7a76b226-2b95-4db5-b38e-465238d08a53 Elder Jazon Snarr Back to Missionary Letters Exchanges, Bottlepoolhockey, Home Alone Hey everybody! I hope your week was lit! My week was real good! Tuesday - Went to Estes park and shopped for a little! I bought some stickers! Wednesday - We woke up and did personal study! We had District Council and it was really great! The sisters gave a great training! We filmed a "meet the missionaries" video! We ate lunch and did our companionship study! We did some Facebook work and went to dinner! We contacted a few people and then had a ward correlation meeting at Dairy Queen! Thursday - We woke up and had a lesson with Chris and his kid! We then went to help the Dennisons move! We ate lunch and then did our studies! We ran past Ron and set up a meeting with him! We ate dinner and walked for the rest of the night! Friday - Exchange with Elder Callahan! We woke up and did personal study and then had the mission wide devotional! We did companionship study and ate lunch! We biked to a few peoples houses! We came back for dinner! We did Facebook and our exchange review and then exchanged again! We played and invented a game called bottlepoolhockey! The people we live with have been gone! Saturday - Exchange with Elder Dustin! We did some personal study! We went and made food at a homeless shelter! We had Chick Fil a for lunch and did some Facebook then we had dinner at Arby's and street contacted for awhile and did our exchange review! Sunday - Happy Sunday! Today we woke up and did personal study and headed to church! We ate lunch and then had a meeting about Facebook with our district! We did comp study and then we had dinner with the Olyphants! We helped Chris Orlando move a fridge and then taught him a lesson!! Hes awesome! Monday - We went to the track in the morning and today we have lots to do! We filled out some stuff to move apartments! We had dinner with the Redfords and got to butcher their goat and turkey! Tuesday - Spikeball, shopping, and hanging out Please read "The Tongue of Angels" by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland I love you guys! Keep working hard! Previous Letter Next Letter

13e715d1-054d-4680-8178-e5dd7d498a72 Elder Spencer Cox Back to Missionary Letters Followers of Jesus Christ in Summerwood TX · I LOVE BREAD! I enjoy visiting our local bakery and trying all the different delicious pastries and breads! However, even when I take 2 whole bags of baked goods home, the items don't last long and I'm hungry the next day. There is one type of bread that will never leave us hungry for more: "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." (John 6:35) Previous Letter Next Letter

7339aa9e-35d6-4f86-8cf9-2d495953c2ed Elder Maurice Perkins Back to Missionary Letters Well this week was a little hectic however many miracles happened. As many already know this last Monday I lost my wallet. It fell out of my pocket on my way to buy some things after district counsel on Monday night. I realized when I get home that it was gone and I got really nervous. When you lose things here you usually don't ́t get them back. However, a miracle happened. I prayed and asked my family to pray for me and while we were in the area on Tuesday I got a call saying that somebody turned in my wallet on the other side of the city. It was a miracle and a testimony to me that God does answer prayers. It was also a lesson that I need to be more cautious and aware of things. I am grateful for this learning experience and I am grateful for all those who prayed for a silly wallet however I know that God is aware of us. Even to somebody losing a wallet. Miracles happens. As well there were some even mightier miracles that happened this week. My companion and I have been finding people these past few weeks and this week we were able to find some elect people. One person in particular is a woman who contacted us. She told us that she wants God in her life and to go to church again. We visited her last Sunday and gave her a pamphlet of the Plan of Salvation. She read it all and then on Monday her uncle passed away. We were able to visit her on Tuesday and teach her that lesson. It was amazing. After the opening prayer she stated that she read the pamphlet and loved it. She also told us, "It was also quoting a book that I once had.. I read it and it changed my life but I ended up losing it... it has something to do with a man named Smith or something like that." I then pulled out a Book of Mormon and she responded, "That's it!". Turns out she was taught by a few missionaries before and she said that after reading the Book of Mormon she got a really good job offer in Maputo and ended up moving away. However we were able to visit her and through the direction of the Lord we were able to find her. She now is preparing to be baptized and invited another family to church and they came on Sunday! This week has been amazing and these are just a few of the miracles that happened however I know that God lives. I know that He loves us. I am so very grateful to be a part of this work and know that it is true with all of my heart. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and changes lives. It changed my life and it is the reason I am here in Mozambique today. As well today is Hero ́s Day in Mozambique. I want to give a shout out to my heros; my parents and grandparents, my siblings, and the rest of my family, all of you how support me so much! As well, I thank the Lord my Hero who supports me and guides me in all and is the Good Shepherd of our souls. Thank you! Love you all! Estamos juntos! Até próximo! Elder Perkins Previous Letter Next Letter

