Dos mas semanas!!! (Week 4)

Hola todas las personas! :)

Well, in 8 days, I will have served a full MONTH of my mission! I'm KIND OF a big deal. :)

So let's start off, we taught Merido one day and NO MELTDOWN. WOO! And another day we taught Merido, and meltdown. He is SO hard to teach!!! One moment I know how to answer his questions, and another moment.... I have NO idea and I just end up talking away in the Spanish vocabulary that I DO know .... totally not answering his question. He is a work in process and I definitely need more confidence. I mean, we had TRC (where we teach members) and I have SO much confidence when I speak with them. The gift of tongues hits me FULL stride and then when I need to teach an investigator, "uhhh...querio taco bell? BAUTISMO? AHORA?" Yeah, falla (fail).

BUT, Carlos? Our other investigator IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!! WOOOO!  El dia de seis de deceimbre. I invited him to be baptized in Spanish and I anxiously said YES! :) Best. feeling. ever. It was definitely a miracle because our lesson with him BEFORE that, I was about to ask him but I felt prompted to ask "Sabe que Jose Smith fue un profeta verdadero?" And he said "No." Well, we taught him more and invited him to keep reading with a SINCERE heart.

Can I just say choir practice/singing in the choir is THE BEST?! For Tuesday's devotional, we sang "Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer". Oh man. BEAUTIFUL song:

"Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer

We are weak but thou art strong.

In thy infinite compassion,

Stay the tide of sin and wrong.

Keep thy loving arms around us,

Keep us in the narrow way.

Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer,

Let us never from thee stray."

My music nerdiness blew up. Oh and on Sunday, the musical number for Sociedad de Socorro, it was the Piano Guys version of "O Come O Come Emmanuel". I drooled. I'm not afraid to admit it. It was BEAUTIFUL! I'm so glad I am surrounded by music here... I miss the piano and my Ipod so stinkin' much.

Oh and at Tuesday's devotional, I saw Elder Josh Cole, Elder Eric Staples and Elder Jacob Hartman! And TODAY (P day) I saw Sister Natalie Stewart and Elder Matt Davis!! I love the Orange and Blue being represented at el CCM. :)

Tuesday's devotional, Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis and his wife spoke. His wife spoke on the Spirit of Optimism. "We have bad days, but in those bad days- try to be QUIET and smile." THAT is my goal. I want the Spirit of Optimism ALWAYS with me, I bought a little leather notebook for just EVERY positive moment that happens and little "self devotionals/motivations". I'm going to succeed at this goal, so help me! :) Also, Elder Aidukaitis talked about the 3 kingdoms of glory. And I, AubriAnna Winsor, WILL inherit the Celestial Glory.

We have gym time everyday except Pdays & Domingo. And everytime we DO have it, my district plays VOLIBOL!!! :) My knees and shins are SO bruised up but I love it! We get SO into it, but we're all so encouraging! I love it!

One of the scriptures that has become my favorite is Abraham 3:24-25, we are sent here to PROVE ourselves. Heavenly Father "allows" suffering/trials to happen because it's a necessary time for us to turn to him and plead for comfort/guidance. If God did EVERYthing for us, how in the world would we grow? We have to do our part as much as possible, and when we can't move on - learn and TURN to God.

I love this Gospel and I can't believe I have 2 mas semanas before I leave for Aguascalientes. I love the people there SO much and I haven't even met them! I am ready to struggle and grow! I love my mission and I am SO blessed!

I miss you all!!!! I love you all! Please write me! :)

Con amor,

Hermana Winsor

This is "Santa Vaca" (Holy Cow). THANK YOU GRANDMA Y MAMA! :) I may or may have not screamed/giggled like a small child when I opened the package...but I will admit, I slept with it last night. #adultlife

Como, super duper mega bien! (Week 3)

Hola mi familia!!! :)

It's a great time to be a missionary!

So let's start out with the day after last P day. Once upon a time, I woke up at 3am to something crawling on my face. I hit my face and there is something the size of a penny crawling on mi cara (face). So I swipe it off because sleep is precious to missionaries. Then 3 seconds later, I feel something crawling on my arm - NOT OKAY. So I smash the thing and put it on my bed so I can go find my flashlight and see what the heck it is- I find my flashlight AND IT IS GONE. Orale. I wake up Hma. Calderon and we are up till 3:45am fighting off the 8 legged adversary infesting our apartment. Now every night I spray bug spray on my bed - it's okay to smell like chemicals all day, right?

