Week 4

Familia!!

 

I HAVE LIKE 10 DAYS LEFT  HERE WHAT!?

 

I have gotten a bunch of letters now thank you!! I think they take about 10 days to get here... so you can hurry and send more today! Either address for here works :) I got Brother Oman's and Sister Brimley's, tell them thank you please! And tell my baby girl Lulu thanks for her note! I wish I could decipher the dog footprints but they aren't teaching us that language down here unfortunately! Everyone thought that was the cutest thing ever. Thank you thank you thank you!

 

I don't think I've really told you about my teachers. Since day one we have had Hermano Russell. He is from Washington and served two years ago in Nicaragua. He knew Krissy's brother Brit from the mission! Hermano Russell is so animated and happy and fun and can bear sincere testimony like I have never heard. I admire his spiritual strength. He constantly is pushing us to be better. I feel a lot of pressure from him to better in everything I do. But it's good, and I know he is helping me grow so much. He teaches us every morning until lunch. Then after dinner is when Hermana Sherwood teaches us. She is seriously a doll and I wish she could train me my whole mission! Our district struggles at staying on task so Hermana Faw and I often leave to our secret classroom to study sometimes. These 18 year old Elderes straight out of high school...haha pray for them!! I trust in the Lord for trusting in them though.

I still get so nervous about teaching lessons. Even though all we teach is Hermano Russell and Hermana Sherwood (they pretend to be real investigators they taught) I get stressed about it! I am still learning to rely on the Lord in everything I do. When I do this- I am so much happier. He can help us with ANYTHING. I am glad I knew how to sincerely pray before I got out here. Hermana Faw is so nice to me and compliments me on everything- how could I not love that?! But she thanks me all the time for being an example to her in prayer. I am always praying. Haha everywhere, all the time. With that being said. I have to give credit to sister Ensign! Diondra taught me how to pray. Be an example always! You never know who is watching and how you may change someone's life.

Elder Johnson of the Seventy (I think) spoke at our devotional last night. He emphasized the impotance of praciting what we preach. That we all need to have a testimony of our own that God loves us and lives. He had us promise to ask Heavenly Father these 5 questions in Jesus Christ´s name;

1. Do you really exist?
2.Do you really have a body of flesh and bones?
3. Are you really my Father? Is that really possible?
4. Do you know who I am?
5. Do you really love me?

I know He lives and loves me too. He also said... As long as you read the Book of Mormon everyday of your life, you will never fall away from the church. I will NEVER fall away. My heart is sealed on returning to live again in my real home- my heavenly home. :)

This week I started to memorize El Cristo Viviente. I read it in spanish while I recited it outloud in English from memory. After doing this a few times the words made made sense in spanish. I figured out the difference between a few words here and there- the document is just as powerful in Spanish! I get so emotional when I read it. I love it so much. I love reading about His life. Why do I love The Living Christ so much? I can call forth those words about the Savior at any moment, I am constantly reminded of his atoning sacrifice for my sins. I know that Christ lives. He is our perfect brother. Get this... WE HAVE THE SAME EXACT GOSPEL THAT CHRIST TAUGHT ON THE EARTH TOOOODDAAAAAYYYYY!! How lucky are we to know of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and receive blessings daily by being members!

We still don't have roommates. The food got the best of me finally and I didn't sleep much last night.... Finally I threw up at about 4 a.m. all over the bathroom hahaha.. I expect problems to continue throughout the rest of the day :). BUT get this.. Little milagro (miracle) story. Our casa gets cleaned once a week by the cleaning ladies. They happened to clean yesterday and accidently left a spray bottle cleaner on our bathroom counter! How perfect did that work out? I was able to successfull sanitize the whole bathroom at 5 this morning with that cleaner they "accidentally" left behind.

I seriously love it here and really am dreading leaving!! We are so old, experienced and cool now with all these new missionaries! Soccer never gets old. Hermana Faw is SO nice to play with us everyday. Haha she is awesome and got her first goal last week! It´s been hard to say goodbye to a lot of my calle amigos. BUT a new elder came this week who is playing soccer at UVU in two years. HE IS SO GOOD. That makes it fun.. I don´t really know what you all expect from these emails... this is just everything that came to mind right now sorry!!

