Hermana Beyonce

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this week has been way good and hard too...only because i have met like amazing people here and some best friends and a few of them left for their missions last night so i was super bummed. its all good though. i havent told you a ton about my district. they are the best people in the world. seriously everyone is amazing. i am gonna miss them so much. we are having a pretend christmas so im pumped about that. only 6 days till xmas!!!! hahaha yes thats how bored we are...gotta keep it exciting. 

but this week was sweet cause we went proselyting again. everyone in my district got paired with latinos except me...i got paired with hermana harper who is 2 weeks behind me and suuuuuper chill. i love her. but i was confused cause i was supposed to be like the latino in the situation. and i was like uhhhh i dont speak spanish too well. but it ended up working out cause we had a teacher come with us hermano chavez. such a baller. he is an unreal teacher and missionary. but some way cool expeiriences happened. the first was we were walking one day and chavez was like lets turn around and we randomly took a turn and then ran into this guy. we told him we were missionaries and he said he has been inactive for 10 years. he said he was baptized by 2 sisters and when he saw me and harper walking he thought of them and said we were the angels he has been searching for. it was soooooo rad.

then we saw this lady sweeping outside her house. such a humble house they had nothing. but we went in and her daughter was there with her son. we taught them about the restored gospel and she goes i have one question, why be baptized?? so we told her to follow christ and to be clean and then chavez looked at me and said invite her to be baptized. i was soo nervous hhaha but i memorized the invite in espanol. so i just threw it down and she said yes. what the heck i was dying!!!!!! so we are for sure sending the missionaries to her. they all agreed to go to church the next day too.

this week i have really noticed that its not really me doing anything. i barely know spanish and pretty much just smile hahaha but the spirit is the best missionary around and god has truly prepared these people to hear the gospel. they are starving for this message!!! its sooooo coooool. makes it all worth it. i love the ccm but i feel like i am reaching this point where i like cant learn more until im just thrown into it. i will still work hard and everything dont worry but im just getting antsy to kill it in the field. i know the first few months will be extra hard but spanish is starting to click and im just gonna do my best and rely on the lord.

this week we watched a devotional by bednar to missionaries. it talked about the attributes of christ and turning outward instead of in...if you guys have a chance you should look it up. it is unreal. sooooo amazing. and i have realized that there are so many times that i turn inward and turn selfish rather than being like christ and turning outward. so thats my goal this week and pretty much my mission to really just forget myself and serve!!!

playing harry potter

my running partner hermana chil left yesterday so im way bummed but i think some girls in my district are gonna run with me so im pumped for that. me and moir are gonna make a workout for the week using the stuff jenni has sent me. i freaking love activity time cause it is like my one hour of brain freedom for the day.

also my comp jameson is an unreallllll singer. she sounds like zoe deschanel and so after activity we have 30 min to get ready and for 20 min she sings and i just dance in our hall way. haha i sound sooooo nerdy saying that but ya gotta do what ya gotta do!!!!!

anyways thats pretty much my update for the week!! life is great. the best days here are ice cream days so i live for that. im learning a ton and realizing just how much better i need to be so i can be ready for the people in quito!!

   

ps. everyone send me your addresses cause im trying to write letters but i have no addresses!!!!! love you all!!!

yo se que el evangelio de jesucristo es verdadera y bendicire su vida cada dia!!

love always kar