coons family (aunts parents) just came down to start their mission here! It was their first pday yesterday and they took us out to lunch! I don't remember the last time I actually sat down and ordered something it was such a treat! They are such a great family and I cant thank them enough! We also have meet many more great people this week and ill have to write more about them next week.

We LOVE LOVE LOVE missionary work because we truly get to see people change. We don’t judge these people on who they were in the past, we only see them for the person they can become J also in white, we always picture them in white getting baptized and getting to go through the temple! 

Thank you everyone for all the thoughts and prayers! Never lose the faith! Stay strong! Love you all so much!

Xoxoxoxox
Hna.Harvey





Monday, November 10, 2014

My work here in Uruguay is still not done.

My dear family!

I LOVE YOU! 

The time is going by so quickly! I honestly cannot believe it. 

So much happened this week, I have so much to tell you. What a week full of miracles Hermana Harvey and I have had. It has been such a challenging, trying week, but in the end we witnessed so many blessings. Our sweet Hermana Rosalia plays hymns on her year 1800 piano and every night we can hear her playing. One of the songs she was playing was, "Cuenta tus bendiciones." (Count your many blessings.) Wow I couldnt believe how much the Lord has blessed us this week. We had so many tender mercies and it is so evident that the Lord was guiding us. I pray every night that Hermana Harvey will have spiritual experiences with me that will impact her for the rest of her mission. I feel like Heavenly Father is listening and he is answering my prayers.

Here in Piriapolis, it is super close the ocean. Its like the "San Diego of Uruguay." We talk to everyone and we hear so many interesting beliefs. It has been so interesting for me to switch from working in cute little Melo where everyone believes in God to coming to Piriapolis where a lot of people dont believe in God. I am grateful to be a representative on the Lord and to share my testimony every day. Everyday I feel like we live in the chapter of Alma 30. One experience, we began talking with man, who told us that he was completely athiest. He told us that he didnt believe in anything. The things that he was telling us took my back. He completely denied Christ and the spirit. It broke my heart literally, this people who literally live in darkness because there is no hope! We testifed that there is a God and that Christ will come. The testimony that Hermana Harvey and I shared was so powerful and I could feel the spirit testifying of our words. I know that this man felt something. We walked away completely in awe and with even firmer testimonies that Christ lives. I am thankful to be a witness of God. 

Even though it is the San Diego of Uruguay, heavenly father is blessing us with people to teach. Yesterday, we found a woman named Paola who is so prepared for the gospel. She and her son are going to get baptized on the 29 of November. We had such an amazing lesson with her yesterday. It was one of those lessons where you dont really remember what was said, the spirit just took it away. I cannot thank my Heavenly Father enough for the tender mercies and the many miracles that I have witnessed in my mission. I worked out of my area in Pan de Azucar (hermana coxs old area) a day this week. There are people so prepared in all of uruguay. The Lord is definitely hastening his work. We taught a mother and son about the gospel of Jesucristo and they were literally eating every word we said. It was so rewarding. They were so eager to read out of the Book of Mormon and to keep their commitments. It was remarkable how the Lord guides his missionaries.

We had a capilla abierta (open house) for our little church here in Piriapolis on Sunday. You know what? Hermana Harvey and I were outside invited people to come in. We went up to these two teenagers and began to talk to them in spanish inviting them to the church. All of the sudden, they tried to speak in spanish, but it was apparent that they were from the States and could not understand anything we were saying. I began to talk to them in english and they came into the church for our tour. Hermana Harvey and I gave them the tour in english, and you know what....I could not do it! I could not teach in english for the life of me! I dreamed for this day when I was in Hermana Harveys shoes. It was so funny...I felt like I kept apologizing because spanish words would come out easier then english words. Uh oh I am in for trouble when I come home! You guys understand spanish, right? haha

I am been receiving some wonderful letters from my people in Melo. It is the most rewarding this to hear their testimonies and to see their conversion. It makes my heart leap for joy. We really dont realize the difference that we make in peoples lives. Either the 22 or the 29 of December, I am going to visit Melo before I come home. What a joyous reunion this will be. I cant believe my dear Hermana Cox is leaving the mission so soon. I will miss her dearly. I cant believe how fast time is moving. I just want to soak up every minute of every second that I have here in my promised land. I enjoy it so much. I am just about to enter into my last change next week. I told Hermana Harvey that it is forbidden that we speak of it...haha. She is a good sport. I love her a lot and I know that we will be friends forever. The gospel is like a glue. It ties people together. That is why I am so thankful for our family...its because we have the gospel in our lives and we live it. 

My work here in Uruguay is still not done. I will continue to work hard until the very last second that they tell me that it is time for me to go home. We are praying for a family to teach and baptize. It is the temple that is our goal. I know the gospel is true with my whole soul.

I love you! This...........................................................................................................much.

Hermana Coon

p.s. The picture is of us and Abuela Rosalia!



Hermana Harvey's letter to her family:

Hola mis amigos y familia!

