8b1f9a34-8286-414b-979b-aca76bbafe1f Elder Brandon Perkins Back to Missionary Letters Giant Crockodile and the Ammon effect Ayyy, hope everyone is doing good. This week was pretty basic. Found some new friends to teach so that's been amazing. Highlights - Heaps of Service, mowed like 8 lawns (AMMON EFFECT) 💪 -We have this friend named Daniel from kenya who just smiles and laughs and it's so fun to be around him. -great lesson with Chris -visited the big Crockodile - Exchange with Elder Cooper! Had 4 lessons. Found 3 new people to teach. -Our friend David came to church ! -We had a fun Distirct P day today, where went to a Lollie shop to watch them make it. Lowlights - it's been crazy hot and humid -had to drop alot of friends -Emmanuels mom won't let him read the book of mormon. This email this week is kinda boring. I love it here, the work is definitely picking up. I hope I will get to see the fruit of my labour here in Townsville but if not, I'm okay with being the professional seed planters. Spiritual Thought - On Friday night I was thinking what we should do the next day and I had an inspired thought come to my mind, that we should vist an inactive family. So on Saturday we were able to go over and have a great visit with the dad. We honestly didn't expect anything out of it, but the next day we saw them at church. So listen to the spirit and follow promptings. If they are good and mean well they are from god ! Love you all have a great week. Previous Letter Next Letter

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980f9d83-ca25-42c4-a887-de751f52a624 Elder James Park Back to Missionary Letters Patience with prayer Good morning, another week in the books!! I cannot explain how fast the weeks have flown by here in Chile. Life in Chile still isn’t perfect but I know that for me, I am in the perfect place at the perfect time. This week some of my highlights included: It's a new year!! Happy 2026 🥳🤩! I'll be in Chile for this one 🫡🇨🇱 We went to the mountain to find new people to teach and a mapucha woman stopped us and prayed and invoked her blessings upon us.. 🤗 more blessings!! Also on the mountain there were so many dangerous dogs again so I decided to try out my electric dog whistle. 🐕🐕💨🔦🧍♂️- Thanks mom, I don't know how but It worked! 😁👍 I was able to attend sacrament meeting with my new ward! I was also able to present myself and share my testimony! 🕍 My companion and I had the opportunity to give many house blessings this week. 3 in 1 day 😄🫡 We visited the foot massage guy again so we got massages and he cooked us chicken and rice for lunch. 👣🙂.. 🍗🍚 This casa is the first with shower brain freezes :) 🧊🧠.. 🤯 My companion loves pasta and chicken patties, so that's what we eat for dinner 🍝🧆 Oo my companion also loves making Brownies and giving them to everyone.. He’s still learning how to cook and make things without important ingredients 😅. Poor neighbors 🫣😬 Today I'm going to get a haircut, my companion said he knows a guy who cuts hair for super cheap. I really don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing 🤔 🤦 This week for my spiritual thought I wanted to share a quote from President Holland's October 2020 General Conference talk which says, “There will be times in our lives when even our best spiritual effort and earnest, pleading prayers do not yield the victories for which we have yearned… So while we work and wait together for the answers to some of our prayers, I offer you my apostolic promise that they are heard and they are answered, though perhaps not at the time or in the way we wanted. But they are always answered at the time and in the way an omniscient and eternally compassionate parent should answer them.” Our Heavenly Father hears us when we say, “When will these burdens be lifted” The answer is by and by, sooner or later. Whether that be a short time or a long one most times we do not know. But by the Grace of God, blessings will come to those who hold faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This we know as fact. For that matter was settled in a private garden and on a public hill in the city of Jerusalem many years ago. If you are searching for answers from God that still seem unanswered, I would invite you to have patience. Step back and look at life in an eternal view. Remember that God is good. “For he is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world.” -1Nephi 10:18 Love you all, -Elder Park 🇨🇱.. 🇪🇸+🇺🇸 Good morning, another week in the books!! I cannot explain how fast the weeks have flown by here in Chile. Life in Chile still isn’t perfect but I know that for me, I am in the perfect place at the perfect time. This week some of my highlights included: It's a new year!! Happy 2026 🥳🤩! I'll be in Chile for this one 🫡🇨🇱 We went to the mountain to find new people to teach and a mapucha woman stopped us and prayed and invoked her blessings upon us.. 🤗 more blessings!! Also on the mountain there were so many dangerous dogs again so I decided to try out my electric dog whistle. 🐕🐕💨🔦🧍♂️- Thanks mom, I don't know how but It worked! 😁👍 I was able to attend sacrament meeting with my new ward! I was also able to present myself and share my testimony! 