Vestel, Lauren P

It has been a rollercoaster if emotions this week! But the lows didn't stay long so that's  good. I don't know why time goes super fast when you want to enjoy the moment but this week went by way too fast! But we also worked super hard too.  I was on the ground for english class because I got some severe back pain again. I'm actually getting kind of worried about it. Literally all of my workouts are stil my back exercises since my injury back over a year ago and sometimes I fear I will have chronic back pain for the rest of my life. But i'm sure I won't, but I hope that it'll be well enough for my plane ride on Wednesday So I just wanted to give a super fast run down with a few highlights: ☆ Brother Kaufman is making great strides to come back to Church! He gave me Fettucine alfredo on my last Sunday.  ☆ Said goodbye to Fernando, he got the aaronic priesthood this week. He gave me a flash drive full of mexican music (I can't wait to listen them) as a goi...

Hola! This coming up week will be my last normal week! Our area is on fire right now and it helps me a lot to keep being focused.  I was talking to an elder (because he saw my painted book of mormon in Spanish) and he said that at the end of his mission he will paint the flags of all of the people who he has baptized. And so I decided to draw them on the last page of my book. And it gave me a different perspective on "baptizing nations".  Just a fair warning to all of those who are missionaries (but I also think this applies to people in general) you will never be able to be perfect at anything, and that actually has given me a good perspective this week.  This week has had a lot of different attacks of the adversary. The lord has shown me that I need to get better at my technology habits and for me it's like "oh man why didn't I know this earlier? I could have more time to get better at it" but who says that I have to stop practicing it when I get home? It...

My Last Zone Conference  The fact that my missionary service was coming to an end hit me at zone conference. I just looked around and realized that it came in full circle.  I was asked to give the closing prayer and I had to pray that I wouldn't start sobbing during the prayer. I made it out with a shaky voice. I got a lot of hugs after.  Halloween inside was a blast  Sister Holley let us watch "the witnesses", we bleached t-shirts and put cool designs on them, and then we slept. It was fun!  My Compy's Birthday!!  She's 20 now! It was so much fun how she got surprise after surprise. I hope that she knows that she is loved and appreciated. Fernando went above and beyond, making us quesadillas and a good sauce and gave her 3 birthday cards and a nice shirt feom goodwill that’s good to proselyte with. Fernando is so cool.  Speaking of Fernando, we had 2 lessons with him trying to show him that he is ready for the priesthood. He eventually accepted the ch...