What an awesome, awesome week! Sister Neahusen and I have really started to dig in and figure out this area and it is awesome. I've never been so busy my entire mission and we get referrals almost every day. The Lord is truly blessing us and we are doing our best to qualify for them!
Our car I fondly refer to as Satan has this slight issue of the car alarm going off all the time. It also always thinks the door is open so beeps nonstop when we are driving. So we had to take it in to the dealership to get it fixed which unfortunately meant that we were car-less for a time. BUT we refuse to let pesky things like that stop the Lord's work so we have biked MUCHO this week.
There is this part in our area we call the Boonies. Miles of cacti and dirt roads and Spanish people. I love it. But we thought it would be a good idea to bike there forgetting about the GIANT hill that lies between us and the Boonies. My bike literally stopped halfway up the hill and I made us walk the rest of the way up. Hills are from the devil.
In exciting news Josesito is on date to be baptized on his birthday in December! He is so excited and his dad, Jose, who just got baptized 3 weeks ago is so pumped to baptize him.
Jose is an amazing example to me. He just wants to share the gospel with everyone and because of him we have 3 new investigators. He has started coming with us to lessons and his testimony is so powerful. I've never met a more converted man and he told us his plan is to baptize all his family. We like Jose's plan.
We also had the privilege to go to the temple twice this week! Once as a mission and the other to see Gloria be baptized for her family! I love the special spirit the temple brings and being able to feel the peace and love from my Heavenly Father.
We also had interviews this week with president and for the first time we had hardly anything to talk about! It has been an amazing few weeks full of miracles and hard work. We ended talking about President' s plans and how he was doing. It was so nice to just see him and get even more pumped up to work hard!
I hit nine months this week which is my halfway mark and I can hardly believe it. 18 months seems like hardly enough time to serve my God and my Savior. I owe them everything, even more now, and the thought of leaving breaks my heart. Being a missionary is the best thing I could have ever done for my life. I've had life changing experiences, met amazing people and come to know my Savior more perfectly. No one says it more perfectly than Alma:
" O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every people!
Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice of thunder, repentance and the plan of redemption, that they should repent and come unto our God, that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth."
To the Moon and Back!!
Hermana Showalter
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| Us with Jose and Josesito (I have been slightly sick...veryish actually but I refuse to admit it so I'm fine and sneezing in this photo) |
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| Classic AZ sunset |
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| WITH HERMANA TERESA DE LOS REYES MY FAV (straight up just like Grandma Diane but Hispanic) |
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