For language study on night, we went to "the clubhouse" and I played the piano while cantabamos himnos (we sang hymns). It was SUCH a great stress reliever! I miss the piano SO much!!!!! 

EVERYONE: look up the song "I am His daughter". I don't care if you are un hombre, mujer, perro o gato. It's an AMAZING song! Go to youth.lds.org Elder Donovan told me to look up the song during personal study.... I love it. I really wish I knew that song during high school! :)

Por La Santa Cena (sacrament), they didn't call my name. That's okay! Este Domingo nosotros discursos es de "El Libro De Mormon". Pray that my name will get called! :) I want to talk! I want to be confident!!!

Mi companera, Hermana Calderon, with Elders Johnson and Stoker...HILARIOUS companionship. Their zone left Monday, gonna miss these rowdy boys.

So we taught Merido, let's just say.... I had a meltdown. His back story is so sad and his question to us was "Porque Dios nos da malas cosas - como disasteres naturales?" I don't know how to answer that and I fo sho can't answer that in Spanish. And our maestro acted as Merido, angry and very bitter when you first meet him. It's so hard when you know the happiness of the Gospel and you want to just bear your soul to him - but you don't know how... it was definitely a game changer. I got hit in the face with the real world and surprisingly, I want to try again. I want to bear my soul and I'm not going to let anything stop me.

We also taught Carlos (still our teacher) and he has NO background in religion.... literally. He asked if there is a God, why does it seem like He's hiding in a closet? We taught him that God has given us agency, prayer and we taught him that Dios sabe Carlos, su nombre, su vida .... todos! And we GOT HIM TO SAY THE CLOSING PRAYER!!!!! Oh and EVEN BETTER - I have La Primera Vision MEMORIZED! Our segundo leccion con Carlos, I told him La Primera Vision sin looking at the scripture!!!!! AHHHHH!!!! I DID IT! And I memorized it the day before while on the train to get OUR VISAS!!!! Yep, my VISA is on the way - Viva LA MEXICO! :) Oh and I rode a TRAIN. An ACTUAL train - I don't know if I was more excited about the train, getting my VISA or memorizing La Primera Vision.

Funny story: Elder Black (left) and Elder Comeau (right, new in our Zone) switched tags for the devotional.... it was super chistoso. Funny, because...well, you can see.

Oh by the way, Tuesday's devotional.... the speaker was L. Tom Perry. That man is huge. haha! And our district had the opportunity to sing in the choir for the devotional! But as soon as Elder Perry walked into the room, my heart exploded. He is an apostle who has been called by GOD. I know that... nothing can move me from what I KNOW is true!! He talked about the importance of companionships and how no matter what - we make things work because we are in this together. It was an amazing experience and I am SO blessed. I can't wait to see who is the NEXT speaker for Tuesday, any guesses?? Monson? Jesus? :) (jajaja, jota kah <---- div="" jk="" of="" spanish="" the="" version="">

Yesterday (11/14/2013) I call "Dia de la Expiacion" or "Atonement Day". We taught Carlos about the Atonement/asked him to pray and read the Book of Mormon - he said SI. Then we asked once he has found the truth if he would be baptized - he was super hesitant but he told us on Saturday he would have an answer. YAY. Then Hermano Porter (who plays our investigator Carlos) showed us a video about The Atonement/Missionary Work with Elder Holland & Elder Erying. No se que el titulo del video pero, it was amazing. Definitely shed some tears. 

"Missionary work isn't easy because SALVATION isn't a cheap reward." -Elder Holland

It was NEVER easy for the Savior... and it isn't going to be easy. But I know throughout my whole mission, mi Salvador will be with me por media de TODO. Ok, the 3rd experience. Last night we had interviews with our Zone Sister Leaders and Elder (Canyon) Tullis (in a different district, same zone) wanted to talk to us before we began. Let me give you un fondo de Elder Tullis (a background). He is hilarious and super supportive and super kind to EVERYONE he comes in contact with and we would go up to each other all the time to bear/practice nosotros testimonios en Espanol.... he reminded me SO much of Danny- naturally him and I got along pretty dang well. Well, yesterday during dinner I look over and he is not himself. I literally saw pain and extreme sadness. It was hard. So, when he came to talk to us before the interview, I had a huge pit in my stomach. He told he had somethings he had to finish at home and needed to be completely honest - he is leaving tomorrow (well, today ... this morning). Before we went to our apartment, we stopped by with our district to his apartment and said goodbye. All I wanted to do was hug him and cry. All I could say was, "I know you can do it, Elder. You are an amazing young man and don't let ANYTHING pull you down. You have a whole army of missionaries  and Christ supporting you in everything you do." Yes the language has been hard... I am tired and homesick - but the pain and sadness in his eyes - that had been the hardest part. I have been there, I have confessed and it is SCARY. Seriously, everything in Elder Tullis was gone and I feel so much sorrow for him. I can't stop thinking about him. I cried in during my interview after he told us/left the room, I didn't sleep all night and I cried while at the Temple today. He brought back so many memories, and I really help he is okay. PLEASE everyone reading this! Pray for Elder Canyon Tullis. The Atonement is so amazing and I know he can be healed and find peace. Through grace, the enabling of Jesus Christ, I know Elder Tullis will be able to go back on his mission in a year and where EVER he is called next - the people there are SO blessed. Please pray for Elder Tullis. Pray for his family. 

