6 New Investigators, 1 New Stun Gun

This week was awesome. We found some people, taught some people, built some ward relationships, and over all we are just SO SO happy

I chose two things last Monday that I want to focus on to be a better companion. So the two things I am striving for is to 1.) help my companion trust in her ability to trust the spirit. And 2.) Help my companion learn Spanish!

I set the first focus because my comp always says she doesn't know when the spirit is talking to her (she totally gets promptings all the time...she's incredible). So I thought I would help build her confidence in that by always acting on her ideas without debate. Just trusting in her right to the spirit 100%. 

Well no sooner than I had made that goal, we had an appointment cancel and Wallis said, "Maybe we should visit the Linares' (two of our converts)". I had committed to act on all of her thoughts as promptings, so we went immediately. We showed up to find one of our sweet converts shut in her room crying and panicking and feeling terrible about herself. It was vital that we were there for her. We stayed with her for two hours and figured out what to do with the situations she was facing. The next day she got sent to her mom's house and we have had no contact with her since. 

How incredible is the Spirit? It will touch our hearts in the quietest ways for the most important reasons. Hermana Wallis has become the queen of recognizing promptings in just a week! She is showing me up! It is such an honor to be serving with her!

The second thing is Spanish. Hermana Wallis is not a fan of the celestial language...so it really bothers her to have to speak it. I told her that everything I say will be in Spanish, and she can do what she pleases. So far we've been having a great week only speaking in Spansih (actually spanglish....still learning) But it's GREAT!

Companions are the best, especially mine. I don't know if I've mentioned it, but Hermana Wallis loves to run! We used to pass eachother on runs in the canyon haha! We have found some gorgeous trails right next to our apartments and we run every morning! It's so so fun. It's everything I need to feel like myself and be a missionary. 

We found two awesome new families! I get anxious before teaching families because I know how important they are to Father. But hopefully we don't scare them off and they can come to know the gospel is true!

We are still teaching Douglas, the Jehovas Witness. Last night we had to break it to him that Jehova isn't Heavenly Father, but Jesus. I was stressin' about it. I love Douglas and we have the BEST discussions. I have learned a lot trying to study for him. He has really deep questions and really wants to know truth. Every time I have tried to explain the truth about Jehova to someone the investigator isn't super pleased. But this time I was just really bold. We used the scriptures and a lot of love. Douglas said "I have never heard this. It's like Philip in the old testament. He was riding along in his cart, reading the scriptures, but someone had to come and expound them to him. Then he immediately got baptized." 

I was STUNNED by the response. Actually giddy. HOW HUMBLE. This is a guy who can tell you what it says in any scripture, word for word, if you just give him the reference. He has studied the Bible more than any person I have ever known. And he humbly accepted the invitation to pray to Heavenly Father, in the name of Christ, knowing that he is not praying TO Jehova but in the NAME of Him, to seek revelation- which he never believed in in the first place. SO EXCITING.

We taught Luis tithing this week with the branch President. Luis is the most incredible person in the world. He will be THE BEST member and someday THE BEST bishop. He WANTS to pay tithing, but his mortgage might prohibit him taking another 10% from his tithing. I want to ask that if anyone out there reading this has a powerful tithing experience, please send it to my e-mail susannah.johnson@myldsmail.net. I would love to share with him some tithing miracles. Sounds like he might be calling it quits with his road to baptism tonight at dinner....but keep him in your prayers. 

Over-all this week has been great. We found 6 great news and got the cutest little girl on date for June! Can't wait! Only rough part of the week was that my energy was at ZERO for a few days. All I had left in the fridge was a huge thing of cookie dough. I ate that for breakfast lunch and dinner for a few days.....it was rough. Then I found beef Jerky in the cupboard so that was exciting. And my companion shared as much as she could too. I hope the guy that robbed me is pleased......I'm gonna pray that my bank gets it together and sends me a new card before I wither away out here lol. 

Well I love you all TONS! Have a great week!

xoxoxoxo

Hermana Johnson

P.S. The elders got a stun gun from a sketchy member in their ward who lives in the boonies. They gave it to us! Plus I broke out the good ole pepper spray. Nobody's gonna be messin' with us again!

Oh and here are the notes that Esmeralda and Zayan wrote about their baptisms!!! CUTENESS!

