Go figure...

Go figure...I have TONS to write this week but I have NO time. Sooo we will get some good bullet points in.




DID I TELL YOU THAT I AM LIVING THE BEST LIFE THAT LIFE HAS TO OFFER????????????


Well if I didn't I am telling you now. Being a missionary...I really haven't experienced anything cooler. Every day Im just like...yes. This is good.


ok so this week.




1. Mario came to church and afterwards basically told us that the spirit told him to get baptized. He's just scared. We finished teaching him the plan and it was AMAZING
2. Silvia is getting baptized on saturday!!!
3.Rosendo and Adolfo came to church
4. We taught Rosendo at his gas station (he's the one me and Hna clark met while we were going to the bathroom at a shady gas station). And he ordered japanese food. It was funny, He made me eat this broth soup and I felt like I was going to die so we bought a pepsi on the way to our next appointment thinking it might kill the meaty stuff. Ha.
5. SILVIA IS JUST SO AWESOME.
6. Elder Zwick came to the mission (member of the 70) IT WAS AMAZINGGGGG. When I shook his hand he told me Tippetts is a good name haha. I will probably write a letter today with details on what I learned at our meeting with him.
7. Having members involved in this work CHANGES EVERYTHING
8. We brought cake over for Chuy's birthday and he was so happy
9. I was going to say we taught a powerful restoration lesson...but we had so many spiritual lessons this week.
10. I taught a lesson in a gas station eating dancing japanese food...i know i said that but how random is that
11. THe gospel is true and we have living apostles and a prophet. THE PRIESTHOOD IS RESTORED. That is sooo important. With out that we can't know about the plan of salvation, We teach the restoration so people understand that the Plan of salvation...IS THE ONLY PLAN GOD HAS FOR HIS CHILDREN! How blessed our we to know that.
12. My family is awesome (thanks)
13.We started teaching this less active woman and she has came back to church and comes every week...now we are teaching her children!!! I love families!!!
14. We ran in the rain


Sorry thats all I have. We are busy busy busy. But I love you all and this is the BEST LIFE EVER!!!!!

Its January and its California.

Hello FAMILY. Happy Martin Luther King day. Im just writing a quick email and we are off to go grocery shopping and then to play some sports with the Elders. (also hopefully buying to outfits...long story ill tell in a second).




Soo this week....




Well last tuesday we were about to go to a lesson with Margarita (one of my favorite investigators) but she wasn't there. I was super sad...so we went to a Recent converts house...well they were busy so we went to visit a potential and ended up talking to her husband. We talked to him for a good while and got an appointment with him and his wife (good guy). Then we started walking down the hill and we saw a young man who kinda looked english and had head phones in but we stopped him anyway he was spanish. he was on his way to work so we started walking with him to his bus stop. Turns our his parents are learning for missionaries in Guetamala and he had a lot of questions of the plan of salvation pamphlet that he read. So we sat at the bus stop and taught him a bit about it and found a time to come back to his house. So we started walking back towards our car and we were just SO pumped cause we knew that we had been guided by the spirit...then just as we said that we noticed a woman walking down the street so we decided to talk to her..and she got closer her face lit up...IT WAS MARGARITA MILES FROM HER HOUSE...so we talked to her and she apologized for missing her appointment but she had to do something at the bank and took the bus and decided to walk back and she told us that as she was walking she thought, "maybe I will see the Hermanas"....adn there we were. She then told us she was reading the book of mormon and praying about it and she has a lot of desires to know more. That night she came to a family home evening we were having with a less active in her apartment complex and it was great. I KNOW THE LORDS HAND IS IN THIS WORK.


Random note...im dreaming in spanish...i recognized this because I woke up from a dream where I was telling a friend off for not writing me hahaha (and I realized it was in spanish hahaha).


Also we set two more wonderful people with baptismal dates this week


AND SILVIA AND TOMAS GOT MARRIED THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!! She is so ready to be baptized on the 28th. YAY YAY YAY. I see her faith growing daily. She's amazing. I wasn't at the wedding because I was in Ventura for exchanges but the most important thing is that I will be there for the sealing next January!!!


Lets see....Oh the shopping thing. HA so this morning the assistants to president called us and asked us to present something at zone conference on thursday,....which we are having because there will be a general authority coming!! AHHH. CRAZY.


My companion is on FIRE. She is just great.


Its so fun to hear that you are able to hang out with Kimber, chelsea and McKenna so much! Love them.


Dad keep it up with your schedule. I know having goal and a schedule will lift our spirits so much. Don't forget to add scripture study in that!


GIVE REFERRALS TO THE MISSIONARIES! THEY NEED THE HELP OF MEMBERS.


The gospel of Jesus Christ heals hearts. He loves us. We are all children of our Heavenly Father and we have GREAT worth.




Have a great week.




Oh p.s. mom thanks so much for doing everything with school. I will look into it next monday and hopefully get it forwarded to president. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR ME!

this week...

So warning...this is going to be short. We have a ton of stuff going on today but I love you all very much!


So this week was good, Im still learning lots from my new companion Hermana Hunter. She is a great missionary.


