Miracle!!!

OKAY GUYS, THIS WEEK ROCKED!!

First, I went to the doctor. I had something eating at my foot and it was making it so I wouldn't walk very long without my foot bleeding or burning or something else horrible... so I finally went to the doctor... She looked at my foot for about two seconds (I wish I was kidding) and then gave me four different medications... but, it is healing rapidly, so what do I have to complain about?! :) At first I was a tad put off.. she told me how it started wasn't important, looked at me for two seconds, and then thought she knew what it was....? what? but I´m okay now, cause I can walk!!! :) 

Second, HELEN IS GETTING BAPTIZED THIS WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had a lesson with her, and she began talking about how she isn't ready to be baptized... then, as she was talking, something changed... it was like she could see the change in herself.. and she realized how strong her testimony really was!! Then we felt the need to ask her to be baptized on the 27th... she paused... then said "can it be earlier? the 24th?" oh my word I was so happy!!!!!!! :) I have six months this week... and time has flown! 

I love you all! have a great week! 

Hermana Arave

Our golden Investigator... Isnt so golden

SO we had an interesting experience this week!

A few weeks ago, A lady showed up at church... the bishop told us that she wanted the lessons, and she wanted to be baptized. WHAAAT!!! We finally found her at home this week, after a month of trying, and a month of her going to church!! We go in, And we are super excited... I am playing in my mind the Golden moment when we give the Golden invitation to be baptized... and she says the Golden answer that YES! this is what she has been waiting for her whole life!!! .....................................

And she is already a member. .......................................

I dont know how the Bishop got his information, but it was a tad off... hahahaha 

so sorry it is short! my keyboard is so broken, and it has been a crazy email time! love you all, have a great week!! 

Love, Hermana Arave

Note from Mom...This one is a week late due to our computer being out of commission. It's better now C:

Lots of thinking, lots of people, and lots of opportunity!

Hooray for pictures!!!!!! At least one C:

So, with my companion healing from her tooth extraction, we didn't get the chance to  work all day every day, but she is feeling better! :) I had a lot of time this week to study and think and change things up! Every study I had this week, I learned the same thing... THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS to the people God wants to return to him! Everyone gets the same opportunity to repent, to be baptized, to come back to church, to learn again, to relight that flame of a testimony! Everyone gets the same chance. The same opportunity. There are no exceptions! I think God had something for me to learn! And as I really had this on my mind all week, and put it into practice,  I felt more power in my day, more strength to finish out, more motivation to  be bold, more urgency to proclaim this gospel!!

Also, I learned that we wont see the fruits of out labors right away. I thought I knew that, but this week, no one wanted it. haha NO one wanted to progress, people asked us to stop visiting, People told us they dont want to do the things we are asking them to do. Then yesterday, I was sitting in sacrament meeting, thinking on my week and a wave of sadness hit me. It was a "whyyyy am I here? why was I called here? I feel like what I am doing is NOTHING..." moment. which, those happen a lot! :) But then the lord blesses us with a small tender mercy, and we are reminded that He has a plan, just wait a little longer. Hold on just a tad more. Tighten your grip just a little, and the blessings will come when He sees fit. This time, it was in the form of a testimony. One of the members bore her testimony on how my companion and I had gone to visit her just in her weakest moment, just when she didn't think she could go much longer. That was such a small thing we did, that ended up being the answer to her prayer, just like she was for mine yesterday.

This week we had to take a taxi to get home in time, and when we were sitting in the taxi, I felt the need to ask the taxi man how his day was. Weird, but that is okay! ha So I ask, and we begin talking to him! It turns out that he is a member! He has been inactive for quite some time, but this past few months, he has been feeling like God is calling him back to church. He is scared to go back, but he said " I just feel this urgency... this urgency to return.." PLEASE COME BACK!!! It was such an incredible moment as he shared with us his feelings, fears, and desires to come back. So we got his information, and sent it off so someone could go visit  him. I hope that the missionaries go, and that he follows through with the desires that he has!
I am so happy to be a missionary. The times are changing, and people are being prepared! I am so lucky to have this opportunity!! I love being a missionary! :)

I hope you all have a wonderful week!! I love you all, stay safe!