TEMPLE TRIPS and STAYING IN SANTA FE

Well family it was INCREDIBLE to talk to you all last night. It was so fun to see all of you and I am so glad some of the cousins could join for a second! Made my whole transfer! 

I feel like I just talked to you all, but I still have an update on the week! The branch is doing great. We set a goal to get 50+ in attendance two times this transfer, and this Sunday it happened again! That's three Sundays in a row! We have some awesome less active families returning and building their faith. I never understood how great it is to work with less actives, but it is one of the most rewarding feelings to see these families come back and take on callings/leadership positions in no time at all! 

Temple Trip!

WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE WITH YAJAIRA! It was the greatest day EVER. She loved it and loved the spirit there. One of my favorite parts though was the drive down. Her young womens leader took us and they sat in the front talking all about life. Yajaira hasn't had it easy, and she has been needing a role model desperately. It was so great to see her leader taking her under her wing and helping her feel loved. It takes a great leader to drive a young women with gages, who swears the whole car ride, to the temple. Here's to all of the young womens leaders who see every girl as a perfect daughter of God. You women are heroes!

My favorite thing about being in the temple was the peace and comfort that is there. At this point I have been there enough that it feels familiar. It feels like a constant in my life that will never go away. It's like a refuge of the spirit that is available to anyone who has a desire to get worthy and go. I love it more than I can describe! Like Yajaira said, "it feels like heaven!" And like our recent convert said to Luis at church "If you haven't been to the temple, I highly recommend it."

Don't be dumb, YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE

Luis is doing GREAT. We had a lesson with him the other day and he was acting so iffy about his baptism. I said something like, "Luis, what are your doubts? I know you know the Book of Mormon is true so don't pretend like you don't". And he started smiling SO BIG. Ear to ear. He said something like "Yes I know it's true. And I love the prophets. And this is the Church of Jesus Christ. I just don't want to get baptized without knowing if I will marry someone else who is baptized or not."

HAHA so we taught him about eternal marriage and all that and he was PUMPED. Such a good person. I haven't met a 20ish guy with this kind of quality in my whole life. Just a good good person trying to do what's right. I know the Lord prepared him and I can't wait for him to be a general authority or something haha. 

My favorite thing about all of this is that Luis has been bombarded with anti info about the prophets and the church and stuff. And he isn't ignorant, he takes it all into account. But he has 1.) Read the Book of Mormon with real intent 2.) Attended all church meetings to see for himself and 3.) Prayed with faith to simply ask God what is true and what is false. That is all that God asks of us. I know that if we do these things, truly put our trust in God instead of men, He will reveal truth to each of us!

We Are All Just Trying to do What's Right, Right?

We also just started teaching our ward mission leaders wife. She is Jehovas Witness AND has a lot of anti-info. I'm not worried though. I love teaching Jehova's Witness because they are a people who study intently to try and figure out the mysteries of God. 9x out of 10 they just call us in to bash us, but the one that listens finds their faith growing.  As missionaries we aren't out here to take away what anyone believes, but to add to it. I have a firm conviction that we work for Heavenly Father. The one and only God. We work for the same being that EVERYONE is searching for. That's why I am so excited to teach her. She searches the scriptures, tries to follow God, and grabs hold of anti info because she is just trying to find truth. So i'm doing tons of studying and praying so that we can hopefully answer her questions and help her come even closer to God than she already is. 

Baptisms to Come!

We have been teaching the cutest little girls Zayan and Esmerelda. There is a good chunk of un-baptized kids out here who have been bombarded by missionaries...so they basically hated us. But we came up with some crafts and games to make the gospel fun and have been doing them with all the unbaptized kids! I have like 5 new BFFs ages 9-12. It's awesome. Zayan and Esmerelda are a couple of those kids and their baptism is this Saturday! Can't wait!

OH btw I'M STAYING HERE! Hermana Wallis and I are going to have THE BEST TRANSFER EVER. I AM SO EXCITED. We just had an incredible zone training about working with members and planning more effectively. Hermana Wallis and I are determined to implement all of it. We started last night by having a lesson in a members home. The spirit was so strong! We have also organized a correlation meeting that will happen each week (with or without the mission leader because he is always MIA) that is welcome to all branch members. We will specifically invite the ward missionaries and auxiliaries, but we want everybody who wants to be involved to be there! Hermana Wallis is ON FIRE. I love her so much. We are going to have the most productive transfer of my mission, i can feel it. 

