So Many Geese

Week 64, Transfer 10 
Area: Auburn (Auburn 2nd Ward & Spanish group!!!)
Compañera: Hermana Griffin

Highlights:

2 of our friends accepted baptismal dates this week!!! Manuel and Joana!! Please pray for Manuel that he will be able to change his work around to be able to come to church consistently on Sundays!! Joana is getting baptized on her 15th birthday (unless we can move her date up :). All the cute abuelitas in the Spanish group are planning a huge fiesta for her to celebrate both her baptism and her birthday (a fiesta in heaven and on earth ;). She is SO prepared. She has gone through so much to get here. Please pray for Joana that she will continue to have strength and that all will continue to go well leading to her baptism!

Keeping the trend up this week - we were able to have 8 members participating in lessons! The entire zone hit over 60 lessons with members as a whole JUST THIS WEEK!! Insane progress! The Lord's work cannot be stopped!!

Lowkey crashed the birthday party of a family we used to sort of teach. They gave us meat and cheese-stuffed peppers. It was SO SWEET of them and honestly really tasty. Also learned what rebosos are (shawl things that are apparently popular in Mexico).

I made banana bread and actually cooked for the first time in forever haha.

Saw a LOT of geese at the park. God has some pretty cool creations!

D&C 109:76
"That our garments may be pure, that we may be clothed upon with robes of righteousness, with palms in our hands, and crowns of glory upon our heads, and reap eternal joy for all our sufferings."

Remember the eternal perspective. Remember WHY we are in this church or WHY people reach out to invite you into it. There is ETERNAL glory for those who make and then KEEP their sacred covenant with the Lord in baptismal fonts and then in His holy temples. There is an eternal familial reward awaiting you if you do so.

I love you all! God is there for you, remember to involve Him in your every moment of every day and MIRACLES WILL happen! Miracles have not ceased. God knows His children and loves us.
/ Hermana Ellis

Mission photos!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtFZf4erpztBvg7x5

Notable Quotes:
Hna Griffin: I get to meet my fiancé! (She meant her sister's fiancé.)

Hna Griffin: THIS CHICKEN PATTY WON'T SEPARATE!

Hna Ellis: How did the geese grow up so fast??
Hna Griffin: That's what your mom is saying about you.

Hna Griffin staring intently off into the distance: Oh, to be a goose who can bathe himself in the water, stand on one leg, and sleep... Ope, he's awake... oh, he just fell. He's in the water now. I get that.

Hna Griffin (with wind puffing up her dress): I'm just inflating like a marshmallow.

A guy in the English ward to me bc my face was red: Does your face always look like that?










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