9-22-14

Well....first off HAPPIEST OF HAPPY BIRTHDAYS to DAD tomorrow and to GRANDMA!!!!  (Last Saturday!!)  I hope you have and had the best days ever! 

Wow!  Devinito!  You are almost done in the CCM!!!  I can totally remember that feeling, feeling like I now was the oldest and I thought I should know everything by then....haha....but you don´t!  I am so excited for you to get out into the field and be in Uruguay!  You are going to LOVE it!  I am so proud of you Devinito :)  Will you write me sometime in Spanish!  When you can!  I want to talk to you in Spanish!

Ok so first week in Gijón with Hermana Mather.  It has been amazing.  She is SO wonderful, loving, kind, patient, unselfish, efficient, wise, EVERYTHING you could ever want in a companion!  How did Heavenly Father deem me worthy to be her companion, I don´t know but wow...I am so grateful for her.  I have learned so much from her just within one week!  She is the best!  We have already found so many people this last week, it is incredible. 

Antonia, Fran and Aarón are still doing really good!  Antonia has now come to 2 relief society activities and they have been coming to church every week.  We have been teaching them English also, so that has been really fun!  We were teaching them food words last week and talking about the category of food.  Somehow the conversation got onto how they don´t have Peanut Butter in Spain!  Antonia insisted that they did and she said that it was SUPER good!  This was when Hermana Endicott was here......and this week, Antonia brought us a jar of Peanut Butter!!  We about died!  It´s SO good!  It´s natural peanut butter and SO yummy :)  Anyway....they are doing good and we keep working with them! 

This last week I´ve been reminded alot about faith, about how my faith really does make a difference.  Even if we can´t see the difference that our faith makes, we should never under-estimate the influence that our faith can have.  Hermana Mather has such a wonderful attitude of faith and I love that about her.  If we think that people aren´t going to listen to us, then that attitude reflects in our actions and we aren´t demonstrating to the Lord the kind of faith we want to have.  I think I´ve forgotten that for awhile here, and Hermana Mather has just reminded me of the kind of faith that I do want to have. 

I know with all of my heart that this is Christ´s Church and Christ´s Gospel on the earth today, restored in it´s fullness, in the same way that Christ himself established it when he lived on the earth.  I know that Joseph Smith was called to be the prophet of this final dispensation and that through him, we have the Book of Mormon, another testimony that Christ lives and that He is the Savior of the world.  Everyone needs to know that the Atonement covers all sorrow, pain and sin.  We are imperfect, but through Christ we are made perfect.  I know that we have a loving Heavenly Father in Heaven who know us, He knows the desires and the intentions of our hearts and He wants to bless us.  I am so grateful to be a missionary on the Lord´s errand. 

I wish I had more time, today was more of a picture sending day I guess....but I had a little more time to write you all individually too :)  I love you!  Have a wonderful week and day!

And Tiffany!!!!!!!!!  I wish I could have been at your Baby Shower!  Holy Moly you are having a baby!!!  I am so happy for you guys!  I love ya and have been thinking about you!  Hope you´re doing well! 

Que El Señor les bendigas!  Hasta luego!  

Con Amor,

Hermana Carroll