Hermana Arave

PS, CONGRATULATIONS to my cousin Kaisha who will be turning in her mission papers in the next few weeks!!!!!:):) This is the greatest! :)

My first transfer!

So, I had my first transfer! It wasnt scheduled, but now I´m with Hermana Lopez from  Peru! She is 24 and wonderful!

I had an experience before my mission that was really special to me. We went sledding in the mountains at night as a family, and at the top of the hill, I just happened to look out at the valley. Everything was so beautiful. The only light was that of the stars and moon, and it illuminated every inch of snow as far as I could see. In this moment, All I felt was love. Love from my Father in Heaven, and the spirit testified to me that indeed I am a daughter of God. He was mindful of me and what I was struggling with, and all I needed at that moment was to just hold on. I felt so much love! Sadly, I had forgotten the significance of that moment until I was in a lesson this week, and we talked about the Holy Ghost. I felt the need to share that experience, and as I did I could feel exactly how I felt that night in the mountains. I finished, and one of the sons of the family said "I like that. I had an experience the other day when I woke up to see the sunrise, and I felt the same. that I am a child of god and that he is mindful of me. I didnt know that was the spirit testifying to me.... But now I know. and now that I know, I am remembering many other moments where I have felt the spirit and didnt recognize it. Now I know it was the spirit. Now I know what it feels like for me.." It was suuuuch an amazing experience. It was so great to be able to help him recognize the spirit, so that in his life he will be able to recognize it and follow it more fully. I thanked My Father that night for the experience I had in the mountains. If I hadnt of had that experience, who knows... would I have been able to help him realize and recognize the spirit?

This week was pretty crazy, and due to the transfers, I spent some time in the other area of the other hermanas, which was a cool experience to be alble to know their inveestigators on a better level, and to be able to hardly know them at all and testify to them! I love being a missionary. there are moments where all I want to do is sit down, but there are more moments when all I want to do it get up on my feet and run! SO I run! And these stumbling blocks in my way dont make me stop, they just make me jump higher, even if it isnt comfortable!
I hope you all have an amazing week! I hope you all feel the Love of your savior this week!! Love you all!
Hermana Arave

My first transfer

So, I had my first transfer! It wasn't scheduled, but now I´m with Hermana Lopez from  Peru! She is 24 and wonderful!

I had an experience before my mission that was really special to me. We went sledding in the mountains at night as a family, and at the top of the hill, I just happened to look out at the valley. Everything was so beautiful. The only light was that of the stars and moon, and it illuminated every inch of snow as far as I could see. In this moment, All I felt was love. Love from my Father in Heaven, and the spirit testified to me that indeed I am a daughter of God. He was mindful of me and what I was struggling with, and all I needed at that moment was to just hold on. I felt so much love! Sadly, I had forgotten the significance of that moment until I was in a lesson this week, and we talked about the Holy Ghost. I felt the need to share that experience, and as I did I could feel exactly how I felt that night in the mountains. I finished, and one of the sons of the family said "I like that. I had an experience the other day when I woke up to see the sunrise, and I felt the same. That I am a child of God and that He is mindful of me. I didn't know that was the spirit testifying to me.... But now I know, and now that I know, I am remembering many other moments where I have felt the spirit and didn't recognize it. Now I know it was the spirit. Now I know what it feels like for me.." It was suuuuch an amazing experience. It was so great to be able to help him recognize the spirit, so that in his life he will be able to recognize it and follow it more fully. I thanked My Father that night for the experience I had in the mountains. If I hadn't have had that experience, who knows... would I have been able to help him realize and recognize the spirit?

This week was pretty crazy, and due to the transfers, I spent some time in the other area of the other hermanas, which was a cool experience to be able to know their investigators on a better level, and to be able to hardly know them at all and testify to them! I love being a missionary. there are moments where all I want to do is sit down, but there are more moments when all I want to do it get up on my feet and run! SO I run! And these stumbling blocks in my way don't make me stop, they just make me jump higher, even if it isn't comfortable!
I hope you all have an amazing week! I hope you all feel the Love of your savior this week!! Love you all!
Hermana Arave