a80f3fd6-6936-4116-8b84-36e482a5ee47 Elder Braden Bingham Back to Missionary Letters This week was so good I can't wait to see what will happen next! There were definitely some difficulties last week not gonna lie! One missionary in our apartment was feeling sick one night and I loved to tease this guy so I made my way to his room as he was sick I was teasing but that next morning Karma got me good. For three days my head hurt and I had a pretty bad fever. I'm fine now and we are doing great in the work! It was a humbling experience lol. Something awesome about this week as I was reading hard in Genesis and Moses and was able to get a lot of insights from these books! I learned that when we read in Gen 2:17 and then Moses 3:17 we will see that there is a difference and something clearly missing. In Genesis, it states only that Adam and Eve should not eat the tree of Knowledge In Moses, it states they should not eat "Nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thy self" In the book of Moses, it is better understood that God gives each of us Agency and it will ALWAYS be up to us to choose. I loved this insight from my personal study this week. I hope everyone is having their own powerful personal study. Something great that happened Saturday night was Elder Curtis and I made French toast and Buttermilk Syrup!! It was good and everything was from scratch! It was an awesome accomplishment. We also attended a baptism this week for Pleebo. Our baptism will happen this Saturday!! Previous Letter Next Letter

a495422b-9447-4b4e-ab4a-8e7b5f8577cc Sister Veyo Sage Bundy Back to Missionary Letters We own Christmas Hey hey! If I'm being quite honest, I do not know what to write about this week because I feel like it went by SO fast. As every week does as of late, if I'm being honest. Here's a quick recap of some highlights this week: -It was Thanksgiving this week! I hope you all had a fantastic Turkey day and that you all ate lots of pie and stuffing and all that good stuff. My Thanksgiving was actually really fun. They told us that we couldn't go to members houses this year and I'm not gonna lie, that made me SO sad. Then they told us that we would be having Thanksgiving with a group of Elders and THAT made me a little worried. No disrespect or anything but I would take a hazard guess at most of the elders not having a huge hand in preparing a Thanksgiving dinner in the past and I was not sure how everything would turn out. Apparently I need to have more faith, because they surprised me and did a great job and dinner was actually amazing. Over all it was super fun and I had a good time. 10/10. -We went on exchanges this week. I was with Hermana Prestwich here in La Quinta (I begged to go to Spanish land, but she said no so I suppose my area is fine) and it was a party. We taught some good lessons and met some fun people. Another 10/10. -Our ward surprised us by asking us last minute if we could speak in church. Definitely had nothing prepared and I know you're not supposed to wing it on your mission, but when you don't find out until the morning of, you gotta do what you gotta do. The spirit was a nice little helper and we got through it. Honestly I think that's all I got for you this week but I'll end on a little bit of a spiritual note for all of you who have made it this far: One thing our mission is emphasizing a LOT currently is Christmas. One thing our mission President told us a while back is that our church, more than any other group of people, OWNS Christmas. We are Christ's church upon the Earth. We have His power, His authority, His prophet, and His word CURRENTLY being revealed to us. We as a church should embody Christmas. And there are so many people who need the spirit of Christ, some have a responsibility to bring it to people. They are waiting to hear it and waiting for the comfort that it's going to bring. SO I would highly encourage all of you to totally jump in headfirst this Christmas season and try to really light the world and bring Christ to those who need Him (which is everyone.) Anyways. I hope you all have had a great week and are looking forward to a STELLAR Christmas. Love you all!!! Love, Sister Bundy 7000 Central Ave, Highland CA 92346 Previous Letter Next Letter