I still haven't spoke in church yet!! I guess they are just saving the best for last..? I really was hoping to speak last week, on "fate" (faith) in Jesus Christ. Haha our branch presidency is from Mexico and speak broken English, whenever they try to say faith it sounds like FATE. It's confusing sometimes.
I love you!!! Thanks for all the letters!! I feel so loved! I love the Gopsel of Jesus Christ and am so glad do my best everyday to try to represent my Savior Jesus Christ.

I caught a baby bird this week, you'll see a picture eventually :) (and it's mom did not abandon it).

Oh also if you were worried about my lack of time in the sun...don't be! Hermana Faw and I study outside in the middle of the day, then have gym right after. We have some gnarly tan lines. El sol esta mi amigo.
 

Estoy en Mexico. Soy una misionera!

D&C Section 31

 

Hermana Christensen

Week 3

Halfway done here in the CCM! I have misplaced my camera cord.. :( So i cant send pictures this week... or maybe the rest of my mission ha. But I went to the temple today and it was incredible, better than I could have ever imagined. Seriously though.

Okay, COCO IS SO CUTE!!! I have yet to see a picture of Lulu, what is this!?

Something I realized here the first week is how this strict schedule is exactly how I think we will learn in Heaven. We are CONSTANTLY feeding our mind, spirit and body. I love it. Everyday is jam packed with new opportunities to learn.

It is still super hard to teach our investigators. I still do most the talking, that´s what we are working on- me biting my tongue, and her speaking up. I love just to practice and prepare well for lessons, then be able to teach with no notes. It feels so great to just be able to understand everything they say and try my best to repond as prompted by the spirit!

We were not exactly obedient this week, and yes the Lord does give us consequences for our actions. Ha esta bien... Our roommates left this week at 2 am, we talked all night. Hermana Rockhill and I got really close and will seriously be best friends after our missions. She went to Pleasant Grove High School. Just left for Washington! We still havent got new roomates. Our life is lonely at night now.

There was drama this week involving some guy who is in love with me.  He was in Hermana Rockhill and Pullens district. A few other guys I didn't know came and asked for my email this week before they left for the field. uuhh yeah I don't want to say much more ha.

BUT I am still Hermana Fifa. Latinos asked me in the comedor yesterday, ´´Futbol manana?´´ hahah woooo!! The latinos are starting to know who I am now too!

Dad I finally got your dearelder from July 22nd on August 8th and it made my day! Thank you so so much. Dear elders take FOREVER FYI. Also the MTC address is wrong in my packet (its the old MTC). I sent you all letters like 2 weeks ago with the correct one on it.

Okay coolest experience this week was last night's fireside. It was the first ever LIVE broadcast MTC fireside. Richard G. Scott spoke to the Provo MTC missionaries and it was boradcast live to Mexico (ME), Phillipines and like 2 others. The rest will watch it another day. But it was so cool to be a part of it! I saw Dani Ellis in the choir, kept looking for Brady but never saw him!  Elder Scott talked on prayer. He brought to my attention how PERFECT the Lord´s timing is. To never ever doubt that. The Lord did not put us on the earth to fail. We can converse with Him at ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. He is ALWAYS near. We just have to TALK. He loves each one of us PEREFCTLY (which boggles my mind). We are to seek more of what the Lord wants for us, rather than on focussing on what WE want for us. There are 3 ways He answers prayers..

1. We feel peace, comfort, assurance (YES)
2. Feel unsettled and a stupor of thought (NO)
3. Feel NOTHING

The third response he gives because He is helping us grow. As we keep searching and searching for an answer, it helps us grow. As long as we continue to ACTIVELY seek an answer, we will always grow. He witholds it for a reason. Trust that He WILL ALWAYS hear our prayers. And answers DO come, they not only just come, but they come at THE VERY BEST TIME for us.

Something else that has changed my life already that Richard G. Scott said was to pray even when you don´t want to pray. Sometimes I get a thought to pray and think 'nah' for whatever reason. And now I have no excuse! An apostle told me to pray at those times!! My life will forever be changed.

My Heavenly Father has created cosmos and other worlds, yet he WANTS to talk to ME personally. How BLESSED am I. I have never felt more love.

