Bloom into a flour

Holaaaa! I hope you all had an incredible week and a great mother's day! Our week was very filled with lots of meetings. Very good meetings. But it didn't leave time for much else. In leadership council we talked about how "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste" and how soon we will look back and see these days as "the good ole days" because we will make them so amazing. President asked us what we would do if we were to create missionary work from scratch, how would we share the gospel with people. And it made me think. Because in so many ways, we are starting from ground zero but the ability and the opportunity to be creative is what is bringing so many miracles!

We also had zone conference and one of my favorite quotes that Hermana bussey shared was:

"When you're in a dark place,

you sometimes tend to think you've been buried.

Perhaps you've been planted.

Bloom."

it just made me think a little bit :) we also talked a lot about the Atonement of Jesucristo and oh how grateful I am for that. That it doesn't leave fingerprints or scars but cleans us completely and perfectly. The only one who has prints and scars is Jesus Christ. Because he wanted to, he chose to. We are literally in his hands. Those prints are there because of us and they remind Him and us how much He loves us and how much he did for us.

Anyways, we taught a lot of English classes this week and we're slowly sliding the gospel in on them. It's a really good way to find and make friends but it's a work in progress.

On Saturday night we did a zone activity through zoom and ended up with flour all over our faces and all over everywhere else too. Luckily flour is not too hard to clean up from the table and floor. But I had dough in my hair for a couple of days.

Our mission president and wife do a Facebook live every night for us to give us new announcements and do some fun things, and this week we got special guest appearances by Elenyi and Claire Crosby (our APs know people in high places apparently) so we've had lots of good music this week! :)

We also found out that we'll be able to baptize this month! With very tight restrictions and a very small window so I will keep you updated on if mathias and Maria will be making it into that small window! We'll be talking to them tonight!

I hope you all have an incredible week! Love you!

Hermana Pendleton

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