Josie

STL lunch

One of our morning planning sessions ft. my pointer and a sign my mom sent.

JIMMY 

Our new car Josie

Throwback to Spanish zone conference (lol Im behind sister fuimaono)

A blessed up week and the craziest yet!

To start off....1 YEAR! It is crazy to even think that. The time has literally gone by so fast I feel like I've just blinked. Over one year ago I was sitting in the MTC trying to figure out how to say a prayer in Spanish and teach people. Haha I was so clueless and I still am but it has been so fun figuring it all out!

Also crazy is that pretty much everyone I know is getting home from their missions. For one KATIE GETS HOME TODAY!! What the heck?!? So weird! President also gave me permission to have lunch with a friend from here who just got back from his mission - the one and only Riley Evans! We were friends my freshman year and a group of us managed to stay in touch. His love for the gospel was so amazing to see and he is the RM I want to be. He is still inviting everyone to listen to the missionaries and it's was a great example to me. Haha it was also a throwback to a previous life!

I also got to go on exchanges with Sister Constantine this week and I LOVE HER! We had such a blast even though we biked ALL day. I will reiterate I am a Spanish missionary because God knew I would die if they put me on a bike. At the end of the day I just had to wave Sister Constantine on. My legs were on FIRE. I felt it for probably the next three days but I also loved it because we were able to talk with so many people! I love chasing people down on bikes and talking about the gospel with them :) I also love the really weird moments you get because we had a ton lol I have never been hit on so much before in my life and I was literally a sweaty mess on my bike.

Our area is still keeping us pretty busy and we are just trying to manage it all. The Rivera family is doing great but we moved the date back a bit so that the dad could feel more ready to baptize them. We are also teaching almost this whole house of Hispanic men and it is hilarious. They are all very different individuals with different needs so we are trying to find a way to balance our teaching for that. It's been a real learning experience haha. Two of them, Ramiro and Carlos, are on date to be baptized in March so keep them in your prayers!

But the highlight of the whole week is JOSIE! She's gorgeous and perfect. I wouldn't classify her as golden definitely more of a silver. We found out about her when the assistants texted us a picture. Oh and she's also a car lol AND SHE IS AMAZING. She makes it a pleasure to book it to our different lessons #blessed

I would love to write more but time is ticking and my brain is fried! I love being a missionary and its been the best year of my life yet! I love the gospel!

To the Moon and Back!
Hermana Showalter