WHAT A WEEK!!

Querido Familia y Amigos,

So let's get this straight. Y'all wanna know about my experience at the CCM and apparently I am very vague when it comes to answering your questions. Mostly, it's because I forget to bring your letters with me to email entonces I have to remember what you said to the best of my ability. Lo siento.

Let my try this:

MI COMPANERA (I know I'm missing an accent on the "n." Lo siento.): Hna Womack is from San Diego, CA. We get along so well porque we both love to laugh and have a jolly good time. We both are comfortable sharing our thoughts and such with each other which makes it easier to prepare and teach our investigators. TANGO MUCHO AMOR POR MI COMPANERA

THE FOOD: I was ok with the CCM food for about a week before I began to get sick of it. Advice for you future missionaries: AVOID ALL THINGS THEY (CCM peeps) CLAIM TO BE EGGS. I don't know if you can trust the "eggs..." they don't even look like eggs... Bueno. Entonces, Hna Womack and I found our true love- BAGELS. No, not really. Our true love is the cream cheeses! Honey Walnut is my favorite and Honey Cinnamon is 2nd best. Hna Womack and I both agree that eating bagels at breakfast is one of the highlights of our day. Haha but really, they're good.

WHERE I LIVE: West Campus. Wyview is my casa and Raintree is my classroom. In reality, I live at Raintree and sleep at Wyview. Hmmkay I hope that answers that question porque no tango mucho cosas sobre mi casa. Bueno.

GYM: Bball and Vball. Depending on the day and what my comp wants to do I play either or. Yesterday mi companera wanted to play four square but that sport stresses me out too much so I just stuck to bball drills. If you have any suggestions/drills para mi, por favor compartan conmigo!

FAVS: studying in my scriptures all day long y teaching my TRC investigator. TRC investigators may be real investigator or a member pretending to be investigators. Either way, Hna Womack and I are teaching a sister and we LOVE IT!! It is helping us comprehend Spanish and practice speaking tambien. Honestly, TRC is where I learn the most, both spiritually and mentally (learning Spanish).

At Sunday Devotional, we had Elder Holland come and introduce his son who was our devotional speaker. Simply having him in our presence was a blessing and you could feel the love of our Savior and our Heavenly Father radiating from him. I received a lot of personal revelation as Matthew Holland  gave an account of the trials and pains Joseph Smith went through to restore the gospel on the Earth. There is no way that a man would go through all that pain and suffering simply to start a church that was not true! I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and I am indeed grateful for his MANY sacrifices for me to have the restored truth!

I also had a wonderful experience acting as an investigator for a demonstration in my class. I had to pick someone I knew that I thought could use a message about prayer in their life right now. As I began to investigate (like the person I had in mind) I kinda stumped my teacher (who was acting as the missionary) but then, after a minute of silence, he turned to me and shared a scripture. The person I was acting as wasn't sure if God would answer their prayers porque they had prayed before but didn't think they recieved an answer. He shared Ether 12:6, which talks about after the trial of your faith you will receive an answer or a witness. I  immediately felt the spirit and immediately know that God will answer my prayers. I know that God answers our prayers and is aware of our needs. If you have any doubt, whether God is there, if a doctrine of the gospel is true, if you don't know what you should do in life (college, who to marry, serve a mission, etc.)- GOD WILL ANSWER YOU!!! If you don't believe me, try it out for yourself! Also, don't forget that your idea of an answer may not be what God thinks is your answer. God DOES answer prayers and knows how to bless you perfectly.

I can't tell you how much scripture study has blessed my life- saying that it has blessed my life immensely seems like an understatement. I hope you NEVER forget to read your scriptures! There is an answer to ALL of your preguntas on EVERY PAGE!!

I hope y'all are doing great and know that I love to hear from you, regardless of the lack of responses I give back :) You are in my prayers!! I LOVE YOU!

Con Amor,

Hermana Beardall