Emails and Pictures sent March 17th, 2015

Happy St. Patrick´s Day!!!!!!!

So first of all, thank you so much Mom for sending the package!!! It is awesome and so thoughtful and I love you so much!!!!! Also, thank you everyone for filling my inbox with love, it really means so much to me!!!! 

So this week was really awesome!! I love it here so much and am constantly learning and growing. An Elder from the only other district in our zone (who left yesterday so now were are alone until we get new people this week. which I am so excited for) said during his testimony the other day that the reason why sometimes the CCM seems like it´s forever long is because at every single moment something is changing or getting better or evolving. I totally believe that 1000000% because I have already changed and grown so much from being here. 

So our zone has lots of traditions in it's history of the CCM. We have FHE every Monday night and play a game called Signs. However it is a little bit different than the silent signs some of you may have played before. Oh no, it is much, much better. Everyone has a hand sign but you also have a thing you have to say out loud with it and the person in the middle tags the person with the sign before they pass it to someone else. So you can create your own sign or have one that has been passed down, I took one were you say ´´Rainin!´´ then do a motion with your hands like you're brushing paper off your hands. However I got a new one on Sunday that I wanted to be passed down to me soooo bad. So in the district that left there is an Elder whose name is Elder Fasao who is ginormus and Tongan and the nicest person in the world and his sign is ´´RAMAJAMA´´ and you do a wave motion and it is probably the most prestigious sign of all, and it went from a huge tongan elder, to me. I was very honored! hahahaha

So seriously my zone and district is AMAZING. We all are so fun and love each other so much!!!!!! All of the hermanas have already started to plan a trip to Disneyland and then Lake Powell with the Elders! hahaha

 So Sundays at the CCM are so great. I love them so much!!! After Relief Society we have a thing called Hermana Circle (another tradition in our zone) where all the Hermanas in our zone talk about their thoughts about the week or the lessons we just had or bare their testimonies. It's such an amazing experience because I love these girls so much and their testimonies strengthen mine even more. Snacks were provided by the AMAZING care package from Mom and we sung ´´As Sisters in Zion´´ and it was soo beautiful. I love that we all are there to ´´build up His kingdom...and bring the world His truth´´ because this work is so great and I love that I have Sisters in Zion who can be with me and help me and I can help them. 

On Sunday Hermana Bloxham and Hermana Saunders wrote everyone notes in our district and I I LOVEEE getting notes and they were so sincere and loving and I am going to keep them forever. I adore those hermanas soooo much. 

So something I want to share from our devotional on Sunday. The speaker said that ´´ Who cares about your boyfriend/ girlfriend or your family you left behind?´´ Which made me mad for a second and then he said ´´God cares, God is going to take care of your family, and your loved ones while you're here, devoting yourself to the Lord.´´ I found such great comfort from that. A huge theme of this whole time I´ve been at the CCM. My family is a huge motivation to serve. Without them I could not and would not have been able to do this work. We watched the Joseph Smith movie also and I had never seen it before. I now want to go to all the church history sites and I told Hermana Bloxham I did and she has been there a thousand times and she pinky promised that she would go with me. She seriously is my best friend in the CCM. We have a list of things we are going to do together when we get back hahaha

 I want to share two of my favorite parts from that movie. First, when Joseph is by Alvin´s bedside before he dies and he makes Joseph promise him that he will bring forth the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then many years later when the church was restored Joseph went to his brother´s grave and told him he had kept his promise to him. The second part I thought was really special was when Joseph tells his dying father that he will be with Alvin again, that they all will be together again. I am so grateful for that and for Joseph Smith and his family for helping him and supporting him. The temple today was also so crazy because in the visitors center tour we talked about families and we sang ´´ Families Can Be Together Forever´´ and I had tears in my eyes because I am so thankful for that and for my family. 

I loved the trip to the visitors center today and one of my favorite parts was on the bus there and back we all sang hymns and it was beautiful and such a spiritual experience to sing the words and mean every single line and have a bunch of other kids like me mean them to. When we sang the EFY Medley of As Sisters in Zion and Army of Heleman/ Bring the World His Truth, I really felt like I was apart of an army of people trying to bring people unto Christ and show His love unto the world. 

I love the CCM and I love the Spanish language(even though it can be frustrating) and I love this Gospel. 

AND I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!!!! 

Mom's package and me enjoying it very much  

Hermana Haycock and I: she is the one I know from EFY who was on the plane and is in my casa! I love her!!!