¡¡¡hola y'all!!!
SO, today is officially my halfway point! I can't believe it and truthfully I do not know how to feel bc I really feel like I'm starting to get a hang of this whole mission thing, but also like I'm excited to see my fam one of these days. It really feels like time is flying by so fast, for real, and so I want to be so sure I make the most of these next 9 months! But anyway, I hope y'all are all doing so well and staying happy and healthy and safe out there! Santa Ana is still one of my favorite places, and these people are for sure some of my favorite people, so let me tell you about them for a minute:)
To start the week out, last Monday we had an amaZING first lesson with a new friend named David. He's super cool, lived in Italy for 11 years, and feels like God is trying to reach out to him, and so we met with him at our church building and gave him a little tour. We finished the tour with a very powerful lesson about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He had so many good questions, and our friend Hermano Romero was there with us too and he told his conversion story to el evangelio, it was wild but in the best, best way.
Tuesday we went out to one of the college campuses around here with our Zone Leaders and it was such a party. It was super warm and sunny, so Hermana Schade and I were excited thinking we were going to get hecka tan, but.. that never really works out for me hahah. So the next day at district council I got a lot of questions about why I was so sunburned, fun times though:')
We had a few other super good little lessons with people, like whoa we met with our girl Ana and had a bop of a lesson about keeping the commandments. We read 1 Nephi 3:7, Mosiah 2:41, and Alma 26:22, so if y'all have some extra time after reading my novel right here you should look those bad boys up. But let me tell y'all a whole miracle that happened with Ana this week: we went by the church Thursday and saw Hermana Goicochea, and she told us that after seeing Ana at church and talking to her for a minute, she realized they literally live a block away from each other. So Wednesday, right after our lesson, she walked over there and invited her and her kids to get some ice cream with them. She told us that she shared a bit of her testimony with Ana, offered to give her a ride to church, AND invited her to a Noche de Hogar {family night} at her casa Sunday evening. Seriously what a perfect example of just being a little more missionary-minded and a little more like Christ. So sure enough, all of them rolled up to church (even early!!) on Sunday, and then that evening we went over to their Noche de Hogar and taught a little lesson and it was SO good. The families just clicked so well and all kinds of testimonies were being shared from the kids and parents alike. I literally love being a missionary, I swear.
We were finally able to meet with our little friend Diego on Friday as well, and we played our Plan of Salvation board game. He was giggling like a little chipmunk the whole time hahah he's so precious. And last night we got to go see the Sandovals and they are actually one of my favorite families ever.
Sorry, this is 10 years long, but I just want y'all to know how much I absolutely love this gospel!! I LOVE that I have the opportunity to keep sharing it with people for 9 more months and watch as it literally changes people's lives. I'm not sure if I've talked about it enough( ;) ) BUT I know without a shadow of a doubt that the Book of Mormon is TRUE, and that we really can know more of the fulness of Christ's gospel when we read it. If you already have a copy, I really want to encourage you to share it with a friend! And if you don't have a copy, I really want to encourage you to get one (they're free!) and try reading it. I promise only good things will come from it!
But hey I sure love all of y'all so so much, and I'm so grateful for the influence you've each had in my life:) I hope everyone has an amazing week!
Con Amor,
Hermana Brayton:)
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