🕍 My companion and I had the opportunity to give many house blessings this week. 3 in 1 day 😄🫡 We visited the foot massage guy again so we got massages and he cooked us chicken and rice for lunch. 👣🙂.. 🍗🍚 This casa is the first with shower brain freezes :) 🧊🧠.. 🤯 My companion loves pasta and chicken patties, so that's what we eat for dinner 🍝🧆 Oo my companion also loves making Brownies and giving them to everyone.. He’s still learning how to cook and makes things without important ingredients 😅. Poor neighbors 🫣😬 Today I'm going to get a haircut, my companion said he knows a guy who cuts hair for super cheap. I really don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing 🤔 🤦 This week for my spiritual thought I wanted to share a quote from President Holland's October 2020 General Conference talk which says, “There will be times in our lives when even our best spiritual effort and earnest, pleading prayers do not yield the victories for which we have yearned… So while we work and wait together for the answers to some of our prayers, I offer you my apostolic promise that they are heard and they are answered, though perhaps not at the time or in the way we wanted. But they are always answered at the time and in the way an omniscient and eternally compassionate parent should answer them.” Our Heavenly Father hears us when we say, “When will these burdens be lifted” The answer is by and by, sooner or later. Whether that be a short time or a long one most times we do not know. But by the Grace of God, blessings will come to those who hold faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This we know as fact. For that matter was settled in a private garden and on a public hill in the city of Jerusalem many years ago. If you are searching for answers from God that still seem unanswered, I would invite you to have patience. Step back and look at life in an eternal view. Remember that God is good. “For he is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world.” -1 Nephi 10:18 Love you all, -Elder Park 🇨🇱.. 🇪🇸+🇺🇸 Previous Letter Next Letter

e4cc11fe-f13b-41cf-9d0a-969c1df52f57 Elder Decker Lee Back to Missionary Letters CEVICHE Google photos- https://photos.app.goo.gl/7mJigZzeRBWigU9h9 Whats up everybody this week was pretty good so make sure ya read! P-day, today was pretty fun we got together with a our zone and another zone and played some soccer and all got lunch together. Super nice to hang with everyone. Also got to call fam so that was super nice. Today i gave my first blessing in spanish, It was for our pensanista bigoria. Shes awesome. That was pretty cool to do in spansish. My comp had to help a little but still was awesome! preistood power is real!! Also had 4 lessons today and all 4 canceled... so street contacting for the rest of the day it is. Anddd we FINALLY got the signiture of a dad who refusedddd to sign off on the baptism form. So our homie Jose is finally getting baptized after 8 months, and 4 sets of missionsries!! Literally a blessing super super crazy procces but so glad we got the signiture!!! History here in peru happend today. It rained, That was pretty fun even tho it lasted a solid 10 min. New year eve's fireworks's were pretty similar to christmas fireworks but i think they might have been a little louder. Anyways happy 2026. Thats wild to even say 2026. We put some miles under our shoes today, but we found a few lessons so thats super awesome. Today we stopped at a gastation to grab the assentials( Some orange juice, and ding dong cupckakes) and i seen these cars filling up,but they werent using like a gas nozel. So I asked what it was and they said there filling up there cars with propane instead of gas... sounds really safe but anything to save a few bucks..lol. Today we had the opportunity to go to the peru temple. And man that was so needed. We did a session, and my first one in spanish as well. Super awesome experience I won't forget, the comfort the temple brings is so peacefull. So I wanna encourage you guys to make a trip to the temple this week, you wont regret it!!!! Ohhh and another highlight, our pensanista made some ceviche, man it was sooo good. Sunday- Highlight of the week for sure! Today was fast sunday and those are always super fun. Today was my first time sharing my testimony in spanish to the ward, and wow. I wish yall could really feel the way i feel when i start speaking spanish and the words just start flowing out and im really able to share what i want to be able to, its got to be one of the coolest things ever. Wherever my spanish missionaries at you know exactly what im talking about and how cool it is!! The gift of toungs is REAL! And i also had the oppurtunity to give another blessing today so that was so so awesome. And another highlight of today was jose got BAPTIZED!!! Super super awesome and the spirit was soooo strong! An awesome feeling to see him so happy and to hear his teatimony at the end!! Spiritual though- Little scripture i liked from personal study this week. Doctrina y convenios 84•84 "Así que, dejad que el día de mañana se haga cargo de su propio afán" "Therefore, let the morrow take thought for the things of itself" Little scripture i found, but it hit me when i needed it this week. Out here on the mission its really easy to loose focus