I'm still playing volibol and I love it! I'm getting better at spikes and setting... it's a big pride builder - so it's not a good thing but at the same time it is. Let's just say, I'M KIND OF A BIG DEAL. :) I love gym time here, it's a great stress reliever when no tengo el piano. And my knees are covered in bruises because I dive for the ball todas las dias!!! jajaja.

I love you family! Keep writing me letters - one Elder received 15 letters in one day. No chiste. NO JOKE. So uh, keep them letters a-comin'! :) Remember the Lord in ALL you do, pray daily and keep praying! He knows who you are (Alma 5:38, Jeremiah 1:5) and He loves you. Rely on the Lord and His Atonement. Pray for us missionaries! We need the prayers! Till next time!

Godspeed and GOODNIGHT!

Translation: 

El Evangelio todavia es verdadero (The Gospel is STILL true)

Este muy divertido (it's very fun!)

Con Amor,

Hermana Winsor

Hma. Calderon y yo en el coro por la devocional (I don't know if that's the actual word for "devotional") with Elder L. Tom Perry!!!

 The (OTHER) elders are the best:

Una semana- COMPLETO! ORALE! Cinco mas semanas!

HOLA! :)

Wow! I feel like I have been here for 3980 years! I'm ready to go to Mexico, AHORA! :) I'm going to be honest ... this week has been incredibly hard. My body is exhausted, my brain is FRIED, I'm thinking in Spanish and I can barely write/speak in English (that's a buena cosa, si?)

It is FREEZING here! And it has snowed I think 3 times, but not enough to stick. Snowfall is beautiful, though! On Fast Sunday (every fast sunday), we have Mission Conference and we had to gather in the cafeteria to watch it (apparently the wires in the chapel were not working-o). And I look out the window and IT IS SNOWING. Like a lot! I'm going to be honest ... I didn't pay attention to the rest of the meeting. Good thing it started to snow like 10 minutes till the meeting was done. La Iglesia todavia es verdadera! 

Oh and Hma. Calderon y yo learned about Daylight Savings the hard way. Yep. Thought we woke up at 6:30am and when we really woke up at 5:30am. Oh. my. gosh. We were LIVID. We walked to our class and it was DEAD quiet outside. We thought the 2nd coming was about to happen. But then, when we walked back to the chapel, there was a small sign "Oh missionaries! Set your clocks back an hour!" THANKS. PIECE OF PAPER. ...orale (pronounced "or-ra-leh")....

As a district we watched "Characters of Christ" by David A Bednar - it was basically a spiritual slap to la cabeza. He talked about how we need to cease "turning in" to ourselves and TURN OUT like Christ would - put off the natural man!!! It was an amazing talk. I learned to stop worrying SO much about the language, I need to focus more on learning about the Gospel. I will learn to language in no time. I mean, heck, Hablo "spanglish" todas las dias!

We taught Raul and it was EXCELENTE! We got him to read El Libro De Mormon and PRAY! And our 2nd lesson, we invited him to be baptized and he said he'll think about it. That was a rough lesson, we didn't really plan together and we didn't really have time to plan. Like I said, we're both the same people so we are both pretty stubborn and have huge testimonies we want to share... pero Esta bien! So the 3rd lesson (apparently the last one, que triste!) we asked about what he thought about being baptized and he said he would pray some more... but he would most likely be baptized but he would give us the answer the next appointment.  WOOOO! Until our teacher decided to throw, "Oh bytheway, that was your last lesson." BOB SAGET HERMANO HOWARD! We were SO stinking close!

