Email 7/28/14

Hola hola familia!!!

It sounds like you all had a great/busy week! :) There is a lot that
happened! Estoy muy añejada  por Dustin!  Felicidades!! I totally
understand the waiting. It's the worst but just tell her to enjoy her
time with her family and work hard! By the time December rolls around
you will be prepared to leave everyone behind and excited to get to
work! Uh! Missions are the best!!!! I love them so much!

Mandy! I met a Sister Powell who served in your mission and she said
you were serving around her your last transfer and she said you were
not trunky at all and that you were focused on serving others and that
you always made them cookies! I was so proud to call you my sister! I
was freaking out! Haha I'm pretty sure you asked me about her before.
When you asked about the area I was just confused! I was a greenie! So
give me a break :) but ya! She was at zone conference on Tuesday
helping out and she introduced herself and said she just returned from
the New York New York South mission! I was determined to talk to her!
Haha. Small world!

Ok I love serving in Santa Rosa! We get to help in the mission office
and it's so cool to see all that goes on behind the scene. It's
amazing. I love being apart of this work. We were helping the Seelys
who are an older couple who work in the office and they just went off
on how much they appreciate us and all the work we do. Seriously! That
motivates me to work work work! It's refreshing to have people
actually thank you for the work you do rather than reject you on the
streets or cuss you out. Haha it's funny but sometimes when they do it
over and over and over and over...it's nice to have people just love
us. Haha!

This week my companion was reading a talk by Elder Holland to me. I
can't remember what it is called but it was talking about how
missionaries are prayed for the most in this world. He said that we
are before the prophet. He said that even the prophet and the 12 take
special time to say prayers for us. I tried my best not to cry. I am
turning into a baby. Seriously it's ridiculous haha. The gospel is
true!

Ok family I am getting fat! We eat Mexican food every night and if the
members don't want to cook for us we go out to eat at really nice
Mexican restaurants and you know me! I love Mexican food. So I was
like ok I am going to get fat so I will do my best to exercise hard
and when I found out that we were biking I was so excited but then
guess what happened this week. We got robbed! Yep. We were eating
lunch and we came out and my bike tires were gone! Just mine too! Haha
so...no more biking for us. We were laughing so hard. I kept thinking
of that one line in Dennis the Mennis that little girl that's like,
"I've been robbed!". Haha only me. So there is no hope for me!

Oh my goodness. We had such a good lesson on Saturday night. The
spirit was so incredibly strong. We were teaching the Plan of
Salvation and we were talking about how God new us before this lifep
and that he prepared us to come down here and work hard and that he
would love us and be there for us if we just open up to him. Our sweet
investigator just started crying. It was so sweet. We testified that
we knew that she was a daughter of God and she said that she had never
heard that before. The church is true. He loves us so much it's
insane. I love my mission.

Family! Have a great week! I pray for you all the time. You are the
best. Thanks for everything!!

Hermana Hamblin