on the now and look up to the future, weather that be 2 days in advance or 2 years. I found myself not consitrated and not appreciating the now and that bogged down the work and moativation for the day so much. As the week went on I really tried to give the "marrow" no thought. And man it really paid off as far as the people we were able to find and teach. Appreciating the now and giving the now all ya got is hard at times but I know when we do this we will be blessed tremendously. So i wanna encourage all yall who made it down to the actuall end of the email, to focus on the now, weather it be in good or bad times appreciate them and what lessons and memories theyll have to offer you later on in your life! Love yall so much, and feel free to email me! I love seeing your email notifications! -Elder Lee Previous Letter Next Letter

5444d778-8c7d-48bf-959f-bff8166b55c1 Elder Maverick Ludvigson Back to Missionary Letters Regular Season week 19 New Years !✨️🥳 https://photos.app.goo.gl/gB5gQ19oNLSC1GXy9 Que tal todos! I hope you had a great new years and enjoyed watching the steelers win the division 🤘🥳. New years in Ecuador was a diffrent experience than in the States. They have some weird traditions, more on that later. This week was kinda brutal for missionary work but there still were miricles everywhere. Vamos! Highlights -They replaced the Hermanas in our district with some Elders and its been a blast to get to know them. -We had a crazy miricle happen on sunday, we got this media refrence that was seriously interested and would answer the phone (which is rare in Latacunga). We had a short lesson with her over the phone and she said she would come to church! Long story short we didnt relize she was attened church because we have never met her face to face. During second hour she came up to us asking how she can join the church! It was a complete shock to us because we didnt even know she was there or what she looked like. Wow, God is good. - Another miricle happened when we were walking home from church and this family from across the street started yelling "Hello" 😂. This happens alot here and usally they just heckle us because we are the first gringos they have ever seen. We crossed the street and talked to them and they were awsome. Its a family of 8 and one of the sons told us he wants to learn more because hes seen alot of missionary social media posts. We got his contact and set up a date and time for a visit. 😁 Hopefully we can teach the whole family and help them receive the restored gosple! Lowlights - we watched 3 hours of missionary safty videos on new years eve😪 - I have bed bugs and they are impossible to get rid of. I wake up with 5 or more new bug bites every morning so im constantly itchy. Ive tried everything except a professional so I think thats the next step. - We found out our friend who attendeds church every week isnt married to his girlfriend hes been living with for 20 years.😭 New Years in Ecuador They have some cool new years traditions and some wild ones 😂. The cool one that was familiar thanks to Seph Montoya was jumping over a burning body. Dont worry its not a real body its fake stuffed with sawdust or made out of paper mache. They were everywhere but our mission president gave us strict instructions not to do it. On to the weird tradition, its called vuidas locas, (crazy widows) its where all the young men dress like girls, more like drag queens 🤔. They were on the streets all day dancing, but its naughty dancing if you know what I mean 😂. They would have a rope across the street and pull it tight so that cars have to stop. Once they stop they give them a show 😭. Worst of all they expect to get payed and the Ecuadorians pay them! 🧑🏿🦯. Spiritual Thought I dont know If I shared this quote or not but im sharing it again lol. "You can either count the time or make the time count" its a banger, my brother Stetson always shares it. It applies to everyone. We are only this earth once for a limited amount of time so enjoy it. Its by Gods design we are here so make the time count by choosing to follow Christs example. If anyone wants to email me and feel me on on the steelers game im all ears 😂 Gracias por todo! Con amor Elder Ludvigson Previous Letter Next Letter

7ea08b90-d3fe-40ed-b9cf-f9307d55f823 Elder Braydon Taylor Back to Missionary Letters Hey whats good everyone in hope you all had a good new years and christmas. Sorry I havnt sent out an email for a fat second just got preocupied a little. Ill just give a baisic summary of what been goin on here in Macará. Christmas- showed my comp what a tim tam slam was and he loved it, and a baptisim fell through so that was fun. Inbetween- we got some more people on track for bappys and we got our dawgs hermana dominca baptized and hermana rocío we love her but shes a little loopy. New years- okay the guys dress up in drag anf dance and get paid for it... a little wierd i know but also very funny. Also they get like dolls and light them on fire in the middle of Town... then at night they got all naitive and i saw dude in like face paint and very naitive music playing. After new years- had ANOTHER bapy our dude byron got baptized and it was absolutly awsome. And we put on another fetcha for our