Also, she loves to run. So we are going to run all of the gorgeous trails in santa fe...and we are going to borrow some bikes from the members for bike rides. I couldn't be happier. Really truly so happy. 

I LOVE YOU ALL! I hope you have a great week! And HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!

p.s ANGEL MAYRA BLANCA AND JOSE all went and did family names this week, too!!!!! COULD THIS WEEK BE ANY BETTER?????? SUCH A HAPPY THING! i'll try and get them to send pics!

The Chills Head to Toe

This week was absolutely incredible. I feel like we lived a whole transfer in just one week! 

-On Monday we ended p-day early to put on a family home evening for the branch. The branch is so awesome but we have a lot of work to do to build unity and spirituality. They all used to be in such strong, active, united wards and when the branch fell apart it really shook everyone! So we are trying to help as much as possible. So we made a family night centered on the iron rod! We had everyone in the relief society room and we reviewed the story from the book of Mormon. Then we sent people blindfolded, one by one, into the gym where there was a huge course were you follow a rope through obstacles to a "tree of life". We had to do the whole thing ourselves and we only had like 15 min on the "tree" so it turned out like a giant wad of paper. But it was great! At the end, President was waiting to hand out our mission plan! Then everyone went to the chapel to ponder their goals. We had assigned less actives to remember how they feel about the Book of Mormon and share. It was AWESOME!!!! 

-On Tuesday a TON happened, but my favorite was when we went back to the miracle referral we had last week, Moreima. She is SUCH a sweet person. She is going through some health struggles so we go over when her nurse is there because she wants us to be there for support. I love her<3

- Wednesday= Baptism day!!!! Yajaira got baptized!!! I am so so so proud of her. The room was PACKED! There were so many people and MANY of them were less actives. We met Yajaira's best friend and their family and turns out that the parents are SEALED and all of the kids are baptized but when they moved here they fell away and never put their records here. We had no idea they existed! But as we said goodbye the girl Yajaira's age said "I want to build my life here!" and the mom said they would start coming back:)

Also LUIS was there. Luis is my favorite investigator on the whole planet. He is in his 20's, SO respectful, keeps his commitments, and is very humble and eager to learn...what more could a missionary ask for? We have met with him several times this week. So far he has almost finished 1st Nephi and prays every night. The hardest part is still his friend. Turns out he left the church AND left Utah because of the church. It's so sad. Sounds like he got offended and left. It is really creating a conflict in Luis' head, but their must be opposition in all things. Heavenly Father knows Luis perfectly and allows these things to happen to make his testimony as strong as possible. 

-Friday (skipped thursday cause this e-mail is already lengthy)

On Friday we ate with some VERY less actives and showed them the mission plan. They began to set family goals right away to pray, read, and get their temple recommends back. They have testimonies, they just felt un-needed at church. So on Sunday we called the Hermano and asked if he could come help sit with investigators. He came right away, even though he was sick! Such a miracle!

-Saturday we went on splits to visit as many people as possible to drop off cookies and invites to church. It was great to get to meet more people in the area!

-Sunday, THE HARD WORK PAYED OFF! We hit 50 people at church! The best part is that those kind of numbers are becoming consistent! So exciting. 5 of those people were our investigators. The ward was so excited to see the new blood. There was clearly a different feel of love and fellowship. We asked everyone to sit in the middle of the chapel toward the front and it felt just like a big family. Everyone was reaching out. Each testimony was directed to the investigators. It probably made them uncomfortable, but it was great to see people who didn't even know they had a testimony get up and share what they knew to help someone else. All of the investigators did great. Juan smelled TERRIBLE and everyone loved him. Everyone was asking us where we found him and said "en la calle" (on the street) haha. It was great to see Yajaira get confirmed and feel the power of the spirit! She said "Something came to my body...head to toe chills! I opened my eyes but nothing was there so I just closed them and listened to the blessing."

Then,  after church we couldn't shake the fire! We set out and found 3 news right before we drove to Albuquerque for a musical fireside. I got to sing How Great Thou Art in spanish. The chapel was packed...like a stake conference. It was awesome. I think Luis really felt the spirit! Also, that guy did 5 hours of church! 7 plus travel time!

Then, Elder Spencer Smith of Eagle Idaho did a rap. Video coming next week when I figure out how to download it.