We had an appointment with Olivia, her son Blas and his wife Sheena. Olivia is a member who has been inactive for a year but she has now come to church 2 weekends in a row. We are teaching her son and wife. Her son is super confused about religion and she didn't grow up learning about religion at all. She was really receptive to us and she can already see how this is going to bless her marriage and family. We asked them if it was weird for them to here each other talk about God and they said yes but it was really nice.


Mario...hes progressing nice and slowly. He has a lot of fears but this week we have been teaching him about the plan and he really is soaking everything up. Slowly but surely it is helping him clear up his doubts.


One cool experience was with Jesus (we were teaching him and had to drop him a couple weeks ago). Well I had been thinking about him and Ingrid all day and we were about to go knock and I finally told my companion that I didn't know why but I had been thinking about them all day and she said she had thought about them as well so we decided to head over. We get there and Jesus is out side cooking carne asada. BECAUSE IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY! So we were there and shared a message with him and ate with them (I had grilled corn in case you were wondering) haha. I really know that the Lord's hand is in this work and I know that he loves Jesus and is really attentive of the things going on in his life.




WE FOUND CARLOS. It was such a miracle and we were able to have an appointment with him and teach him about the gospel. He accepted to prepare to be baptized next month!!! EXITO! We are really excited. He really understands the scriptures and has desires to serve his father in heaven.


Silvia is still getting baptized on the 28th and I am just so exited for their family. I can't wait when they get sealed in the temple!! That is the goal!


Mom, I will write you my schedule next week. I got to go.


I love you all so much and I just want you to know that this is God's work and his Kingdom. I am privileged to wear the name of our Savior every day and invite people to repent and come unto him!!


LOVE YOU ALL!!!

ONE WEEK IN THE FIELD FOR MY BABY

Haha I decided that Im just going back and counting with Hna Hunter, we've had one week in the field. Haha. Yes my new companions name is Hna Hunter, she is from St.George Utah and is super fun. She is so excited to be a missionary and her spanish is SO GOOD. Made me feel great since of course mine isn't the best haha. Im just so impressed with her because she just gets out there and does it. IM SUCH A PROUD MOM (in the mission your trainer is your mom). We are still in the same area living in the same house with the same family. They have given her a great welcome. (photo attached)


So just a random tidbit. Did you know you can send me emails any day of the week? you don't have to wait until p day to send them. Im just not sure you know that? Ha :)


Well this week...it has just gone by so fast. Its been fun to watch her eat her first mexican bread...first puche...first tamales, ext.


We've been able to teach some great people this week. One being a older woman named Rosario. We met them in the park weeks ago and her husband seemed super interested and she just kept ignoring us. We finally found them at home like 2 weeks ago and taught them about the Book of Mormon, again the husband was the one asking question ext. So we came back and her husband was gone and I saw her Book of Mormon open on the table, she had been really studying it and we taught her the restoration. In her prayer she prayed that she could know if Joseph Smith was a prophet. It was so sweet. I was very surprised/ excited.


We also taught Silvia twice this week. The first time we taught her about tithing and fasting and then chastity. They aren't married but everything is ready to get married so we were wondering what the hold up was. We had a very spiritual lesson and he committed to go buy the license. I just love them. She is SO excited to get baptized.


Mario....oh man. So awesome. So we get to his appointment and he had SO many questions about going to church and how he wants to look nice even though he knows he can go dressed how he is he wants to feel comfortable and he doesn't have money to go buy nice stuff...bla bla bla. So first I told him that my skirt I bought for like 3 dollars and a second hand store..and then had a great lessons just peeling away his question. because it had tons of layers. Next lesson we came back and he was like "hermanas I want to show you something"....he went in his closet and he brought out CHURCH CLOTHES. He went to the second hand store and bought some. I was so pumped. I almost cried.


I know God guides his children if they are willing to be guided.


Ive got to go..time is short BUT I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! OH and did you get a campsite? Oh and I will be calling president today to see what I can do with BYUI


Here is a new years eve quote president sent us that I loved


“I think January ought to be a happy month of the year. Of all people on the face of the earth, Latter-day Saints, with the perspective given them by the gospel, ought to be happy and optimistic…January always brings a renewed hope for personal and family progress in the coming year. It is the time of the year when people tend to set goals and make commitments—resolutions, if you will, New Year's resolutions.

“[The gospel of Jesus Christ] is a gospel of repentance, and we need to be repenting and resolving. Indeed, the process of repenting, making commitments, and setting goals should be a continuous one, so there is nothing wrong with using this traditional time of the year to evaluate the past and plan the future. It is much like our personal prayers in which, while communicating with our Father in Heaven, we ponder our thoughts, words, and deeds of the day and seek help in our personal progress for the morrow. The practice of reviewing the past and setting new directions for the future is a very healthy one, a scripturally encouraging one, in which we can beneficially alter our lives. I commend the practice to you, especially if it is thoughtfully pursued and the resolutions made are made in righteousness, bringing behaviors and attitudes that truly bless your lives and the lives of others.

“My young friends, it is appropriate at this time of the year that we reflect on the past and our future and on the direction of our lives. It is worthy to make resolutions regarding our behavior, goals, or pursuits. Such resolutions become mileposts to guide our lives, now and later. They will lead us past the kind of transitory fads that evaporate like the morning dew in the heat of the sun.”

(Elder Howard W. Hunter, Address given at Brigham Young University on January 5, 1992)