Vestel, Lauren P

Hello my friends! Today has been a great week!!  We've been having lots of lessons with our friends this week. One of my favorite moments was with one of our friends Frank , he was in english class and he was talking about how he is "pregnant for learning English" like you have to wait wait wait for the fruits of your labors of learning English and then once it pops out then you see it. It was hilarious I swear we are celebrities in Utah. Every other minute we get a honk at a car just so that they know that they are waving at us (or just to "support" the missionaries, idk). I think last week we got a honk from a semi truck. But even worse, on Saturday, this police car turned on on his sirens and waved at us. Ngl we got scared for a split second. There is also the casual every other car waves at you. My companion refuses to do this but it's come to a point where I habitually raise my hand up as a half wave to every car that passes by. In my opinion, they need...

My apologies I haven't been sending any introductions to my emails. The gist of the email: God smiles on the patient and you can do hard things.  We got a new car and it's sooo nice!! I'm a new Volkswagen Tiguan and it has heated seating. It will probably be the nicest car I will ever drive TBH There are a lot of cottonwood trees in Hyrum and basically their seeds spread everywhere and because of the wind it looks like we live in the upside down in Stranger Things. My companion is super allergic to them and I totally suggested to her that she should wear a bandanna so that she doesn't accidentally swallow one again. But that's against mission attire standards ao that won't happen. Honestly my allergies are not bad and I think it's because i'm not living anywhere near that nasty yellow Florida pollen that comes from the pine trees  We had our Weekly mission Zoom amd we are now pretty much a "sistrict" which means there are 3 companionships of He...

On Saturday and Sunday as Sisters we got to go to two musical Devotionals! One in Logan and one in Ogden. I was asked to do the narraration in Logan and... it was not easy but I got through it. I was basically memorizing it and I practiced projecting the words a lot. It was scary, I thought I would fall over on the stand but I did it! It taught me a valuable lesson: If you want to have confidence you have to practice being confident until it becomes second nature to you. It's like being a missionary: If you want to be a missionary, you have to get on that badge and do it.  I saw Hermana Camela at the Devotional and I decided to do something that I haven't really been able to do before with past friendships or relationships that just didn't end up ending smooth... I went up and told her "Hey I know that we had a rough transfer but I want to say I love you and I want to move on from it" she replied: "Of course don't worry about it. I'm not holding anyth...

Buenos Días! How are y'all doing? 0 in our teaching pool So we pretty much had to drop the last of our people because we haven't been able to get a successful contact with them from between 3 weeks to a month. But we are not giving up. We've been knocking like crazy people. We had our MDC talking about how to extend baptismal invitations and we were looking at each other like.Wouldn't that be nice lol. We're not discouraged  upset or mad about it. We just keep going.  We knocked on this door and this man walks up to the door and looks at us through this glass diamond window and he shook his finger to say no, and just walked away. Without opening the door. We looked at each other and started laughing. It was a really funny interaction.  Service at a Nursing home So funny... we have been praying a lot to be able to find those that are willing to hear God's message, right? But I have specifically prayed 3 times these past 3 weeks for opportunities to do service and...