WELL THAT WILL BE ALL FRIENDS! SURRREEE LOVVVEEEE YAAAAA

Oh and the pics:

most of them are self explanatory...but one is exchanges with SISTER MADDIE HAZEN OF BOISE! so cool that we are together....and of course just take a gander at that nature! We have been running so hard all week, doing yoga every night, and hitting the gorgeous hikes on p-day. I could not be a happier girl. 

The mirror selfie is Yami right before she got DUNKED. kidof a cute before/after thing haha. And the one with us and Yami showing off our muscles is when she got presented into young womens! SO FUN!

ok i'm done. bye! xoxox

Feliz Navidad!

This week was incredible! 

So Yami is almost to her baptism! She is totally prepared and excited! She got introduced into Young Womens at new beginnings and she loved it. The only struggle is that she still gets headaches from no coffee. At our last lesson she said "My head hurts from all the Wisdom!" We were dying laughing but turns out...she was serious. She calls the word of wisdom "living with wisdom". LOVE IT. 

We found the best new investigator! His name is Luis and he's like 30. SUPER nice person. It's insane. He would be the best addition to our branch. He has a bunch of mormon friends who he respects a lot. And yesterday he spent the day reading the book of mormon for the first time. The only down fall is that one of his friends left the church and keeps telling him not to do it. So pray for Luis and that he can recognize the spirit!

We had a great miracle this week. We pulled up to some trailers to try a former and they weren't home. We felt like we should still be there so we got out of the car. I pointed to a trailer and thought that might be it. One of my comps said they knew that person already. They weren't interested at all. I felt that we should probably go anyway, and it wasn't long before  my comp felt the same. So we tried it and I basically said "I haven't met you before, and I heard you aren't interested in meeting with us at all! But we felt like we should come talk to you, so I'm guessing you know someone who does need to meet with us." And boom. just like that we got an appointment with her depressed friend and a referral to try her neighbor. I am SO  lucky to have comps who follow the spirit and SO grateful that we aren't in this work alone. If it weren't for the help of the holy ghost we would go nowhere. 

Also, it SNOWWEEED. SO MUCH. Like 9 inches. We woke up and the world was white. Way more snow than santa fe got all winter and it's april! It was crazy. We had to stay in because we have a dumb Malibu. (btw malibus are so high maintenance.) So we studied and organized stuff all day. And of course we took a break to build a snow investigator lol.

Finally, can I just say that I love my family? I got talking about my grandparents and the cousins and my siblings and I realized how awesome you all are and how LUCKY we are to have eachother. Isn't it amazing that we will ALWAYS have eachother? Traditions and things and fun memories and cool places come and go. Everything in life comes to an end. The only thing that we never have to lose is the eternal relationships that we are building. I when good times come to an end I never have to worry because i KNOW that I will always have the most important thing to me. I never have to lose you guys! That is the most precious thing in the whole entire world. Just think for a minute how sad it would be to lose your loved ones, and then realize that you NEVER WILL as long as we are keeping the commandments and the covenants we made in the temple. The gospel is SO beautiful!!!!

The best part of being a missionary is sharing this knowledge. The only way to have this kind of peace is through the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. So many people tell us "There is one God so who cares what church you go to?". Well if there is one God, wouldn't he have one gospel? And if all of the churches are teaching different things....which is right? Which one has all of the things that Jesus established in the Bible? If you don't know with surety which church is right, I encourage you to make finding out a top priority. There is a true gospel and it is directly from Jesus Christ. And it is only through Him that we can obtain salvation with our FAMILIES! Such a happy thing!

I love you all so much!!! 

xoxoxox

this is my comp hiding from our investigator who is in love with her. lol....don't worry president approved this. 

Also...that is me getting a bug out of my hair. Thought it summed Santa fe up pretty good.

Real Intent

Hello Family!!

This week FLEW by. Here are the highlights:

-We went to an english member's house to get hair cuts and turns out she is a convert from LA. And get this- SHE USED TO BE FRANK SINATRA'S MAKEUP ARTIST!!! how crazy is that? She like touched his face and then trimmed my split ends. Crazy. 

-WE FOUND A FAMILY! actually they found us. They called us on sunday because they had our card laying around there house (we can't remember where we talked to them, but they remember us.) They asked if we could come teach them and if they could come to our church! We have been meeting with them all week in their 8'x5' house- (that's 8 feet by 5 feet...and it's not an exaggeration. I'm probably even being a little generous). They are SO awesome and SO humble. They want to get baptized at the end of this month IF they find out that it's true. So basically, if they ask God with real intent, they will be baptized.