8649c2af-ec3f-44c0-9a6f-921bee5212bb Sister Danzel Park Back to Missionary Letters Sanding Flowers With Raw Fingers Hey guys! How are you doing? No really… How are you? I would love to hear from you!! Anyways if you are reading this it's because you want to hear how I'm doing, the answer is good :) My hands however not so much, I'll get to that… Bullet Points · It was Hermano Marcos's Birthday!!! FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!!! We made him a cute card and gave him a little chocolate · Cesar Vallejo… There was nothing to say about this. We went to a part of our area we don't go to often and we realized why. The best explanation is a ghost town with maybe the exception of 2 people who live there. · Gato y Raton means Cat and Mouse. We had a missionary night and played this game. It was so funny to watch everyone's faces, I was really stressed but it was fun! We played with two ties and passed them around but, if you get stuck with both ties then you lose haha! It was so entertaining =) · We found a new friend whose name is Mauricio, he is awesome and has really good questions. When we shared phone numbers he asked what to put our name in as. We told him to put the missionaries in and he said no… I am going to put mis blancitas amigas… HAHA I don't know where that came from. · Peach cobbler!! That is all that needs to be said other than I have the best comp ever! · The miracle of Evelin, We found her last Monday night. The Tabernacle choir is singing in Lima the 22 of February and we are inviting people to come and see. So we knocked on a random door… the first door we knocked was Evelin!! She is so cute and we had 2 lessons with her this week. Miracles are everywhere :) · Walter… Yeah… No one believed us on this one… Let me explain. Walter is our friend, he is interesting. We can't text him because he can't receive texts. So we call him for everything. Well he answers the phone but he doesn't talk. The elders who sent the reference thought it was so weird so we had them call the district council. HE ANSWERED THEM!! Hermana Mortensen and I were shocked!! So we set up a lesson with him with the elders to have a passalong lesson. Great idea! well the elders waited with us for 30 minutes with Walter on the phone not saying anything… We were right… but we will keep trying to contact him :) · REJECTED!! I have been told not a lot this week. I think I know how to take rejection with a smile now. I've practiced :) · Alexander!!! We put him on date for baptism!! 15th of March here we come!! :D Please pray for him. · Sad truth of missionary work :( We dropped two baptism dates this week and it was sad. We have been working so hard to help our friends but we will keep working hard! · Now about the title :) I will write more about it in my spiritual thought Spiritual thought I am so excited to share this spiritual thought with you guys!! We sanded flowers off a wall by hand :) It was a service project and it was really fun and really hard. Peruvians make their houses out of cement. And they paint directly onto the cement… We held the sandpaper and took all the flowers off the wall! It took a lot of work and time to scrub this wall until the paint was gone because there are air pockets in the cement. But just like our lives sometimes we choose to do something that is hard to get rid of. They chose to paint the flowers and they liked them at first, but with time we realize we might not like the decisions we made in the past. That is why we have people who can help us grow and clean the walls in our house. Through the power of Baptism and repentance We can be completely forgiven of all our sins and past decisions. Even if we liked them at the time, things change. Find forgiveness in your life through the power of the holy ghost. Start slowly removing the paint and other debris on your walls. One part at a time even if it hurts a little. It's not supposed to be easy. Sandpaper is what we used to remove the paint and little by little we began to see the cement once again. Keep going. You might not be able to get it all, but you can find the sure foundation again, Jesus Christ. I love you guys! Hope you had a fantastic week and don't forget to shoot me an email if you have a few minutes:) You're the best, remember who you are. And my new quote takes it with a smile! Keep me updated!! <3 Hermana Park Previous Letter Next Letter

0e67e4ab-ee0d-4ad4-9445-628d69ec45d7 Elder Kade Haviland Back to Missionary Letters It rains every day here! I'm still alive out here and I'm completely drenched! This week has been fantastic! We had a baptism on Saturday, which was super cool. I didn't take much part in her teaching- I sat through two or three lessons where I didn't understand what was going on- but it has been awesome to see the joy that the Gospel is bringing her and the joy that it has brought to others I have taught. This week I taught someone named Francoise who has definitely recognized some of that joy. Teaching Francoise was really interesting because she is a native french speaker, but she is learning English, so any time she talked to us she spoke in English while Elder Slinn and I both would respond in French. I loved it though because it was the first lesson we taught where I wasn't completely lost. Francoise loves coming to church because she feels the genuine love that everyone has there. The people here are really are a fantastic and loving people. They really show the love of God by "loving their neighbors as themselves." They love serving each other and helping us do missionary work. They also really like serving us food. The other day Elder Slinn and me went to someone's house for Tahitian language lessons and they brought out hamburgers, sugar cane, and coconut ice cream for us to eat when the only thing we had planned with them was to learn Tahitian. With Christmas time being here, I hope that you are all looking for ways to become more like Christ. He gave his whole life to serving others and it is important that we find ways to do that too. In the recent First Presidency Christmas Message, one speaker emphasized that it is important to focus on the important things at Christmas time and not get lost in doing too many activities that could make you stressed and take away from the spirit of Christmas. This Christmas, try to do more with you family and get rid of some of the little things that could be distracting you. If you do, you'll feel the love of God in you life and get more out of this Christmas season. I love you all and I hope you find joy in this Christmas season and in Christ! Elder Haviland Elder Slinn and I with Heipua at her baptism Previous Letter Next Letter

