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Week 8 Area: Olive Branch (Corning) Comp: Hermana Tingey Funny Highlights Ate Peruvian food for the first time. Muuuuy rico. SO. MANY. FIELDS! We drive a lot because our area is so big, and there are so many fields and orchards here! I love the open space! We've met a lot of farmers. I got to play a hand pan drum??? We had an ice cream night with a member, and he casually just has all these cool drums and let us jam for a minute. Went to dinner with Hna Tingey's grandma. She was driving through our mission, and we got permission from our mission president, so that was fun! Hna Tingey and I performed in the English ward's talent show. We told the best dad jokes you've ever heard (e.g., why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field). One of the primary kids said to me on Sunday, "You're the joke girl! I liked them." So I'm famous, what can I say? (Soy chistosa, Hna Park). We got a whole bag full of old European maps and travel logs ...

Area: Provo MTC Companions: Hna Lamb and Hna Park Some Highlights: -GENERAL CONFERENCE! I love, love, loved the talks from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Elder Shayne M Bowen, and President Nelson! There is not enough room in this email to talk about how amazing they were, but I will say that God is good. Heaven, eternal exaltation, and the opportunity to have eternal happiness (as well as the lack thereof) are very, very real, and Christ truly is the head of this church. I highly encourage you all to go read these talks on lds.org and to listen to the other ones from conference if you weren't able to tune in to it last weekend! -Our district is hosting 2 native Spanish-speaking sisters, and they got here on Sunday! Long story short, they're doing home MTC right now but are here in person at the Provo MTC doing all of their classes online. The rest of their district gets here on Wednesday, but until then, they are honorary members of our district! They come to church with us and joi...

Area: Provo Missionary Training Center (MTC) Companions: Hermana Lamb and Hermana Park Friday Temple trip again!! We got to do child-to-parent sealings at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. I was able to take the names of two of my ancestors who were sisters but died as infants. I know that the temple truly is a place of healing and love, on both sides of the veil. (Email me if you have any questions about this! It is so cool and I would love to talk about it with you!) Saturday We watched this special musical performance called The Lamb of God. It was a beautiful musical representation of the last week of the Savior's life leading up to His crucifixion and Atonement. It was powerful to hear and see such a meaningful story in the in-person musical sense. Sunday EASTER SUNDAY!!! We had three devotionals today. One by Peter M. Johnson from the Quorum of the Seventy. He was so cool. In essence, he talked about HOW to let Christ into your life more fully. Hint: you have to 1. Engage in, live, ...