LIT (cuz Mesa Lights haha)

Posterity pic. Your looking at one PROUD mama

Me and mija

Biking in the Boonies take 2

Crashed a party of some of our investigators/recent converts/potentials. Our new best friends: Valerie and Mariah. We have a secret handshake. It's lit.

All the Gilbert Mesa light sisters

Possibly the funniest, busiest, MOST AWESOME week of my mission/life but I say that every week basically. But really IT WAS AMAZING!

I'll do my best to sum it up in short points.

Funny moments include:

-Sister Neahusen's split leaving her at the house and her being left alone for an hour as she frantically called everyone (I meanwhile had an awesome split and we found 3 new potentials and a less active we didn't know about)

-us getting really lost in the Boonies and driving on roads that actually weren't roads and getting really lost. At one point google tried to take us through a ditch full of giant broken rocks. We were already on a very questionable steep path and a Chevy Cruise can only take so much #ThereIsNoWayGoogleMaps

- so I was kind of really sick and had this moment when I was drinking some orange juice and thought it was talking/making noise. Turns out the window was open and it was birds....lol @ my life

Miracles include:

- We picked up two new investigators! We talked with this guy as he was getting into a car and he invited us to come back the next day. We stopped by and he wasn't there but his two kids were. Recently they've started going to a church and praying and have seen Christ change their lives. They invited us in and invited us back. One of the most powerful lessons of my life as we talked about our savior and the power of prayer.

- 9 months! I'm halfway through my mission! I'm actually going to extend forever though so not actually halfway through....sorry mom

- winning 1st place in car maintenance at zone conference (it's a miracle because it's a cruise and we spent all of 15 minutes cleaning it...not going to lie I shed a tear or two)

- We picked up another investigator named Lidia this week. She is awesome and after we said the first prayer she was just like "do you feel that?! It just feels so warm inside!" We had a powerful lesson with her on the love our Father in Heaven had for us.

- We got picked to help host the Mesa lights! That means during Christmas this year we get to go down to Mesa and help out with the Christmas Lights they put on there. We had a training this week and got to drive down to Mesa...so weird leaving the mission!

A lot more happened this week but Sister Neahusen and I can't remember much! We were basically running from appointment to appointment and collapsing at home exhausted! There is no feeling i love more!

I know God answers our prayers because He loves us. We are His children and He knows us perfectly. Sometimes I just ponder the immensity of it all. The most powerful, great being in the universe loves us, wants us to be like Him, desires to give us all that He has. And all we have to do is ask - to reach out and trust in His plan. It's humbling. I am so grateful for this knowledge I have and even more grateful for the opportunity to share it. It is a message of joy and peace I want to shout from the rooftops!

(For now though I guess I'll just have to be content with sharing it from the dirt roads of the Boonies)

To the Moon and Back!

Hermana Showalter

Ps  Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEST FRIEND EVER AND SISTER MADDIE. You may be old and married but I still love you #Feeling22