1d87602b-d95a-4a6d-98b2-027044fc40f8 Sister Savannah Browning Back to Missionary Letters 4 months people!! 🌸Hey everybody🌸 So tomorrow is my 4 month mark as a missionary. Pretty crazy! I love how when you’ve been out for 4 months, everyone’s like “Oh, so you’re still pretty new.” It’s honestly true, and I don’t feel like I’ve been a missionary for that long, but also, like I’ve been here for 4 months of my life. That’s like more than a semester of college. It’s more than summer break. It’s a while! This week has been something, I tell you what I hit speedbumps and hills, but I’m still climbing the mountain! One of our recent converts is a mountain climber from Colorado and he told us a story a few weeks ago about how he was going to climb a mountain with his brother, but they got to the start of the trail, looked at the huge mountain, and wanted to turn back. But then he thought about how it would feel to be at the top and take a picture of where they had been standing at the bottom, seeing it from the peak. So they climbed and took the picture and found that it was worth it. That really inspired me and even though I’m not too far up the mountain, I can already look back a little and see that I’ve come a long way. It helps to congratulate myself on how far I’ve come. Our people who had been progressing have all but stopped progressing. Hopefully it’s just that it froze again this week, but we’re down to less than 10. And nobody is keeping appointments! So we’re going to have to find some more people this week or something. Idk, but we’ll keep trying. Also, how hard is it to get a haircut and color when I’m not living with my mom who will do it for free? The answer is very hard. I looked on google maps for a salon for like 3 minutes and I got worn out. So I’m going to push that one off to next week haha But really, I’m okay. We had a cool lesson with a girl on saturday who is an exchange student with a member couple in our ward. She has been going to church with them for a while and she had some questions for us. We talked about how to get answers through scripture study, pondering, and prayer. She shared a little bit of her testimony with us of how going to church has given her hope and she wants her friends back at home to be able to feel the same thing. It was so sweet and the Spirit was so strong. Also, the tender mercies of the Lord have been upon us. On Tuesday, we – I should say on every Tuesday – we have dinner with a couple sweet old sisters in our ward and they try their best with the food. But sometimes things are expired and that's okay. Haha but this tuesday, we were hoping for a good meal and on the way there, Sister Norton said she was hoping for tacos, because that’s hard to mess up. We got there, and lo and behold, tacos! And they tasted great! Another cool little miracle was that when we went to the gym a couple weeks ago, we saw a couple there and then on Sunday, they were at church! So we are going to be trying to connect with them and see what's going on. But we talked to them at church and they’re really nice:) This last week, our mission had some visitors. Some missionaries who were flying to their missions in Arkansas got stuck in DFW because of the ice and their flights ended up getting canceled, so they got to stay with our APs. The APs live with some tech missionaries that we talk to because of our assignment, so we got to meet a few of the Arkansas missionaries over zoom and that was fun. They said they got to have a 9 person companion study with four of our missionaries and 5 Arkansas missionaries and it sounds like they were having fun. Thankfully, they all got on their flights and they’re safely in their mission:) I’m still figuring out how to be a missionary, but it’s getting better. I love you all and I appreciate your prayers. Write me back if you want! It’s nice to hear from you any day of the week. Love you! Sister Browning Previous Letter Next Letter