The days are starting to fly by it seems like! I cant believe ive already been gone for 2 months!

This week we already had our “Oro Conference” and I got to see all my buddies from the CCM again! The ones that our in my mission at least. That was awesome! We didn’t have much time to chat though, we did a bunch of practices which were very helpful! I also didn’t get a chance to take a picture, but next week ill be able to see them all again because we have a huge conference with the 2 missions of Uruguay! Lots and lots of conferences and traveling on the omnibus!

Also this week I had my first Intercombio! So for a day/night I was with another Hermana. Hna.Armijo and she is just the sweetest girl! It was weird though not to have Hna. Coon by my side haha she helped me a lot with my Spanish and we had a good day together! Its cool to see how different situations can be like with different people, in different places all around the world, with different people, etc. But all this work is the same no matter what. The gospel of Jesus Christ has always been the same and that’s all we are doing as missionaries is not trying to convince anyone. We are simply just spreading and sharing this gospel with others and having them find out for themselves like we have that this is the true church.

Hna. Coon and I had a theme this week of “Cuenta tus bendiciones” which is count your blessings. We had a hard time with our investigators keeping their commitments and slacking off and ugh we just want them to try it and then they can see how great this gospel is and how much it can help their lives! But a lot of people struggle with that and they don’t want to try, and they give up and there isn’t much we can do. It seems like people are waiting for these huge signs and miracles, but the truth is they’ve already had miracles and blessings in their lives they are just being so blinded they cant see them. So Hna. Coon and I started to not focus on the negative, we have been finding the little blessings in our life and have been writing them down every night.  Also our investigator Enrique is still progressing really well because he has been keeping his commitments and whats so amazing is hearing his experiences! He told us that while he was reading he received inspiration and he knows this gospel is true and he puts in the effort and he came to church on Sunday! He woke up late, but he still came and walked and its just amazing his faith is growing soooo much! It’s a longer story than that I know I wish I could have time. Ill write about it in my letter, but I love you guys and thank you for everything! One day ill get this emailing thing down I promise! Keep the faith you guys! Love you

Xoxoxoxox,
Hna. Harvey

Oh that picture with my lil pumpkin was my way of spending Halloween haha they do celebrate it here but its not cute like it is back home with kids dressed up as princesses and heros, its all blood and guts and scary stuff. Also no king size candy like we have in the states haha. I carved a temple because the Temple is my heaven here on earth and I cannot wait for the day I can be married and sealed for eternity in it! Bryce im so happy to hear about you getting your endowments out!


Monday, November 3, 2014

White Picket Fence

Hello my Family!!!!

I miss you all so much and I love to hear from each and every one of you every week! It feels my heart with joy! WOW JAMES! Holy cow bro! You got a FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP! Congratulations! That is incredible! I always knew that you have great things in store for your future. Keep aiming high. I dont even recognize James or any of his friends in the pictures that you send. When I left they were little boys, now they are MEN! haha. wow i cant believe it. Same with Annie and Hannah! Everyone is so old! haha.

I absolutely love training. I forgot how fun it really is. The last time I trained was a year ago with Hermanita Fuentes. Hermana Harvey is so wonderful and I am so impressed at her diligence to learn. It is so fun because everything is so new to here. I am glad that I get to be apart of her "oro" experience. It is a treat for me everyday. For example, she tried a "torta frita" for the first time this week. I will never forget the first time I tried a torta frita. (There were mice crawling around in the house. haha.) Its fun to reminisce on all the good times, isnt it?

We have had quite the rain storm here in Piriapolis over the past 3 days or so. I have never seen such a big storm in my life! The rain never stops...ever! Piriapolis is so beautiful with such cute houses! You all know that it is my dream to live in a house with a white picket fence. My dream has come true! Our little home with Rosalia has the cutest entrance with a white picket fence. Everyday, Hermana Harvey and I are discovering new plants in our yard. Above our heads, we have grapevines growing. We will be eating grapes all the time for the next couple of months. Just today, we saw that Rosalia is growing corn! We live in the secret garden...I love it! 

I love reflecting back on the week and I can really see the hand of the Lord in our lives. We are witnessing miracles. What is so fun is that Hermana Harvey is so new to everything, so every little miracle that we see is like gold to her. 

