Vestel, Lauren P

Oooo i'm halfway there Woa oh! Living on a prayer!! You guys I am halfway through my mission!! Time is going to go by so fast.  There's a bit of a joke on the mission about what time is like. So the first 6 monrhs are the worrrrrst. So slow, so terrible. Then 6 to 9 months is a bit faster, especially because you can carry a good conversation now with anyone (well that's the speed I went because Spanish is very difficult to learn and keep when you are surrounded by only english) and then 9 to 18 months goes wooosh done with your mission. I'll be home before you guys even blink. Wow. So many miracles happened. We got our first reference from the ward and we went to them the first day, met the grandparents and Alisha. We talked to her and her mom about Baptism and we got permission to set a date for March 18th!! It was sooo cool. We had also later in the week had the prompting to start in the back in the apartments of one apartment complex and on the third door we knocked ...

Hola! Felicidades! Buckle up, you're in for a story this week Well, We started the week (Sunday) with our lesson with the Pima family, right? Well that was the only nonmember lesson we had this week. We had 6 lessons cancel on us without any answers about rescheduling. But you guys, yes that is bad and it's dissapointing, but man, I can't even tell you how great it is that I am not sitting here beating myself up for it because I KNOW that we did everything we could. Honestly it's the first time in this mission that I have been able to get to that point.  We went to go exercise on Wednesday and I was on the pull up bar with the green band and I went up and WHAM! I hit my head on a wooden beam that was just above the bar. I had a really big headache for 2 days but i'm feeling okay now. I have decided that I am a lot more prone to injury on my misison than I was before (except for that swim concussion lol jkjk) so I gotta be more careful. So you know that stake preside...

We have been meeting some really great people this week! (I've been seeing that successes come line by line) * We found this inactive member at a door and he said to us "oh yeah, I was expecting you would visit" the spirit had told him apparently and he always follows the spirit. That was how he found the missionaries in the past! He gave us his number and said "give this to your bishop and have them reach out to me. I am ready to come back to church". And we saw him on Sunday! * we have a return appointment with Eric. His fiancee opened up and said "we just moved in. Babe? You wanted to meet with the misisonaries right?" And he comes to the door and says that he doesn't believe in God but believes in an entity out there and he wants to talk about it with us.  * The car stopping to talk to us We had this man drive out of a gas pump, but then turned around and parked on the side and started to talk to us. He is a Father that gas SO many doubts and q...

Hello my friends! Yes, I did try avocadoes again. I ate a quarter of it, then I finished out half of it, and at the end my tounge got tingly but no breathing issues so I think that I still do have the allergy but I think I will he fine if I have bits of avocado once in a while. I can eat avocadoes again!!  Side track: I need to work on my driving skills a bit because I am driving DEFENSIVELY because of the habits I picked up in florida.  This week had some big issues. The ward, *sighs* doesn't listen to us Hermanas and won't come and do the ward huddles. Last week, we had only one show up. We can't ask anything from them or they will get offended. They confirm to be a fellowship for a lesson, and then 10 minutes before they tell us that they sre 4 hours away in salt lake. Jermana Groves says that she had tried everything. It’s not looking good for misisonary work on the members side.  Buttt after soo much hard work, nobody answering their doors, Heavenly Father truly bles...