10f10710-11de-4b3f-9fd8-c8453d36612b Elder Emmanuel Navarro-Gonzalez Back to Missionary Letters Week 15 Hola Amigos y Familia! Wow and just like that I'm getting the screwdriver to take off my training wheels! This is 15 weeks since I left for the MTC and 12 weeks in Tennessee! Last transfer I was being follow up trained by Elder Dent. He's an Arizona guy so we bond over the desert. We're staying together and in the same area for another transfer! I realize that I haven't been sending out emails the last 6 weeks. Yeah sorry about that but my mom is telling me that I probably should so here I am listening to her. Moms know best! Shout out to Ana! There is so much that has happened this last transfer that I can mention in future emails. But I just wanted to leave you all with my testimony. I know that this work and this church is true. There is nothing more miraculous than seeing people accept Jesus Christ and his Restored Gospel in their lives. This has by far been the best time of my life. Sometimes it's hard and people reject you mostly here in the south but it's worth every second. This Gospel has brought me so much joy and I know it can help each and everyone who receives this email! I love you all and I promise I will write next week! Elder Queso Navarro-Gonzalez Previous Letter Next Letter

ae45a962-8ac9-4660-b1d8-2e84b411f9c8 Sister Kaden Lee Back to Missionary Letters signing off 2 months later I don't really know what to say... but the time has come:( this week I will end my service as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. my missionary experience is so close to my heart and it forever will be. Previous Letter Next Letter

8dd7706c-1ae9-4c58-a380-a727ca173b7b Sister Tyra Ludvigson Back to Missionary Letters Cesar 🌊 CHOOSE JOY!!! Holaaa buenaaaas!! Holy smokes, this was probably one of my most favoritest weeks of my whole mission!!! Coolest things: - CESAR GOT BAPTIZED!!!! Such a sweet sweet baptismal service! Cesar can't see, so instead of having him look behind and see all the people there, we had everyone shout "Felicidades Cesar!" Ahhh so so cool!! A lot of his family came, you could tell they really felt the spirit - there was a lot of wet eyes 🥹 (If I had a nickle for every Cesar I helped get baptized after them receiving the missionary lessons for more than 2 years, I'd have 2 nickels - which isnt a lot, but it's AMAZING that it happened twice!) - We had a lot of really awesome lessons this week! One of my favs was with this sweet gal Conce. She'd felt like she's distanced herself for God because of situations in her life. It was really cool to be able to help her feel that it's never too late to turn back into His loving arms! Had some good tears on that one too! - Zone trainings! This was my first time giving a training at Zone Council! It was a good experience - I feel like whenever I'm asked to talk/give a training, I always end up learning more than anyone else! This was no exception! Me and my companion trained on the "Gospel Continum" I'll explain more in my pensamiento espiritual! - We had some young women come out with us! We were able to teach about the plan of salvation with them! I love hearing anyone and everyone's personal witness of Christ - so that was so special!! Pensamiento Espiritual! The basis of our training came from this amazing book called "Is God Disappointed in Me?" (Spoiler - He's not and cannot be!) In it, the author explains a pendulum-like Gospel Continum! We are swining side to side - one side represents the love/grace/acceptance of God and the other represents our behaviors/obedience/commandments. We need both to grow closer to God and we use each side to push ourselves to swing higher and higher (I'll try to attach a picture). It is so so cool!! I was able to share an experience I had towards the beginning of my mission which changed the way I viewed the work I was currently doing. During my 2nd transfer (basically beginning of my mission), I was struggling quite a bit - I was frustrated I couldnt speak nor understand spanish (as I'm sure Elder Ludvigson is currently feeling😆), I was starting to seriously question why I came out on a mission in the first place - when my parents told me that my sweet Grandma Cozy was probably going to pass within the week. I called Granny to say my goodbyes - and while I was holding back my wails - my sweet sweet grandma said to me "Now Tyra, If you come back from your mission to go to my funeral, I will be so upset with you." At that point, I was looking for any reason to throw in the towel and take a break for a second, but hearing my grandma's lowkey dying wish pushed me to say a fervent prayer that night. I asked God to help me with the desire to stay out, especially if granny was going. I had the impression to purify my heart, to purify my desire of staying out on my mission. My mission didn't magically get easier, but my actitudes changed and I started to truly find joy. Joy is a choice and I invite all of you guys to make that choice to accept and feel Christ's lasting joy! (Especially if you're currently on your mission!!) I love y'all!!! - Hermana Ludvigson Previous Letter Next Letter

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