Monday, June 12, 2017

Can I just say that I love the people here? 

I love everyone! 

They are amazing! 

On Wednesday we got to see Mindy and Wesley :) She took us out to lunch at The District and got to eat at Rachel's Kitchen (Mindy's favorite place). Mindy is getting baptized on Saturday by her husband Coltyn! They just had their baby girl Wesley and they are looking forward to getting sealed in the temple in a year :) Coltyn was less active for like 14 years and now has been coming to church the last few months and he really has one of the strongest testimonies I've ever heard. 

Also last Sunday Mindy got up and bore her testimony! I wish we could have gotten a picture of Coltyn's face because it was hilarious. Non of us were expecting it but she got up there and then made all of us cry. I love her and her little family so much! 

We got to have dinner with the Soifua family this week and the girls took a selfie with us :) those girls are amazing :) 

On Wednesday WE GOT A NEW CAR! Well kinda.. it's a 2016 so it's been here for a while but it's really nice! And the AC works! So that is a HUGE blessing right now. It's about to get hot. 

My cute daughter ☺️

Then I got to go on exchanges with my lovely Sister Vandervelde :) we had a lot of fun and we were able to find two new investigators on our exchange! Which in their area is super hard because it's mostly populated with Members and literally everyone has talked to the missionaries before. But despite that there are always people out there who are searching for the gospel. You just have to find them! 

Speaking of finding people to teach, we have been doing something really cool with our members during dinner appointments. So the little blue Book of Mormons that we pass out every day have something interesting in them. In the very back there's about 15 blank pages. Have you ever wondered what those were for? 

Welllll..... we decided that they are for us to write and share our testimonies! They might be another reason for it but what we have come up with I like so I'm going with that. 

We have been leaving every family with a Book of Mormon so that they can all write in the back of it and share their testimony of the restored gospel and the Book of Mormon. They can either give it to a neighbor or give it back to us and we will give it to one of their neighbors. That way we can tell people that the testimony of their neighbors is in that book. So I think we all need to use those pages to share our testimony with our neighbors :) 

We finally got our zone picture from zone conference last week!

The church is so true! My testimony of that grows more and more every day! The happiest I've ever been is when I'm sharing the gospel. I absolutely love it :) 

Have a wonderful week everyone! Love you!

Love,

Sister Eliza Hopper