Love my area

September 14, 2015

¡Hola Mamacita!

This week has been really great and we are probably going to have a baptism next week! Hopefully we will finalize everything this week and I can tell you more next week. The new area's great! It reminds me a lot of my first area because we hear sirens several times a day. ¡Hogar, Dulce Hogar! I love being back in the city, the Hispanics are everywhere! My Spanish is good, I really haven't seen any big changes in it since I left Spanish work. I think my vocabulary level has gone down, but that's okay, I can work on that! My companion is great! She is super enthusiastic about the work and is always on the Go. Haha she's also really funny. Honestly we don't really differentiate too much with Senior & Junior companion, but ya, technically I am the senior comp since I have quite a bit more time on the mission. Hna Stout has been out for about 4 1/2 months. President Jardine says that 50% of our mission has 6 months or less time on the mission. We are a young mission. Haha I'm not old, I still have 18 months left! 

This week is Mexican Independence Day, so all the Spanish missionaries will have the opportunity to go downtown on Wednesday for the event. We are super excited!! 

We have quite a few investigators and right now we are working with a family, the Pardo family, that has the parents and 3 daughters. They have so much faith, it's amazing! This past week, we had the Elders come by and bless their home with the priesthood and we were able to talk with the family about the importance of having a worthy priesthood holder in the home. It was a really neat experience! The parents work on Sunday's at restaurants and we were talking with the mom about the importance of going to church. She wants to go to the temple so badly! She just kept talking about her desires to go to the temple with her family. It was so neat to see that her end goal isn't baptism, it's being sealed with her family for eternity! I am so thankful that we have a temple in our mission and that really no matter where we are serving, we can always set up temple tours! They are amazing for investigators and it's such a great way to let them know that baptism isn't the end, it's only the beginning! I was so thankful that I had the opportunity to go to the temple last week, it gave me such a clarity of thought and a peace of mind. I know that it is a house of the Lord. 

I love Sacramento and the people in it! Sure there are a bunch of hobos, druggies, and other interesting people, but this place is amazing! It's my home! It's sad that we are in a drought and that we are suggested to take 5 minute showers, but I know that it is not the Lord punishing his people, he wouldn't do that and there are so many amazing people here! There are so many people that are just waiting to hear the gospel and we are going to find them.

Para Siempre Dios esté con Vos,

Con Amor,

Hermana Twitchell