The one where I haven't written in a long time 😬

 Everyone knows by now that I am the worst at my weekly emails. But the last 4 months of my mission I promised myself that I would do better! 

Today is Halloween! Happy Halloween! One year ago I was in Valley Center at a trunk or treat the ward did. I cannot believe that was a year ago.

The work in Concordia is growing! Last week, we got 6 of our friends to church. That is the most people missionaries have gotten to church in a really long time. We found 5 new people and we have 2 friends on date. Our friend Tracy is getting baptised on Saturday! This will be my first baptism that I am apart of. I am really excited. Tracy is amazing and she is so excited for her baptism. And I am excited that I have been able to be apart of her journey. 

We had a HUGE miracle. It was a couple of Saturdays ago. We had only found 1 person and our goal was 4. We were about to walk into a lesson with 2 potential finds. We walked in and they had a less active and 2 other non members there. We were able to teach them all the message of the Restoration. And the next day, they all came to church! It was insane!! The Lord does really provide for us. And there are people prepared everywhere to receive the gospel. 

We had zone conference 2 weeks ago. We were asked to prepare 5 minute talks about our favorite general conference talk. I decided to prepare mine on Elder Christoffersons talk called "the Doctrine of belonging". Well President Barr called me to be the last speaker at zone conference. It was cool! I have never spoken in zone conference before. I was nervous. I do not like public speaking. 

While eating lunch at zone conference, I received some really sad news. A friend of mine that I taught in Ridgepoint passed away. She was older and it was her time. She was still meeting with the missionaries and she was very close to baptism. But I am grateful for the knowledge of the plan of salvation. And even though she was not baptised here on earth, that she will be given a chance to be baptised in the spirit world:) 

This past week, we were walking down the street taking cute fall pictures. As girls at this time of year do. There wad a guy walking down the street. We said hi and he got to talking with him. He ended up being interested in the message we share as missionaries. So we found a new person just being dumb. I thought it was really funny. I walked away laughing from that experience. He's a really cool guy! But he ended up not being interested in meeting us more. Sad! 

Giant pig of a recent convert

I have a deep love for the book of Mormon!! It answers the questions we are all asking. I kmow it does! Even if you think it won't, it somehow always does. That's how God speaks to us. We speak to him when he pray. It's amazing how it all works. 

Exchanges with Sister Marlatt, my MTC companion