It's July Already!

Dear Family,

The weather here is like the middle of July and I am roastin'!! 

Anywho, let me tell you about this week:

1.We had divisions with our Sister Training Leaders and I got to work with Hermana Nielson again!!!! Everytime we get to work together I always feel like I am companions with McKayla. She's got that same weird personality ;) We talked about the food we missed (rootbeer floats, oven baked cookies, and egg salad sandwiches to name a few) and how all but two months of Hermana Nielson's mission we have been in the same zone. She taught me a lot about confidence and taught me a few excercises I can do :) 

When we finished divisions we went to the Fuentes House and to our surprise our companions had made pupusas (a food that they make in El Salvador and Honduras) and left us beautiful flowers. Pupusas are like Gorditas here in Mexico. Its basically a fat tortilla with cheese and beans inside and you cook it, put salsa on top and YUMMMMM. Don't worry, I am learning how to make them! 

2. For a while, we had a lot of our investigadors come to church and come by themselves but now we are starting to have problems. We make plans and everything is set to go until the morning of when we reconfirm the plans for the hundredth time and it turns out that they can't make it. 

R and M have decided with their parents that they are going to wait until their parents return to be baptized. They have no idea when they will be able to come back. I hope they get baptized before Cambios and they change me. 

A we haven't seen all week because she has been busy working. 

E couldn't come to church this week because her dad came to stay for the weekend and doesn't let her go to church for complicated reasons. 

Somehow I have remained absolutely calm through all of this and I am not stressed, I just don't know how to solve every problem.

I have learned, more than anything, this week about prayer. Moroni 7 talks about how we should pray sincerely or our prayers don't make it to God's ear. It hit me so hard and I realized that I need to talk to God with more sincerity so that He can hear my prayers and that the answers and blessings come. When we pray half-heartedly we recieve our answers and blessings half-heartedly. Think about that one for a while. A prayer so simple and sincere brings blessings so much bigger than the simple but sincere words that left our lips and reached the ears of our loving Heavenly Father. Ask sincerely and with love and you will recieve blessings from our Perfect God, Perfect Father who gives sincerely and with love that is bigger than humankind can imagine.

God loves you. Don't forget to pray.

have some good days,

Hermana Beardall