Contacting on the combis

Helloooo cute family and friends,

I really hope all are found well this week. We had a fantastic week because well, we are missionaries. We have had so many blessings, and I would love to tell just one that happened to us this week.

Soo, one mission goal is to schedule appointments of 10 new people every day. It is sometimes really hard to do that, but to he to has faith, anything is possible... But to help us complete with the task every day we usually contact every single person on public transports. I remember that my mom and dad went to Tijuana before I left on my mission as they came home they told me that they had gotten into a big van and it scared them.. 

I think that is they best way to discribe combis. They are basically huge vans that tons of people get into to go short distances. We usually hand out cards about Christ, and then talk a little bit about our message and then we ask them if we can visit them. 

We had contacted a young family last week and we went to the appointment on Saturday evening. We spoke about the Preisthood and the Book of Mormon, when they showed us a copy that a family had given to them years earlier. It was amazing to see their faces as they understood in part what the true Gospel of Jesus Christ is. They accepted the invitation to be baptized on March 13, and I am so happy to have been able to be an instrument in the hands of The Lord so many times. 

I have a personal testimony of the scripture found in D&C 24:12 that if we open our mouthes in ever moment, we will be blessed with the words and The Spirit.

The best decision that I have made is coming on a Mission!! It is the best, and I know that we recieve so many blessings as we loose ourselves in the service of others.

Be well, 

Hermana Beardall

P Day in the Temple

I am doing really well. We went to the temple today, it was literally the best and I love being there. I have been a little worried about things getting home, I have been praying a lot and basically I went to the temple with 3 questions today.

I felt a really strong impression of the hymn of The Lord is my Shepard. It says NO WANT SHALL I KNOW. I loved that and had the very distinct thought that the Lord will take care of me, He always has. 

My gringa companion - love her!

I hope you are all doing so well. I think that so many miracles happen every week, and I really am liking my area a lot. To tell you guys the truth, it has been hard being here, but I have found the good in everything I think. My companion is really sweet, but looses everything, so we get along super well..hehe I am happy to hear from you guys too. We got back super late from the Temple, and left at like 5 this morning, but we are safe and sound here again.

I am just happy and healthy and working hard. I am really worried still a little bit for those things when I get home. That is the honest truth but I know that I shouldn’t worry about it. I gotta go, but I LOVE YOU HAVE A GOOD WEEK!

Surprise.....Transferred!!

I am doing so good, we had a great week!  Last night, with transfers coming up this week, I got a call and I am being transferred tomorrow!  I was really surprised because I thought for sure I would finish up here, but I am going  to TEPEJI DEL RIO, in Hildago, this is where I will end my mission.:(

Honestly, I am a little sad because I really love it here! But, it will be good not to be in a comfort zone.  There are just so many people here that I love. The bishop’s family is my very favorite and I love them lots. I think that when we come back to visit they will be our tour guides. I LOVE THEM. So I am sad because I love love it here.

I really think that it will be good. Really today I just feel so grateful for everything. I love the missionaries that I serve with. I love our mission, and I love my ward.

I also feel so much peace today because I know that I have worked really hard for my entire mission. And the new area is like a commercial area and they say that the people there are really receptive and it is a cool area. It is about like 30 away from Conejos, where I was earlier in the mission.

Buying street tacos with the brand new sisters!!

But the great thing is THAT MY COMPANION IS AMERICAN!!  My very first of the entire mission!!  Her name is Sister Rivera. She is from Idaho. She is cute and I am excited to be ending the mission on a high note. I have met her in the leadership conferences that we have every month. She is sweet, and she is going to end the mission two transfers. But I am sure that everything is going to be awesome there. It is only hard to get pulled out of the comfort zone sometimes. But I am really excited. I want to work super hard and I am going to do it!

Also, today we got to pick some newbies sisters from the offices. They are just brand new form the CCM here in Mexico City.  I don’t know if you guys remember my first p-day in the field I went out with some sisters, but today we got to pick some new ones up! It always blows me away to see the great difference and the progress I have made. Today we were going back to our area in public transport, and the sisters were like super scared. They don’t know how to use pesos, and they are fascinated with the street bread we bought them:).  It was a lot of fun, I love my time here!!

I am really ready to just hit the ground running, what a great opportunity to start fresh in a new area with just one transfer left!!

Peace in troubled times...

Family and friends, 

Thank you for your prayers, I am sure you are tired of asking for me, but I can tell you that your prayers are felt on a daily basis. I am also very grateful for the blessings I have recieved in the last weeks in my area of Bosques. We have seen many miricles and I have felt the protection and love of The Lord constantly. 

I have been thinking a lot in the security that we recieve as we are obedient to the voice of The Lord. This week, there have been a lot of protestes and riots in my area. We were instructed to not leave the house on Wednesday because some of those riots had gotten close to our area, and so we were able to study lots. As I was reading, I had such a sense of calmness and serenity come over me. I am so grateful for the promises that are found in the scriptures. They are so real. In Doctrine and Covenants, it says that the prepared will not fear, and in 1Nephi, it also describes that the righteous will be protected by His hand. I testify of that, and I am glad taht we have the knowledge that allows us to trust so much more in Him. 

I know that things are probably going to get pretty scary as the time continues to wind down, as a prelude to the second coming, but I testify that The Gospel of Jesus Christ protects and sustains us in difficult times. 

I love you all, and I really do exhort you to be true to the covenants that you have made.
Have a wonderfull week!

Hermana Beardall

Pic taken on Jan 6th, the Day of the Wiseman
They celebrate by writing a note to one of
the Wisemen and then send them by attaching
to a balloon and letting it go.

Happy New Year!

So I stumbled upon the coolest quote this week it is from the January Liahona.

It is from Parly P. Pratt:

“The gift of the Holy Ghost … quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections, and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates, and matures all the fine toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form, and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being.”

Okay, so like how important is it to have the spirit??? It makes us PRETTY!  I thought it was pretty slick, and it is SOOO true, all the blessings that we receive from doing such simple, everyday things! 

I sent over a timeline of my mission, three areas and 8 companions including my  newest Amiga, Hermana Burgos. They just made a change and right now we are in a trio, we just received a new sister for the last two weeks of the transfer for emergency transfers! The truth is, is that she is a sister that has had problems with all her companions’.  I  want to be her friend but sometimes I don’t have a lot of patience with her and its only been like 4 days. But whatever, I am working hard to love her.

Also the new president is changing a whole bunch of rules, lots of little rules that are strict.  Things like only listen to pure hymns, we cannot go out in groups of sister missionaries, we cannot be eating with members (like the only time we eat during the day) for more than 30 mins. Little things.  They will be good, I can’t imagine the weight that comes with a calling like that, I am trying to be obedient and sustain him as much as possible in my final weeks.