Oh funny story about me screwing up the language:

I was about to teach Raul about the 1st vision and I wanted to say "Joesph Smith was 14 years old." I totally forgot the word for 14 so I said "Jose Smith tiene diez y cuatro anos." Raul looks at me like "Orale?" and says, "...catorce?" "Oh si, jaja, no se mis nombres." Here's the problem.... "nombres" means "names" ... not numbers.... the more hilarious part is ... I didn't realize what I said till dinner, like, 5 hours later. Yeah. I'm KINDA ridiculous.

So, why is our window broken? Oh. Lemme tell you. Elder Salls and Elder Johnson deemed it "inteligente" to bounce the soccer ball off the apartment walls during gym time. Well, when we went back to our room to change back into our ropas de misionarios, we both gasp as we see glass EVERYWHERE. All over the windowsill, Hma. Calderon's bed y all over the ground. We also see Elder Johnson standing outside our window. "Uhhh... lo siento hermanas! ... We'll try to get someone to clean it up. Elder Salls is hiding." All I was thinking was, HE BETTER BE! Here's the REALLY weird thing - when the ball hit our window, it broke the inside window pane solamente. The outside window pane had a soccer ball print on it. THAT'S IT. So the whole day, we were like "What are we gonna do? We're going to be up ALL night cleaning it up and freezing." Well, when we went back after class/dinner (so about 6 hours later) I go into our room and it was ALL cleaned up! Thank. GOODNESS.

On Tuesday, we went to Main Campus for the devotional con todos los misionerios and W. Craig Zwick from the Seventy spoke! I totally was prideful though, not really, "He totally spoke in my stake conference" and then like 12 other missionaries shared with me how like, Uchtdorf, Monson, Holland, Jesus came to their stake conference.... bahahaha. His wife spoke first and from her talk I am learning to 

1. ENDURE

2. PREVAIL

3. TRIUMPH

A mission isn't supposed to be easy. I need to be patient with myself and with the Lord's timeline. I KNOW I can do hard things.

Remember Raul? Well, he is NOW our 2nd teacher - QUE PENA. His name is actually Hermano Porter. But everytime I look at him... his name is Raul.

We have TWO new investigadores, Merido y Carlos. PRAY for us! PLEASE.

We got a new district on Wednesday! They are so little and scared, well, not really. They're all Elders and super tall and huge. But they are SO NEW. I feel like I'm alumni ;)

We have gym time everyday except P day and Domingo. And todas las dias por tiempo de gimnasio, juego volibol! I love it! Esto es MUY divertido! I also jammed my thumb pretty bad when trying to set... but I do dive A LOT so everyone thinks I'm a big deal. not really.

Oh one day for lunch we had, I think, ciabatta bread sandwiches - and 4 other missionaries, including Hma. Calderon y yo, found mold on the bread. So Hma. Calderon y yo had cereal. THUGLYFE.

I'm learning slowly but surely that it is okay to cry because I'm overwhelmed EVERY SINGLE DAY here. Yesterday was rough - la lengua es muy dificil. We use this thing called "Speak Your Language" or SYL or (En Espanol) HSI. That's why I use Spanglish todas las dias- but it's hard when you want to speak mostly Spanish buuuuuut you don't know a lot of words and you sit in class for 9 hours a day thinking "How in the WORLD am I in an advanced Spanish class?" It's discouraging but I'm surprised with how much I'm able to understand. I can understand 85% of what people say to me AND I can officially PRAY in Spanish! I'm also able to write more in Spanish! I feel like THAT'S where the gift of tongues is kicking in. Oh and every Sunday EVERYONE in my zone has to write a talk in Spanish on a certain topic (Esta semana: Fe en Jesucristo y Su Expiacion) And the scary part is, they say who will be speaking as soon as we are done taking La Santa Cena in Sac. Meeting. Weird thing, I hope I speak este Domingo.

I got my immunization shot on Thursday and apparently they are letting you get only one Hepatitus shot... so I was fine but I needed my Typhoid shot. So we took a bus to Main Campus and I got my Typhoid shot, and about an hour and a half later I was SO sore. I could barely lift my arm!

Mom and Dad, thank you thank you thank you for your letters! They came at the right time (well, receiving letters is always wonderful) It was a really rough day on the 7th- incredibly overwhelming and I was SO frustrated with myself. I know I can do this... but being surrounded by a district who can speak Spanish SO well.... it's hard when you can barely conjugate verbs. My goals are:

-- Stop beating myself up.