- I forgot to tell this story last week...but it made my whole mission. SO here goes. 

When Britney was getting baptized the member kept messing up the prayer. FINALLY he got it but her knee came up. I think the guy was embarassed or something so he decides to say "Britney SPEARS Salazar, yo te bautizo....." 

He finished the whole prayer and everyone is thinking he was joking, but he actually tried to dunk her! And the witnesses had a hay-day. They were SO MAD. HAHAHA it was the darnest thing. 

-Little Yami Repented! Yami is our 16 year old investigator who is getting baptized this next week! She is my BFF but has a hard time opening up about gospel stuff. But we got there last monday and she tells us this whole story about how she started feeling bad about her past and things kept building up, so she got on her knees and prayed. She prayed for a good hour! And then she got in the shower to see if the water would wash her sins, but it didn't so she is just looking forward to her actual baptism now. haha but seriously...HOW COOL IS THAT?

This week I have been thinking a lot about "real intent". We talk to A LOT of people every day. But very few accept Jesus's message in the end. The church is true, Jesus suffered for EVERYONES sins, God is the very literal FATHER of everyone we talk to, and the only way we get redeemed of our sins and feel all of the love God has for us is through the restored gospel of Jesus Christ....so why do people reject us? Why do people take the discussions for years and never have a baptism? Why do faithful members of the church leave? 

I think it boils down to just talking to God, trusting in what he says, and having intent to act on his message! He will never lead his children astray. But, we often know that his answer to us might not be what we want. Maybe it will prove us wrong, or change our path more drastically than we want. I know i've been there. I have been too prideful to ask god sincerely for answers many times. I cheat out of it with a quick prayer and then rely on my own reasoning to get me through trials or questions about faith. But I have also had moments where I realize that I have no idea what I'm doing and I NEED God to guide me. In those times I have felt his love so strong. I KNOW that anyone who asks God, through a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, with real intent to act on the answer WILL be given the answers they seek. It applies to every question we could possible have. But, it's easy said than done. It's scary, it takes a lot of humility, and a lot of faith. But everyone who I have seen ask God for answers with real intent, has received the strength to embrace the gospel. (Moroni 10 3-5)

LOVE YOU ALL! HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!

xoxox

Don't Drink Kids!

This week was INSANE. I'm gonna have to go day by day for this one. But first, let me just say I LOVE SANTA FE. 

MONDAY-THURSDAY

-We picked up 6 awesome new people! I am so excited to get a fresh pool of investigators in this area. One of them we taught starting on Monday and stopped on Thursday. He was SO frustrating to teach. Just an absolute train wreck when it came to listening/comprehension. We kept telling ourselves that God led us to him for a reason....but then on Thursday he got reeaallll in my face ranting about the bible. That's when I learned what beer smelled like. So the following dialogue went like this:

"David, we have to go right now."

    -Me

"Okay, well i'm busy on Friday but maybe we can meet on Saturday?"

     -David

"David, we aren't coming back until you call us and tell us that you are sober."

      -Me

"oooooooo how did you know I drink?"

      -David

"We would love to meet with you, just don't drink before next time okay?"

       -Me

"That's gonna be a problem. We probably won't meet anymore."

       -David

Then we left and made a commitment not to teach people who are drunk...we will teach people who drink, just not while they are wasted. We made that pact not a moment too soon....our week was FILLLED with craziness. 

-Friday we went to try by our invesitgator Daniel. He was like "i'd invite you in, but i'm drinking some stuff...but you can still come in if you want?" 

We passed and went to the next investigator who came out with the largest can I've ever seen! He was plastered so we told him we'd come back later...which made him cry ALOT. Then we went to dinner which was fantastic (love the members). After we went by my FAVORITE investigators Charlie and Juan, but sure enough Juan practically fell over the rail of his trailer-porch trying to shake our hands. He was flopping all over the place. We were like "yes, we are happy to see you, too, Juan....but we will come by tomorrow." And that's when he created our quote of the week. He literally just yells "GET IN!" pointing to the trailer. We were trying so hard not to laugh.

Other than all of the drunk people, we stayed busy teaching all of our new investigators and less actives. Time will tell who will accept the gospel, but in the mean time I love teaching and building relationships with the people!

