Email 6/02/14

Hello family!

  Well first of all I just want to thank you for all of the pictures of Mandy coming home...family!! Come on! I need pictures! Riann! Girl, I thought you had my back! Here I am waiting all week for pictures and I get on today...nothing! What the heck!?! That is not ok! 

  Anyways..My week was crazy! Hermana Thompson and I had to say our goodbyes! It was sad, but I am grateful for the opportunity that I had to get to know her. She is so sweet and I have loved her! She has taught me a lot about how to be patient with myself and know that with time, blessings will come :). Patience is hard, but its good at the same time :). Anyways we will be friends forever. This is yet another thing that I love about missions, long lasting friendships :). So we spent most of Tuesday going around to our less actives, members and investigators saying goodbye.  Hermana Thompson left early on Wednesday morning while I stayed with one of the english sisters that I live with! We were able to get our apartment cleaned up and get everything ready for our new arrivals. We got a little contacting time in, and then it was time to meet my new companion. Her name is Hermana Palmer and I love her! She is so fun! I have already learned to much from her. She is one who loves to work hard and play hard. I know that this transfer we will get work done in our area and I am ready! I have been blessed with great companions. 

  Thursday we did our weekly planning. I love weekly planning. We get to just talk about our branch members, our less actives and our investigators and think about how we can help them come closer to Christ. We get to determine what lessons they need and we are able to receive revelation for specific people. I LOVE it. I was able to tell Hermana Palmer all about our area. Our area has a lot of work that needs to be done and I am so excited to continue the hard work where Hermana Thompson and I left off. Friday we had our district meeting and then we had studies. I am so excited because instead of four hours of studies it is now three! I am no longer a greenie! Yay! Yet it still feels like it and I have this feeling that I will always feel like a little greenie :).
 Saturday was a normal day for us! So it was kind of our first real day working together. I can't tell you how much my spanish has improved! It was a miracle. I was nervous that when I had to leave Hermana Thompson and get a new companion they would hate me because of the lack of spanish that I had. Well, we went into a lesson on Saturday night and it was a miracle! Out of nowhere the spanish just came to me. With every word that came from my mouth I kept thinking to myself..when did I learn that tense!? Where did that word come from? And it all just came to me and kept coming. I have realized how much love and patience Heavenly Father has for me. Ever since that lesson I have literally felt this overwhelming love from him. And it is everything to me. To know that I do have a heavenly father and to know that he does love me and wants the best for me and makes me learn and progress. Missions are the best! They are definitely not always easy, but once times get hard just pray. He is there and he is listening. Its just precious!! 

  Yesterday we were able to fast. Fasting is becoming one of my favorite things (I never thought that I would say that). Hermana Palmer was able to meet our branch! And we had two of our investigators show up and all of our less actives showed up except for two! It was awesome! Fast Sundays seem to be the days where we have the most progress at church with our area coming to church! It is awesome!! :) This week we are ready to work hard! We have interviews with President and Sister Alba this week as well. It is going to be so great!

   How was the trek and how is it having Mandy back home? Details family! I received a package from you all this week :) Thank you! I appreciated that. It came at the perfect time. I hope you al have a great week!!                     Love,  Hermana Hamblin