guy Adrian. Unspiritual thoughts: Christmas is better cold, especially when youre in 90 degree heat. They dont cook the meat in ceviche de carne... might be getting sick soon but it did taste very good. The APs came down here and helped us realize we are here to BAPTIZE, especially in south america the people are just ready for it. The catholic church is the great and abominable church... just is. When the spanyards came down here they got everyone and told them they could die or become catholic, thats why everyone and their dog here is catholic, then also under EVERY cathilic church in south america there are people they killed under there... genuinly the catholics love to tell us thats how the church gets its power.... how lovely Ecuadorian lasagna is better then italian.... let that sink in. A guy we were teaching totaly just killed a guy yesterday... so ya fue Spirtual thought: Yesterday church eas super cool it was testamony meeting cause it was fast sunday, and when we started out here the second sunday was fast sunday and litterly just us 4 and Darwin and his wife shared and that was it. But yesterday we had like 8 testamonys and EVERYONE was shareing. It was so cool to physically see the progress Macará has made and how ive been able to help with that makes me feel good. Fotos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BqZdpgiZ9dXTMgjK6 Previous Letter Next Letter

f777a978-795c-454c-bae1-79aa4856a75a Elder Anson Hollingshead Back to Missionary Letters 1 Anson 3:5 Whats up everyone(Landon). Sorry didn't write an email last week. I just don't feel like doing it and thats why this one is going to be super short so my mom will be happy I wrote one. But anyways the work here is a little slow. We find people who are interested but don't come to church so no one really progresses very much. So a little frustrating.But the work must go on so we will keep trying our best. A great thing though this past 2 weeks is my spanish has gotten a ton better. Its starting to click for me so in no time I'll be golden and be able to connect more with these people. They are pretty awesome, sometimes a little interesting but they are awesome. Started reading the Old testament with the new come follow me this year and I can tell you the Book of Mormon is so much better. I am so greatful for Mormon putting in the hard work to rewrite the BOM so only the most important parts are there for us to read. I love the Book of Mormon. It brings me so much joy when I read it and I love learning the spiritual things from it. I know it has the full gospel of Jesus Christ. So everyone who's not reading it start reading it. It will bless your life in so many ways. Love you guys see you next week. Write me emails thanks. https://photos.app.goo.gl/U1p9YbdbpLdbz1819 Elder Anson J Hollingshead Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission Send me a letter at Elder Anson J Hollingshead Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission Av Rodolfo Baqerizo y Demetrio Aguilera Cdla la Alborada Etapa 7 Manzana 747 Solar 01 ---Guayaquil Ecuador Send me a package Elder Anson J Hollingshead Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission Zona Alborada, Av Rodolfo Baquero Nazur 90-323 y Calle Demetrio Aguilera 090150---Guayaquil Ecuador Previous Letter Next Letter

0ee3ebde-cdc9-4b96-b8c8-81348f7cd1b3 Elder Kurt Felix Back to Missionary Letters Be Where Your Feet Are. Hello everyone!! I hope everyone has some sweet goals to work for and achive this year. For me as I reflected on this last year I looked back and the biggest thing that I have learned and am continuing to learn is how to find joy in every situation. There is a phrase I love "Be where your feet are" when we do this we live each day in the present not thinking on the future to the point of anxiety, as well as not thinking on the past to the point of regret. This week I listened to a talk by Jeffrey R Holland and as he bore his testimony on the savior I was really touched by it. This made me think of the question "What gives his testimony so much power" so a little question to think about is "What gives your testimony Power?" Love you all, Hasta Ver. -Élder Félix Previous Letter Next Letter

5826ada5-ac50-4bb6-ba4c-e4f5a8b3d2d6 Elder Jacob Nelson Back to Missionary Letters Season 2, Episode 19, (5 comps, 5 months, 2 apartments, 1 area👍) Hello everyone!! Yes I know last email i said I would do better about sending emails and then I ghosted you for 2 weeks😬. These weeks were pretty awesome and crazy. Sorry for ghosting you all but lets get into it. 🏠:So we moved apartments to a bigger apartment which is soooo much better especially cause there are 3 of us. We are also living with another set of Elders so thats fun!! Sad that sister Zinie isn't our neighbor anymore but its ok we will still visit. 