Hermana Brayton: La Vida es Buena

July 20, 2020

¡hola y'all!

How is everyone doing?? So well I hope! This week over here in Buena Park was pretty tranquila. We had a ton of meetings to try and figure out how we can make our Facebook pages better, and Hermana Hansen and I made a few ads for our pages and not to be dramatic or anything, but it took about 10 million tries. I used to think I was pretty savvy with the ~social media~ but it turns out it's a little more complicated than I thought.

But for more exciting news, we had the sweetest lesson with my best friend Jose. He was feeling pretty worried bc his health is just really so bad, and he thought he might have to have surgery this week, so we called up our nice Elders down the road to give him a blessing. It was sweet:) Priesthood power is so real y'all and I am so grateful for it. We were also able to meet with Yesenia and her cute family once this week, and we talked about them getting baptized! Most of them were super excited, but not all of them. Then we were supposed to meet with them all again to figure out a good date, but things never quite worked out:/ something that's kind of crazy though, is that now bc of more COVID rules, we can't have baptisms in the churches, so we either have to use a pool or the ocean!

Also we went on exchanges again this week and I got to go back to go ole La Habra, where I was exactly a year ago! It was sweet to be back and call some friends, and plus I got to hang out with Hermana Durrett and she just has a heart of gold. Honestly, things here are a little wild sometimes, but life is so good.

For a little scripture uplift for y'all, I wanted to share Isaiah 41:10. It says, "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." I love that, and there's actually a hymn in our church called "How Firm a Foundation" that has this verse as some lyrics and it's such a bop. I think it's okay to recognize whenever times are really hard bc I think that's when we recognize that we really can't do this all on our own. And so many times throughout •all• of the scriptures, we have Heavenly Father's promise that He will be here right with us. It's so incredible. So I hope that we can all remember that a little more often, and be a little more receptive to His help bc I know I need to do that as well.

But sí! There is so much love in my heart for all of you wonderful people! Stay happy and stay healthy amigos!

Con amor,

Hermana Brayton 😊