hi

This week was good. There is this talk that D todd Christofferson gave a few years ago, it's titled "As many as I love, I rebuke and Chasten" i love this talk it reaffirmed to me that because he loves us he will give us trials for our strength and benefit so we can be more fit and equipped to recieve Greater spiritual gifts.

in D&C 136:31 it says: "My people must be ^atried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the ^bglory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not ^cbearchastisement is not worthy of my kingdom.

Why do we need to be chastened? because we are imperfect beings and Heavenly Father has provided a way for us to be refined and more like Him. that wasy is through seeking correction and being humbly and accept it  even though somethimes we feel that we dont deserve our trials , we do because  he needs to try our faith and patience and wants us to learn to resolve things and preapare for greater things he has in store for us. I am thankful that  through repentance, and the atonement I can become better. I know we cannot inhereit his kindgdom if we dont learn to be loving, patient, humble, and be greatful for blessings as welll as trials. We can be refined as we seek his correction and act upon it. Through the sciptures, we can be reminded of the things we need to stop doing that are bad, or to do the things that we know are right and are not doing. This week we had Weekly Planning as usual on fridays, and my companion and i realized that we are in a current. Do you all remember the movie " finding Nemo"? how those tortuses caught that current to get to where they need to be, and how some of them layed on their backs and played around, becaue it was the easy way to get there without trying too hard.  Well, we realized that we need to get out of this current. Where we are strong in some areas we lack in others, such as finding new people to teach. We set goals every week but are not thinking outside the box trying new things to get members excited and involved with misisonary work. We also plan for the same people for months now and they are almost never home, and its not going to change. It was harsh for both of us, but it is needed, we came up with several different ways to strengthen this area and help the mmbers with their missionary work. We are going to give everyone those "would you be willing cards" aneasy way to have everyine share the gospel, focus on the youth, fo they have tons of friends that are not members and we are doing a mission plan with them, bake studd for the mothers that dont want our girls to be baptized yet, and many other things that i am super excited to try this week!! i am  thankfull to hte Lord for giving us all the revelation we needed, he is indeed laboring in the vineyard with us :)

love ya'll bye !

this was a wednesday and we alll wore pink, the thing is my companion and i dressed then realized we were twins, haha great minds think alike :) these are all the elders and sisters serving in our Branch!!

this is us at a breakfast at a members house.  :) and this is me fifty pounds later at a trunk or treat

this cheerleader man is a progresssing investigator that has a baptisimal date, but we had to give him over to the Elders that took part of our area, so now they are teaching him, but its ok because he is getting baptized and his son still doesnt know, i love this family!!

these are the children of Ricardos son Genaro, or ricardos grandkids :) so cute!