Vestel, Lauren P

Buenos Días! Hopefully the 3 days hasn't been too long of a wait To explain the title, we were walking home to our house and this guy was smoking on his front porch and he yells out "Are you lost, momma llama?" Pfffff lol we were laughing so hard once we were out of hearing range from him. I have been here in J2 for so long that those kids of things don't even phase me anymore.  We had a really cool experience with our new friends Juan and Oralia. We were teaching them how to pray and we invited them to do it, and they didn't feel like they could do it immediately so we said that for this time we can start the prayer and they can repeat after us, but the next time they had to try it on their own. So, after this prayer Oralia said that she felt something different. She felt like a light just came from heaven. She had never felt that before. She felt the Spirit as she prayed!! That is the first time I have ever heard that someone has felt the Spirit that directly wh...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! President Holley thought it was a good idea to move all of our p-days to Thursday and have us do service this morning so a lot has happened! So this week and a half we have spent most of our nights finding, and so many miracles have happened! As we pray before we leave, we make sure that we are putting our complete faith and confidence in our plans and his power to help us find who needs to hear our message of hope. The more that we have been doing this, he truly does see our efforts and the reward has been great.  We knocked an unanswered door and then this dog named Toby runs up to us. We start talking to him in Spanish and he is interested in hearing from the missionaries again! I forget his name but I do remember his dog. It takes me a bit to remember our friends names, I think that's why I can relate to Dory a lot.  I am so extremely blessed that Hermana Dababneh is my companion. She is kind of a famous person in her last area in Tremonton, sh...

Buenas Días todos! Thank you for your patience, I have more photos this week. We got some crazy news, this week our District leaders moved into apartments in our East Stake and they said they are taking over our entire Ogden East Stake. Our Spanish Ward covers 2 English stakes and because of this split we went from 15 people we were teaching.... to 1. All of the work is in the East Stake. But that's ok! That means we will have more time in the Ogden Stake to find and teach. It was a bit stressful doing pass off lessons but I know things will be ok.  We were going to do a 9 person pass off lesson (because we were teaching all of these people in the same house) and when we knocked, and our recent converts Karla and Ruben (with their friend Melkin) opened the door and said that all if them moved. I went through so many emotions! First, the house had a much stronger presence of the Holy Ghost (but the smoke smell was really strong). Second, it is sad that they moved but I see it as a h...

Good Afternoon y'all! I hope that you had a splendid week swiching your decorations to thanksgiving (or Christmas if you prefer that more)  I got an adjustment to my medications and I have been feeling better mentally and have been able to stay focused and strong through this tough work. I am so happy to have medical help here :)  We had a lesson with Jofré and we were about to give him a Baptismal invitation (which we felt that we should have given him a month ago) and he told us that he is moving to Venezuela this week! I was so heartbroken! I realized in that moment that the spirit needs to be followed at the moment that it was given. He is coming back in may so I put a note for the future missionaries in the area to contact him This Fast Sunday was a Day of literal miracles in the church! We met a new friend that lives in the house of Karla and Ruben and he is very promising! He is also YSA so we will have to pass hin off but Anyways it's still so cool. Then out of nowhere...