Today in the temple was the closest I have ever felt to Him. Thank you family for your prayers. I literally felt your love and prayers for me today. The temple is a sanctuary. After the hour bus ride through the dirty city, I never felt more thankful for the peace at a temple site than I did today. Keep going to the temple!! We are so lucky to have so many so close to us holy smokes! (((( it was the old video, it takes 6 months to translate I heard)))). I am so glad I went through 30 times before cause I understood the whole thing in Spanish! It was difficult at the end. Hahah and right when I was about to go through a worker came and stood next to me and asked if it was my first time, I was wracking my brain for how to respond in Spanish (like always) and then realized she was speaking English! My brain was in such Spanish mode it was funny.

I love it here. I can see why people told me it would be a "jail" but the CCM is such a blessed part of Mexico City. I love it here. Can´t wait to learn for 3 more weeks!

Thanks for all the emails!! I print them off and read them throughout the week! LOVE LOVE LOVE you all so much. I am doing "SUPER BIEN"!! Don´t worry about me coming home anytime soon :) xoxo

Hermana Christensen

Week 2

Hola familia! This week was much better than the first! Not that the first was bad... I am just getting more accustomed to the CCM (MTC in spanish) routine. I love how much I feel the spirit here. I LOVE it here. Being surrounded by a bunch of missionaries is seriously so fun. Humor is always clean and fun. We are all such righteous nerds I love it. Everyday just keeps getting better!

I still get stressed out over teaching our investigators. We have 2 progressing investigators now. They are our two teachers and we will teach them the rest of our time here, and they give us feedback and help us. It will be good. It is so hard though. I wish I just knew how to speak spanish!! I try to focus on how much I am learning little by little.

Sunday was LO MEJOR again. I love being able to take the sacrament. It is such a blessing. The time before sarament meeting is the most reverent. I can just sit and pray and reflect on my week and thank Heavenly Father for His help along the way. Thank Him for sending His beloved son to atone for all of my imperfections. I literally feel strengthened as I take the sacrament. Take time to just BE STILL on Sundays. I love that Holy day!

Hermana Faw and I have gotten SO CLOSE! All is well with us. I have grown to love her! We get along well. She is such a goof but it's okay. I love being able to laugh at anything she does anytime I want haha.  She lets us straighten her hair and dress her up. Love it. Our two roommates, Hermana Pullens and Hermana Rockhill leave on Tuesday for their missions! They are so fun. The last few nights two other hermanas in our casa have pulled their mattresses into our room and slept on the floor. We have tons of fun (Missionary fun). Hahahah and the first night they slept on our floor it was because their latina roommates were leaving at 2 in the morning so they didn't want to be woken up by them. SO... that night in my dream the person in my dream turned into a man voice saying "Hermana Perez ...Hermana Perez!" Finally we all woke up and realized there was a man at our window with a flashlight yelling for HERMANA PEREZ! haha we were so confused and finally in our groggy goans someone yelled back "ella no AQUI!" and he replied "sorry seestus!" And then when we woke up and hour later it was the funniest thing in the world. That some guy was looking for one of the latina sisters to say goodbye before she left on her mission. And Hermana Perez is now the funniest name ever.

Futbol is still the funnest part of the day. Yesterday my team dominated and we never got scored on so I got to stay on the court the whole time (We've switched to playing in the cage). My name is still Hermana Fifa, but most the guys who call me that leave next week so we'll see how long that sticks. Having a fan section is great, and being able to juke elders on the court is even better. :)

The beans are seriously my favorite food here. Which is probably super bad, but TACOS are the best. I have acquired a taste for la comida de Mexico.

YESTERDAY during our service project we had an earthquake drill! It was so exciting! There are tons of HUGE earthquake safety circles all over campus. This ear piercing siren went off yesterday and everybody ran to the nearest circle. I was really hoping the ground would start to quake but it didn't. BUT the side walks are all super wavy from earthquakes. Which brings me to my next subject- THE RAIN STORM YESTERDAY. Right before the devotional it abruptly began to POUR and HAIL and of course we are in the farthest building from the auditorium and didnt have umbrellas. BUT for some strange reason I brough tmy rain jacket to class that morning so I had that. I took off my shoes, Hermana Faw used one of the elder's umbrellas but it was useless. The puddles from the uneven ground like went up to my knees, there were literal RIVERS everywhere. IT POURED! people were slipping everywhere and ripping their pants and getting swallowed up in the rivers. HAHA the roads were rivers. It was so funny. And everyone was just soaked the whole devotional. Provo doesn't even know what rain is.

