10 months!

•  This week went SO GOOD! We had SO much work and lots of people who wanted to talk to us! literally every single night when I layed down this week my body was completely exhausted which is the best feeling ever as a missionary! Things are going great with hermana Butler and it's so cool that we get to see the Lord's hand in our lives and in his work every single day! Training is honestly a blast and it's been a different experience teaching basically 100% of the lessons and answering all of the questions of everyone lol but it's given me a lot more confidence and also helped me realize that we aren't the ones who teach the people, the spirit is! I've really gained a testimony about the spirit testifying of our words and also of personal study in these weeks! a lot of the time I study something in the scriptures and then someone later that day or week will have a question or doubt about what I JUST studied, so I can help them and testify with a fresh testimony. I've realized if you want the spirit to help guide you in moments of need, you need to study the scriptures so in the moment that you need guidance the spirit can help you think of the things God wants you to know! The time each day to have personal study is the best, I invite you all to take a little little every day to study the scriptures and take a second to think about what God is trying to teach you! 

This week we found 3 new families to teach and there were so many blessings this week that sometimes my comp and I would just stop and look at each other and be like what the heck, God is SO GOOD! It's so cool to see how God prepares every person so differently. Ive seen that a lot of people he prepares through a trial or something really hard in their life when they're at the point of "drowning" In their problems. It's so cool to be the one who gets to throw the "life preserver" of the message of Jesus Christ and hope in him, to people who seem like they're drowing. Jesus Christ really is the only one who can save us and his hand is always always there to reach out to us. We just have to reach up to him! 

This week I hit 10 months in the mission and all I can think of is HOW? jaja time time flying by and I used to think all the time "ah I can't wait to go home for this or to do this or ah I still have this much left of the mission" and now my thoughts are "what the heck Mexico is so random and cool and I never want to leave!! Times going by too fast!" Some of the people I'm meeting here are the best people I've ever met in my life and I really never want to leave. I'm SO grateful to be in this area with these people!! The weather is painfully hot rn but the awesome message of the gospel, aguas de sabores, fresh fruit paletas, bomb Mexican food, random guys rapping and singing awfully on the buses, laughing so hard w my comp that I almost pee my dress, sore legs from walking all the time, bruised knees from playing soccer w pro Mexicans jaja, an awesome companion, ward members and investigators, and seeing God's hands with all the miracles makes the hard hot days all worth it. 

God is so good and I hope you'll take a second to think why. What blessings are you seeing? How can you thank him? 

Love you all, have the best week! Go enjoy some air conditioning for me 

-hna Stone