🌊: This last weekend we had the opportunity to have 3 baptisms which was pretty awesom!! Kash and his sister Wylee got baptized on Saturday! It was the most people I have ever seen at a baptism. Half of the gym was full of people it was crazy!! It was so awesome to see how much support they had!!! Caleb was baptized the next day on Sunday. He has been awesome to teach. He is so exited to learn and grow and most importantly he is so exited to get sealed as a family!! The spirit was so strong at both of the baptisms!!! Highlights🌟: - New Apartment!!! - Had a nerf battle🔫 - Ate a whole lemon🍋🤨 - Gave a talk🎤 Word on the street🛣: __________________________ Harmony: She is still working towards receiving a date but she is always so exited to learn and wakes up early to make sure shes ready for church!!! Family of 7(25th): They are pretty awesome!! They all want to be baptized and are exited to learn. Their parents are hard to catch but they are also willing to learn!! Isaac: He is an OAY and he is hilarious!! He loves to play roblox and him and his dad are so funny when they talk to each other🤣. He wants to be baptized and loves learning. He just gets distracted easily lol. ____________________________ Spiritual thought🌌: Alma 33:20-23 "20 But few understood the meaning of those things, and this because of the hardness of their hearts. But there were many who were so hardened that they would not look, therefore they perished. Now the reason they would not look is because they did not believe that it would heal them. 21 O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye might perish? 22 If so, wo shall come upon you; but if not so, then cast about your eyes and begin to believe in the Son of God, that he will come to redeem his people, and that he shall suffer and die to atone for their sins; and that he shall rise again from the dead, which shall bring to pass the resurrection, that all men shall stand before him, to be judged at the last and judgment day, according to their works." Sorry thats a lot of verses but I read them this week and they really stuck with me throughout the week. If we continue to cast our eyes towards Jesus and really see him and follow him he can heal us!! Thanks for reading!! Love you all!! Have a great week!! Previous Letter Next Letter

9069951d-d936-4183-b566-cdbb357a7fb1 Sister Laren Leavitt Back to Missionary Letters Welcome August, Oh my goodness time is going by so quickly! Maryland is awesome! I didn't send out a group email last week sorry, was crazy busy. So a little bit of last week story. Had a long day waiting at the airport, arrived to DC at 2 in the morning, met my mission President and his family, got my trainer (who is seriously the BEST), met the YSA!! Seriously so much has happened. I LOVE THE WORK!!!! So to start off with a funny story.... so being a new missionary and all I thought I would be helpful and clean and do the dishes. Lol my comp. said that for the dish washer we dont use dishwasher soap (because we are cheap) we just use the regular dish soap. Ahh so I start it.... and maybe put a little to much in. A mess everywhere. Water and soap all over the floor! Oh it was so funny! I hope you can see the video! (Kinda dumb, but missionary humor is real) So yesterday was fast Sunday and holy cow FASTING WORKS!! The coolest miracle happened. My companion, Sister Harris, and I started our fast Saturday afternoon right after lunch (so about 2). we were in the car and began our companion fast, fasting that we may find a new friend to teach. NOT THREE MINUTES LATER, we get out of the car, walk across the street and run into this awesome guy. His name is Giles and he is 6'7, playing college basketball. We get talking to him and he so goofy and nice AND totally interested in the message we share. We invited him to church and he accepted!! He comes to church and we give him a heads up of what is going to happen today, he is taking everything in like a champ. We introduce him to a few of the members and just clicks with everyone. He kept saying 'this feels like home', he even got up in sacrament meeting and bore his testimony saying that he know meeting Sister Harris and I will change his life for the better! Seriously GOD IS REAL and THIS IS THE TRUE CHURCH!! So pumped to teach him and show him that this message will change his life forever! Also this week, I began to reread the Book of Mormon and was in 1 Nephi chapter 3. (For those who don't know)This is when Nephi and his brothers go back to Jerusalem to get the plates or family genealogy, from Laban... anyway I thought of how Nephi made God his partner and put his trust in Him. That if Nephi had failed to get the plates, it meant God had failed. And because God does not fail, Nephi didn't. I know if we have Him as our partner than we will never fail! Trust in him, he knows our plan and he knows what will be best for us!! I love you all! Hope you have a great week! Love Sister Leavitt Update on the Temple: got word that the re-dedication is back on schedule and Salt Lake will be releasing a date soon!!! Previous Letter Next Letter