-- Have patience and ENDURE.

-- Find the positive in EVERYTHING.

-- "Seek to understand before being understood." <------ :="" dad="" div="">

I AM GETTING MY VISA ON THE 13TH!!!!! I am taking a train to SLC and partying up there with mi VISA. Hallelujah! El Evangelio es verdadero! No double misiones por este hermana!

Thank you for all of your prayers! It's hard out here, but I feel your prayers every single day. And I need them! Yo se que la obra misional es muy importante. Estoy agradecia por mi Padre Celestial y mi llamamiento misional a Aguascalientes! Press Forward Everyone! ENDURE! Three main elements to endure is: FAITH, PATIENCE and CONSISTENCY. Have faith that you can do ALL things! Be patient with yourself and keep trying! You will be SO blessed because of it! I love you ALL and I miss you all like crazy. Keep writing those letters and keep being awesome!  

Oh by the way "Orale" has a couple different meanings... it can mean like "AWESOME! Alright! Legit!" or it can mean like ,"ohhh awkward....seriously, did that just happen?" It all depends on how you say it! :) Oh and "Que Pena" means "How embarrassing!" 

Peace out!

Con amor,

Hermana Winsor

 We are happy because it is SNOWING!

 Our zone at the temple before most of them leave for the field on Monday. We're KIND OF awesome.

I found Peanut Butter Captain Crunch at the Creamry.... I didn't buy it  but I was excited. Sue me. (Elder Donovan makin' an appearance.

What Hma. Calderon y yo do when we can't stand sitting down anymore.

Hermanas Calderon, Winsor, Robison and Davies. (Different district, same zone)

Day 3 - MTC West Campus

Hola mi familia!!! (this letter is super jumbled, lo siento)

YO SOY UNA MISIONARIA!!! I am so happy at the MTC. I'm actually not on the Main Campus porque there are SO many missionaries! I'm on West Campus where EVERYONE and I mean, EVERYONE hablan espanol. Esta muy bien, no? 

    My flight to SLC had about 10 missionaries on it and I was SO happy. I sat next to Sister Tenney who is going to serve in North Carolina. Also, my friends from high school (Jacob Hartman, Skylar Kartchner y Julio Andrino) were on my flight! Padre Celestial answers prayers! I was SO nervous (I'm still nervous haha!) and it definitely died down when I was surrounded by missionaries. Mi companeria es Hermana Calderon and she is 20 years old. WE ARE THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE y WE'RE BOTH GOING TO AGUASCALIENTES!!!! I LOOVE her. No joke. She is from Simi Valley California and it's only been 3 days pero we are amigas mejores. She is also very helpful with Spanish, her parents speak it but never really taught her and she took 3 years in escuela. As you can tell, Spanglish is my best friend! Even Hmo Howard (mi maestro) tells us to use Spanglish! Our dorm is HUGE and we are the only 2 hermanas in it. We of course chose the room with the 2 walk in closets and BUNK BEDS. HOLLAH BACK AT YOUR HERMANA! haha

  When I arrived at the Main Campus at the MTC, my host was Courtney Odom!!! I was shaking SO stinkin' bad I was so happy! She got me my name tag (which is SO awesome to wear), books and got me on the MTC shuttle to the West Campus MTC. 

    The first day was filled with orientation after orientation and mi clase de espanol con mi maestro Hermano Howard? He ONLY speaks in Espanol, which is great pero absolutely terrifying. But he is awesome and super patiente con people like ... well, me. hahaha! Pero el don de lenguas is kicking in!! I can understand 75% of what he is saying! Our workshop we went to the 1st night, we all sat in a chapel room and got to know certain "investigators" and truly see them as who they are, children of God. The first was super willing to learn despite her trials with her family, and we could talk to her and answer her questions fully. Javier, the second (oh bytheyway, it was all in english) was a little harder because his questions were confusing so we were kind of running around with his answers... but he was definitely kind and willing to learn. THE THIRD ONE, oh boy, Daniel was from Mexico and came to live in the US and studied English for a couple years. But his brother is homosexual y he tried to commit suicide and Daniel, well, he was very angry with God and he made it obvious he did NOT want us there. Pero, I prayed so hard that I would know what to say. And I told him "Daniel. I understand your trials and how sad/angry you must feel. But I want you to know that your Heavenly Father loves you and knows you individually. He knows your pain and your anger. I invite you to turn to Christ who has FELT every single pain and will feel any future pain." It was powerful, mi familia. I am here to invite las persona de Aguascalientes venir a Jesucristo. I looooove being on a mission even though it's only been tres dias! haha!