Presidente Pratt spoke to us about temples and some of the cool opportunites he has had to help out with a bunch of the South American temples. It made me miss the temple so much. It is a place of refuge, and solace, and its blessings are the greatest we can receive. He mentioned how we shouldn't just have the goal to get married there, but to make it a part of our lives. I am so grateful for the examples I have had to teach me that already. Mom and Dad thanks so much for making the temple a priority in your lives. Never cease going! Go a lot for me please because I can't! HE really is there. It IS His house.

Another great thing that happened this week.. So our first investigator Maria became our second teacher last week. Her name is Hermana Sherwood- she's from Nephi Utah. After we taught her 5 lessons. The other day she had little individual interviews with each of us to get to know us a little better. She asked why I am on a mission and stuff. And she and I had a special moment. I really love her! She served her mission in Chile. She told me that I will be such a great companion to every companion I am with. And that I will teach them so much. It made me so happy to know that I can be a good missionary. Cause when we teach her I feel so useless and like I know nothing. But knowing that my teacher sees so much potential in me really meant a lot.

Presidente Pratt also told us last night that some minor changes are happening at Provo MTC, Brazil MTC and Peru MTC. That they have reached their limits so we are receiving EXTRA unexpected missionaries from these MTCs starting today. We'll get about 130 every week instead of 100. We'll have 800 this week, compared to the about 500 when I got here. It is so crazy to see this place GROW!! The cafeteria is getting so crowded!! I am starting to not know everybody. It's fun though. We now have 3 districts in our branch.

I know Heavenly Father listens when we pray. I know He is SO aware of every single person. It blows my mind but I know he hears and ANSWERS every prayer. I know evrything happens for a reason. He knows best ALWAYS. Everything good or bad that happens in my life is because HE knows what's best for me. Remember that.

Sunday night we watched the Restoration Joseph Smith movie- and I bet Jospeh Smith knew all of us down here in the Mexcio MTC were learning about his life. :) I love being a missionary so I can teach about the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Love you all so much!! Hope all is well. Still haven't gotten any of your letters... maybe just start sending stuff to Scottsdale, haha.

Love you.
Hermana Christensen

 

Beautiful colorful houses in the background. :) Our campus is so pretty. Go on Google Earth and look at it!!!!! IT IS HUGE TOO

Our roommates.

Hermana Rockhill (dancer, girly girl seriously so much fun I lover her) and Hermana Pullens

This huge bugger (Alfonso) became our class pet. He seriously has a body the size of a small rat. I played with him.

 

 

Week 1

Hola familia!

I cannot believe I have been here for one week! Actually I can, the time has gone by pretty slow. The first day (Wednesday) seriously felt like it had 200 hours in it. Since then the days have gone by faster... I got pretty homesick on Friday night and all Saturday. It is super hard and stressful being here! I stress about everything. I have super struggled with mi compañera, BUT the last few days have been a lot better. She is seriously the exact opposite of me. HAHAH I have learned to just accept her and laugh though.

The food is so funny and weird haha, I haven't had much trouble with over eating.

The first day we did orientation stuff with the CCM president and his wife. They let us know some cool stuff about this beautiful CCM. We have 90 acres of land here and it is all seriously so pretty!! I feel like I live in a painting (yes mom I feel like that). And the weather is perfect ALWAYS! It rains almost every night at 5. The Provo MTC only has 40 acres of land, so technically we are the largest MTC. Our numbers here will just keep growing and soon will be the second largest in number of people behind Provo. Hermana Faw and I room with 2 girls in a casa that has 5 rooms. 4 girls to a room. Most in our casa are American. The two we room with are from Utah. My companion is from Meridian Idaho? Our two roommates are part of the first generation, so they got here the first week this opened. I am the fourth generation. The fifth just got here :). Everything is still pretty unorganized still ha.

The hardest part so far has been mi compañera. When we are teaching lessons she is super quiet! BUT because of this, SHE is learning a lot from me, so I am happy I can help her. And I am learning PATIENCE like never before, which I am grateful for!