SATURDAY = BAPTISMDAY

-Saturday life got a whoooolllleee lot more productive. We found two little girls who's mom has been less active for a while, but they are dying to get baptized and return to church! Their parents said yes so we started teaching them. I loooovvvvee them. They might be the only people in NM who think we are cool, and i love that. We are cool, hip missionaries. The youths just love us!

Then we had Britney's baptism!!!! One of the downfalls of being in a tiny branch of returning less-actives is that everyone with the priesthood is just learning how to use it again. SO after 3 attempts at baptizing Britney, the brother who was doing the ordinance decided to add some comic relief and start the ordinance by saying "Britney Spears Salazar". THEN HE KEPT GOING WITH THE PRAYER! HE WAS GOING TO BAPTIZE HER LIKE THAT! President was soooo mad hahahha. No worries though. 5th time was the charm. Britney is baptized!

Britney was on date before I got here, but it has been fun to help her prepare for her special day these past few weeks. As I got to know Britney I also got to know her cousin Yami. Yami is SUCH a punk which makes me love her that much more. While the sisters were working with Britney I would talk to Yami. She is learning a lot about the gospel and has a huge desire to be baptized! She even chose the exact day she wants to be baptized, so stay tuned!

That night we went over to Charlie and Juan's. Juan wasn't there but Charlie was! Charlie is way more put together than Juan. He has been sober from a super bad Heroine addiction for a month and wants to change his life so badly (he actually turned himself into jail and they let him go for good behavior). We had a great discussion about the restoration. When we invited him to be baptized he practically jumped out of his seat!!! He is so excited, and I am SO excited for him. He really truly wants to change his life, and he trusts that Jesus will be able to do that for him. 

SUNDAY 

On Sunday we went to church. Easter was such a beautiful day here in Santa Fe. Juan came to church and LOVED it. Everything around him wreaked of beer, but he was sober and so so so engaged. It was  a really great experience to sit on the bench with him and think about the atonement. It really is for EVERYONE. Jesus did not pick favorites....and we can't mess up enough to make Him love us less. He loves EVERYONE including Juan. I know he felt it because as Britney got confirmed he said to me "I'm next. Please please let me be next! I'm ready!"

Unfortunately that night we got to their house and Juan was super plastered, again. BUT we broke our rule and went in because we HAD to teach both he and Charlie the word of wisdom. Charlie was super ready to listen so Hermana Wallis tried to teach Juan on one end of the room, and me and Hermana Martin tagged teamed teaching Charlie. Charlie was so excited to learn about the word of wisdom. We made a list of goals including reading the Book of Mormon during withdrawls, and getting a dog to get him out of the house. I was so impressed with his desire and willingness to change. Meanwhile Juan was falling out of his seat....jumping on his seat....he was pretty much everywhere BUT his seat while Hna W was trying to teach him. He kept  yelling "CHURCH WAS SO SO SO GOOD!!!!" and then Hermana Wallis saying "Juan, beer is bad okay?" hahaha She really took one for the team. My comps ROCK. Now we can say we taught a drunk person the word of wisdom! (plus this morning Juan called us and said he had juice instead just like Hermana Wallis taught him. Looks like it wasn't all in vain!)

Well, that was my week. Don't be worried...we are super safe and we usually have members with us. Plus we are getting super street smart. 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK! xoxoxoxoxoxxo

Pics....not in order 

-two stray dogs that we tried to make sit next to eachother so it could be a lion and a lamb

-Me and my comps on easter sunday. My sister SENT ME THIS DRESS! how cool is she???

-BRITNEYS BAPTISM!!!!!!!

-A homeless friend we made. He built this bike himself!

-our cart today because I convinced my comps to only eat veggies.....super stoked....and super scared 

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Final Days in El Paso Pics

These are the few families I actually got to say goodbye to. The one with the 4 kids is the Perez family. They are the less actives that we almost baptized and then found out that they were already members. They are my literal siblings. It was SO SAD to say goodbye.

One of the pics is a big family...that's the Vargas'. BEST FAMILY EVER. The little boy reminds me of Molly and Burke a little. I love him so much. He cried so much when I left and was so embarassed. He just hid behind his snap back :(

Then we got Angelo and Milana (the baby) angel and myra's kids. THey are gonna be great future missionaries!!!