 One of the counselors in the MTC Presidency said this, "Heavenly Father loves all His children equally but He loves His missionaries a little more equally." I'm sorry but....es verdad!! haha!

 SEGUNDA DIA: LOCO.

I didn't sleep the previous night, so I was SO tired. Pero, feliz.

We were ALL over the place, one of our teachers didn't show up to a 11am workshop, so while we kept waiting - Hermana Winsor utilized su talentos y played the piano!! We sang about 5 hymns (3 different zones) and then we went back to our classroom and studied for about 2 hours. We study everyday about 13 horas EACH DAY. It's muuuy dificil but also very awesome, it's hard to sit in a desk that long though. Also we're teaching an investigator THIS SABADO (manana) en Espanol. Hma Calderon y yo are teachinh Leccion Uno in Preach My Gospel. Yo soy MUY nerverosa!! Pray for us PLEASE! Pray that the gift of tongues will kick in full fledge! We also had a Branch Presidency Meeting with another district and met the Presidency y had an interview con el Presidente Stewart. He asked about mi familia and there were A LOT of happy/sad tears. I miss you all A LOT and it's only been 3 dias. AY! Oh and he asked me to be the District Training Leader.... ON MY SECOND DAY. Oh my heavenly goodness..... I have no idea what that means. Once again, please pray for me. haha! 

  Mi districto is SO awesome! Elder Black, Elder Woodfield, Elder Donovan (who is a convert) y Elder Wilson, y Hma Calderon y yo. I feel bad for everyone else porque my district is THE BEST and the missionaries at Main Campus have NO idea what true happiness because West Campus is THE BEST. We, my district, have this motto for whatEVER happens "Well, the Gospel is STILL true!" Ejemplo: Oh! I stubbed my toe pero the Gospel is STILL true! 

haha. My district is so helpful and we all love sports and music and we all are hilarious! The food here is AMAZING by the way. And yes Mother, I'm eating fruits and vegetables! But I have to admit, the chocolate milk is amazing. hahaha!

Third day (hoy)

We went to the Provo Temple as a Zone today and did an endowment session. There were MANY MTC sister missionaries there who were form Asia and were speaking Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, etc. There are SO adorable! It is SO beautiful here! Los Montanas, ay ay ay, esta MUY MUY MUY bonitas! They're covered in snow and I love walking around and seeing the fall colors... even though it is FREEZING HERE. I always wear my cardigans and scarves, I'm happy I brought them! Oh, Mom... my Pdays are on Fridays... and tell people to send me letters gosh DANGIT. Everyone else in my district got like 3 letters and then nada para mi! haha. I know it's only the 3rd day buuuut a letter would be nice... or like, no se, a package from Dearelder.com (wink wink) haha just kidding. not really. but really. :)

  I am so happy here. Heavenly Father has blessed me with an AMAZING companera, districto y zona. And he has surrounded me with amazing missionaries! Everyone speaks spanish and Hma Calderon y yo speak as much as possible! Of course I have my doubts and I'm scared as well and I'm in shock that I'm even here.... but it's ALL worth it! Of course it's going to be hard, how would I grow if it wasn't? Remember to pray for the missionaries, we need your prayers and we feel them everyday (even though it's been 3 days... haha). And ALWAYS look at each other as children of God. Dad, "Seek to understand before being understood" is what I think EVERYDAY here! It fits so well with what I've been taught so far! I mean, with Daniel, he was very rude and stubborn but he was going through some hard trials, but looking at him as a son of God... it was so easy to LOVE him and the "want" to help him grew pretty dang quickly!! I love this Gospel. It is truly amazing and FULL of happiness. Never forget that your Heavenly Father knows YOU... (Alma 5:38 y Jer. 1:5) He knows you by name and knows you personally. Never forget it!!! :)

HOW ARE YA'LL?! I miss all of you. I almost break down when I think of you guys.... but I am also filled with gratitude with the amount of support I have received. Please email me and/or write me! I want to hear from all of you!! I love ALL of you SO much!!!! Me amo mi familia mucho!

Day one feels like it was 4 weeks ago and it's only day 3. I'm working incredibly hard, obviously! I'm exhausted but I want to keep working!

Pleaaassee Write me!!!! (and Papa, I don't have your email...:( )I love you ALL!!!

Con Amor... Godspeed and PEACE OUT,

Hermana Winsor