13th last/final transfer

January 12, 2016

Well Mamacita,

The verdict for my 13th, last and final transfer of the mission IS.......... I'M STAYING HERE IN NORTH SACRAMENTO WITH HERMANA VERGARAY! Cool, huh? Haha it's going to be a great final transfer. The other Hermanas in our apartment, Hermanas Clark and Thomson, have been called to train! So now they aren't just going to be sister training leaders, they're going to be a sister training leader trio! With one of them being a trainee. It will be interesting and now we'll have 5 sisters in the apartment! Haha we are cracking down on only speaking Spanish so that when the trainee comes tomorrow, she'll think it's normal that we only speak Spanish. :P we'll trick her into thinking we are perfect language missionaries! It's going to be fun! We aren't very good at our vocabulary outside of religion :P 

I went to the temple today with Hna Clark and it was a lot of fun! Afterwards we went to Chick-fil-a and I used my free food card. It was so good! Thank You! That was the best Christmas present ever! I did my last family name, so I'm going to need two more because I'm going again next transfer and at the end we get to do a session with the Jardine's :) 

We also have some fun and exciting news! Alejandra Mora is getting baptized the 23rd of January! She was going to be baptized the 19th, but her mom realized it was on a weekday and she wanted to do it on a weekend. We just had her baptismal interview on Sunday and she is ready! I am so excited for her!! Another really cool thing is that she attends the Marble valley school in El Dorado and she is in PGY! She's doing her performances this weekend so she's super busy, but super excited! I think it's so cool that I did that program when I was young, and now I have an investigator that's doing it too! The craziness of serving near your home. :) 

I loved going to the temple today, it is definitely one of my very favorite things to do. I love to see how much love that God has for us as his children. I am reminded daily of that love as I go out and testify of it to those that aren't sure of it or don't know. I love being a missionary because I have never felt such a great desire to show love for people, to make sure they feel that love that God has whether it be through a testimony, a simple smile, a firm handshake, or a great big hug and a kiss on the cheek! I love being able to boldly testify of what I know to be true and it's not too weird, because I have Christ’s name on at all times! I love having the knowledge that if we have the desire and if we make righteous choices, we will live with our families forever and we will live with God again. I love to feel the presence of the Lord, because it is full of rich and abounding love, an infinite love that will never be taken away! 

I love you so much! I hope you have a great week!

Para Siempre Dios esté con Vos

Con Amor,

Hermana Twitchell

Stop telling me how many days I have left or what our future plans are! (Although I am very excited to hear that we are going to the temple) but I like being surprised :) I'm working on my weekly email, so stay tuned in the next 20 or so minutes. Love you!

(I told her this week that we got ticket to the Provo temple open house, forwarded her information about her homecoming and told her she needs to register for BYU, she doesn’t want to talk about coming home at all, I think she would stay a missionary forever)