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I got my hija!!!

Ok to start off, my new compañera is INCREDIBLE! Jolín. She came to me fresh off the flight from the good ole US of A and she just swaggered into sanse like she's been here for 18 months. and is amazing. All the members are extremely extremely impressed when they find out she's been here for four days and she's having a normal conversation with them. And her motivation to be here and serve everyone and share her testimony is very strong and ahhh she's just the greatest. Oh yeah and her name is Hermana Arscott and she's from Colorado :)

So on Tuesday I farewelled my old companions and they headed off to their new areas and then I spent the next two days in a different area with two other hermanas who were also gonna be training and it was a partyyyy. We had a lesson with a recent convert and two drunk people who just wanted to pray the whole time and sing songs of praise. Let's just say it was hard to feel the spirit until we finally got them to leave but then we had a really good lesson about prophets and general conference. Oh and conference was SO GOOD! We watched all of the sessions in spanish with the members besides the first one and can I just say that I thoroughly enjoyed Elder Holland's "mic drop" moment when he ended his talk with "welcome to general conference." man that got me pumped.

But yeah anyways while I was in the other area we also visited this lady who's from New Jersey and has a son with cerebral palsy and we went to help her do all of his exercises and just to talk to her for a little bit. And she has had a hard life and it's caused her to lose a lot of faith in her heavenly father. And it made me really sad to see it because those same exact hard moments in our lives are what can help us to increase our dependence on the Lord if we let them. Because like Nephi tells us, the Lord won't give us anything without providing us a way. But like somebody said in conference, he provides a way, it may not necessarily be the way we were thinking.

OH YEAH! so last Monday we went over to visit our friends Jessica and Edison and their 12 year old son and their son came to church on Sunday and he was like, can I get baptized too?  And he loves reading the book or mormon ahh he's adorable. So now they're all planning on getting baptized together on ocotober 19th! We're praying really hard for them! And they came to watch conference with us yesterday so that was super cool :)

Well I love you all! Make sure to follow the commandments to find that joy that was talked about so much in conference!

Hermana Pendleton 







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