Week 23: winded

this week was FAB. my fam got to go climb waterfalls and lay on the beach. But I had the better end of the deal because I got to knock on doors and walk in a hailing / snowing windstorm. My favorite. But WOW IDK FOLKS IF ILL SURVIVE WINTER. I lived in St G. last winter and now im out here wearing 3 pairs of pants. Its ok though worth it to spread the gospel. SOTW (story of the week): we had president interviews this tuesday and sister jones and I both told president we were going to find someone new to teach that day. We had about an hour to go finding and we had no luck sadly. We then went to go help at our relief society clothing swap (at which i got the dopest jacket from a 90 yr old gpa) and we saw this dude there and we have NO clue how he found out about it cuz it was only advertised at church but hey a non-member in the church building randomly?? MIRACLE. We chatted with him and found out his name and let him continue finding clothes. But we saw him leaving and we said "no way jose u are leaving with the BOM" so we literally grabbed our bags and chased him all the way to his car and gave him a BOM and testified of it and taught him a couple principles (literally panting & very winded) ((im out of shape ok)) and i wasnt about to let Pres. or myself down. idk what will come of it but it was another testament to me of how much God is aware of our desires. #miracleclothingswap. I gave a talk in church yesterday. It was really good if i do say so myself, and i do. Here is a quote from Elder Utchdorf that i used so you can have a taste of the goodness. "We are surrounded by such an astonishing wealth of light and truth that I wonder if we truly appreciate what we have." Since it is the season of giving thanks I thought this quote was appropriate. We all have so much especially this gospel. we need to be thanking our Heavenly Father daily for everything he has given us. so quickly i want to thank all of you. Sooooo THANK YOU. for your support, prayers, emails, and letters. it means the world to me to know i have so many people at home that love and support me. i love you all A LOT and everyone who receives this email and reads this, you have helped me become who i am today so thank you for your influence on me. #attitudeofgratitude spread the love this thanksgiving season. last pday w/ the other sisters in the zone, we went on a "hike" but there are no mtns here so it was more of a walk (my kind of hike) to a place called devils icebox. it is a cave we were going to go exploring in but it was full of H2O so i guess satan didnt want us in his cave because we are too holy?? other updates that really dont matter: we got a Christmas tree but sis jones is actually scrooge so she wont let us put it up until after thxgiving but we compromised on the week before ;-) . its currently snowing and im cold. that's all. lots of love, sis folk

PIKS: me and my STLs, A snowman we built w/ candy bc we had no vegetables....oops, SNOW PIC, Sistas pday!, Us and Bri (our bestie from the YSA who was baptized in June)