Sunday was THE BEST. My district (12 people, we are the only two girls) started a new branch so it is just 12 of us in our branch. Sacrament was just us, I didnt speak this week. By the time we leave we will probably have 4 districts in our branch. Sunday we had interviews with our branch president and I LOVED IT. It was just President Tenorio and me, and I got to talk to him about everything and I felt like I was with dad. Ah it helped me so much. He and I just cried together it was awesome. He helped me with my feelings about my companion. Sunday night we got to watch Legacy...haha super cheesy but if was all about Farr West and Haun's Mill and all that stuff we just learned about!
Okay the best part of the day is GYM TIME!! Our campus is huge and there is so much to do. So the first day we had gym we went and ran on the track around the soccer field. It felt so good. Then finally I couldnt resist and I ran onto the field and asked if I could play with them. They said yes and told us what way to go. After a few minutes I finally got the ball, did a sick turn and ripped an shot and scored. HAHAH everyone stopped and were like, okay you obviously play soccer. I play with them a lot and it is so much fun :) I wish i had cleats though. Later that day some of the elders saw me and said "hey its soccer chick!" Now the elders call me Hermana Fifa- I love it.

So we have taught our first progressing investigator 3 times now. We teach again tonight. It is seriously so hard and I get so stressed out about it. But we are starting to figure out how things work so it will just keep getting better. The second time we taught 'Maria' I bore my testimony in Spanish and started crying. I could feel the spirit so strong.

My first miracle... The second day we learned how to pray. And we pray like 80 times a day but it is still hard and I can never remember what phrases to say where and stuff. On sunday for Relief Society our lesson was on The Book of Mormon. And President Pratt´s wife taught.
"I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein. The spirit of reverence will increase; mutual respect and consideration for eachother will grow. The spirit of contention will depart. Parents will counsel their children in greater love and wisdom. Children will be more responsive and submissive to the counsel of thier parents. Righteousness will increase. Faith, hope, and charity-the pure love of Chirst- will abound in our homes and lives, bringing in their wake peace, joy, and happiness.´" President Marion G. Romney

We learened about how reading The Book of Mormon can literally help with ANYTHING and help heal every problem, emotional, mental, and PHYSICAL. I decided to practice faith in this. Hermana Faw and I read it in Spanish and English everyday. We read yesterday for an hour and after we did, I said the most amamzing prayer yet in Spanish!! I could not believe how the words just flowed out of my mouth. I can now pray in spanish!! I said our district prayer last night also and my district was so impressed.  I am by no means GREAT. But I know the Book of Mormon has helped me. The gift of tongues is real :)

I love you all so much and think about you all the time! Please keep praying for me. I love it here... it has taken me a few days to realize it, but everyday gets better!

con todo mi amor,

Hermana Christensen

Day 1

AHHHH longest day ever. I am so famished, I haven't eaten since that shake this morning....

We just made it to the CCM. There were about 15 missionaries on the bus that took us here (most are 18 year old boys and my patience is being tried) haha but I finally was able to meet up with another sister.

 

My flights had maybe 3 missionaries. I was the only sister. This keyboard is in spanish so I am struggling. (Kassidy is fixing it)

 

Once we got to the Mexico city airport I was waiting with 3 elders for about 2 hours with 2 men from the CCM. They barely spoke English and so it was a game of charades haha, and I would try to translate for us all. I was so smiley so the men from the CCM liked me :) one of them helped me find a bathroom, and then I traded money for pesos cause he said I would need some for the CCM. I have been super nauseous this whole time. The driving was insane, combined with the not eating and small airplane rides; I don't feel too well. BUT, I am really excited still!

 

I cannot believe how BIG mexico city is!! As we were flying over it was just houses GALORE!

 

As soon as we checked in here they handed us a red packet containing my NAMETAG!! and a box of food for dinner.

 

Spanish is going to be so fun to learn, I am excited. I wish I remembered more, I would have been chatting up a storm with the airport people. Ah crazy city.

 

My  first companion's name is Hermana Faw... I guess I will meet her in a minute when I find my room...

 

I´ll talk to you soon.

 

Love you!

Hermana Christensen

¡Adiós!

I spoke in sacrament meeting today on Jospeh Smith along with Brother Garen Anderson. Coco received her baby blessing as well. 

