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Week 30, Transfer 4 Area: Yuba City (Tierra Buena Branch) Comp: Hermana Leatherwood Speed-run highlights because I don't have a ton of time: Junior is ON DATE TO BE BAPTIZED! Please pray for him that he can come to church. Went to two zone conferences. Super lit. Social media has its perks. Amazing messages. Our mission president, President Basha, talked about becoming a true disciple of Jesus Christ (aka BEING what you believe) and being ready to be the Lord's hands to be a miracle in someone else's life, among lots of other super cool messages. His wife, Sister Basha, talked about unity—being united as a zone and as a mission—and HOW we can do that. A lot of it was about service, charity, and sharing/using our talents. Super cool. Juan had an incredible experience with prayer. Keep praying for him, please! Went on my first Spanish exchange with Hermana Horton. We grinded and had some amazing lessons! Had dinner with a member whose cats’ names are WD-40 and Carnitas. Made ...

Week 27, Transfer 4 Area: Yuba City (Tierra Buena Branch) Comp: Hermana Leatherwood Highlights & miracles! CARLOS IS GOING TO GET BAPTIZED! Long, long story short, his whole family was baptized except for him. He lives in Utah but is here for work for a little while. All his friends are members in Utah, he goes to church, he knows the church is true, and he wants to be baptized but has been scared of taking that step for years. Something changed for him this week, and he decided he's going to get baptized NEXT MONTH when he's with his family again. He told us this and proceeded to bear the most tender testimony I think I've ever heard about the truth of this gospel, how families can be together forever, and the peace it brings. Please pray for Carlos as he makes this next step to come closer to Christ! We taught a couple of our friends how to pray this week, and they said their first prayer! (Either their first vocal prayer ever or the first in a long, long time.) It is...

Week 26, Transfer 4 Area: Yuba City (Tierra Buena Branch) Comp: Hermana Leatherwood Buenas noches a todos! It's been a minute since I've sent one of these (sorry, Grandma Jolley), but all is well in Northern California! We got transfer news last week, and I am now in Yuba City!! The Feather River temple is right in our area! It's kind of a hard building to miss, so most people here have at least seen it before. We are able to talk about it a lot and use it as a topic of conversation almost every day! This is incredible because, really, the temple is our goal. Baptism is only the first step, but there is so much more that follows that we need the temple for. It's powerful when a first interaction with a friend gets to be about the House of the Lord. Highlights & Miracles! Before I left Corning, we found Consuelo's baptismal records! She was baptized almost 30 years ago, but between moves and personal circumstances, she has been inactive for almost 20 of those yea...