I will begin by telling you an awesome experience of what happened to our awesome investigator, Inrique. We have been teaching him for about a week now, and oh boy, have I absolutely LOVED to see the change in him that the gospel brings. It makes my heart rejoice! Before he didnt believe in God, that god loves him, that god hears him. We found him as we were walking in the street. He told us later that he felt something good about us, that desire to learn what we were all about. I know that the spirit has been guiding us with his teachings. We taught him about faith in Alma 32 and how is faith is growing, how we plant our little seed in of faith in our heart, and then by reading, praying, and going to church our little seed of faith grows! He took that lesson to heart. The next day, he read all of what we left him to read, Alma 32. The next day we come back to him home to see if he read. He had tears in his eyes as he told us that he did read and that he knows that the Book of Mormon was true. Through his study of the Book of Mormon, he received personal revelation for his life. It was so amazing and he was telling us his personal experience. I asked him, "Inrique, now do you believe that God listens to your prayers?" He knows it and he is changing. This strengthened my testimony of the power of the Book of Mormon and how it is written for each and every one of us. Now Inrique is reading the book of mormon everyday and enjoying what he is learning. In his prayers, he thanks Heavenly Father for sending to angels to his home to teach him the gospel. He lived in such darkness, but now he is receiving the light that he was searching for. One out of the many things that I will miss about being a missionary is that all the time we get people calling us "their angels." Hermana Harvey was a little creeped about by this when she heard us called angels. I explained to her that people call us that here. It is the biggest compliment we can ever receive. People are changing their lives with the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love to be a missionary.

We have worked so hard this past week helping reactivate a few inactive families. Hermana Harvey has loved our family nights that we have done with them. I woke upSunday morning thinking that we had done everything, all that we could, and now it was in the Lords hands. It was raining, and no Uruguayo likes to go out in the rain. I am glad to know that Heavenly Father knows the desires of our hearts. All of our little inactive families came to church as well as a few investigators...in the rain! It was a miracle as we saw each one of the pull up to the church. Hermana Harvey and I ran out in the sprinkling rain to give them a big kiss on the cheek and welcome them to church. Inrique came to church as well and loved every minute of it. Each of the testimonies that the members gave were just for him. He knew so many members even and they were so excited to see him there. We had such a fabulous Sabbath day yesterday as we went visiting teaching with our amazing total Type 1 Hermana Corrales. We visited a nursing home and sang to our sweet old hermanas there. My heart was full last night as I went to bed thanking Heavenly Father for everything.

I have been thinking a lot about our neighbors Luis and Sofia. Oh how do I want to share the gospel with them. I think it will help now, now that I can communicate with Sofia. I feel like they are prepared to receive the gospel. They have been on my mind and my heart so much lately, which is a bit unusual. Wouldnt you just love to see them enter into the waters of baptism?! I know I would!

My testimony this week is short and simple, but it feels my whole soul. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love my Savior and I know him. I feel so blessed to be completely immersed in the gospel. It is light. 

I love you family! Stay strong and of good courage! We will see eachother soon!

Hermana Coon






HERMANA HARVEY'S LETTER TO HER FAMILY
HOLLLLLAA familia y amigos!

WOW what a week it has been! Many many miracles as well! So much to tell!

Remember last week how I was saying Hna. Coon and I were sweating bullets haha well this week was completely the opposite! Its been windy and raining all week and we were in our coats! The weather is a bit bipolar like Utah you could say!
We had a fantastic week with lots of great Noche de Hogars (FHE) with some less active families in our area. Everyone is so nice and they are always feeding us. The picture I sent is of the Fila Duerda and their son reminds me of Zero off Holes haha anyways they are awesome and its like a tradition here that everytime it rains they make Torta Fritas and that’s what we had with some dulce de leche . HMMMMM! Hna. Coon took that left over dulce de leche and tried to make popcorn balls with it for another family. They didn’t look too great, but everyone loved them.  

That’s another story to tell! This other family owns 14 dogs! Crazy! We clapped saying that we were there at their house (you don’t really knock on doors here its their culture) but anyways all the dogs came rushing to the fence and it was normal like it always is, but then when the mother came out the dogs started attacking eachother! Oh my goodness and Hna. Coon and I weren’t sure what to do! There were so many dogs  and we could smell blood and there was dog crap everywhere and the neighbors had to come over and wow what an experience! Poor Hna. Coon haha she hates dogs so much! Other than that the night and lesson was great!

Church this week was another success even with the rain! One of our progressing investigators is a middle age man named Enrique and his faith has been growing so much! He calls us his angels because before he met us he didn’t have any faith. Also the fun fact that we literally see him every day SOMEWHERE because we keep running into him it’s the funniest thing ever! It’s a sign we tell him that this church is for him haha he wants to get baptized but the only problem is he is living with his girlfriend. My favorite quote from him this week was when we asked if he was still coming to church because of the rain (since a lot of people use that as an excuse here) He said “I imagine the rain doesn’t turn off the faith” amen to that! He came, and the less active families, and a girl who has a baptism date with us for next week! It was a great Fast Sunday and great testimonies shared. I have such a strong testimony on fasting! We have fasted so much and we have truly seen so many miracles this week. Its still not an easy task, especially since we aren’t incharge of everyones own agency, but it works! Ah the Lord has blessed us so much! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this gospel!

Oh and the picture of us in the Garden is a service project we did this week with the Fila. Delgado. They are an amazing family and help the missionaries so much so we decieded to give back and help with their garden. The girl with us is their daughter Camila who is 18 yrs old.

Love you all! Never lose the faith, remember faith is also an action!

Xoxoxoxox,
Hna. Harvey