I CANNOT believe I get set apart form the world as a missionary TOMORROW! I leave for the Mexico City MTC Tuesday morning at 11:08. I have yet to finish packing.

I did realize something today. How IMPERFECT I am, and always will be. 

As I sat up on the stand during sacrament meeting I couldn't help but think of how unprepared I felt to give my talk. Even though I prepared for hours, I felt like my talk would never be perfect. But I knew God would provide the spirit to teach the congregation off the words I prepared.

Then I noticed I feel the same way about my mission. I don't think I will EVER feel prepared to leave. No matter how much I learn and study, I will never know enough. BUT I know God will provide. He has prepared a way for me. 

On my mission plaque....

Doctrine and Covenants 76:22-24 

    22) And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the   ^atestimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he ^blives!

     23) For we ^asaw him, even on the ^bright hand of ^cGod; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the ^dOnly Begotten of the Father—

24) That by ^ahim, and through him, and of him, the ^bworlds are and were created, and the ^cinhabitants thereof are begotten ^dsons and daughters unto God.

I know Jesus Christ lives. I love Joseph Smith's testimony of God the Father and Jesus Christ found throughout the Doctrine and Covenants. HE LIVES!

Call me Hermana Christensen

It's about time I let my feelings about my mission call be seen outside the pages of my journal.

Dear Sister Christensen:

You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Arizona Scottsdale Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 18 months.

You should report to the Mexico Missionary Training Center on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the Spanish language.

As I read these words for the very first time, I remember feeling so numb. I couldn't pick apart exactly how I was feeling, somewhere along the lines of being overwhelmed.  Even as I prayed that very first night, I felt like a different person during my prayer.  I can't describe it!!

Anyways, the next day, Saturday March 30, 2013, I played two soccer games. In between those games I was able to read over my mission packet with my father and I logged into my mission portal online.  I was exploring and came across a little paragraph about Arizona's state history. I was reading it out loud to my dad and randomly started crying at the most random fact.
 Here's what I was reading:

USA-Arizona

Some of the first members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona marched with the Mormon Battalion, a group of Latter-day Saints preparing to fight in the Mexican-American War, in the winter of 1846-47. Other members arrived in 1873, sent from Utah to colonize the area. More settlers in 1876 built a fort, dug canals, built dams, and struggled to adjust to the dry land. During the exodus from Mexico in 1912, Arizona became a place of refuge for many Mexican Latter-day Saints.

In 1973, a long-time resident of Thatcher, Arizona, Spencer W. Kimball, became the Church's twelfth President. He served until his death in 1985. The Church is also known in Arizona for its temple located in Mesa. Many community members visit the temple grounds every December to see the Christmas lights. Since 1938, Church members have presented an annual Easter pageant on the temple grounds. The performance, "Jesus the Christ," has attracted approximately 80,000 people each year.

As soon as I read "Many community members visit the temple grounds every December to see the Christmas lights" I couldn't read on.  I felt an overpowering love for the State of Arizona at that moment.  Very random, but I know Heavenly Father was helping me realize the significance of my call.  Weeks before I turned in my papers/received my call I prayed earnestly to know that my mission call would be specifically for me, from Him.  I didn't care where I was assigned to serve, all I pleaded for was to know the Divinity of my call. I am so humbled to know that I am supposed to be serving the Lord as a missionary in the State of Arizona in the Spanish language.  

I am SO BEYOND EXCITED to be speaking Spanish!! I have downloaded numerous apps on my iPad to help me re-learn the language. My favorite is the Spanish sing along hymns.. Cantemos los himnos!! I have learned many words, I love it. I also prayed in Spanish for the first time last night right before bed to Krissy.  I read off of a card that I made, and realized after that I accidentally blessed the food. Haha whoops, it will get more sincere soon enough.  I cannot even wait to FINALLY be fluent in the language.  I know it will be super hard and frustrating, but I am so excited to talk to and love the Hispanic population of Arizona. Haha, I see Hispanics around town and cannot help but grin widely at them.  Love the people already.  I know that I knew some of those people in Arizona very well in the pre-earth life and cannot wait to reunite with them!

I also have felt love from my mission President and his wife.  I truly know they have prayed for me.  I cannot wait to meet them!!

Soy una hija de Dios :)