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Week 33, Transfer 5 Area: Yuba City (Tierra Buena Branch) Companion: Hermana Park Highlights We have translation set up for the English ward this Sunday! This will hopefully help many more people be able to come to church, progress toward the covenant path, and come closer to Christ. Thank you for your prayers! Junior's baptismal date is now in December! More bash sessions. Got told we’re being fed lies immediately after testifying that we’ve worked long and hard to receive personal confirmation and answers to those questions. Super lit. Service for a SayLove function. Got to spin a sign on the side of the road. Got a screw in our tire. Took five years to get it figured out and fixed, but we’re all good now! Hermana Park is quite literally the best. Shoutout to her for the best advice and for being the most patient, diligent missionary. She’s seriously amazing! I’m so deprived of dad jokes that I quite literally asked the elders to give me the cheesiest ones they’ve got. They did n...

Week 32, Transfer 5 Area: Yuba City (Tierra Buena Branch) Companion: Hermana Park We had transfers this week! I am now officially back with the one and only Hermana Park! MTC us could never have imagined where we are now, haha. It's been so cool to see how far we've come with Spanish and as missionaries. It can only be attributed to the Lord's hand! On Friday, we had the wonderful opportunity of experiencing two back-to-back bash sessions where we were preached at for far too long. By all means, it's wonderful to share your beliefs, ideas, and thoughts, but boy, is it different when the whole purpose is to prove another belief wrong. Needless to say, dinner with Rosa that night was much needed, haha. Speaking of Rosa... homegirl is AMAZING. FANTASTIC. INCREDIBLE. She has been helping out a family we are teaching outside of lessons and when we’re not there. Last week, we were supposed to have dinner with Rosa and go to Ceci's house later that night for carne asada. H...

Week 31, Transfer 4 Area: Yuba City (Tierra Buena Branch) Comp: Hermana Leatherwood Highlights General conference! Beautiful messages from our prophet, apostles, and leaders of the church. Loved the talk from Elder Kearon that this is the Church of Joy! Loved Elder Stevenson's prophecy and counsel that these next ten years will be one of the most unforgettable decades. We need to prepare and be ready to receive and experience whatever comes! Met a couple at the froyo place by the temple who came up to us asking questions about our church. Had a crazy amazing discussion, gave them a Book of Mormon and some pamphlets, and are planning to meet up again this week! Such cool, genuine people. Also met another guy who we had a similar conversation with about our beliefs. He wanted a Book of Mormon and said that anything we tell him, he'll need to compare to the Bible to see how it connects and compares. We told him, by all means (that's kind of the whole point of the Book of Mormo...