5cf8b73e-5f04-4cb2-bea4-8f6c42a8780c Sister Emily Leavitt Back to Missionary Letters Hello everyone! We had a crazy couple of weeks here in Saline. Friday we got a call from our president that they were moving one of my companions to Troy because of a big complicated situation I wont explain. She just unpacked from a crazy transfer white washing and now she has to leave. We were all pretty sad about it. So we drove up on Saturday to drop her off and it turns out we got a companion coming to us..president didnt tell us about😅 Sister Griffin is our new companion and she is flying out to England in a few weeks so we are going to be in quarantine just to make sure she doesnt take covid with her. Also on friday, we got news that one of our friends that we were teaching passed away. It was a big shock to us. We knew he was in the hospital and we had prayed with him over the phone a few days before but he had texted us less than 24 hours of him passing away. If you could keep Bonnie and her family in your prayers I would really appreciate it. We had some pretty big lows this week but we also saw some miracles. We put up flyers offering prayers or uplifting messages and we got a call from one of them! Her name is Lisa and she is so sweet. She is going through a hard time losing a friend so we have been praying with her over the phone and we started teaching her! We also got in contact with a guy names Patrick and had a lesson with him yesterday and the spirit was so strong! He already really connects with The Book if Mormon and is excited to learn about it! We are having another lesson tonight! Also, a member in our ward heard we were in quarantine so she sent out an email so many members have reached out offering to feed us! This ward is so kind! Members underestimate how much meals and just letting us call them really mean to us Missionaries! They discourage us going to the store in quarantine so it will help so much. As hard as it is to adjust to all the changes, to stay inside, to lose friends we love or to see them struggle, it is worth it. The overwhelming feeling of love and peace that comes after feeling the spirit in a lesson and seeing people change and accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the happiest I have ever been. I hope you are all getting excited for General Conference! It's the perfect opportunity to invite friends to come and see! I love you all and hope you have a great week! Love Sister Leavitt Previous Letter Next Letter

fe3c1d5f-abab-4ae9-baad-a8b46bf4ad68 Sister Savannah Pric Back to Missionary Letters We watched the entirety of the chosen this week lol Hola todos! This week as I've been preparing myself for conference and the words of the prophets, I've learned a lot about myself. I've learned that I'm not as bad off as I think I am, that I've actually improved a lot, and that yes, despite who I used to be, I am still worthy of change and growth. I've been listening a lot to different things, trying to bring the spirit into my life more abundantly. I actually have an experience I want to share about that. One day, I received a text from one of the ladies I'm teaching singing lessons to and she wanted to have another lesson! She told me that she had been reading the Book of Mormon and loved what was in it, and that she had some questions and wanted to talk. I was ecstatic! So we scheduled a lesson and planned what we were gonna teach her. That day I decided to read some conference talks that President Jackman had recommended for us about Easter, and I felt like I'd oblige him. I was listening to "Where justice, love, and mercy meet," by Jeffery R. Holland, and I was filled with the spirit, as you do 😂 I listened to a few more talks by him, and I felt really spiritually uplifted and inspired, better than I've felt in my life. (I also just wanted to add that, looking back, this day helped me to see how spiritually deficit I had become and that bringing the spirit back had helped me to feel better, and I've felt better since then). So then we had this lesson with Janet, and it was so spiritual. We talked a lot about her questions from the Book of Mormon, and then after she asked us how she can have the Holy Ghost more in her life, and we were able to tell her about baptism and how the Gift of the Holy Ghost can be with us always. At first I think she took that harshly, because she told us that what we were saying is that if our church is true as we claimed it is, then all the other churches are false. It took us a moment, but I think that moment was filled with the spirit, and we told her that it was true. She didn't back away either like I thought she might. She actually responded quite well, saying that she needed to read more before she came to any conclusions. She is the kind of person who told us all those weeks ago that she wasn't looking for my truth or my companion's truth, but God's truth. And I think things are going well, at least I hope so. We haven't had a visit since then, but we did invite her to watch General Conference this weekend, and she seemed chipper as ever! We are confident that the Lord is working on her every day! This week we also had a chance to receive the first round of the covid vaccine! I'm grateful for the technology we've been given that has given us a vaccine in just a year! I know that this is going to benefit missionaries so much because of how often we are out and about with people, and after we are fully vaccinated we'll be safe from quarantine even if we get exposed! I'm grateful for all that we've been able to do recently, but I'm grateful that we now have more opportunities to create safe environments for everyone we teach! Thank you for all your prayers and everything you've done for me! I love all of you! -Hermana Price Previous Letter Next Letter