Hola amigos!
Me voy a mi casa! I'm headed home. I'm all done.
This week was fun! Allen's dad finally gave the ok for the baptism, so
he will be baptized on Saturday. He's great! His dad even thinks a
mission will be great for Allen. We'll see what happens!
We are teaching a handful of people who are learning so much. They
attend church, read the scriptures, pray.. I know Sister Garrity will
take care of them.
I know Christ lives!
Hasta miércoles!
Hermana Laney Valentine
1. Sister Fairbourne and I
2. Cute children who love missionaries. They didn't want me to leave!
3. Hermana Erives and her son!
4. Fernanda! I love her! She's grown so much!
5. Garcia family. They are great.
7-31-2017
Hola Amigos!
This was quite an eventful week! We did some interesting things and
had meetings.
We have a member who is a sushi chef, and he made us sushi for dinner.
Homemade. Right in front of us. Super fancy.
We had MLC this week. It was my last one! I bore testimony about
Heavenly Father loving us. He really does.
We happened to be in the right place at the right time as we followed
our first impressions. On exchanges, Sister Gulley and I found people
who were interested home in the middle of the day. That is a rare
thing!
We referred a former investigator (someone who was learning about the
gospel) to a different area about 1 month ago. He was just baptized!
His uncle is a member who doesn't come to church anymore, but Martin
really want his uncle there. The elders don't speak Spanish, so they
asked us to go invite him. He came! He brought his daughter and
Martin's brother! It was fantastic. Martin was super happy! When he
bore his testimony at his baptism, he said that when he was first
taught a few years ago, he never thought the day would come for a
baptism. Then the sisters knocked on his door (us!) and set him up
with Elders Bean and Edmondson. He was very grateful. I think it's
neat to know how long it took for it to stick with him. Now he is
looking forward to seeing his Heavenly Father again one day and living
with Him and Christ. That's what he said!
Right time right place happened again. On our way home from Martin's
baptism, Sister Garrity and I saw a baby stroller on fire. We flipped
around to check it out. No baby. I called 911 and opened water battles
while she helped a homeless man out the fire out. The fire department
arrived and all was ok. The homeless lady whose things were on fire
was not happy... It was an adventure for sure.
Listen to the spirit!
Today we played life size clue. It was super fun and didn't take long
to prep. It took a few hours to play, but once people got the hang of
it, it was fun. The idea is that since Sister Gulley, Sister Patterson
and I go home, we "died," and the zone had to figure out who killed us
where with what.
Hasta Luego!
Hermana Valentine
1. Sushi with the Garcia family.
2. Sister Training Leaders at MLC
3. Sister Fairbourne and I saying bye at MLC. She's great. I'll miss her!
4-5. Martin's baptism. Elder Bean, Martin's family, Martin, Me, Sister
Garrity, and Elder Edmondson
6. The best board game ever. We make up first names to go with last names.
