Transfer 13 Week 1 - August 25, 2014

Hola familia!
Buenos Dias! La misión esta llenado muy bien! Está es un nueva
transfer y nuestra un para un aventura!
Ok... Why the heck am I speaking Spanish in this letter? Oh yeah
that's right... My mission president transferred me to West Chester
speaking Spanish for my last transfer. Not to mention I'm also
finishing training a new missionary! Crazy right? Mi compañera es
Hermana Ballard. Ella es de Arizona.

Well we live in Kennet Square. It is the mushroom capital of the
 world. The whole city smells of mushrooms—I don't even like
mushrooms. We even have some growing in our bathroom! Not on
purpose!..our shower is just really gross! So let's just say we are
having some good times!

Ok so the area is kind of crazy. We border the edge of our mission and
we are right near Amish country too! One of these days I'll snap some
pictures of some buggies that they ride.  :) the area here is
beautiful though. I feel like most of the time we are driving though
the jungle! It is nuts—super green and so vegetated. And every road or
even the highways seem to be through the forest. I haven't experienced
this on my mission yet so it is something new!
But this week has been super amazing. I never knew much Spanish nor
did I ever have much desire to learn, but it is funny how Heavenly
Father always makes us stretch! For which I will be forever grateful.
My companion grew up speaking Spanish. Her father was originally from
Mexico but then they also lived in Arizona, Hawaii and Texas. She
knows Spanish but not gospel Spanish! So we are learning that
together. She speaks it and I read it because I am better at reading
it than her. So we compliment each other muy bien!

This week started off with transfers and then just coming to get to
know our area. We spent all day Wednesday walking to save some miles
and it was so good to get out. I haven't done as much walking in a
long time, and I don't know what it was from because I work out
everyday pretty good but man my body has been killing me all week and
I can't seem to make it stop hurting. Oh well. But as we were out we
talked to so many incredible people! We went to a family the
Castañedas– we were able to invite their son who is living with them
into the lesson. The mother is a member, and the father is too but he
is in Mexico and one of the daughters is a member. Anyways the sons
name is Manuel. We started teaching him and he had a pretty good
background of what we teach and had such a strong testimony of Jesus
Christ. So we set up another time to go see him. As we went back to
teach him the rest of the restoration it was incredible. Yo pedía
sentir espirito santos muy forte! And I expressed that to him and he
even said several times throughout the lesson how he could feel our
spirits and something more. We testified to him how it came from god!
We also invited him to pray but he was too nervous and said he would
think about it for next time, but he said when he does come to know
for himself he will be baptized!

A couple more awesome people we were able to meet were Jamie- the
brother of a recent convert, and Alicia–the mother of anger by recent
convert. The sisters had never been able to get them to sit in on he
he lessons before but we were able to invite them to come in even when
they had an excuse that they couldn't stay and we told them that we
wouldn't take long and now they have both agreed to learn more! It was
awesome!

And finally there was a lady named Delilah. She is an investigator and
we were able to read to her in Spanish since she can't. It was cool
because she just expressed to us how she loves us coming and reading
and praying with her because she feels something special when we are
there! Man I love this work! I know that The Lord has prepared people
for us to teach! We just have to open our mouths to share with them
this good news!

Espero que todos tengan una buena semana! Yo te amo e yo sé que dios
de ama e te quiere! :)

Ps keep me in your prayers to develop the gift of tongues.
Pss dad I met one of your home teaching companions, and mom was his
primary teacher...brother Sorensen.

Love Hermana Beames